Budget Travellers' & Backpackers' hostel

PETERBOROUGH & DISTRICT(S) / ENVIRONS
UPPER MID NORTH / LOWER FLINDERS RANGES SOUTH AUSTRALIA (S.A.)

" STEAM TOWN " ; HISTORIC RAILWAY TOWNSHIP, WHERE THREE DIFFERENT RAILWAY GAUGES MET.
ROUND HOUSE CURRENTLY BEING RENOVATED, ONLY SECOND REMAINING / SURVIVING IN THE WORLD

PROFILE:
POPULATION 2,300; RAINFALL 300MM AVERAGE PER ANNUM;

MARGINAL WHEAT GROWING AREA , MAINLY SHEEP GRAZING.
TENNECO ENERGY, PIPLINES INTERNATIONAL (EX PIPELINES AUTHORITY OF SA), NOW EPIC ENERGY
METRO MEAT INTERNATIONAL LTD, HORSEMEAT PROCESSING PLANT, NOW ( CITIC ) CHINESE CONSORTIUM

NUMEROUS HISTORIC GOLD WORKINGS NORTH & SOUTH OF THE BARRIER HIGHWAY;
OF PARTICULAR NOTE, FROM TEROWIE 20 KS SOUTH TO YUNTA & OLARY 150 KS NORTH EAST
ONLY SURVIVING GOVERNMENT OPERATED GOLD BATTERY IN SA

CENTRALLY LOCATED: UPPER MID NORTH / LOWER FLINDERS RANGES;


90 KS North	FROM BURRA
250 KS North	FROM ADELAIDE
110 KS North East	FROM PORT PIRIE
280 KS South West	FROM BROKEN HILL
120 KS North East	FROM CLARE VALLEY
200 KS South	FROM WILPENA POUND
140 KS South	FROM HAWKER / FLINDERS RANGES

GETTING THERE:
BUTE OR GREYHOUND / PIONEER BUSES
INDIAN PACIFIC ( " I.P. ".) TRAIN