Mount Barker Junction railway station is a disused station on the
Adelaide to Wolseley line serving the
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...
n city of
Mount Barker. It was the junction for the
Victor Harbor and
Wolseley lines.
History
Mount Barker Junction station opened in 1883, and consisted of a main platform with a timber station building identical to the one at
Balhannah, with a tall signal box next to the building. An island platform was built as well. The timber building and signal box were replaced with the current brick building in 1943. The island platform was demolished around the time the station closed to passengers by 1984 when the passenger service to
Victor Harbor ceased.
It became a
junction station
''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated either on or close to a rail junction, where lines to two or more destinations diverge.
Many junction stations have multiple platform faces to enable trains for multiple destinatio ...
when the
Victor Harbor line opened. When the
Adelaide-Wolseley line was
gauge converted to
standard gauge
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the ...
in 1995, the Victor Harbor line was isolated from the rest of the
Australian National network.
SteamRanger subsequently relocated from
Dry Creek to
Mount Barker, and runs broad gauge services south on the line from
Mount Barker station. Until 2005, SteamRanger ran a ''Junction Jogger'' service from
Mount Barker station to this location, but ceased probably due to a worn-out track along this section.
Mount Barker Junction
SteamRanger
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Disused railway stations in South Australia
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1883
Railway stations in Australia closed in the 1980s