Port Adelaide railway station
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Port Adelaide
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| Location | Baynes Place Port Adelaide |
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| Line(s) | Outer Harbor Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 11.7 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bus routes | 118 to Port Adelaide & City 136 to Port Adelaide & City 150 to Osborne & City 153 to Port Adelaide & City 230 to Port Adelaide & City 232 to Port Adelaide & City 254 to Port Adelaide & City 361 to Port Adelaide & Westfield Tea Tree Plaza |
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1916 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1971 & 2010 | ||||||||||
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Port Adelaide station is located on the Outer Harbor line. Situated in the north-western Adelaide suburb of Alberton, it is 11.7 kilometres from Adelaide station.
Port Adelaide station’s two elevated platforms are on a viaduct that carries the railway across Commercial Road. The station is unstaffed and has no buildings or other facilities except basic passenger shelters on each platform.
The line from Adelaide to Port Adelaide was the second railway in South Australia, after the Goolwa-Port Elliot railway, opened in 1854, and opened in 1856. The line operated for 60 years before today’s Port Adelaide station was built.
The original line from Adelaide ran directly to Port Dock station, the site now occupied by the National Railway Museum. Various lines then continued through the Port Adelaide’s streets to the wharves and, from 1878, along St Vincent Street to the seaside town of Semaphore.
Congestion at Port Dock and the delays involved in operating trains along busy streets in the centre of the Port resulted in construction of a viaduct and a new bridge across the Port River in 1916. This diverted through trains to Semaphore and Outer Harbor via a new station named Port Adelaide Commercial Road, the current station.
Port Adelaide Commercial Road was quite a substantial building, with long platforms, an overall roof and a signal cabin. This quickly took over from Port Dock as the town’s principal railway station.
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