Mount Pleasant railway line

Mount Pleasant Line
Overview
Locale Adelaide, South Australia
Termini Adelaide
Mount Pleasant
Stations
Operation
Opened 1918
Closed 1953
Technical
Line length 33.8 km (21.0 mi)
No. of tracks single track
Route map

km to
Adelaide

To Adelaide
45.8 Balhannah
Balhanna Junction
Adelaide-Wolseley line
48.1 Oakbank
Mappinga
Riverview
53.4 Woodside
Kayannie
57.8 Charleston
Muralappie
65.4 Mount Torrens
Milkappa Road
71 Birdwood
Crane Road
Narcoonah
79.8 Mount Pleasant

The Mount Pleasant railway line is an abandoned South Australian line. It was opened between Balhannah and Mount Pleasant in 1918 and ran until 1953 as a freight and passenger service.[1] Part of its trackbed is now the Amy Gillett Bikeway rail trail near to Adelaide.[2]

History

Around 1918, a railway line was opened between Balhannah, 10 kilometres east of Mount Lofty, and Mount Pleasant. It closed in 1964. The way between Balhannah and Oakbank has mostly returned to private landowners.[2] The line had six stations and a number of halts, typically the halts were located near level crossings.

The six stations were Oakbank, Woodside, Charleston, Mount Torrens, Birdwood, and Mount Pleasant. The seven halts were Mappinga, Riverview, Kayannie, Muralappie, Milkappa Road, Crane Road, and Narcoonah.

Rail trail

This former railway is in the jurisdiction of the Adelaide Hills Council, which in 2003 commissioned a feasibility study into the best use of the land. The report recommended it be converted to a rail trail, which the council agreed with but considered it beyond their means to do so. However, since that time, the development of a rail trail lead to the opening of the Amy Gillett Rail Trail in 2010, named in honour of the late Amy Gillett, a South Australian born Olympic Cyclist.[2]

References

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