Silverton Tramway

The Silverton Tramway shunts with its Australian ALCo fleet the ore sidings at Broken Hill and leases units to other concerns. Silverton used to operate a line connecting the NSW Railways at Broken Hill to the South Australian Railways but this closed when the South Australian line was standard gauged and extended into the Hill.

Currently there's a fleet of 10 x DL531's and 6 x DL 500g's. Four more DL 531's are in varying stages of cannibalisation.

The Silverton roster of July 1997 (given by Brad Peadon):

Notes: ST 27 was sold to South Australian Railway becoming # 874. Later acquired SAR 857, 864, 856 and 862. The last two of them were since retired.

One of the original Silverton units poses in Broken Hill, Sept. 1st, 1986. Colin Gray photo

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