Alberton | |||||||||||||||
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![]() South-east bound view from Platform 2, with a 3000 class railcar departing on a City-bound service, May 2005 | |||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | Station Place, Alberton | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°51′29″S138°31′06″E / 34.858088°S 138.518398°E | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Department for Infrastructure & Transport | ||||||||||||||
Operated by | Adelaide Metro | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Outer Harbor Port Dock | ||||||||||||||
Distance | 10.2 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Bus routes | 232 to Port Adelaide (Torrens Road) | ||||||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||
Structure type | Side platform | ||||||||||||||
Parking | No | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Station code | 16492 (to City) 18463 (to Outer Harbor & Port Dock) | ||||||||||||||
Website | Adelaide Metro | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 1856 | ||||||||||||||
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Alberton railway station is the junction station for the Outer Harbor and Port Dock lines. [1] [2] Situated in the north-western Adelaide suburb of Alberton, it is 10.2 kilometres from Adelaide station. The station is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.
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The railway station and the substantial brick and stone building on the northbound platform were constructed in 1856 when the line between Adelaide and Port Adelaide was built. The other intermediate stations on this line were at Bowden and Woodville. In the early days, Adelaide to Port Adelaide was a single-track railway. As traffic on the line increased, a second platform opened at Alberton in 1878 and the single track was duplicated throughout in 1881. Goods sidings were installed in 1892, controlled by a signal cabin adjacent to the Fussell Place level crossing.
As traffic declined in the second half of the 20th century, the goods siding and signal cabin were taken out of use in 1953. Alberton station has been unattended since 1 September 1987, but the building on the first platform is now used as a hairdresser. In late 2016, the station was ranked as one of the worst stations in the western suburbs based on 5 criteria. [3] On 17 May 2022, a 62 year old woman was fatally struck by a train at a crossing north of the station, causing the line to be closed for several hours and promoting calls for more gates at crossings along the Outer Harbor line. [4]
No freight trains operate through Alberton, however a significant amount of freight traffic used the nearby Rosewater loop until 2008 when the Mary MacKillop Bridge over the Port River was opened. [5] The Rosewater loop joined the Adelaide to Outer Harbor line at Port Adelaide Junction (just north of Alberton) heading for the Lefevre Peninsula and Pelican Point.
Platform | Lines | Destinations | Notes |
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1 | Outer Harbor | all stops services to Outer Harbor | some peak hour services terminate at Osborne |
Port Dock | all stops services to Port Dock | ||
2 | Outer Harbor | all stops services to Adelaide | |
Port Dock | all stops services to Adelaide |
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