Adelaide Attractions
Adelaide Attractions Directory : Galleries, Museums and Collections
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Boomerang Art offers the best in authentic Aboriginal art to clients all over the world.
Founded in April of 1996 by Werner and Elena Obermeier, Boomerang Art has become a known and trusted name among discerning local and international clientele via its website and two galleries in Adelaide and Alice Springs.
Boomerang Art's Adelaide gallery is open by appointment and Elena will welcome you at any time.Aboriginal Art Gallery - Boomerang Art
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Adelaide Central Gallery began in 1987 as an artist-run exhibition space and has evolved into one of Adelaide's most prominent contemporary non-profit galleries.
Monthly changing exhibitions includes both emerging and established artists working in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, video and multimedia. There is a focus on emerging artists who are ACSA graduates or associated with ACSA as current or former art lecturers and solo...Adelaide Central Gallery
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Celebrating its 35th birthday in 2008 and situated in the heart of the city, the Adelaide Festival Centre was the first multi-purpose arts centre built in Australia and maintains its status as South Australia’s creative hub - the place where people and ideas connect with each other.
You’ll always find something to see and do at the Adelaide Festival Centre, whether it’s theatre, dance, music, opera, visual art, markets, children’s theatre, and much more. It is also home to three annual festiva...Adelaide Festival Centre
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Take a walk around the Adelaide Gaol and unlock a piece of South Australia's history. On a guided or self-guided tour you will see aspects of prison life as was in South Australia over a period of 147 years - between 1841 and 1988.
Several sections of the original cellblocks are still standing for you to explore, as well as many later additions including the 'New Building' - built in 1879! A tour takes you through the cellblocks, exercise yards, the hanging tower and graves area. Between 1840 a...Adelaide Gaol Historic Site and Museum
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Adelaide Oval is widely regarded as the most picturesque test cricket ground in the world, with St Peter's Cathedral rising behind an elegant Edwardian scoreboard and Moreton Bay fig trees at the northern end.
See cricket memorabilia at the Adelaide Oval Museum and learn about some of the oval's other rich sporting history, including football. The museum is located on the first level of the Sir Donald Bradman Stand.
Take a tour of the oval - you'll see the Sir Donald Bradman Stand, Scoreboard,...Adelaide Oval Tours And Museum
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As South Australia’s newest Art Museum the Samstag Museum of Art aims to stimulate, challenge and engage its audiences with a program of diverse and innovative exhibitions, publications and associated public activities.
Located in the Adelaide City West End, the Art Museum is a five-minute walk from most major city-based hotels, King William Street and Rundle Mall. Trams operate from Victoria Square along King William Street and North Terrace to the Samstag Museum, UniSA City West campus and L...Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
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The Art Gallery of South Australia is collection of Australian and international works of art, and holds one of Australia's finest art collections.
Trace the history of European art from the 15th to 20th century, particularly the development of landscape and portrait painting.
The gallery's permanent display of Australian art is outstanding, enabling you to track the development of Australian art from the colonial period. Its collection of 19th century colonial art contains fine examples of ea...Art Gallery Of South Australia
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Art Images Gallery is a contemporary art gallery showcasing the work of local and interstate emerging and established artists.
The gallery has a regular exhibition program covering a wide variety of mediums including paintings, Indigenous art, sculpture and limited edition works on paper, catering to art lovers and art investors.
Art Images Gallery can arrange for artwork to be packaged and delivered Australia-wide.
Situated on The Parade in Norwood, only two kilometres east of Adelaide centr...Art Images Gallery
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See children's toys that date back as early as the 1890s at the Australian Museum of Childhood in Port Adelaide. Discover the fads and trends of children at play.
With hands-on fun for everyone, you'll enjoy new experiences mixed with old fashion styles, from skittles and hula-hoops to planes, trains and automobiles. Social changes and development are shown through displays and photographs for social and educational group bookings.
The Australian Museum of Childhood also conducts Magical Histo...Australian Museum Of Childhood
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Ayers House Museum illustrates Victorian domestic life as it was lived both upstairs and downstairs. It's a colonial mansion named after the nineteenth century state premier Sir Henry Ayers.
Experience the social history of the period during a guided tour of the house. See a collection of historic costume, silver, artwork and furniture as well as changing exhibitions.
The house contains important decorative painted finishes on internal walls and ceilings that extend to every room, reflecting t...Ayers House Museum
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Historic Glenelg Town Hall takes pride of place as the home of the Bay Discovery Centre, a social history museum interpreting the cultural heritage of Holdfast Bay.
Just hop on the famous Glenelg tram in the city at Victoria Square and at the end of the line you will find yourself in Moseley Square, across from Adelaide's best seaside attraction - the Bay Discovery Centre. In addition to the fantastic multimedia exhibitions, we also have a mezzanine gallery which features a program of visual ar...Bay Discovery Centre
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Better World Arts Gallery specialises in fine Aboriginal art and quality handicrafts. Our cross-cultural projects bring communities of artists and artisans together to produce quality handicrafts. Better World Arts is known for Aboriginal designed rugs, cushions and jewellery. Traditional Anagu people from the remote desert paint in the Better World Studios and their gorgeous fine art and sculptures convey stories of their rich and ancient culture.
Gallery can also open by appointment and is ac...Better World Arts
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Blown Away Cellar Door is located in the Sellicks foothills sub-region of the McLaren Vale wine region, on a north-facing, gentle slope, three kilometres from Aldinga Bay and Silver Sands Beach.
This area is highly sought after by wineries for their premium and super-premium labels.
The sea has a moderating influence on our summer vineyard temperatures. We have premium Grenache, Shiraz and Cabernet wines available for tasting and sales. Our cellar door has stunning views over the plains to t...Blown Away
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Sir Donald Bradman was the greatest batsman in the history of cricket. The Bradman Collection brings together his priceless and personal collection of cricket memorabilia spanning from 1927 to 1977.
The Bradman Collection is a world class exhibition dedicated to an Australian legend and international hero who made Adelaide his home. Watch footage of Bradman in the theatrette, test your own skills with the interactive museum, and browse through personal items including cricket bats, balls, troph...Bradman Collection
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Carrick Hill is fortunate in being one of the few period homes in Australia to survive with its original contents almost completely intact and its grounds undiminished.
It was a centre of stylish living; and friends hold fond memories of a house constantly filled with laughter, parties, artists, music, good wine, fine food and dancing; and heady with the scent of masses of flowers. While those days are now gone, Carrick Hill remains as an important example of the lifestyle of two wealthy and cu...Carrick Hill
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The Grange now the Charles Sturt Museum was the home of Captain Charles Sturt and his family from when it was built in 1840 until they returned to England in 1853. Captain Sturt was one of Australia’s most famous explorers his River Murray expedition paved the way for settlement in South Australia.
Much of the furniture on display in the house was used by the Sturt family and sent out from England after the house was restored in the 1960s. The former nursery wing is now an exhibition gallery.
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The Classic Jets Fighter Museum houses a permanent collection of jet aircraft built between 1950 and 1980 flown by the Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Australian Navy.
Other aircraft from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) are also on display together with engines, flight suits, photographs and an excellent display of historical aviation artefacts in well-lit cabinets.
The museum's magnificently restored Mirage III, A3-16; as well as the museums extremely rare and well-preserved Secon...Classic Jets Fighter Museum
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Dolls World is the home of collector dolls and teddy bears featuring the best of European and United Kingdom artists. It is also the home of The Australian Teddy Bear Company, featuring Australian made bears, plus t-shirts and many other items. Suitable for teddy bear lovers and located just five minutes from the city, by car or bus.Dolls World
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The Enfield Heritage Museum is located within the two hectares of historic, tree studded Sunnybrae Farm. The museum extends over three of the farm's many buildings, the 1882 Machinery Shed, the 1883 Stables and the recently built Sunnybrae Farm Federation Pavilion. Town and country life in South Australia from the 1880's to more recent times is on display.
The displays are educational, interesting and quite often humorous, ranging from blacksmiths to household items, typewriters to tradesmen's ...Enfield Heritage Museum
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Located at the Lion Arts Centre with other arts organisations, the Experimental Art Foundation incorporates a gallery with monthly changing exhibitions of contemporary visual art, and a specialist arts bookshop.
The Experimental Art Foundation curates its exhibition program to represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in contemporary art and culture.Experimental Art Foundation
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The largest fine art photographic gallery in South Australia.
Exclusive limited edition images by photographer David Evans and works by guest photographers and artists.
David Evans is a South Australian landscape photographer whose work displays both extraordinary technical mastery and unique sensitivity to his subject matter. He is a multi award winning artist whose work is recognised and sought after at the highest levels both in Australia and overseas.Eye 2 Eye Fine Art Gallery
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Fabric of Life offers hand made textiles that are finely crafted, distinctive and beautiful. Textiles are collected from around the world and represent some of the finest textile traditions still being practiced. We stock Aboriginal textiles from throughout Australia.
A major focus is the textile and fibre works of Ernabella Arts Incorporated, an Indigenous community in the north west of South Australia. These include hand drawn batik hangings, silk scarves and Tjanpi (fibre baskets and sculpt...Fabric of Life
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Fort Glanville, commissioned in 1880, was taken over by the Commonwealth in 1901, by which time it was of no strategic importance and its flanking guns were given to the City of Adelaide in 1907. At times with a caretaker, at others virtually abandoned, all metalwork and ten inch carriages were removed as scrap in 1937. One now restored, is the largest gun in Australia.
Restored to state control in 1951, it was converted into a caravan park. In the 1960's its heritage value was recognised and f...Fort Glanville
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Established in 1995, the Fox Creek Wine Company is situated in the centre of the lovely valley between McLaren Vale and Willunga. The vineyards are established in a picturesque undulating property with a natural creek, a large lake and many native river red gums and century old olive groves.
The Cellar Door is a nineteenth century stone cottage surrounded by beautiful cottage gardens, lawns and large olive trees where picnics may be held. At the other corner of the property is a state of the ar...Fox Creek Wines
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See contemporary Australian and international art, including painting, sculpture, photography and installation at Greenaway Art Gallery, a large converted warehouse. The director is also an Art Theorist and committed equally to art and education. The gallery can advise on commissions, valuations and collections.
Greenaway Art Gallery is just minutes from the Adelaide central business district.Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide
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The Handspinners and Weavers Guild of South Australia Incorporated was founded in 1963 by a group of interested persons to further share their crafts of hand spinning and weaving through creating and teaching, has instigated the Guild in continuing its aims and objectives. The Guild formed 'Little Glory Gallery' in 1982, to offer for sale the creations of its members to the public.
On offer are a range of hand knitted, hand spun hats, beanies, scarves, jumpers, hand spun wool, dyed and natural,...Handspinners and Weavers Guild of South Australia Incorporated
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Come and indulge in arts and culture, food and drink, day and night at Higher Ground, a multi-arts venue. Includes monthly visual art exhibitions, live music, comedy, theatre, cabaret and special events with an all day cafe and bar service.
For Higher Ground's up to date arts, cultural and entertainment program please visit our website.Higher Ground Incorporated
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Established in 1982, Hill Smith Gallery is an exhibition gallery, featuring works of Australian contemporary artists, both emerging and established.
The gallery holds an average of 10 exhibitions per calendar year, featuring works by both local and interstate Australian contemporary artists.
Stock is also held for viewing and purchase from a range of periods in Australian art history.
The gallery features two exhibition spaces, the ground floor and the upstairs gallery.Hill Smith Gallery
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The Hindmarsh Historical Society Museum was one of the first Historical Societies in South Australia and its aim was to preserve memorabilia from the Hindmarsh area for future generations to see and enjoy.
The Museum is located in the previous volunteer Fire Brigade Building and an extensive collection of memorabilia from the Brigade forms the basis of our collection.
The Hindmarsh Volunteers Fire Brigade was the second volunteer fire brigade in the state; Norwood was opened three months earli...Hindmarsh Historical Fire And Folk Museum
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JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design is Australia's leading centre for the design, production, exhibition and sale of work by both established and emerging Australian craft designer/makers. JamFactory’s four on-site studios specialise in glass, ceramics, furniture and metal design, providing a unique experience for visitors to watch artists in action.
Located in Adelaide's West End Arts precinct, JamFactory offers visitors the chance to enjoy exhibitions of contemporary craft in three gall...Jamfactory Contemporary Craft And Design
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Marra Dreaming is an Aboriginal Community organisation located in Salisbury, South Australia, and approximately 20 kilometres north of the Adelaide General Post Office. Marra Dreaming produces a wide range of contemporary Indigenous Australian art including: jewellery, hand-painted ceramic items both beautiful and useful, decorated eggs, traditional woven baskets and mats, silk scarves in a glorious rainbow of colours and children's resources, including jigsaw puzzles, which are works of art in ...Marra Dreaming
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Marshall Arts specialise in high quality Indigenous Art accessed from Aboriginal owned and controlled co-operatives in South Australia. Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
The directors, Graeme and Ros Marshall have been associated with the internationally renowned Central and Western Desert Art Movement since 1973.
All works are accompanied by documentation attesting to provenance and authenticity. A visit to Marshall Arts is an experience intended to offer insight into our ...Marshall Arts
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Mary MacKillop Centre is a museum and interpretive centre, which highlights aspects of the educational and welfare work done by well-known Australian women, Mary MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph in nineteenth century South Australia.
You will find a well set up, three dimensional exhibition entitled “What would have become of them?” and there learn something of the nature and extent of the charitable work done by the Sisters among the disadvantaged, especially women and children.
After s...Mary Mackillop Centre
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Completed in 1927, the Masonic Centre building is the headquarters of Freemasonry in South Australia.
The main entrance on North Terrace is accentuated by four great ionic columns on the exterior of the building and approached by a flight of granite steps. The building comprises six levels, accommodating offices and meeting rooms, three lodge rooms, kitchens, reception rooms and banqueting rooms, a large hall at the rear (the Great Hall), the Masonic Museum and the Masonic Library.
Tours a...Masonic Centre
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If you're interested in model making, small machine tools, tool making and experimental engineering connected to the models, visit the South Australian Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Park grounds.
The big attraction, especially for children, is the railway system. There are two systems: one for the smaller scale locomotives and rolling stock, the other for larger scale locomotives and rolling stock.
A boat pond is the centre of activity for the members who model boats. You can see...Model and Experimental Engineers Park Grounds
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Montego Estate Pty Ltd was established in order to fulfil an exciting niche in the wholesale wine industry. We distribute quality, value for money, wholesale cleanskin (unlabelled) wines into the domestic and international markets.
Unlabelled wines offer the advantage of reduced prices, as the product does not carry the burden of brand positioning, marketing and presentation expenses. Cleanskin wines are made available for a variety of reasons; forecast overruns incomplete export orders, wine...Montego Estate Wines
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Tandanya is a unique place to explore and experience contemporary and traditional Aboriginal cultural expression, through the performing and visual arts. Tandanya exhibits the work of emerging and established Indigenous artists.
Situated in Adelaide, it is the gateway to a better understanding of the diversity of Aboriginal people and culture. Tandanya is a place of learning.
Tandanya is the Kaurna Aboriginal name for the Adelaide city area and was for many, many thousands of years, a place fo...National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya
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The museum at Port Adelaide has more than 100 exhibits within two huge pavilions and a 1870s heritage listed good shed. It represents railway operations from State, Commonwealth and private operators on the three major railway gauges used throughout Australia.
Interactive displays include safe operating practices, the role of women in railways, and the famous 'Tea and Sugar' train that served railway families on the barren Nullarbor Plain. Activities include exploring the Woodville signal cabin...National Railway Museum Port Adelaide
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Here you can enjoy wine and winemaking from the ground up. Our interactive Wine Discovery Journey and exhibition showcases the complete wine experience. After having finely tuned their senses in the Wine Discovery Journey, visitors are ready to taste the extensive selection of wines available from the Australian wine regions in the Centre's Concourse Cafe. The Concourse Cafe is open daily for wine tastings and great food. Relax and enjoy fresh espresso coffee and a selection of Australian Ch...National Wine Centre Of Australia
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Ned Kelly's Retreat Restaurant has become synonymous for great steaks and a fantastic range of Aussie tucker provided with friendly service and excellent value for money.
But we have so much more to offer: a vast array of old Australian wares and Ned Kelly memorabilia adorn every wall and surface in the restaurant, giving your whole family a history lesson as you walk around. We also offer Adelaide's largest range of Ned Kelly souvenirs available for purchase.
Gluten free meals available.
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Discover a gallery with a unique focus. The New Land Gallery is a program of Country Arts SA and is recognised as the only public funded exhibition space to expressly feature the work of country based artists in an Australian capital city.
Through a changing exhibition program of around eight new exhibitions each year, plus an artist of the month program, the gallery not only provides regional South Australian artists with a major metropolitan venue in which to showcase their works to a broa...New Land Gallery
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Nexus aims to create a two-way bridge between culturally and linguistically diverse artists and the mainstream in multicultural Australia. Nexus has fostered artistic activities reflecting the fluid social and cultural nature of Australian society through exhibitions, music, dance, creative writing projects and cross-cultural interchanges. It seeks to extend art form boundaries by situating current art practices within a wide social context.
Nexus is a progressive arts organisation in South Aus...Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre
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South Australia's history lives on North Terrace. Not just in museums and the Art Gallery, but in memorials, statues, plaques - and the bricks and mortar of many splendid historic buildings. It is home to many of South Australia's important icons of education, medicine, the arts, culture and commerce, and it is the seat of government.
Starting at the western end, across the road from the University of South Australia campus, is the City Skate Park. Then, back to the other side of North Terrace,...North Terrace
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Visit Opal Field Gems Mine and Museum to experience the romance of opal mining without having to leave the city. Downstairs is a meticulously re-created opal mine of the type found in Coober Pedy. The walls contain real opal and the picture is completed with tools and implements actually used in the mining of opal during the early 1970's. Next to this the visitor finds an Aboriginal art gallery with an extensive range of original paintings, artefacts and didgeridoos. Listen to the haunting sound...Opal Field Gems Mine And Museum
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Peter Walker Fine Art gallery is designed to showcase art in an intimate and informative setting. Open three days a week, specialising in Australia's rarest art from the colonial to the present time.
The gallery also has a select exhibition programme, which includes contemporary Australian paintings, sculpture, works on paper and solo exhibitions by some of Australia's best emerging, and established, artists.Peter Walker Fine Art
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The Port Community Arts Centre was established in 1987 and is housed in the heritage Black Diamond Centre building at the corner of Commercial Road and St Vincent Streets, Port Adelaide, which is next door to the Visitor Information Centre.
In the spirit of community, it is completely managed by volunteers, including artists and people with special skills. The facilities consist of a workshop with areas for artists and art classes of various kinds such as drawing, painting and ceramics. There i...Port Community Arts Centre
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RM Williams was a drover, well-digger, bootmaker, miner and more, who became one of South Australia’s most successful businessman and an icon. You can discover more about his life and legacy at the RM Williams Outback Heritage Museum in Adelaide.
The museum boasts a unique collection of RM Williams artefacts donated by many long-time customers. You’ll find saddlery, hand-plaited bridles, whips and a range of clothing and boots to marvel over and to bring back memories. See displayed the swag, s...R.M. Williams Outback Heritage Museum
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The restoration of the building was completed over a three year period by a group of hardworking volunteers working one day a week. An interesting collection of historical artefacts, heritage information and photographs are now on display in the restored building. Mementos can also be purchased.
Built in the 1850s, it is believed that the stable building was used as a meeting place for the Methodist Church before their church was built in Peach Street. After this it became a Blacksmith. Travel...Reynella Horse Changing Station
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Art Gallery and office of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts. The oldest functioning Society of Artists in Australia. The Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery hosts wide ranging exhibitions throughout the year.Royal South Australian Society of Arts Incorporated
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In the late 1890s a Military Railway was planned to run from Glenelg along the foreshore to Largs with the intent to link both Fort Largs and Fort Glanville. Unfortunately the service only progressed to West Beach.
Now almost 100 years later a railway has been built on a much smaller scale and for a completely different reason. Built by the Port Adelaide Enfield and Charles Sturt Councils and operated by the National Railway Museum volunteers, its specially designed steam locomotive Bill hauls...Semaphore and Fort Glanville Tourist Railway
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