You seem to get quite a few people boarding trains there in the morning. For many it's a good station to park at if you're driving from somewhere like Daw Park / Cumberland Park / St Mary's. More parking than other stations around and with two train lines shorter wait times often. Quite popular for...

I used the Goodwood station for years when I was a volunteer at the Capri Theatre, often late at night with a howling wind blowing through the 'shelters'. On one later occasion, by then having to use a electric scooter, I was approached and threatened by a very dodgy character and only just escaped ...

All three roads (and many others) had double tram tracks from the horse tram days and H class cars which are much wider than the current rolling stock ran along Henley Beach Road. Buses use the same routes. Driving close alongside a tram is much safer than dodging a bus manoeuvering to and from the ...

The reason why Rundle Road connected with Rundle rather than Grenfell Street was that it was a busy trolley bus route carrying traffic from Tusmore via Rundle and Hindley Streets and Port Road to Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs. Extensions to Beaumont, Erindale and Linden Park (the latter two rep...

What is happening at Old Parliament House? This important part of Adelaide's heritage has been hidden behind hoardings for very many months, with seemingly title activity behind them. The building is between the Railway Station/Casino and Parliament House, and is thus very prominent. With the Tour D...

The first trains have arrived in Oaklands since the shutdown early this year. Two test trains came through the Goodwood underpass and reversed over the Oaklands crossover to return to the city. I was told by a friendly official on the platform that there may have been a third planned. The train at a...

Downpours that are less sudden, or fewer downpours that are sudden...? :wink: Greetings and felicitations Maximus. It's good to read that someone other than myself knows the difference between quantity and number. I had thought that I was the last bastion of conformity with the use of 'fewer' for t...

PeFe wrote: No to trams up Unley and Prospect Rds, low density areas with no real activity centres at either end. Undecided about a tram up the Parade to Magill, where is the density? Maybe All of these destinations had double track lines and the trams themselves were wider. Parking was allowed and,...

Having lived in Melbourne for nearly 30 years from the age of 24 and come back home to Adelaide to live for almost as long again, I am acutely aware of the dismissive views of many interstate people who display their ignorance by belittling this city. Nevertheless, I think that we need to remember a...

The Metro in the early evening before the sea of white lights under the marquee had been switched on, and the auditorium of Wests with its ever changing coloured lighting effects almost imperceptibly fading from one to another, and the incomparable REGENT in Rundle Street (You know – that beautiful ...

WESTS,Adelaide01.jpg Timezone Meridian was where the ASO is now. It was originally the Olympia ice skating rink, before being converted into a cinema. Was closed and knocked down (except for the stage) in the 30s and was rebuilt by Greater Union. Greater Union then sold it in the 70s since they had...

No internet user in his right mind would vote for the Coalition on the broadband issue alone. The alleged failings and the relative nation building achievements of both sides in other directions are important considerations, but all Labor really needs to do is to publish photographs and video clips ...

This picture was taken late yesterday afternoon from the Seaford end of Warradale station. A hole of the full depth of the augur shaft has been dug, and this morning the reinforcing-rod cage lying in shadow in front of the orange safety barrier will have been lowered into the hole, the pole lifted o...

Hear, Hear Rubberman! It is the spending of public money on non-productive schemes which can broadly be classed as 'middle class welfare' that has wasted huge amounts of money that could have been spent on giving us a railway and road system that would benefit everyone in faster and safer transport ...

Breaking into the interesting thread about by-passing the present route through the Mount Lofty ranges, I would like to direct my fellow rail advocates to a series of articles in the Melbourne 'Age', which will show that we are not nearly so badly off in rail related matters as we often think. The V...