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Quorn takes top spot for Tiny Tourism Town award
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Quorn is officially South Australia's best tiny town after taking out top honours in the SA Top Tourism Town Awards. The Transcontinental 19 May 2022
Mayor Greg Flint said it was a thrill to receive the award after Quorn put in so much effort as both a town and a community to lift its tourism profile. "As a town and community we have so much more on the horizon to achieve," he said.
Quorn will now represent the state at the Australian Top Tourism Town Awards later in the year.
SA Railway enthusiasts discover graffiti from WWII soldiers scratched on carriage
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FIVE years ago, the enthusiasts at the Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society peeled back
some masonite on a decrepit rail carriage they were restoring and stumbled onto
a little piece of Australian history.
Carved in the wooden interior of Car 5 were names and numbers. They figured out the
scratchings, graffiti really, had been left by soldiers who had used the carriage to travel to and
from the fighting in World War II.
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Pichi Richi Railway wins Tourist Attraction category - 2021 SA Tourism Awards
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Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society was the winner of the Tourist Attraction category in the 2021 South Australian Tourism Awards.
How The Ghan got its name
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Pichi Richi Railway profiled from the air and the land
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This video shows our train services and includes the MIC paymaster's car, our steam engines including the W934, NM25, Yx141, and railcar 106. Experience them when you visit the Pichi Richi Railway in Quorn, in the Flinders Ranges. Produced by Channel Seven.