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The line no longer continues to Loxton station, having been curtailed at a bulk grain facility a few kilometres short of the town. The end of the main line became the grain terminal at what was originally the
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64:Coordinates
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889:region of
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134:1914-02-02
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217:Old gauge
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101:Termini
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1361:28 May
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