Bridgewater railway station, Adelaide

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Bridgewater railway station was a railway station located in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Bridgewater and was 37.2km or 23 miles, 32 chains away from Adelaide by rail.

The station opened in the 1880s and was the terminus of the now defunct Bridgewater line. It consisted of three platforms (all of which are now demolished). Platform 1 was a stand alone platform that was 140.2 metres long and Platforms 2 and 3 were an island platform both 170.7 metres long. The station building was burned down by arsonists in 1983.

The station closed in 1987, along with suburban services on the route between Belair and Bridgewater. There is no evidence of the station left, as the offices and island platform were demolished around 1990, while more recently the brick relay console and main platform were demolished, in November 2006.

Services to Bridgewater were on the metropolitan broad gauge network, with two line working from Goodwood to Belair, and single line working beyond Belair. In 1995 the line was converted to standard gauge along with the rest of the Adelaide-Melbourne line.