Osborne, South Australia (other)
Osborne, South Australia is a suburb in the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia Osborne, South Australia may also refer to articles about places in the suburb. *Osborne Naval Shipyard *Osborne railway station *Osborne Power Station See also *Osborne (other) Osborne may refer to: * Osborne (name) Places Australia * Osborne, South Australia (other), places associated with the suburb in the Adelaide metropolitan area * Osborne, New South Wales, a rural community in the Riverina region C ...

Osborne, South Australia
Osborne is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the LeFevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about north-west of the Adelaide city centre. Description Osborne is bounded to the south by the suburb of Taperoo, to the west by Gulf St Vincent and to the north west by the suburbs of North Haven and Outer Harbor and to the east by the suburb of Torrens Island. History Osborne originally started as a private sub-division in Section 2015 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Port Adelaide. It was named after Captain R.W. Osborne (c.1834-1920). A portion was subsequently added to North Haven. The name was "formally submitted by the City of Port Adelaide at a council meeting held on 10 May 1945" and was formally adopted in 1951 by the Nomenclature Committee. Since 1951, its boundaries have varied as follows. A portion was renamed as North Haven while another portion was added to the suburb of North Haven. In March 2006, its boundaries were va ...
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Osborne Naval Shipyard
The Osborne Naval Shipyard is a multi-user facility at Osborne on the Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia. It was established in 1987 for the Australian Submarine Corporation, and the first products of the facility were the six ''Collins''-Class submarines. Facilities The ship building precinct includes a number of discrete facilities, as it has grown over the time it has existed. The Government of South Australia built a "common user facility" that includes a wharf and Shiplift constructed between 2007 and 2010, known as ''Techport Australia''. It was designed by Aurecon and constructed by McConnell Dowell and Built Environs McConnell Dowell is a major infrastructure construction company founded in New Zealand in 1961. In 2003 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Aveng, which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa. History McConnell Dowell was .... Techport was sold by the state government to the Federal Government in 2017 for . The shiplift w ...
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Osborne Railway Station
Osborne railway station is located on the Outer Harbor line.Outer Harbor & Grange timetable
Adelaide Metro 23 February 2014 Situated in the north-western suburb of Osborne, it is 19.6 kilometres from Adelaide station.

History

This station was opened on 30 November 1908. Just south of the station, the line from

Osborne Power Station
The Osborne Power Station is located in Osborne, a northwestern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Current Today's Osborne Power Station is natural gas powered with one gas turbine and one steam turbine that together generate 180 MW of electricity. In addition to the electricity generated, Osborne produces 410 tonnes/hour of steam. Until Penrice closed in 2014, steam was used by Penrice Soda Products, a soda ash producer, making the power station Australia's largest cogeneration facility. Osborne was commissioned in 1998 with one 120 MW combined cycle gas turbine and one 60 MW steam turbine, using gas from the Cooper Basin. It is owned 50% by ATCO and 50% by Origin Energy. Former Osborne 'A' Power Station was opened in August 1923 by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company, which leased 24 acres of swamp land from the Harbors Board for an 84-year term. The boilers in this power station used black coal imported from New South Wales, but were later modified to burn the poorer ...
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