Visit SAR South Australian Railways Park, Cummins, South Australia

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Cummins Railway Park Triangle (because of a rail junction) contains picnic facilities and the statue of the wheat lumper- the men who lugged bags of wheat into piles for railing to the ports. This fine bronze statue was created by Gillie and Marc sculptors from Sydney. The public toilets in the park pay homage with mosaic decoration to the South Australian Railways heritage of Cummins, the only Eyre Peninsula town with a major rail junction. The branch line from Cummins to Kimba and Buckleboo was 213 kms long. The railways of Eyre Peninsula closed in June 2019 except for a 64 km line from the port of Thevenard to gypsum mines at Kevin (Lake MacDonnell) near Penong. The first railway on Eyre Peninsula reached Cummins from Port Lincoln in 1907 with 700 people aboard sitting in open carriages with forms to sit on. It was soon extended to Yeelanna in 1909 and to Minnipa by 1913 and Ceduna by 1915. From Cummins the major branch line on the Peninsula began in 1913 to Ungarra and Kimba and finally to Buckleboo in 1926 which is 213 kms to the north.

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