Terowie, South Australia
Terowie is small town in the north of South Australia (, 220 km north of Adelaide) whose main raison d'etre was to serve as a transshipment point at the railway break-of-gauge. When the break of gauge was eliminated in 1970 -- it was relocated to nearby Peterborough, Terowie went into a slow decline. The railway was closed and removed in the early 1980s. Terowie retains a number of authentic 1880s buildings, and has been declared a historic town. The town is now in the Regional Council of Goyder. In 1942 General Douglas MacArthur, makes his famous speech at Terowie, South Australia regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". He made this speech while transferring from a narrow gauge (1.067m) train to a broad gauge (1.600m) train. External linksSouth Australian history - TerowieWalkabout - Terowie
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