Let's take one more walk, a short one this time
We'll walk along Ellen Street, with a side view into Alexander Street. ** Many years ago, Ellen Street looked like this.... Railway tracks went straight down the middle ending at the Railway Station.... the view you see is the shopping and hotels side of the street, the Railway Station is on the wharf side of the street. and there was no platform, so people stepped down into the street off the train. In the 50s, trains ran at night too, (possibly even in the 60s) leaving Adelaide in daylight and arriving in Port Pirie quite late at night. We arrived on a train named The Bluebird in 1958 at about 9-10pm. I remember climbing down a short set of steps to the road, then walking across to the footpath. Dad had accepted a job offer from the Port Pirie branch of the South Australian Gas Company and was to start work the next day. (SAGASCO, dark green shirts, red logo stitching) So here we were in Port Pirie, five of us, late at night, with nowhere to stay. A house ha...