Kadina railway station
Kadina | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Frances Terrace, Kadina, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°57′53″S 137°42′47″E / 33.964661519908546°S 137.71297507130268°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | South Australian Railways 1878 - 1978 Australian National 1978 - 1993 | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | South Australian Railways 1869 - 1969 | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Balaklava-Moonta line | |||||||||||||||
| Distance | 152 kilometres from Adelaide | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Closed | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 9 October 1878 | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1968 | |||||||||||||||
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Kadina railway station was located on the junction of the Balaklava-Moonta railway line and the Kadina-Brinkworth railway line. It served the town of Kadina.
History
[edit]Kadina railway station opened on 9 October 1878 when the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge line from Port Wakefield was constructed. It continued to Wallaroo on a new track adjacent to the older broad gauge track.[1] The line from Kadina to Barunga Gap (later extended to Brinkworth on 2 July 1894) had started construction from the Kadina end in 1877.[2] The line officially opened on 1 October 1879.
The station consisted of a goods shed, water tower, goods crane, a loading ramp, a ganger's shed, railway yards, two railway cottages and a station building.[3]
On 1 August 1927, the lines were gauge converted to broad gauge.[4]
The station closed to regular passenger use in 1968.[5] In 1978, the station and all associated infrastructure was included in the transfer of South Australian Railways to Australian National. The section from Wallaroo to Snowtown was converted to dual gauge on 2 December 1982 with an extra 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) rail laid following the conversion of the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line.
The line to Port Wakefield closed on 14 March 1990 but the line towards Snowtown remained open until 3 March 1993. After closure, part of the line from Wallaroo to Bute was used by the Lions Club of Yorke Peninsula for heritage tourist train services but this ceased in 2009 due to high track repair costs.[6]
The line from Wallaroo to Kadina has since been ripped up and replaced with the Copper Coast Rail Trail and retail stores on both ends.
References
[edit]- ^ "THE PORT WAKEFIELD AND KADINA RAILWAY". South Australian Register. Vol. XLIII, no. 9953. South Australia. 8 October 1878. p. 6. Retrieved 24 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE KADINA AND BARUNGA RAILWAY". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. XV, no. 4, 301. South Australia. 23 May 1878. p. 2 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 24 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Heritage survey of Kadina railway yards
- ^ Callaghan, WH (2002). "Horse and Steam, Wheat and Copper". Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin (January, February, 2002): 9–27, 46–63.
- ^ Railways and Colonisation in South Australia
- ^ Repair costs derail tourist train operation 19 March 2009