Nurlutta railway station is located on the Gawler line. Situated in the northern Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, it is 21.5 kilometres (13.4 mi) from Adelaide station.
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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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Salisbury High School is a secondary public school located at 14 Farley Grove in the suburb of Salisbury North, Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1959, in 2023 Salisbury High School had a student population of 1061 and employed 79 teaching staff. There are currently four school houses: Cairns, Florey, Mawson, and Oliphant.
In 2005, Salisbury High School became an IB World School but converted back to an Australian Curriculum school in 2016.
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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.
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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.
