line in South Australia's Murray Mallee region. A turntable relocated from Kapunda was installed near the station, and a depot and sheds were constructed next to the Port Augusta station for housing a locomotive and rolling stock for Pichi Richi Railway operations originating at Port Augusta. Other route extension works Other works included: earthworks requiring the excavation and placement of approximately of material dismantling, transporting and relaying of 1300 lengths of long rail totalling constructing six turnouts at Port Augusta to provide a run-around loop and access to the storage shed and turntable laying about 11,500 redgum and steel sleepers using 30,000 second-hand dogspikes, 10,000 screwspikes and 5,200 fishbolts transporting, distributing and tamping of track ballast designing, manufacturing, transporting and installing 13 large precast concrete culvert crowns and base sections for the underpass – achieved in 60 hours to avoid disrupting coal trains from Leigh Creek installing about 1600 pieces of pin-crib walling to the underpass at Stirling North. The extension was officially opened 15 September 2001 by the local state MP, Graham Gunn, the then state Tourism Minister Joan Hall, and Port Augusta Mayor Joy Baluch. The extension to Port Augusta won the 2002 Permanent Way Institute (SA Section) Trackwork Achievement Award Other projects Significant projects completed by Pichi Richi Railway in recent years include: overhaul and return to service of WAGR steam locomotive W934 overhaul and return to service of WAGR steam locomotive W916 (rebuilt as W22) rebuild of several original Commonwealth Railways narrow-gauge carriages, including: NABPA class passenger carriage, numbers 25, 26 and 27 NIA class passenger carriage number 36 – distinguished as the vehicle that in World War II carried United States General Douglas MacArthur, his wife, son and amah from Alice Springs to Adelaide via Quorn after they had escaped the Japanese advance of the Philippines (it was at Terowie that MacArthur made his famous declaration, "I came through and I shall return" from the end platform of the car) NSS class special service observation carriage number 34, used by the Duke of Gloucester on a royal train during his 1934 visit to Australia NYAB class composite brake van carriage number 15 restoration of SAR Brill railcar trailer 305 restoration and return to service of motor inspection car MIC 126, a 1937 Morris 25 Morris motor vehicle that runs on railway wheels restoration of SAR refreshment carriage Light rebuild of SAR passenger carriage number 5