Cavan railway station was located by rail from Adelaide on the now closed
Northfield branch line. Its elevation was above sea level.
History
The Stockade line (later known as the
Northfield railway line
The Northfield railway line (formerly Stockade railway line) was a railway line in northern Adelaide running Dry Creek, South Australia, Dry Creek and Northfield, South Australia, Northfield. The line branched east from the Gawler railway line ...
), running from
Dry Creek through to
Stockade railway station
The Stockade railway station, the terminus station of the then Stockade railway line (later the Northfield railway line), was opened on 1 June 1857. It was built to service the colony's prisoner camp, and to transport bluestone mined by convict ...
, was first opened in 1857. Cavan station was probably opened along this line in 1914,
and was located at the corner of
Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Highway (and its southern section as Port Wakefield Road) is an important South Australian highway, connecting Adelaide to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Wester ...
and Goldsborough Road. The station was named after the
suburb of Cavan, a namesake of a local hotel first licensed in 1855, which itself was named after
Cavan
Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road (Ireland), N3 road that links Dublin ( ...
in
County Cavan
County Cavan ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is based on the hi ...
,
Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...
.
Cavan station was closed to commuter traffic on 29 May 1987,
but some cattle trains still used the stock ramp sidings near Cavan and Pooraka stations until the mid 1990s.
References
Disused railway stations in South Australia
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1857
Railway stations in Australia closed in 1987
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