Pooraka railway station

Pooraka
Pooraka
General information
Location	West of the Gawler Road, now named Main North Road; Pooraka
Operated by	South Australian Railways to 1975 then Australian National Railways Commission (AN)
Line(s)	Northfield railway line
Distance	12.9 km from Adelaide
Platforms	2
Tracks	20 sidings
Construction
Structure type	demolished
History
Opened	1913
Closed	29 May 1987
Services

Pooraka railway station was located approximately 12.9 km by rail from Adelaide on the former 3.9 kilometres (2.4 mi) long Northfield branch line that opened in June 1857. The station opened as Abattoirs railway station on 12 July 1913, when the adjacent Gepps Cross Abattoirs also opened. The station's livestock sidings extended for most of the 970 metres (1060 yards) of the line between Port Wakefield Road and the Gawler Road (later Main North Road).

History

Pooraka's livestock yards were the principal sidings on the Northfield line

The station's name was changed to Pooraka in 1940, matching the name of the then sparsely populated suburb nearby.[1][2]

Pooraka was a busy location, conducting livestock movements in and out of the adjacent abattoirs and sale yards.[3]^: 6‑252

Pooraka closed as an attended station in October 1982 and closed to passenger services on 29 May 1987.[2] Some cattle trains still used the nearby stock ramp sidings until the early 1990s. The signal cabin and station shelter were demolished; as of 2020 both platforms were still in place, heavily overgrown.

References

Rudall, R.J. (5 December 1940). "Alteration of names of towns" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1286. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
"A brief history of the Dry Creek to Stockade railway". Catch Point Magazine. May 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
Goedecke, David (2009). "South Australian signal cabins". Proceedings of the 2009 convention. Modelling the Railways of South Australia. Adelaide.

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[SAGG-1940-1] Rudall, R.J. (5 December 1940). "Alteration of names of towns" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1286. Retrieved 6 June 2018.

[CatchPoint-2] "A brief history of the Dry Creek to Stockade railway". Catch Point Magazine. May 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2015.

[3] Goedecke, David (2009). "South Australian signal cabins". Proceedings of the 2009 convention. Modelling the Railways of South Australia. Adelaide.