North Adelaide Railway Station / State Heritage listed / opened in 1857 and still in service, South Australia

            In recent time parts of the station have been used for a shop and café. 

On March 26, 1847, the first Australian ordinance for the regulation and construction of railways was passed in South Australia. This did not relate to any specific railway, but set out in great detail the conditions, responsibilities, limitations and privileges applying to future companies empowered by Special Acts to construct and operate railways. 
The State Heritage Listed North Adelaide Railway Station opened in 1857and still in service.
Trains slow at the station but only scheduled services stop. Platform 2 is at the station building: platform 1 is on the opposite side of the tracks. 
Benjamin Herschell Babbage (1815-78) was appointed as local chief engineer. In England the services of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, chief engineer of the Great Western Railway Company, were enlisted as agent and consulting engineer. Brunel made significant contributions to the increasing use of industrial technology in the mid-19th century. Babbage as an associate of Brunel, designed and built railways in England and Italy during between 1842 and 1848. The rails originally laid in the Adelaide to Port railway were of the same type as those used in the Great Western Line in England. 

By January 1852 the line was being laid and in 1853, 9 acres in the Park Lands were sought for the yards and station complex. In 1854 tenders were called for major works such as the railway station and terminus, and in October the abutments and groynes for the bridge over the River Torrens were being erected. 

In 1855 the Torrens Railway Bridge crossed the water at a height of 32 feet. The timber arch had a clear span of 106 feet over the river, with girders at 13-foot intervals and stone abutments of 5 foot-thick concrete foundations protected by sheet piling. Castings were made by Pybus with ironwork wrought by Baker. Jacob Pitman constructed the bridge for £8000 over 13 months. 

In 1876 the bridge over the river was upgraded and a bowstring arch built on the 1854 abutments. It no longer exists. A single span arch bridge built a few metres east on the new Main North Line in 1910-11 was transferred to the Port Line in 1925, displacing the 1876 bowstring bridge, which was dismantled soon after. As a result of track standardisation, the western side of the abutment has been compromised by a new bridge built in the early 1980s. 

The next line to be opened was the one to Gawler (in 1857: it was extended to Kapunda in 1860). This led to the construction of the North Adelaide Railway Station. It was opened in 1857 as part of the expansion of the rail network in South Australia and is among the earliest railway stations to survive. (The stations at Bowden and Alberton were built in 1855, and Gawler was built in 1857.) In 1878 alterations were made to the windows, doors and west-facing verandah over the platform. The station was slightly extended, and in about 1880 the present signal box was erected. 
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Taken on: October 20, 2019

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