Oaklands railway station is located on the
Seaford railway line in
Adelaide,
South Australia.
[Seaford & Tonsley timetable]
Adelaide Metro 23 July 2018 It is in the south-western suburb of
Oaklands Park
Oaklands Park is a southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Marion. The Marion Shopping Centre is a major feature of the suburb.
History
On 14 December 1906, Oaklands was bought by Thomas Currie Tait for £15,000.
In 19 ...
, 13 kilometres from
Adelaide station.
History
Oaklands station was opened in 1913, the land having been sold to the
State Government
A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonomy, or ...
by T. C. Tait on the proviso that it be named after his once-extensive property. Until the early 1950s the
Ascot Park
Ascot Park can refer to:
* Ascot Park (speedway) – dirt racing track in Gardena, California
* Ascot Park, New Zealand – suburb in Porirua, New Zealand
* Ascot Park, South Australia
Ascot Park is a suburb in the south-western part of Adelaid ...
and Oaklands stations serviced
Marion with a single rail track. In 1953 the line was duplicated as far as Oaklands, and as part of that work a new station was constructed at Marion. The duplication resulted in the station being redeveloped into a single island platform between the two tracks of the rail line.
On 6 June 2008, the island platform and asbestos shelter was closed and demolished. A new station, opened on 10 June 2008, had been constructed immediately to the southwest of the original station's location between Selway Street and Kearnes Road, bringing it significantly closer to Diagonal Road. The timetable was also modified so that all trains now stop at the station.
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Grade separation
In 2011-2012, the state government undertook a planning study into a grade separation
In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights (grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other tran ...
project to eliminate the level crossing south of the station by building an underpass beneath the railway line for Diagonal Road. No funding was provided at that time. Work began in 2018 to lower the railway line under the road instead. The contract to design and build the new crossing was awarded on 16 January 2018 to the Public Transport Projects Alliance, a joint venture of McConnell Dowell, Mott MacDonald and Arup Group. During construction in late 2018, the government proposed a renaming of the station to ''Marion Centre'' to better reflect its location near the Westfield Marion Shopping Centre, Marion Cultural Centre and the State Aquatic Centre. However, the proposed renaming did not materialise.
Oaklands station was permanently closed on 13 April 2019 and demolished as works commenced to realign the tracks to the newly-constructed underpass; the Seaford Line was also temporarily closed between Brighton and Adelaide to allow the electric catenary for the trains to be shut off for the final works. The new grade separated station features ramps and stairs down to platform level and has public toilet facilities at street level. The line was reopened on 6 May 2019 and trains commenced servicing the new station the same day.
Services by platform
References
External links
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Railway stations in Adelaide
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1913