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Port Adelaide
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| Location | |
| Street | Commercial Road Portland Place Baynes Place |
| Suburb | Port Adelaide |
| Distance from Adelaide | 11.7 km |
| Access by | Ramp |
| Frequency | |
| Hi-Frequency Station | No |
| Peak Frequency | Every 20-30 Mins |
| Weekday Frequency | Every 30 Mins |
| Weekend Frequency | Every 60 Mins |
| Night Frequency | Every 60 Mins |
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| Real Rail Time Display | Yes |
| Real Rail Time Speaker | Yes |
| Number of Platforms | 2 |
| Platform Layout | 2 Side platforms |
| Toilets | No |
| Car Parking | Yes |
| Bike Storage | No |
| Lounge | No |
| Kiosk | No |
| Wheelchair access | Yes |
| Other facilities | None |
| History | |
| Opened | 1916 |
| Rebuilt | 1971 and 2010 |
| Transfers | |
| Train transfer | None |
| Bus transfer | 118 to Port Adelaide and City 136 to Port Adelaide & City 150 to Osborne and City 153 to Port Adelaide and City 230 to Port Adelaide & City 232 to Port Adelaide and City 254 to Port Adelaide and City 361 to Port Adelaide and TTP |
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Port Adelaide station is on the suburban rail route between Adelaide and Outer Harbor, 11.7 km (7¼ miles) from Adelaide, in the suburb of Port Adelaide.
Port Adelaide station’s two elevated platforms are located on a viaduct which carries the railway across Commercial Road. The station is unstaffed and now has no buildings or other facilities except basic passenger shelters on each platform. This is the only railway station on the entire adelaide railway network to be on a viaduct. This doesn't count the South Road stop as it is a tram stop.
The railway line from Woodville to Outer Harbor closed on 15 November 2009 for 4 months to allow for upgrades to the viaduct and Port Adelaide station. The station was upgraded and was completed on 9 May 2010.
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Passenger trains are provided by TransAdelaide and operate a 30-minute off-peak frequency on Monday to Fridays. Peak hour services are more frequent, while evening and weekend trains depart hourly. Regular freight trains also passed through Port Adelaide station.
The railway tracks through Port Adelaide station are dual gauge and capable of carrying both broad gauge (1600mm) and standard gauge (1435mm) trains. This allows freight traffic from Dry Creek via the Rosewater loop to access industrial facilities on the Lefevre Peninsula and the container terminal at Pelican Point. All TransAdelaide railcars are broad gauge, but freight trains can be either broad gauge or standard gauge, depending on their origin or destination.
Platform #1:
Platform #2:
The line from Adelaide to Port Adelaide was the second railway in South Australia (only to the Goolwa-Port Elliot railway opened in 1854) and opened in 1856.[1] However this line had been operating for 60 years before today’s Port Adelaide station came to be built.
The original line from Adelaide ran directly to Port Dock station, the site now occupied by the National Railway Museum. Various lines then continued through the Port Adelaide’s streets to the wharves and, from 1878, along St Vincent Street to the seaside town of Semaphore.
Congestion at Port Dock and the delays involved in operating trains along busy streets in the centre of the Port resulted in construction of a viaduct and a new bridge across the Port River in 1916. This diverted all through trains to Semaphore and Outer Harbor via a new station named Port Adelaide – Commercial Road (which is the station in use today).
When built, Port Adelaide Commercial Road was quite a substantial building, with long platforms, an overall roof and a signal cabin. This quickly took over from Port Dock as the town’s principal railway station.
As rail traffic decreased through the 1960s and 70s, facilities at Commercial Road station were gradually reduced. In the early 1970s the roof was removed, platforms shortened and the street level station buildings reconstructed. The ticket office was eventually closed in January 1979 and the station has been unstaffed since then.
With the closure of Port Dock in 1981, Commercial Road station became known simply as Port Adelaide.
Port Adelaide is an area undergoing significant redevelopment, both for new housing and to capitalize on the historic wharf precinct to attract tourism. Today’s Port Adelaide station is an uninviting environment for commuters, tourists and visitors to nearby museums, and the station and viaduct closed for 4 months upgrade works in November 2009.
However the future of the section of route over the viaduct is uncertain for two reasons:-
Both of these initiatives would render the Commercial Road viaduct and today’s Port Adelaide station redundant.
| Adelaide Metro Bus Transfers | |
| Stop Number #38 (Commercial Road) | |
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City via Old Port Road, Tapleys Hill Road, Trimmer Parade, Crittenden Road, Grange Road & Port Road |
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City via Webb Street, Frederick Road, Westfield West Lakes, Henley Beach and Henley Beach Road (#136F does not stop between Stop #18 and City) |
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City via Port Road |
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Osborne via Fletcher Road, Carnarvon Terrace, Victoria Road |
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City via Port Road |
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City via Addison Road, Centro Arndale and Torrens Road |
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City via Newcastle Street, Centro Arndale and Torrens Road, Adelaide |
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City via Grand Junction Road, Hanson Road, Centro Arndale and Hawker Street (#254X does not stop between Arndale and North Adelaide) |
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Tea Tree Plaza Interchange via Grand Junction Road, Helen Terrace and Wright Road |
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