Reynella railway station was a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in
Reynella, South Australia
Reynella is a metropolitan suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
It is located 20 km south of the Central Business District of Adelaide in the north of the City of Onkaparinga. It is bordered to the east by Main South Road, to the south by ...
that was part of the
Willunga railway line
The Willunga railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
History
The line opened on 20 January 1915 by Sir Henry Galway who was the Governor of South Australia at that time. It ran through the southern Adelaide su ...
. A
station master
The station master (or stationmaster) is the person in charge of a Train station, railway station, particularly in the United Kingdom and many other countries outside North America. In the United Kingdom, where the term originated, it is now lar ...
was appointed in 1915, but by 1965 it was a non-attended crossing station. Water was available for locomotive purposes. Commercial operations ceased in 1969.
The Willunga railway line and its stations were dismantled in 1972, and have since been mostly replaced by a bicycle path and/or road. A
bus interchange
A bus station, bus depot, or bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can s ...
was built on the site of the Reynella railway station.
References
*Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin No 336, October 1965
The Willunga Railway LineRailpage Australia Forum
External links
Photo of Reynella station, 1969Last goods train to depart the Reynella station 1969Reynella railway station in 1969 looking southwardRailway crossing at States Road, Reynella, in June 1969Reynella Railway station during the Peace Day celebrations, 1918-1919
Disused railway stations in South Australia
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1915
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