Hamley Bridge railway station
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- South Australian Railways 1860–1978
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 In the late 1920s, the station yard looking due east, taken from the station building. The foreground tracks and rolling stock are broad gauge; beyond the goods-laden transfer platform is the narrow-gauge track. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Railway Terrace, Hamley Bridge, South Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°21′27″S 138°41′03″E / 34.3575°S 138.6843°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operated by | South Australian Railways 1860–1978 Australian National Railways Commission 1978–1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Roseworthy–Peterborough line | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 76 kilometres from Adelaide railway station | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Closed | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hamley Bridge railway station, now closed, is located in the town of Hamley Bridge at the junction of the Roseworthy-Peterborough railway line and the Hamley Bridge-Gladstone railway line in South Australia.
Opening
Hamley Bridge railway station opened on 3 July 1869 as part of the extension of what was then known as the Roseworthy-Forresters railway.[1] It became a junction with the opening of the Hamley Bridge-Balaklava railway on 15 January 1880.[2] The original station opened in 1880 and was a few hundred meters north of the original station originally called Alma. The station facilities included of a main building and four platforms. The foundation stone of the bridge was laid by Lady Edith Hamley, wife of Lt.-Col. Francis Gilbert Hamley, who was then the Governor of South Australia, on 25 July 1868. In 1925 the original stone bridge was demolished and a new bridge was erected in conjunction with the works to convert the narrow gauge line to broad gauge, despite this bridge already being broad gauge. Each platform was an island platform and a signal box was constructed. Silos, cranes and a goods shed were added. There were many sidings and tracks at the rail yards with the junction to the north and sidings for storing wagons to the south. The town of Hamley Bridge was named after the railway bridge over the Light River on the south side of the station for the Peterborough line. The bridge was 91 metres long and 24 metres high, in two spans on stone abutments and a cast iron cylindrical pier 1.8 metres in diameter.[3]
Break of gauge
Hamley Bridge was a break of gauge station with the Hamley Bridge-Balaklava line being constructed as narrow gauge. The Peterborough line was constructed as broad gauge. This problem was solved when the line to Balaklava (later extended to Gladstone) was converted to broad gauge in 1927.[4]