Summerfield Tepko. The heritage listed five span railway bridge of 1917 across Reedy Creek. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Summerfield Tepko. The heritage listed five span railway bridge of 1917 across Reedy Creek. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Summerfield/Tepko locality.Summerfeldt was settled in the early 1870s as German farmers flocked down from Lobethal to the drier eastern plains. This land had been held under pastoral lease by John Baker of Terlinga. His leases covered the area from the eastern foothills of the Mt Lofty Ranges to the Murray River. Communities began with a Lutheran school and church, the two important pillars of the German Lutheran communities. The Lutheran School opened in Summerfeldt in 1874 in a dual purpose school/church building. In 1881 the government leased the room for a public school but the church community ran the school. In 1905 the government built the current school classroom next to the church. In 1917 the name of the school was changed to Summerfield when all German place names were changed. The school serviced the township of Tepko as well but in 1964 a school bus service to Murray Bridge began and in 1967 the school closed. The original church near Reedy Creek Rail Bridge was replaced by the current St Pauls in 1904 with the wonderful tower being added in 1929. The Summerfield Hall in traditional stone work was opened in 1955. The five span rail bridge across Reedy Creek was started in 1917 and finished by the time the line opened to Sedan in 1919. It is on the Register of the National Estate. The rail siding was placed at Tepko. Tepko blossomed after the arrival of the railway with daily trains to Adelaide, frequent mails, a grain handling agent at the rail siding, a shop, post office and eventually telephone exchange. When the rail service stopped around 1965 grain handling was transferred from Tepko to Apamurra near Palmer as it had silos for bulk handling. Next the telephone exchange became automatic (1978) and the post office closed and the town withered and died. Only a few houses are left at Tepko today but in November 2011 the SA government announced a new gas power station will be built at Tepko by 2013 to feed into the Tungkillo- Tailem Bend main power grid of the state. It will be used to provide power for peak load times. As late as 1963 there were two goods/passenger trains weekly from Monarto South to Sedan. The journey took four hours as at least 10 minutes was spent in each siding unloading freight. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-01 16:25:41 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 撮影地 | Palmer, South Australia, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | DSC-S950 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/640) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.7 |