North Adelaide railway station, Adelaide

TransAdelaide
colour=#9c2727
station_name=North Adelaide


line=Gawler
street=War Memorial Drive
North Adelaide Station Road
suburb=North Adelaide
distance=2.5
access=Level Pedestrian Crossing
HFS=No
peakfreq=Inconsistent
wdfreq=Inconsistent
wefreq=None
nightfreq=None
rrtd=No
rrts=Yes
platforms=2
platform_arch=2 Side Platforms
toilets=No
parking=Yes
bike=No
lounge=No
kiosk=No
disability=Yes
facilities=None
opened=1857
trainconnect=None
busconnect=None
previous=Adelaide
next=Ovingham

North Adelaide railway station is a railway station on the Gawler railway line which is located on War Memorial Drive in the inner northern Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide. It is located 2.5km by railway from the Adelaide Railway Station.

ervices

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.cite book | author = M.L. Stockley, General Traffic Manager | date= 20 July 1969 | title= Metropolitan and Country Time and Fare Tables | publisher= South Australian Railways ]

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 [http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=18345 Register of the National Estate] . After Bowden, Alberton and St Kilda railway station, Melbourne, it is the fourth oldest railway station nationally. cite book | author= Corporation of the City of Adelaide | year= 1990 | title= Heritage of the City of Adelaide | editor= Susan Marsden, Paul Stark, Patricia Sumerling | publisher=Corporation of the City of Adelaide | id=ISBN 0-909866-30-9 ]

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.

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.

ee also

*List of Adelaide railway stations

References