It was originally called Minchin Wells as there were good water springs there. The only town along the Pichi Richi Railway is Stirling North. It was then that the Pichi Richi Railway was established by volunteers for a tourist service. The section from Peterborough to Quorn had closed in 1969.
In 1972 the section from Stirling North through the Pichi Richi to Quorn also closed. When the Great Northern Railway from Hawker to Marree was closed in 1957 the Ghan service used the new Leigh Creek railway line which connected at Leigh Creek to Marree and Oodnadatta. The Pichi Richi railway then lost much of its traffic but it still had the Ghan travelling up to Alice Springs once or twice a week. This ceased in 1937 when a new direct railway line was completed from Adelaide to Port Augusta via the Adelaide Plains and from Port Pirie along the coast to Port Augusta.
So from 1917 the Pichi Richi railway line conducted trains to Perth. Work started on a railway across the Nullarbor from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie in 1911 with it being completed in 1917. But the Commonwealth did build another railway which was promised to Western Australia in 1901 as a condition of WA joining the Commonwealth of Australia. The Great Northern Railway was extended from Quorn to Hawker and then Maree in 1883 and eventually Oodnadatta in 1891.It was then extended to Alice Springs in 1929 by the Commonwealth but although the Commonwealth promised a railway to Darwin when SA gave up its Northern Territory in 1911 the Commonwealth never built a railway via the Flinders Ranges to Darwin. This then provided a rail link between Adelaide/Port Adelaide and Port Augusta. In December 1881 a railway line was extended from Peterborough (then Petersburg) via Carrieton and Hammond to Quorn. Pass in the Flinders Ranges towards Quorn. In 1878 work began on constructing the great Northern railway from Port Augusta through Pichi Richi Old house and tank taken from the Ghan Express steam train.
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