Goodwood railway station, Adelaide
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Goodwood
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Goodwood Station with the Glenelg Tram overpass.
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| Location | Railway Terrace North Goodwood SA 5034 |
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| Coordinates | 34°57′06″S 138°35′06″E / 34.9515825°S 138.5849102°ECoordinates: 34°57′06″S 138°35′06″E / 34.9515825°S 138.5849102°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | DPTI | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Adelaide Metro | ||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Belair Line, Seaford Line, Tonsley Line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 5 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 (2 island platforms) 1 platform disused | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | No | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 5 March 1883 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Goodwood railway station is the junction station for the Belair and Seaford/Tonsley lines. The Belair line diverges south-east towards Millswood, while the Seaford and Tonsley lines diverge south-west towards Clarence Park. The Glenelg Tram line crosses over the railway lines at the south end of Goodwood station. The station services the Adelaide inner-southern suburb of Goodwood, and is 5.0 km from Adelaide station.
Goodwood railway station opened on 5 March 1883 with the opening of the Adelaide to Aldgate section of the Adelaide-Melbourne line. Prior to 1929, what is now the Glenelg Tram line was a railway line that crossed the main south line on a level junction. As part of its conversion from a broad gauge railway to a standard gauge tramway, a bridge was built to carry the trams safely over the railway lines.
Pre-1955, the Belair trains typically used Platform 1 for outbound services, and Platform 2 for inbound services, whilst the Seaford and Tonsley lines used Platform 3 for outbound services, and Platform 4 for inbound services. The yard immediately south allowed trains to transfer from any platform to any line. The most common use of this feature was when Inter/Intrastate treight and passenger trains would use the Seaford tracks to Goodwood from Keswick Rail Yards, then change to the Belair tracks through Goodwood Yard.
Prior to the One Nation gauge standardisation project in 1995, all four tracks at Goodwood were broad gauge, and the Belair line was dual broad gauge tracks. In 1995, the western track of the Belair line was converted to standard gauge, and the Belair line is now only a single track of each gauge.
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