Gladstone railway station, South Australia
Gladstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Gladstone yard in March 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Port Street, Gladstone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°16′11″S 138°21′28″E / 33.2697°S 138.3578°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Journey Beyond | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Crystal Brook-Broken Hill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1876 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gladstone railway station is located on the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill line in Gladstone, South Australia.[1]
History
[edit]Gladstone station opened in 1876 when a line opened from Port Pirie in the west, it was later extended east to Peterborough and ultimately Broken Hill. In 1888, a line was built north to Laura and ultimately Wilmington. When the Hamley Bridge line from Balaklava in the south reached Gladstone in 1894, it became a four-way junction station. All were built as narrow gauge lines.[2][3]
In 1927, the line from the south was converted to broad gauge, making Gladstone a break of gauge station. As part of the standardisation project, the line between Port Augusta and Broken Hill was converted to standard gauge in 1969, thus Gladstone became a junction for three gauges.[2][3]
The broad-gauge connection between Gladstone and Adelaide was closed in May 1988. The narrow-gauge Wilmington railway line was closed in 1990 thus making Gladstone an only standard gauge station on the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway line.
Services
[edit]Journey Beyond's weekly Indian Pacific service between Sydney and Perth passes through Gladstone but does not stop.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Crystal Brook - Broken Hill map SA Track & Signal
- ^ a b Gladstone Archived 28 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine National Railway Museum
- ^ a b Gladstone's Railway History Gladstone
- ^ "Indian Pacific timetable". Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions. 1 April 2021.
External links
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Media related to Gladstone railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Flickr gallery
- Johnny's Pages gallery Archived 17 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
