Yantaringa railway station, South Australia

Yantaringa railway station, South Australia

Yantaringa railway station was located about 41km by rail from Adelaide Railway Station. Yantaringa (which takes its name from an aboriginal word for "big lookout" [cite web|url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/h/h1.htm#hahndorf |title=Habel Landing - Hamley Bridge |date=2006-06-21 |accessdate=2008-08-22 |publisher=State Library of South Australia] ) was on the Melbourne-Adelaide railway in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Verdun, and is a few hundred metres to the east of the Yantaringa Tunnel. [Callaghan WH. The overland railway. ARHS NSW, St James. 1992.]

The station/siding opened in the late 1800s (c1883).Fact|date=May 2008 In 1925 it became a stopping place for rail motors. [ [http://www.wilsonvineyard.com.au/the_trains/wn_1925.html "Yantaringa (near Ambleside) - open as stopping place for rail motor"] , SA Railways weekly notices, 1925, week 16.]

The station/siding closed in 1964. [ [http://www.wilsonvineyard.com.au/the_trains/wn_1964.html "Yantaringa (Bridgewater - Ambleside) - closed "] , SA Railways weekly notices, 1964, week 28.]

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