QUORN
Quorn is the first town encounted when
heading north from Port Augusta to Wilpina Pound. Quorn is also the
gateway town to the Flinders Ranges. Quorn is an old rail town, and
still to this day has a sympathetic alliance with that era. Quorn is a
very old town and many of the buildings in the town. Buildings that
were built to last and heritage importance have set Quorn up as an
important SA heritage town. 
In 1917, Quorn
became the crossroads of any north–south (on the Central Australian
Railway to Oodnadatta) or east–west travel in Australia, when the
Trans-Australia Railway was completed between Port Augusta and
Kalgoorlie. This made Quorn an important town, given that any person
travelling east-west or north-south in Australia would need to pass
through Quorn. As a result, many fine buildings were built as the town
expanded.  
Quorn was a
vital service point for trains heading north to Alice Springs and
carried over 1,000,000 troops heading to Darwin and on to Papua New
Guinea.
In 1973, a group
of railway enthusiasts assembled with the desire to preserve the
unique bridges and stone work built in the previous century that
formed the railway through the Pichi Richi Pass between Quorn and
Stirling North. Thus the Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society Inc
was formed. Although the intention was to just preserve the railway
through the Pichi Richi Pass, they later acquired operable railway
rolling stock and locomotives and today provide a tourist railway
service through the Pichi Richi Pass to from Quorn to Port Augusta.
The Quorn Railway Museum gives a great insight into that rich railway
history.  
Many a film has been made in the area
The Quorn Hotels
are all century plus pubs that still give that air of the everlasting
era.  
The Quorn War
Memorial is the centre of the town.
The Catholic
and Anglican
Churches are the old originals. The United likewise is over 100 years
old.
 
Quorn is the
sort of place an overnighter could be a consideration.
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