Noarlunga Centre Interchange

Noarlunga Centre
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Train Services
Noarlunga Centre Line
Location
Street	Burgess Drive
Suburb	Noarlunga Centre
Distance from Adelaide	30.2 km
Access by	Enclosed pedestrian overpass
Frequency
Hi-Frequency Station	No
Peak Frequency	Every 10-15 Mins
Weekday Frequency	Every 15-30 Mins
Weekend Frequency	Every 30 Mins
Night Frequency	Every 60 Mins
Facilities
Real Rail Time Display	Yes
Real Rail Time Speaker	Yes
Number of Platforms	3
Platform Layout	1 side platform 1 centre platform
Toilets	Yes
Car Parking	Yes
Bike Storage	Yes
Lounge	No
Kiosk	Yes
Wheelchair access	Yes
Other facilities	Ticket office
History
Opened	1978
Rebuilt	2004
Transfers
Bus transfer	702 Southern Circuit 715/716 to Old Reynella 721-725 to City T721/T721X to City (Express) 732-734 to Marion Centre 740 to Seaford 741 to Maslin Beach 745/747 Seaford Circuit T748 to Seaford (Express) 749 to Aldinga Beach 750 to Sellicks Beach 751/753 to Willunga 743/744 Hackham West Circuit
Adjacent Stations
« Previous Christie Downs	Next » Seaford Meadows

Bus interchange area. Local buses are operated by SouthLink and connect with train arrivals and departures.

Noarlunga Centre Interchange is the terminus of the Noarlunga Centre line, a part of the suburban railway system in Adelaide, South Australia.

Noarlunga Centre is 30.2 km (18.8 mi) by rail from Adelaide Railway Station, and is a major transportation hub for Adelaide’s southern metropolitan area. The station has a bus interchange directly alongside and is adjacent to a large commuter Park-and-Ride facility.

Noarlunga Centre is an important regional centre for shopping, recreation and various government services. The headquarters of the City of Onkaparinga are located here and other facilities within easy reach of the rail and bus stations include Centro Colonnades, a hospital, a TAFE college, cinemas, and a swimming pool. Combined with its role as a transport interchange, these make Noarlunga Centre one of the busiest stations on the Adelaide suburban rail system.

Noarlunga Centre is one of the few railway stations on the TransAdelaide network with a staffed ticket office. It has also been designated a Safer Station with enhanced lighting, CCTV surveillance and security help phones provided.

Rail and bus services

All rail services are provided by Adelaide Metro using diesel railcars. There are no freight trains to Noarlunga Centre.

Trains to and from Adelaide operate every 30 minutes at off-peak times on Monday to Friday, and through the day on Saturday and Sunday. Before 11am and after 2pm on weekdays, the frequency is increased to one train every 15 minutes. In the evening, services run every hour.

In peak hours, there are ten trains departing to Adelaide between 7am and 9am. Ten services leave Adelaide for Noarlunga Centre between 4pm and 6pm. Two trains in each direction are non-stop expresses, used by the significant number of city workers who either park their vehicle or transfer from buses at Noarlunga Centre.

Local buses from Noarlunga Centre Interchange use the Adelaide Metro integrated ticketing system and are scheduled to connect with trains to and from Adelaide. Buses from Noarlunga Centre provide links to many of the southern suburbs and beaches, such as Port Noarlunga, Seaford, Moana, Aldinga Beach, and Sellicks Beach. Current details are available from Adelaide Metro.

Bus services are currently operated by SouthLink under contract to the S.A. Government’s Office of Public Transport.

Rail operations

Layout of rail tracks at Noarlunga Centre

The original station at Noarlunga Centre was built with an island platform between the two rail tracks and the ticket office on the bridge above. Passengers accessed the platforms via escalators or a ramp and typically had a long walk between trains and buses.

In recent years a third platform face has been constructed alongside the western track, and the TransAdelaide ticket office has been relocated onto the platform level. The project was completed in March 2004, since when most trains have used this western track giving passengers safer and more direct access to connecting buses.

There are no storage facilities for trains at Noarlunga Centre. However a number of the extra railcars needed for peak-hour services on the line are stabled overnight in secure sidings at Port Stanvac, around 4 km (2½ miles) north and just beyond Lonsdale station.

All signalling at Noarlunga Centre is controlled remotely from TransAdelaide’s computerised train control centre at Adelaide station.

History

Prior to the railway line being extended in the mid-1970s, most local trains from Adelaide had terminated at either Marino, or at Hallett Cove, a station on the closed line to Willunga.

The South Australian Railways and its successor, the State Transport Authority (STA), extended the railway southwards in stages from Hallett Cove to cater for increasing residential development in the southern area. Opening dates for passenger services were:-

• To Hallett Cove Beach on 30 June 1974.
• To Christie Downs on 25 January 1976. This was a temporary terminus just north of Beach Road and adjacent to Hyacinth Crescent, Christie Downs. It was a different location to today’s Christie Downs station, which opened later, in November 1981.
• To Noarlunga Centre station on 2 April 1978.

Seaford/Aldinga Extension

End of the line at Noarlunga Interchange in 2008. The line will continue beyond here if the Seaford Extension is built.

Since the 1990s, there has been significant residential development at Seaford and Aldinga, south of Noarlunga Centre. In recent years there have been several proposals to extend the rail line southwards from Noarlunga Interchange to serve the Seaford district. A corridor of land has been reserved, in which new building and development is not allowed.

Most recently, in January 2006 (just prior to a state election in March 2006) the South Australian Minister for Infrastructure announced a new study into the feasibility of extending the line 5.5 km to Seaford. The line would cross the Onkaparinga River via a new bridge, with stations at Seaford Meadows and Seaford.

In the 2008/9 State Budget, money was set aside to purchase a corridor that continues further to Aldinga.

The Seaford/Aldinga Extension is a key project in South Australia's Strategic Plan, which aims to double the use of public transport to 10 percent of weekday travel by 2018. The A$100 million project was eventually approved by the state government, and construction was commenced in early 2010.

Render of a redevelopment of the station in 2014 to become a part of a new planned Transit Oriented Development

See also

• List of Adelaide railway stations
• Railways in Adelaide

External links

• Noarlunga Centre Interchange Map
• Adelaide Metro
• South Australia Central
• Office of Public Transport
• TransAdelaide

Coordinates: 35°08′24″S 138°29′33″E / 35.1399°S 138.4925°E / -35.1399; 138.4925