Penfield 1 railway station was located on the Penfield line located in what is now the northern Adelaide suburb of Edinburgh. It was located 23.2 kilometres from Adelaide station. The station opened between 1940 and 1942 and had a platform which was 213.4 metres long. The station closed on 4 January 1991, along with Penfield 2 station and the line.
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Penfield 2 railway station was located on the Penfield line located in the northern Adelaide suburb of Edinburgh. It was located 24.2 kilometres from Adelaide station. The station opened between 1940 and 1942 and had an island platform which was 213.4 metres long. The station closed on 4 January 1991, simultaneously with neighbouring station Penfield 1 station. It has since been demolished.
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Hilra railway station is a former railway station on the defunct Penfield line which is located in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury North. It is located 21.7 kilometres from the Adelaide station. The station was located parallel to Langford Terrace, adjacent to the freight train line, and inline roughly to Compton Street.
The station was opened in 1941 along with the Penfield line. The station name is derived from the "native word for wind". The station was different from the others as it had up and down stepdown platforms about 61 metres long. The station was unstaffed and had a small shelter. There were similar facilities on the side of the adjacent Port Pirie line.
The station had closed by 3 February 1988, with the steps on the down platform having been removed. The station is now long gone, it was probably demolished in 1991, when the line closed. There are several buildings on the old Hilra station site, including a Streets factory.
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The National Military Vehicle Museum, is a Military automobile museum in Edinburgh, South Australia, established in 1993.
The museum is housed in a group of historic WW2-era buildings within the Defence precinct of Edinburgh Parks, formerly part of the No.2 Explosives and Filling Factory, and is run by the Military Vehicle Preservation Society of South Australia. The museum is quite unique in the sense that a large portion of the collection's vehicles are privately owned by the members of the MVPSSA, and the majority of those are maintained in running condition and are regularly used in support of events such as the Anazc Day march, Clipsal 500 and Christmas pageants.
Vehicles range from horse-drawn equipment from WWI through to modern military vehicles. The collection has a special focus on vehicles associated with South Australia's military history and includes vehicles built in Adelaide by General Motors Holden and the Islington Railway Workshops.
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Nurlutta railway station is located on the Gawler line. Situated in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, it is 21.5 kilometres from Adelaide station.
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GMH Elizabeth railway station, located on an industrial spur into the General Motors Holden automotive manufacturing site in the northern Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth South, was in use for 33 years between 1959 and 1992. The line into the factory departed from the Gawler line, 1.3 kilometres north of Nurlutta station, equidistant between there and Elizabeth South station. The last passenger service occurred in August 1992; subsequently all infrastructure was demolished and most of the track was lifted.
About 500 metres from its starting point at the mainline, the line diverged into eight factory sidings that extended a further 450 metres south. Passenger platforms were of wooden step-down construction.
As an industrial destination, the station was served by railcars at factory shift changes, which usually ran express to nearby Salisbury and on to Adelaide railway station. Freight trains, mainly comprising automotive carriers that transported vehicle bodies to GMH in Melbourne, operated on demand.
The station has since been demolished.
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