North Adelaide railway station

North Adelaide
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Train Services
Gawler Central Line
Location
Street	War Memorial Drive North Adelaide Station Road
Suburb	North Adelaide
Distance from Adelaide	2.5 km
Access by	Level pedestrian crossing
Frequency
Hi-Frequency Station	No
Peak Frequency	30 mins
Weekday Frequency	Inconsistent
Weekend Frequency	None
Night Frequency	None
Facilities
Real Rail Time Display	No
Real Rail Time Speaker	Yes
Number of Platforms	2
Platform Layout	2 side platforms
Toilets	No
Car Parking	Yes
Bike Storage	No
Lounge	No
Kiosk	No
Wheelchair access	Yes
Other facilities	None
History
Opened	1857
Closed	1990s (briefly)
Transfers
Train transfer	None
Bus transfer	None
Adjacent Stations
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North Adelaide railway station is a railway station on the Gawler railway line on War Memorial Drive in the inner northern Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide. It is 2.5 km by railway from the Adelaide Railway Station.

Services

Since the station reopened, only a limited number of trains stop at this station between 6:00 and 9:45 am and 1:30 and 7:00pm weekdays only (plus one train to Adelaide near 11pm). The station was closed for a brief period in the 1990s due to the terrible state that the station was in. Special event trains for the annual Skyshow fireworks event have used this station as a terminus. When the Schutzenfest is held at the nearby Bonython Park in January each year, most trains stop at this station. On weekends and public holidays, all trains run express through the station.

In 1969, all trains except express trains stopped here every day.^[1]

Buildings

The station opened in 1857 with station building (waiting room, ladies waiting room and ticket office) and attached four room residence and garden. The enclosed garden still contains mature exotic trees including cotoneaster, phoenix palm and orange. There is also an outbuilding to the north. In 1878 the windows, doors and west facing verandah over the platform were altered. The building is the third oldest surviving railway station in South Australia and distinct from the earlier 1856 Bowden and Alberton stations, having an attached residence. The buildings are classed as historic and listed on the Register of the National Estate.^[2] After Bowden, Alberton and St Kilda railway station, Melbourne, it is the fourth oldest railway station nationally.^[3]

The structure on the down platform (Gawler bound) was burnt down and replaced by the present shelter. There were sidings and a wood yard selling firewood west of this platform where the standard gauge line to Darwin now runs.

In 1880 a signal box was erected south of the station building at the end of the platform. This has since been demolished.

In the late 1980s, the up platform was shortened.

The station is no longer staffed. In recent times the station building was used for housing a community group, Bicycle SA (1996-circa 2004). The building is owned and managed by the City of Adelaide.

See also

• List of Adelaide railway stations

References

1. ^ M.L. Stockley, General Traffic Manager (20 July 1969). Metropolitan and Country Time and Fare Tables. South Australian Railways. 
2. ^ "Entry AHD18345". Australian Heritage Database. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=18345. 
3. ^ Corporation of the City of Adelaide (1990). Susan Marsden, Paul Stark, Patricia Sumerling. ed. Heritage of the City of Adelaide. Corporation of the City of Adelaide. ISBN 0-909866-30-9. 

Coordinates: 34°54′22″S 138°34′54″E / 34.90611°S 138.58167°E / -34.90611; 138.58167