Pinera railway station
Pinera | |||||||||||
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 North-east bound view of the station platform, viewed from Main Road overpass, December 2007 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Main Road, Belair | ||||||||||
| Owner | Department for Infrastructure and Transport | ||||||||||
| Operator | Adelaide Metro | ||||||||||
| Line | Belair | ||||||||||
| Distance | 20.2 km from Adelaide | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Bus routes | 196, 196F, 673, 893, 952, 954 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
Cycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 16557 (to City) 18571 (to Belair) | ||||||||||
| Website | Adelaide Metro | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1920s | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Pinera railway station is located on the Belair line in the Adelaide southern foothills suburb of Belair, 20.2 kilometres from Adelaide station.[1]
History
Pinera was opened in the 1920s as Overway Bridge. The name was derived from the bridge that carries Main Road over a cutting immediately west of the station. The cutting came about when the former No. 5 Tunnel was opened as a result of the duplication of the line between Eden Hills and Belair during the 1920s. The station was renamed Pinera in July 1946,[2] with the new name broadly translating to '"steep hill"'.[3]
On 31 January 1928, six rail workers were killed and three seriously injured when the No. 5 Tunnel (Former Pinera Tunnel) they were demolishing immediately west of the station, collapsed after heavy rain.[4]
In 1995, the inbound line was converted to standard gauge as part of the One Nation Adelaide-Melbourne line gauge conversion project.
Services by platform
| Platform | Destination/s |
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| 1 | Adelaide/Belair |
References
- ↑ Belair timetable Archived 23 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Adelaide Metro 12 October 2014
- ↑ "Belair Progress Society has Successful Year". The Coromandel (Blackwood, SA). 21 September 1946. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
- ↑ "Belair District Progress Association". The Coromandel (Blackwood, SA). 23 March 1946. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
- ↑ "Dreadful Accident Near Belair". The Adelaide Chronicle. 4 February 1928. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
External links
Media related to Pinera railway station at Wikimedia Commons