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Philcox Hill station and 958

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Philcox Hill station is located between Mount Barker and Strathalbyn and was formerly used for goods and passenger services.

The station site is the highest point on the line (1,304 feet or nearly 398 metres above sea-level). In years gone by both a passing siding and goods siding existed and the goods siding for quite some time possessed loading bins for stone that was brought down from the local quarry. In 1892 quarrying began in Philcox Hill Quarry, which provided excellent flux to Dry Creek Smelting Works and Junction Smelting Works at Port Adelaide, and later on for Barrier [Broken Hill]. Some building stone was also quarried and the horse drays used to cart the rock were soon replaced by a narrow gauge tramway line with a team of four horses to pull the trolley the mile to the Philcox Railway Siding on the Strathalbyn line. Some of the stone from the cutting was used to build the [Mount Barker] Methodist Church and other stone was sent to Adelaide, though the line was pulled up in 1909 after several years of disuse.

Today only the remains of a platform (the sleepers forming the side wall of the platform have recently been removed, according to the locals this was done by the Steamranger and they are not sure why - the platform had been handy for alighting), a telephone box and name board indicate this once busy location. You can also still see where the 3ft6in tramway curved from the quarry down to the station.

I used to live 200m from here which is where Oki and I met. Philcox Hill is also where I thought my last thought was going to be "how silly to be torn to bits by two dogs and a kangaroo on Philcox Hill" as a crazed injured kangaroo flew at me and gripped me by the shoulders.

Taken on: July 19, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS 350D, f/11.0, 1/80 sec, 17mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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