Bowden railway station

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Train services
Grange Line
Outer Harbor Line
Location
Street	Gibson Street
Suburb	Bowden
Distance from Adelaide	2.7 km
Access by	Level pedestrian crossing
Number of platforms	2
History
Opened	1856
Rebuilt	2013
Transfers
Train transfer	Grange, Outer Harbor
Tram transfer	Glenelg Tram (Port Road)
Bus transfer	150 to Osborne (Port Road) 153 to Port Adelaide (Port Road) 155 to West Lakes (Port Road) 156 to Port Adelaide via West Lakes (Port Road) 157 to Largs Bay (Port Road)
Adjacent stations
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Bowden railway station is located on the Grange and Outer Harbor lines. Situated in the inner-city Adelaide suburb of Bowden, it is 2.7 kilometres from Adelaide station.

The station retains its original 1856 brick and stone station building on the northbound platform. There are plans to rebuild Bowden and make it into a tunnel. This is part of the Bowden development.

History

Bowden was one of the original stations on the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway when the line opened in April 1856.

In 1871, sidings were constructed at the Woodville end of the station for delivery of coal from Port Adelaide to the adjacent gas works.

With increasing traffic, the single track Adelaide to Port Adelaide line was duplicated in 1881, and the sidings at Bowden were extended as the gas works grew.

Two signal cabins were in operation at Bowden between 1884 and 1930, one at East Street (at the Woodville end), the second at Gibson Street (at the Adelaide end). The East Street cabin was closed when colour light signalling was introduced on the Port line in the 1930s.

The SA Gas Company sidings were closed in June 1973 and Bowden’s goods yard was closed completely from September 1977 along with the Gibson Street signal cabin. The site of the gas works sidings is still visible on the north side of the line near the Chief Street underpass.

With falling passenger numbers, the station has been unattended since November 1979, which was a far cry from the middle years of the 20th century when usage was high enough to justify staffed ticket offices on both platforms.

In 2012, The Loose Caboose cafe opened in the Station Building on Platform 1.

Services by platform

Platform	Lines	Destinations	Notes
1	Grange	all stops services to Grange
	Outer Harbor	all stops services to Outer Harbor	some peak hour services terminate at Osborne
2	Grange	all stops services to Adelaide
	Outer Harbor	all stops services to Adelaide

References

• Rails Through Swamp and Sand – A History of the Port Adelaide Railway M. Thompson, pub. Port Dock Station Railway Museum (1988) ISBN 0-9595073-6-1
• http://www.infrastructure.sa.gov.au/RR

External links

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