Tintinara railway station

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Tintinara
Former Great Southern Rail regional rail
Tintinara railway station and train rear northwest 4 June 2023.jpg
A train stopped opposite the Tintinara railway station building, June 2023
General information
Location Dukes Highway, Tintinara, South Australia
Coordinates 35°53′08″S140°03′26″E / 35.8855°S 140.0573°E / -35.8855; 140.0573
Elevation16m
Operated by South Australian Railways 1886 - 1978 Australian National 1978 - 1997 Great Southern Rail 1997-1999
Line(s) Adelaide-Wolseley
Distance211 kilometres from Adelaide
Platforms1
Tracks3
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parkingyes
Other information
StatusClosed, now used as a tourist info centre
History
Opened1 May 1886
ClosedMay 1999
Services
Preceding station Australian Rail Track Corporation Following station
Culburra
towards Adelaide
Adelaide-Wolseley railway line Coombe
towards Serviceton

Tintinara railway station is located on the Adelaide-Wolseley line in Tintinara, South Australia. [1]

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History

Tintinara station opened on 1 May 1886 as a station on the Nairne-Bordertown extension of what became the Adelaide-Wolseley line. [2] The line opened in stages: on 14 March 1883 from Adelaide to Aldgate, on 28 November 1883 to Nairne, on 1 May 1886 to Bordertown and on 19 January 1887 to Serviceton. [3] The station was rebuilt with a brick station building when CTC was installed on this section of the Adelaide-Wolseley railway line. Facilities at the station included a passenger platform and station building, and a goods platform, crane and shed. The station yard consisted of 3 tracks including a mainline, a passing loop, and a goods siding. In May 1999, the station was closed when The Overland, then operated by Great Southern Rail began operating on a new timetable that skipped multiple stations including Tintinara. [4] The station building is now used as a tourist info centre, and a mural on the front was unveiled in 2018. [5] The Viterra owned grain silos in Tintinara are no longer served by rail and have since been closed. [6] Meanwhile, the nearby goods shed has been repurposed as the Tintinara Community Men's Shed, albeit without the canopy over the track. [7] The goods siding is disused, but the station yard retains 3 tracks to this day.

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References

  1. ↑ Mid North & Murray Mallee map Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine SA Track & Signal
  2. ↑ "OPENING OF THE BORDERTOWN RAILWAY". Kapunda Herald . Vol. XXII, no. 1858. South Australia. 4 May 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2022– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Newland, Andrew; Quinlan, Howard (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 53. ISBN   0-909650-49-7.
  4. ↑ "Geelong Standard Gauge Platform Opens, Overland Accelerated but Stations Bypassed". Railway Digest (July 1999 ed.). p. 17.
  5. ↑ "Vibrant new look for Tinty". The Murray Valley Standard. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Storage and handling network" (PDF). Viterra. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Anderson, Elizabeth (23 September 2015). "Disused railway site finds new track". Stock Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
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