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Peterborough (South Australia) Voyage Tips and guide

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    Peterborough is a town in South Australia.

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    Peterborough was settled in the 1870s, and was initially known as 'Petersburg'. The name of the town was anglicised to Peterborough in 1918, as a result of the First World War. It was one of 69 towns in South Australia whose names were changed from German or German-influenced names to anglicised ones.

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    By car

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    Peterborough is a 250km drive from Adelaide which would take around 2 hours and a bit via the A32 Barrier Highway and B79 Petersburg Road. Road is a high quality road, with mostly 110km/h limits.

    By bus

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    York Peninsula Coaches have services to Peterborough three times a week, at around a cost of $50-65.

    Get around

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    See

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    • 1 Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre, 1 Telford Avenue, +61 8 8651-3355, fax: +61 8 8651-2173. 9AM-5PM daily. Peterborough was once a vast rail operation, a crossroads on former narrow-gauge lines, with a hundred steam locomotives daily heading to all corners of Australia. Many of the lines were re-gauged or closed; a heritage railway line which ran north in the late 1970s was abandoned in 2002 and dismantled in 2008. The sheds and heritage-listed roundhouse were preserved as a static museum with locomotives and carriages. A night-time ‘Sound and Light Show’ is presented (extra cost). $15/person for guided tours. Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre (Q7605492) on Wikidata Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre on Wikipedia
    • 2 The Town Carriage Miseum (Railway Carriage Museum).

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    Sleep

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    • Peterborough Caravan Park. Mini-golf.
    • 1 Roundhouse Motel, 25 Queen St, +61 8 8651 2078. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: 10AM.

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    Go next

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    Routes through Peterborough
    Adelaide ← Gladstone ←  W  E  Broken Hill


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