Mangalo, South Australia
Mangalo is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It has a Memorial Hall, CFS and bulk grain silos but has never had a railway line to service them. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for sand.[1]
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Mangalo | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33.53°S 136.62°E | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5602 | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | District Council of Cleve | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Kielpa was proposed as the junction for a branch railway line to Campoona and Mangalo, and the railway was authorised by parliament to be built in 1916,[2] however it was never constructed, and by 1929, the Public Works Committee determined that wheat could be more efficiently transported by motor lorry than by building this line.[3] In 1920, one of the reasons not to proceed with building this railway was that it would be redundant to a railway linking Murat Bay to Cowell.[4] However this railway was never built either.
The locality of Mangalo comprises the Hundred of Mangalo and Hundred of Heggaton. It includes the Heggaton Conservation Park.[1]
References
- "Placename Details: Mangalo". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 1 July 2014. SA0042416. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- Kielpa to Mangalo Hall Railway Act 1916 No. 1265, Government Printer, 24 June 2011, retrieved 30 June 2017
- "Kielpa-Mangalo Railway Vetoed". Eyre's Peninsula Tribune. XIV (882). South Australia. 29 August 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- "KIELPA-MANGALO RAILWAY CHALLENGED". The Observer (Adelaide). LXXVII (5, 835). South Australia. 20 November 1920. p. 28. Retrieved 30 June 2017 – via National Library of Australia.