Terowie railway station

This resulted in Terowie becoming an important transshipment point on the South Australian Railways network.

[1][2][3] The opening of the Trans-Australian Railway in 1917 further increased the amount of traffic, this ceased operating via Terowie in 1937 when the Adelaide to Redhill line was extended to Port Pirie.

The last passenger train, a Steamrail Victoria tour using Victorian locomotive R761 used the station on 6 June 1987.

While changing trains in Terowie on 20 March 1942, United States General Douglas MacArthur was interviewed by two journalists from the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper regarding the Battle of the Philippines.

He said: "The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organising an American offensive against Japan, the primary purpose of which is the relief of the Philippines.

Douglas MacArthur monument
General Douglas MacArthur, his wife Jean and son Arthur on 20 March 1942 at Terowie railway station, where they had to change from a narrow-gauge train to a broad-gauge train on their journey from The Philippines to Melbourne . Here he made his much-publicised remark, "I shall return".