Kielpa, South Australia
| Kielpa South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Kielpa | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°35′10″S 136°13′30″E / 33.586°S 136.225°ECoordinates: 33°35′10″S 136°13′30″E / 33.586°S 136.225°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1914 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5642 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Cleve | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Kielpa is a settlement on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[2] It is midway between Rudall and Darke Peak on the Eyre Peninsula Railway.[1]
Kielpa once had a school and a post office, however neither remains. The bulk grain silos by the railway line are still in use for barley.[3] 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,[4] 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.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Placename Details: Kielpa". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 28 May 2012. SA0036528. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ↑ "2905.0 - Statistical Geography: Volume 2 -- Census Geographic Areas, Australia, 2006". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
- ↑ "Viterra Storage Allocations for Grower Deliveries". Viterra. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ↑ Kielpa to Mangalo Hall Railway Act 1916 No. 1265, Government Printer, 2011-06-24, 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.
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