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 (0.8 miles) north of Nurlutta station, equidistant between there and Elizabeth South station.
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Temporary Generation North and its smaller sibling Temporary Generation South were gas turbine power stations in South Australia. They were bought by the Government of South Australia in 2017 as a response to the 2016 South Australian blackout and load-shedding in February 2017.
Temporary Generation North was five open cycle gas turbines installed at the former Holden site in Elizabeth South, a northern suburb of Adelaide. It was closed in the first quarter of 2021 so that the turbines could be moved to become the Snapper Point Power Station at Outer Harbor.
The generators were purchased to be used only in emergency shortfalls in electricity supply to the grid, such as in extreme weather. Both sets were first used on 24 January 2019 to deal with a supply shortfall in Victoria.
The intent of the Weatherill ALP state government was that the turbines would be converted from diesel fuel to natural gas and moved to a single location while remaining owned by the government.
In August 2019, the state government announced that it had arranged 25-year leases of the power stations to two different companies, with the leases taking effect from May 2020. Both companies operate wind farms in South Australia. The five northern generators were leased to Nexif Energy and are being relocated to a new site at Outer Harbor and operating on natural gas, intended to be before the end of 2020. Nexif Energy also proposes to convert them to combined cycle with a steam turbine in the following few years. This schedule was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Temporary Generation North closing in the first quarter of 2021, and Snapper Point in commissioning as of April 2022.
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Elizabeth South is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Playford.
It was established in 1955 as one of the earliest residential suburbs of the planned City of Elizabeth. As for its neighbours including Elizabeth and Elizabeth North, it was configured as a local community around a small shopping centre containing a supermarket, bank, hotel and service station along with other shops.
The western boundary is the Gawler railway line, with predominantly current and former Defence land on the other side, including the South Australian branch of the Defence Science and Technology Group opposite Elizabeth South railway station. The suburb is situated on both sides of Philip Highway. The northern part of the suburb is a residential suburb, with corresponding schools, shops and other community services. South of Hogarth Road, the suburb is industrial, including automotive and Defence manufacturing, dominated by the large Holden factory, which opened in 1960 and closed in 2017.
The water tower near the railway line is 44.2 metres tall and the tank holds 250,000 imperial gallons. It was built around 1940 to supply the munitions factory that is now repurposed as Defence Science and Technology.
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Elizabeth Vale is a suburb in the northern extent of Adelaide, South Australia. It was established in 1955. Its main roads are Main North Road to the east and John Rice Avenue which bisects the suburb. The southern boundary is the northern bank of the Little Para River.
Elizabeth Vale has two hospitals, the Lyell McEwin Hospital, a public teaching hospital, and the private Central Districts Hospital.
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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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The Lyell McEwin Hospital is a tertiary acute care hospital located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is one of the three major tertiary hospitals servicing the SA community. LMH provides comprehensive medical, surgical, diagnostic, emergency and support services to a population over 300,000 residents primarily in Adelaide's Northern and North Eastern suburbs. It is named after Sir Alexander Lyell McEwin.
LMH operates as a major teaching institution affiliated with the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, playing a vital role in medical teaching and research.
LMH is recognised as a leading provider for surgical training in South Australia, where general trainees in the surgical stream participate in advanced procedures, gradually gaining independence and responsibility as they progress through their training. The hospital is accredited for advanced-level training through the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, adhering to the training standards set by RACS and providing pathways to pursue fellowships in various surgical specialities. Trainees receive mentorship from experienced surgeons, benefiting from one-on-one guidance in the operating room, structured feedback, and participation in teaching rounds and case discussions. This makes it a well-regarded site for doctors and trainees to develop their surgical skills.
In addition, LMH provides new mothers and their babies with the Mothercarer Postnatal Support Service, and has Baby Friendly Health Initiative Accreditation according to World Health Organization guidelines.
The last passenger service occurred in August 1992; subsequently all infrastructure was demolished and most of the track was lifted. About 500 metres (550 yards) from its starting point at the mainline, the line diverged into eight factory sidings that extended a further 450 metres (490 yards) 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.
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