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Distance from Port Augusta: 32½ kms, 20 miles Distance from Quorn: 7½ kms, 4½ miles
Unmanned location, dead end siding and halt on the Port Augusta-Hawker Line - now known as the Pichi Richi Railway named after the pass at Summit where the railway crosses over the Flinders Rangers.
True to its name, Summit is the highest point on the line at 406m (1332ft).
The line from Port Augusta to Quorn was closed in 1956 but the section from Quorn to Summit was still in use by special passenger excursion trains from Peterborough in the 1960s. Summit was used as a terminus halt with the tour trains provided with a loco at both ends for the forward and return trips between Quorn and Summit.
The Pichi Richi Railway was formed in 1974 and initially ran tour trains from Quorn to Summit. They now operate heritage tourist diesel and steam trains on the restored narrow gauge line between Quorn and Port Augusta but still use Summit as a waypoint halt. |
