Tintinara railway station

Tintinara railway station is located on the Adelaide-Wolseley line in Tintinara, South Australia.[1]

Tintinara
General information
LocationDukes Highway, Tintinara, South Australia
Coordinates35°53′08″S 140°03′26″E
Elevation16m
Operated bySouth Australian Railways 1886 - 1978 Australian National 1978 - 1997 Great Southern Rail 1997-1999
Line(s)Adelaide-Wolseley
Distance211 kilometres from Adelaide
Platforms1
Tracks3
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parkingyes
Other information
StatusClosed, now used as a tourist info centre
History
Opened1 May 1886
ClosedMay 1999
Services
Preceding station Australian Rail Track Corporation Following station
Culburra
towards Adelaide
 Adelaide-Wolseley railway line Coombe
towards Serviceton

History

Tintinara station opened on 1 May 1886 as a station on the Nairne-Bordertown extension of what became the Adelaide-Wolseley line.[2] The line opened in stages: on 14 March 1883 from Adelaide to Aldgate, on 28 November 1883 to Nairne, on 1 May 1886 to Bordertown and on 19 January 1887 to Serviceton.[3] The station was rebuilt with a brick station building when CTC was installed on this section of the Adelaide-Wolseley railway line. Facilities at the station included a passenger platform and station building, and a goods platform, crane and shed. The station yard consisted of 3 tracks including a mainline, a passing loop, and a goods siding. In May 1999, the station was closed when The Overland, then operated by Great Southern Rail began operating on a new timetable that skipped multiple stations including Tintinara.[4] The station building is now used as a tourist info centre, and a mural on the front was unveiled in 2018.[5] The Viterra owned grain silos in Tintinara are no longer served by rail and have since been closed.[6] Meanwhile, the nearby goods shed has been repurposed as the Tintinara Community Men's Shed, albeit without the canopy over the track.[7] The goods siding is disused, but the station yard retains 3 tracks to this day.

References
  1. Mid North & Murray Mallee map Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine SA Track & Signal
  2. "OPENING OF THE BORDERTOWN RAILWAY". Kapunda Herald. Vol. XXII, no. 1858. South Australia. 4 May 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Newland, Andrew; Quinlan, Howard (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 53. ISBN 0-909650-49-7.
  4. "Geelong Standard Gauge Platform Opens, Overland Accelerated but Stations Bypassed". Railway Digest (July 1999 ed.). p. 17.
  5. "Vibrant new look for Tinty". The Murray Valley Standard. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  6. "Storage and handling network" (PDF). Viterra. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
  7. Anderson, Elizabeth (23 September 2015). "Disused railway site finds new track". Stock Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
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