Cambrai is a small town located on the eastern side of the

Mount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...

, along the

River Marne The Marne () is a river in France, an eastern tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris. It is long. The river gave its name to the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Seine-et-Marne, and Val-de-Marne. The Marne starts in ...

. Originally named ''Rhine Villa'', it was one of many Australian towns renamed during

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to remove any connection with German place names and named after the Battle of Cambrai. It was located on the

Sedan railway line The Sedan railway line branched off from the South Australian Railways' Adelaide to Wolseley line at Monarto South running 70 kilometres north to Sedan. History The Sedan line opened Monarto South to Sedan on 13 October 1919. The original s ...

. It served as the terminus of the line from 1964 until the 1980s. The bounded locality of Cambrai includes the former unbounded locality of Rheinthal, which was approximately 3 km north of the town of Cambrai. It had a Lutheran church and school. The school was closed from 1916 (when all German schools were closed) until 1935, and closed permanently from 1955. It also includes the

Marne Valley Conservation Park __NOTOC__ Marne Valley Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the locality of Cambrai about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat of Mannum. ...

and the locality of Kongolia (previously Rhine Park) to the east of the town.

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