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Sulphide Street railway station

Broken Hill, Italy

Sulphide Street railway station, in the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, was the eastern terminus of the Silverton Tramway. The "tramway" was a narrow-gauge railway built by the private Silverton Tramway Company to circumvent a political stand-off: the New South Wales Government refu

sed to allow the South Australian Government to extend 58 kilometres (36 miles) into the state beyond the 351 kilometres (218 miles) line that took ore concentrates from the state border to smelters at Port Pirie.

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