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Broken Hill Associated Smelters Peronne - Locomotive No. 4 0-6-0T

The establishment of silver-lead-zinc smelting facilities at Port Pirie in 1889 by the British Broken Hill Company commenced the flow through South Australia of ores from the fabulously rich Line of Lode of Broken Hill. It was intensified in 1892 when the Broken Hill Proprietary Company bought out the smelters and transferred its own smelting operations.

Peronne was purchased from Broken Hill Associated Smelters in November 1965 by Mr. F. B. Andrews and presented to the Mile End Railway Museum. In 1984 a project to restore it to working order commenced, and was completed in 1988. Trials were successfully conducted over the Pichi Richi Railway at Quorn and, on its return to Adelaide, it was sent directly to the Museum. Here it figured in the official opening of the Museum, being driven on that occasion by Premier John Bannon. It has since been regularly steamed to haul passenger trains over a section of track especially laid for it.

Description
Broken Hill Associated Smelters Peronne - Locomotive No. 4 0-6-0T

The establishment of silver-lead-zinc smelting facilities at Port Pirie in 1889 by the British Broken Hill Company commenced the flow through South Australia of ores from the fabulously rich Line of Lode of Broken Hill. It was intensified in 1892 when the Broken Hill Proprietary Company bought out the smelters and transferred its own smelting operations.

Peronne was purchased from Broken Hill Associated Smelters in November 1965 by Mr. F. B. Andrews and presented to the Mile End Railway Museum. In 1984 a project to restore it to working order commenced, and was completed in 1988. Trials were successfully conducted over the Pichi Richi Railway at Quorn and, on its return to Adelaide, it was sent directly to the Museum. Here it figured in the official opening of the Museum, being driven on that occasion by Premier John Bannon. It has since been regularly steamed to haul passenger trains over a section of track especially laid for it.