Cavan railway station was located by rail from Adelaide on the now closed

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branch line. Its elevation was above sea level.

History

The Stockade line (later known as the

Northfield railway line The Northfield railway line (formerly Stockade railway line) was a railway in northern Adelaide running Dry Creek and Northfield. The line branched east from the Gawler railway line just north of Dry Creek station. In earlier years, it saw ...

), running from Dry Creek through to

Stockade railway station The Stockade railway station, the terminal station of the then Stockade railway line (later the Northfield railway line), was opened on 1 June 1857. It was built to service the colony's prisoner camp, and to transport bluestone mined by convicts ...

, was first opened in 1857. Cavan station was probably opened along this line in 1914, and was located at the corner of

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and Goldsborough Road. The station was named after the suburb of Cavan, a namesake of a local hotel first licensed in 1855, which itself was named after

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County Cavan County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...

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. Cavan station was closed to commuter traffic on 29 May 1987, but some cattle trains still used the stock ramp sidings near Cavan and Pooraka stations until the mid 1990s.

References

Disused railway stations in South Australia Railway stations in Australia opened in 1857 Railway stations closed in 1987 1987 disestablishments in Australia {{SouthAustralia-railstation-stub