Glanville railway station, Adelaide

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Glanville Railways in Adelaide - Commuter Railway Station

Station overview
Train Services
Outer Harbor
Location
Street	Causeway Road
Suburb	Glanville
Distance from Adelaide	13.8km
Access by	Level Pedestrian Crossing
Frequency
Hi-Frequency Station	unknown
Peak Frequency	Every 20 Mins
Weekday Frequency	Every 30 Mins
Weekend Frequency	Every 60 Mins
Night Frequency	Every 60 Mins
Facilities
Real Rail Time Display	Yes
Real Rail Time Speaker	Yes
Number of Platforms	4
Platform Layout	2 Centre Platforms
Toilets	No
Car Parking	Yes
Bike Storage	Yes
Lounge	No
Kiosk	No
Wheelchair access	Yes
Other facilities	Shelters
History
Opened	1878
Rebuilt	unknown
Closed	unknown
Transfers
Train transfer	None
Bus transfer	333 to Osborne & Port Adelaide
Adjacent Stations
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Glanville railway station is a railway station with four platforms on the Outer Harbor railway line which is located in the northwestern Adelaide suburb of Glanville on the LeFevre Peninsula. The station opened in 1878 with the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway to Semaphore. It is located 13.8 km (8 miles 44 chains) by railway from the Adelaide Railway Station.

From its opening until 1978, Glanville was the junction of a short branch line running mainly in the middle of Dunnikier Road (later renamed Semaphore Road) to Semaphore. During it's final years, the service was run with the small 55 class Brill railcars before being replaced in 1968 by the Redhen railcars.

Today, Glanville is a broad gauge (1600mm) only station, served only by suburban passenger trains, run by TransAdelaide. During weekday peak periods, Glanville becomes the Outer Harbor lines only intermediate terminus. Two services in the morning and one in the evening terminate here, to form as supplements for express services to the city.

A small bus/rail interchange was built adjacent to the station in the mid 1990's to cater for bus's serving the LeFevre Peninsula area.