Oodla Wirra, South Australia

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Oodla Wirra
South Australia
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Oodla Wirra
Coordinates 32°52′59″S139°03′47″E / 32.883°S 139.063°E / -32.883; 139.063 [1]
Population5 (SAL 2021) [2]
Established1889
Elevation505 m (1,657 ft) [3]
Location259 km (161 mi) N of Adelaide
LGA(s) District Council of Peterborough
Region Yorke and Mid North [1]
County Herbert [1]
State electorate(s) Stuart
Localities around Oodla Wirra:
Dawson Nackara
Oodla Wirra
Ucolta Parnaroo

Oodla Wirra (formerly Penn) is a small town in the upper Mid North of South Australia. It is on the Barrier Highway approximately halfway from Adelaide to Broken Hill.

When the railway was built in 1880, a siding was provided, named Oodla Wirra. Soon after, a town was surveyed near the siding, but it was named Penn. This naming conflict continued until 1940, when the town was renamed Oodla Wirra, to match the railway station. [4] [5]

Railway

Oodla Wirra is a former railway town, as it was on the narrow-gauge railway between Port Pirie and Cockburn (where it connected to the Silverton Tramway to Broken Hill). When the Commonwealth Government replaced the narrow gauge line with a standard gauge line, the revised route passed south and east of the town.

A railway employee was killed in a shunting accident in the Oodla Wirra railyards in 1909. [6]

In 1889, ironstone flux was mined from a failed silver mine a few miles away, and carted to Oodla Wirra to be transported by rail to the smelters at Port Pirie. [7]

The town later boasted a flour mill, school and hotel named Halfway way hotel as it was halfway between Adelaide and Broken Hill. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Search result for 'Oodla Wirra, LOCB' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Counties', "Hundreds', 'SA Government Regions', 'Local Government Areas', 'Government Towns' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian government. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Oodla Wirra (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ "Search result for 'Oodla Wirra Railway Station' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian government. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Placename Details: Penn". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 12 May 2011. SA0054343. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "NEW TOWN NAMES APPROVED". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . South Australia. 26 July 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 5 September 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "RAILWAY ACCIDENT". The Register (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXIV, no. 19, 434. South Australia. 25 February 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 23 March 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "A New Local Industry". Petersburg Times . Vol. II, no. 102. South Australia. 19 July 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 23 March 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "Oodla Wirra". Make Tracks to Peterborough. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
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