Gladstone railway station, South Australia

Railway station in South Australia

Preceding station	Australian Rail Track Corporation			Following station
Caltowie towards Crystal Brook		Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway line		Huddleston towards Broken Hill

Preceding station	Australian National Railways Commission			Following station
Georgetown towards Adelaide		Gladstone railway line		Terminus

Preceding station	Australian National Railways Commission			Following station
Terminus		Wilmington railway line		Laura towards Wilmington

Gladstone railway station is located on the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill line in Gladstone, South Australia.^[1]

History

Gladstone station opened in 1876 when a line opened from Port Pirie in the west, it was later extended east to Peterborough and ultimately Broken Hill. In 1888, a line was built north to Laura and ultimately Wilmington. When the Hamley Bridge line from Balaklava in the south reached Gladstone in 1894, it became a four-way junction station. All were built as narrow gauge lines.^[2]^[3]

In 1927, the line from the south was converted to broad gauge, making Gladstone a break of gauge station. As part of the standardisation project, the line between Port Augusta and Broken Hill was converted to standard gauge in 1969, thus Gladstone became a junction for three gauges.^[2]^[3]

The broad-gauge connection between Gladstone and Adelaide was closed in May 1988. The narrow-gauge Wilmington railway line was closed in 1990 thus making Gladstone an only standard gauge station on the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway line.

Services

Journey Beyond's weekly Indian Pacific service between Sydney and Perth passes through Gladstone but does not stop.^[4]

References

^ Crystal Brook - Broken Hill map SA Track & Signal
^ ^a ^b Gladstone Archived 28 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine National Railway Museum
^ ^a ^b Gladstone's Railway History Gladstone
^ "Indian Pacific timetable". Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions. 1 April 2021.