Outer Harbor railway station
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Outer Harbor
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| Location | Oliver Rogers Road North Haven |
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| Line(s) | Outer Harbor Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 21.9 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bus routes | None | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1926 (current station) | ||||||||||
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Outer Harbor railway station is the terminus station of the Outer Harbor line. Situated in the north-western Adelaide suburb of North Haven, it is 21.9 kilometres from Adelaide station.
Port facilities at Outer Harbor were constructed during the first decade of the 20th century. This involved reclamation of marshland and the building of wharves and breakwaters. A railway line was built northwards from Largs in 1903 to facilitate this construction. The line was initially single track and used by goods trains only.
As the harbour project reached completion, a station was erected alongside the wharf at Outer Harbor and a passenger service was introduced in late 1907. Outer Harbor opened to ocean-going shipping in January 1908.
The original station was closer to the wharf than the current station location, in the area now occupied by the modern Overseas Passenger Terminal. There were various goods lines on the wharf in addition to the passenger facilities, and a sizeable balloon loop which around the circumference of the North Haven Golf Course and allowed passenger trains to continue back towards Adelaide without reversing.
In 1926, a new passenger station with brick buildings was built on the present site and allowed the lines closer to the wharf to concentrate on handling goods traffic.
Before the 1950s, the train service to Outer Harbor comprised:
In 1959, increasing traffic from stations along the Lefevre Peninsula resulted in the Outer Harbor line becoming the main line, with most trains running to or from Adelaide, with the Semaphore trains then operating as a shuttle service from Glanville.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the importance of the passenger facilities decreased. Today, the Overseas Passenger Terminal is now used only for short stop-overs by occasional cruise ships. The last boat train ran to Outer Harbor in 1971.
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