Mount Pleasant railway line
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Locale | Adelaide, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Termini | Adelaide Mount Pleasant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Line length | 33.8 km (21.0 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of tracks | single track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mount Pleasant railway line is an abandoned South Australian line. It was opened between Balhannah and Mount Pleasant in September 1918 and ran until March 1963[1] as a freight and passenger service.[2] Part of its trackbed is now the Amy Gillett Bikeway rail trail near to Adelaide.[3]
History[]
The line[4] opened on 16 September 1918 between Balhannah, 10 kilometres east of Mount Lofty, and Mount Pleasant. The line had six stations and a number of halts, typically the halts were located near level crossings. The six stations were Oakbank, Woodside, , Mount Torrens, Birdwood, and Mount Pleasant. The seven halts were Mappinga, Riverview, Kayannie, Muralappie, Milkappa Road, Crane Road, and Narcoonah.
The line was closed on 4 March 1963, and the way between Balhannah and Oakbank has mostly returned to private landowners.[3]
Rail trail[]
This former railway is in the jurisdiction of the Adelaide Hills Council, which in 2003 commissioned a feasibility study into the best use of the land. The report recommended it be converted to a rail trail, which the council agreed with but considered it beyond their means to do so. However, since that time, the development of a rail trail lead to the opening of the Amy Gillett Rail Trail in 2010, named in honour of the late Amy Gillett, a South Australian born Olympic Cyclist who had died in 2005.[3] As of 2015, the conversion had reached from Balhannah to Mount Torrens.
Line guide[]
Station | Image | Opened | Additional information |
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Mount Pleasant | 1918 | Terminus; closed 1963 | |
Birdwood | 1918 | Closed 1963 | |
Mount Torrent | 1918 | Closed 1963 | |
Charleston | 1918 | Closed 1963 | |
Woodside | 1918 | Closed 1963 | |
Oakbank | 1918 | Closed 1963 | |
Balhannah | 1883 | Former branch station; formerly part of the Adelaide-Wolseley line. Closed 1963 |
References[]
- ^ "Balhannah to Mount Pleasant Railway | Mount Pleasant Community". mountpleasant.sa.au. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- ^ Adelaide Hills Rail Trail - History Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Rail Trails news article Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Mount Pleasant Line Callaghan, W.H. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, October, 1994 pp274-281
- Closed railway lines in South Australia
- Railway lines opened in 1918
- Railway lines closed in 1953