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An amazing sale
for rail enthusiasts
The National Railway Museum is
holding its first specific “clearing
house” sale day on Sunday 16 June,
when a large number of surplus
or duplicate railway items will be
offered for sale.
Old station signs, name boards,
lamps, lanterns, old timetables and
other documents will be available
for purchase by rail historians
and collectors along with old and
redundant level crossing equipment,
signs and lights, station placards and
props, books, magazines and videos.
Admission to the museum has been
reduced to $2 per person just for
the day to encourage attendance
and to create a real market/sale day
atmosphere.
Other highlights include a book
launch at 1pm by railway historian
and author Peter Knife – Peninsula
Pioneer Revised, which will be
available for sale.
The railway museum’s own steam
train Bub will be operating as well
as a unique mixed gauge passenger
train hauled by a 1960s English
Electric diesel, with narrow gauge
carriages from the Broken Hill
Express. Both of these trains will run
all day and cost just $3 per ride. The
museum will open at 10am, with the
sale finishing at 4pm.
Circus train
comes to the Port
An exciting new event will greet
visitors to the National Rail Museum
during the July school holidays as a
circus train comes to the Port.
A busy program includes a variety of
circus themed attractions including
pony rides, a farm yard nursery,
clowns and jugglers, and the
opportunity for children to touch
and hold various native Australian
animals and reptiles. A circus activity
room and bouncing clown castle
will create more fun as well as clown
face badge making.
Many regular entertainers will all
be there including the Amazing
Drumming Monkeys, Dan Burt’s
One Man Band, the Face Painters
and Daddy Long Legs, with a
Ringmaster to keep all of the
visitors and entertainers under
control, resplendent in his uniform
and whip. The Circus Train comes
to the Port will be open from 10am
to 5pm for nine days from 13-21 July.
For more information contact the
museum or visit
Museums and
pubs to delight
our visitors
Visiting friends and relatives from
interstate and overseas can provide
a challenge as you look for ideas to
entertain them – but here are some
great suggestions:
Port Adelaide Enfield Museum Trail
Have you explored all of the
museums in Port Adelaide Enfield?
There’s plenty to discover:
• The South Australian Maritime
Museum is internationally
acclaimed with the oldest
nautical collection in Australia.
Located in the heart of Port
Adelaide’s State Heritage Area in
an 1850s bond store, it exudes
all the colour and history of the
Port.
• The National Railway Museum
is one of Australia’s largest
railway museums with more than
100 exhibits within two large
pavilions and an 1870s heritage-
listed goods shed.
• At the South Australian Aviation
Museum you can take the
controls of the Aero Commander,
activate the Lincoln Bomber
propeller, climb aboard the
Dakota C47, see the classic
Spitfire and get up close to an
F-111 jet.
• 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, displaying
town and country life in South
Australia from the 1880s to more
recent times.
• The Australian Museum
of Childhood displays the
largest collection of Australian
manufactured toys, dating back
to the 1890s.
• The Austbuilt Maritime Museum
was donated to the Port Adelaide
Historical Society in 2004. The
museum is a “work in progress”
with society members working
diligently to develop themed
displays for a vast maritime
memorabilia collection.
Where to start? Collect your copy of
the Port Adelaide Enfield Museum
Trail brochure, available at the Port
Adelaide Visitor Information Centre
and you are on your way.
Port Adelaide Heritage Pub Trail
When it’s cold outside, warm up
with friends and family and go on
the self-guided Port Adelaide
Heritage Pub Trail.
Port Adelaide has the largest
concentration of historic buildings
in South Australia and is incredibly
rich in folklore and history, as best
demonstrated in its portside pubs.
One example is the Port Dock
Brewery Hotel built in 1855 and
once operating as a brothel. The
pub is allegedly haunted – possibly
by the smugglers who built a tunnel
from the hotel to the wharf. More
recently it has won notoriety and
international acclaim for brews such
as its Black Bart Milk Stout produced
in the hotel’s micro-brewery.
Collect your pub trail brochure
from the Port Adelaide Visitor
Information Centre and discover
historical, folklore and current
information about 10 of the Port’s
heritage hotels.
The Visitor Information Centre is
located at 66 Commercial Road, Port
Adelaide, open daily from 9am to
5pm (closed Christmas Day).
Land of Napoleon
exhibition
The South Australian Maritime
Museum currently has an exhibition
that pays homage to Nicolas Baudin,
who led an epic voyage exploring
Australia’s uncharted coasts
from 1800 to 1804, leading to the
publication of the first complete
chart of the continent which was
printed in Paris in 1811.
On that chart, the southern coast
was named Terre Napoleon – Land
of Napoleon. South Australia’s
gulfs were named Golfe Bonaparte
and Golfe Josephine in honour of
France’s First Consul and his wife.
Those first European views were
captured by the expedition’s artists
Charles-Alexandre Leseur and
Nicolas Martin Petit, who sketched
in the field, finished their paintings
on board ship and when they
returned to France produced a
stunning collection of engravings.
Finished in 1807, those artworks
reveal some of the first European
impressions of South Australia.
The Land of Napoleon exhibition is
open until 21 June with admission
included as part of the museum’s
normal entry fee.
