Adelaide, Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company (1882–1924)
South Australian Railways (1924–1929)
History
Opened
24 May 1880 (1880-05-24)[1]
Closed
December 1929 (1929-12)
Technical
Line length
10.86 kilometres (6.75 miles)[1]
Number of tracks
Single initially, duplicated by 1914
Track gauge
1600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Route map
Adelaide
Gawler, Grange and Outer Harbor lines
Belair and Seaford lines
Thebarton
Hilton
Richmond
Kurralta Park
Plympton Coursing Ground
Plympton
to Morphettville
Morphettville
Glenelg tram line
Camden
Novar Gardens
Macdonalds
Golf Links
St Leonards
Glenelg
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The Holdfast Bay railway line was a railway in western Adelaide, built in 1880 to compete with the Adelaide, Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company. The line started at the Adelaide railway station, on the northern edge of the central business district, and proceeded to the northern edge of Mile End, South Australia immediately to the west of the city. From there the line headed south-west to the seaside suburb of Glenelg.
Today, much of the corridor in which the line ran remains as a rail trail for cyclists, which is known as the Westside Bikeway.[2] Part of the north section of the corridor has been built over as James Congdon Drive. A plarform remains on the site of Plympton station near Marion Road in the suburb of Plympton.[3] The line was closed in 1929, after which remnants remained for some time, including rails across Marion Road in the 1950s.[4] A signal from the line was preserved and put in the main pavilion of the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.
^ ab"The Holdfast Bay Railway". The South Australian Advertiser. Adelaide. 24 May 1880. p. 6. Retrieved 7 March 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^Cycling maps Archived 9 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, www.sa.gov.au and Bike map 8, www.sa.gov.au
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