Kilkenny railway station is located on the

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and Outer Harbor lines.Outer Harbor & Grange timetable
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suburb of West Kilkenny, it is six kilometres from Adelaide station. It uses ''Caution More Than One Train'' lights, and was the first on the line to have such lights.

History

The railway line from

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opened in April 1856, but for the first 25 years, there was no station at Kilkenny. Kilkenny station was built when the

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Port Adelaide railway was duplicated in 1881. Later, a network of goods sidings was subsequently installed on both sides of the main line to serve various factories which were established in the vicinity. By the early years of the 20th century, there were two

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s at Kilkenny – one at the Adelaide end of the station controlling access to sidings, the other at the Woodville Park end controlling the

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across David Terrace. In 1930, three-aspect colour-light signalling was installed on this section of the Port line in an effort to accommodate the close

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s necessary with the heavy traffic of that era. Kilkenny was busy with both passengers and goods by virtue of the industrial activity in the area. However, as heavy industries declined in the 1960s and 1970s, so did traffic to and from the station. The goods sidings were closed in September 1977 and were subsequently removed, along with the signal cabin. The nearby industrial factories were demolished in November 2018.

Services by platform

References

*''Rails Through Swamp and Sand – A History of the Port Adelaide Railway.'' M. Thompson pub. Port Dock Station Railway Museum (1988)

External links

{{Authority control Railway stations in Adelaide Railway stations in Australia opened in 1881