Outer Harbor railway line
| Outer Harbor railway line | |
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| Overview | |
| Locale | Adelaide, South Australia |
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Adelaide
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| Rolling stock | |
| Events | |
| Re-sleepered (concrete) | 2002, November 2009-March 2010 |
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| Line length | 21.9 km (13.6 mi) |
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| Track gauge | 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) |
The Outer Harbor railway line is a suburban branch line in Adelaide, South Australia.
It runs from Adelaide station through the north western suburbs to Port Adelaide and Outer Harbor. It is 21.9 kilometres in length, and shares part of its run with the Grange line. It is operated by Adelaide Metro.
The railway between Adelaide and Port Dock railway station was the first railway in Adelaide and the first government-owned railway in the British Empire, opening in 1856.
Port Adelaide junction was created when the railway was extended to cross the Port River to Le Fevre Peninsula. As industry developed on the west side of the Port River, and deeper harbour was required. Initially, this was at Semaphore, with the railway extended in 1882 as the now-closed Semaphore railway line to service the overseas shipping jetty there. The Outer Harbor was developed and the railway extended from Glanville railway station to service it. The line between Port Adelaide Junction and Glanville was dual gauge until early December 2009 when the standard gauge rails were removed. Outer Harbor had a balloon loop railway so that trains could be turned around without shunting or requiring a turntable or triangle. The loop was cut when rail freight moved off the broad gauge Outer Harbor railway to the nearby standard gauge line on the eastern side of the peninsula.
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