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Carting wheat at Gumbowie, c. 1910s
Passengers waiting for the train at Gumbowie Station, c. 1940s
Signalman’s house at Gumbowie, 1940
300 Class rounding the embankment – referred to by railwaymen as Cape Horn at Gumbowie, c. 1950s. Des Willis Collection.
T Class pulled train negotiating the curve at Gumbowie, 1965
T Class locomotives, after being repaired and rebuilt at Islington, were returned next to the guard van. This photo was taken near Gumbowie Note the load of coal at the rear for the Peterborough gantry.
T Class locomotive moving through the Gumbowie cutting, 1965
400 Class locomotive going through Gumbowie, 1967
Brill railcar about to enter Gumbowie yard on the way through to Quorn, 1966
400 Class locomotive 406 negotiating Gumbowie’s Rubbish Dump curve or Cape Horn as it was known to the narrow guage men, 6 December 1969
Y Class locomotive 97 passing through the Gumbowie cutting, c. 1960s
Cape Horn embankment near Gumbowie, c. 1960s
900 Class locomotives 902 and 903 traversing the ‘Cape Horn’ embankment at Gumbowie, 1973
900 Class locomotives 902 and 903 traversing the ‘Cape Horn’ embankment at Gumbowie, 1973
520 Class locomotive 526 passing through the Gumbowie railway yard, c. 1970.
Constructing earthworks for the broad gauge line between Terowie and Gumbowie, c. 1970
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