Sensational-Adelaide.com

A super cool site showing every single rail line, light and heavy, of Australia (and NZ) from 1850 to 2025: https://railhistory.io/

You can slide along the timeline year by year. Quite sad when light rail and some passenger rail instantly vanish within a year.

Credit to the creator on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MelbourneTrain ... ?rdt=59850

Asbestos removal works are scheduled on the old Rosewater Loop in the coming week.

Great to see that progress hasn’t stalled on the greenway conversion.

I was under the impression that the greenway was shelved and that there was an albeit small possibility that it was going to be used for trains again. Guessing that thought bubble has been canned....

With the rapidly increasing population of the Port.. and employment opportunities around multiple points on the Gawler Line… any other city would have Port Dock and Mawson lakes connected. Especially given there is already a corridor.

baytram366 wrote:I was under the impression that the greenway was shelved and that there was an albeit small possibility that it was going to be used for trains again. Guessing that thought bubble has been canned....

Different corridor I'd say. There is a more direct line between the Port and Dry Creek.

ChillyPhilly wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:01 pm

baytram366 wrote:I was under the impression that the greenway was shelved and that there was an albeit small possibility that it was going to be used for trains again. Guessing that thought bubble has been canned....

Different corridor I'd say. There is a more direct line between the Port and Dry Creek.

Surely there's a route they can find from Port Dock to the former salt pans that are going to be home to about 30,000 odd people in the near future? Spur the Gawler line off near there as well and continue it north past Bolivar and Burton, to Virginia, Riverlea and Two Wells..that new line could spur off towards Angle Vale as well.
These are only going to be the fastest growing regions population wise in Adelaide in the coming decades, if they aren't already.

ChillyPhilly wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:01 pm

baytram366 wrote:I was under the impression that the greenway was shelved and that there was an albeit small possibility that it was going to be used for trains again. Guessing that thought bubble has been canned....

Different corridor I'd say. There is a more direct line between the Port and Dry Creek.

True, cutting out the Rosewater Loop from a future rail link eliminates crossing Grand Junction Road, plus the loop would only realistically serve one very minor station on a route that borders almost exclusively industrial land and would have no other stations.