Tonsley railway station

Tonsley railway station was located on the Tonsley line in the south-western Adelaide suburb of Mitchell Park. It was 13 kilometres from Adelaide station, and was the terminus of the line from its opening in 1966 until its closure in 2019.

Tonsley
Location	Birch Crescent, Mitchell Park
Owned by	Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure
Operated by	Adelaide Metro
Line(s)	Tonsley
Distance	13.0 km from Adelaide
Platforms	1
Construction
Parking	Yes
History
Opened	1 July 1966
Closed	28 June 2019
Services
Preceding station   Adelaide Metro   Following station Clovelly Park toward Adelaide Tonsley line Terminus

History

Tonsley station opened on 1 July 1966 when the Tonsley line opened.[1][2][3] Trains operated between 07:00 and 19:00 on weekdays, with no weekend services.[4]

To allow for extension of the railway to Flinders, Tonsley station closed on 28 June 2019 and was later demolished.[5][6] The site of the former station is now occupied by the start of a viaduct that continues the railway over Sturt Road and Main South Road to terminate at Flinders station, adjacent to the Flinders Medical Centre.[7] It is being built concurrently with the associated Darlington Upgrade Project.[8][9][10]

The replacement of Tonsley station with Flinders station was contested by local residents, who submitted a petition to keep Tonsley station.[5] The Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure published a revised plan which would see the existing Clovelly Park station, to be renamed Tonsley, relocated and rebuilt before the start of the new elevated section of track.[11]

Services by platform

Platform	Destination
1	Adelaide

References

1. Early Starts on SAR Industrial Spur and Standard Gauge Lime-Sand Line Railway Transportation September 1964 page 7
2. New SAR Suburban Branch Opened Railway Transportation July 1966 page 5
3. Focus Railway Gazette 5 August 1966 page 591
4. Seaford & Tonsley timetable Adelaide Metro 20 July 2014
5. Keam, Patrick. (13 December 2017). "Fight to block station closure", CoastCity Weekly, p14.
6. "Tonsley station closing". Adelaide Metro. Government of South Australia. 6 June 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
7. "Flinders Link Project". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
8. "Darlington Upgrade Project". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
9. "Green light for $85.5m Flinders Link rail extension". Premier of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
10. Etheridge, Michelle. (7 June 2017). "Uni’s village people", CoastCity Weekly, p1.
11. Etheridge, Michelle. (28 February 2018). "New station on track", CoastCity Weekly, p5.

External links

Media related to Tonsley railway station at Wikimedia Commons