Salisbury railway station, Adelaide
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Salisbury Interchange
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| Location | Park Terrace Salisbury |
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| Line(s) | Gawler Central Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 20.2 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bus routes | 224, 225, 500 & 502 to City 400 & 403 to Salisbury North 401, 404 & 405 to Paralowie 411 to Mawson Interchange 415 to Golden Grove 421 to RAAF Base Edinburgh 430 & 900 to Elizabeth 560 to Tea Tree Plaza |
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | June 1857 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 17 December 1985 | ||||||||||
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Salisbury Interchange is a railway station and bus interchange in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury
Salisbury Interchange is on the Gawler Central line, 18.6 kilometres from Adelaide station. Adjoining are a large bus interchange and park & ride carpark making it one of the busiest stations on the Adelaide suburban rail system.
The railway line through Salisbury opened in June 1857, initially running north as far as Smithfield. The line was extended to Gawler and Kapunda in 1860 and Burra by 1870 to exploit the copper mining boom in those areas.
The line through Salisbury became the South Australian Railways' broad gauge Main North line, used by a variety of local and country trains, and also by passengers and freight travelling long distances to Broken Hill, Alice Springs and Kalgoorlie, (although all these interstate journeys involved changing trains at break-of-gauge stations).
In 1925, a junction was installed north of Salisbury when a new line was built to Redhill, in the state’s mid-north. By 1937, this line was extended to Port Pirie and was used by the broad gauge East-West express, which connected with the Commonwealth Railways Trans-Australian service to Kalgoorlie.
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