23-475: The Osborne Power Station is located in Osborne , a northwestern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia . Today's Osborne Power Station is natural gas powered with one gas turbine and one steam turbine that together generate 180 MW of electricity . In addition to the electricity generated, Osborne produces 410 tonnes / hour of steam . Until Penrice closed in 2014, steam was used by Penrice Soda Products ,
46-656: A soda ash producer, making the power station Australia's largest cogeneration facility. Osborne was commissioned in 1998 with one 120 MW combined cycle gas turbine and one 60 MW steam turbine , using gas from the Cooper Basin . It is owned 50% by ATCO and 50% by Origin Energy . Osborne 'A' Power Station was opened in August 1923 by the Adelaide Electric Supply Company , which leased 24 acres of swamp land from
69-526: A 3 December opening. The line is double track from Adelaide to Midlunga , then single for the final three kilometres to Outer Harbor ; the spur line to Port Dock is single track with a passing loop. The northern section of the line runs along the middle of the narrow Lefevre Peninsula with stations at regular intervals. The line serves 22 stations in 22 kilometres (14 miles). [REDACTED] Bus [REDACTED] Tram [REDACTED] Bus The Outer Harbor and Port Dock lines shares part of their route with
92-585: A busy level crossing. The Bowden railway station was also demolished and rebuilt at a new lower level. The Outer Harbor line was closed (and consequently also Grange services) along with a portion of the Gawler line in April, June, July, and August 2017 to work on the Torrens Rail Junction Project. The entire line was closed on 24 September 2017, and reopened on 15 January 2018, having been delayed from
115-453: A new Bowden station was also to be built. In 2016 the contract was awarded to a consortium of Laing O'Rourke , AECOM and KBR . The state government again considered electrifying the line or converting it to light rail . A 2016 report into potential light rail projects in Adelaide considered two options for the future of the line. The first would electrify the heavy-rail line and provide
138-522: A short spur to Port Dock station in Port Adelaide. Opening in 1856, the inaugural 11.9 kilometres (7.4 miles) railway between Adelaide and Port Dock railway station — named Port Adelaide until 1916 — was the second railway in the colony of South Australia , and the first government-owned railway in the British Empire . Port Adelaide junction was created when the railway was extended to cross
161-551: A short spur-line to central Port Adelaide (Port Dock). The option would convert the line to light rail and add a new on-street branch to Semaphore ; a light rail conversion would also require the conversion or closure of the Grange line, and several options for the future of that line were also presented. The spur line and a new Port Dock station , after several delays and costing increases, were opened in September 2024. In January 2017,
184-683: The Grange line . All passenger train services are operated by 3000/3100 class railcars . Trains run every 30 minutes between 5am and midnight on weekdays and weekends. Prior to the reopening of Port Dock railway station , most services on the Outer Harbor line stopped at all stations. From 25 August 2024, Port Dock services stop at all stations, while most Outer Harbor services will run express between Adelaide and Woodville while also skipping Cheltenham. During special events, such as AFL matches, Adelaide Metro will typically run extra Osborne services. Unlike
207-509: The Port River to Le Fevre Peninsula . As industry developed on the west side of the Port River, a deeper harbour was required. Initially, this was at Semaphore , with the railway extended in 1882 as the now-closed Semaphore railway line to service the overseas shipping jetty there. The line was subsequently extended 11.2 kilometres (7.0 miles) to Outer Harbor . The original Port Dock station
230-529: The River Torrens . North of this bridge, the two tracks of the Gawler line continues north, as does the standard gauge railway track , while the two tracks of the Outer Harbor line swing away northwest. Until late 2017, the Outer Harbor tracks were the pair between the Gawler tracks on the east and the standard gauge track which was built in 1982 on the west. This meant that Outer Harbor and Grange trains had to cross
253-567: The Harbors Board for an 84-year term. The boilers in this power station used black coal imported from New South Wales , but were later modified to burn the poorer quality Leigh Creek, South Australia coal. The Adelaide Electric Supply Company was later nationalised to become the Electricity Trust of South Australia . Work on the Osborne 'B' Power Station on the same site started in 1947 and
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#1733085012490276-497: The line to be electrified with the federal government also to provide funding. In the 2011 budget, it was announced that electrification of the Outer Harbor line had been deferred until 2016. In June 2012, the project was cancelled. In May 2016, the state government announced that 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) of the line would be lowered in a grade separation project to pass below the Adelaide to Port Augusta and Gawler lines;
299-552: The line was closed for three weeks alongside the Grange line to building an overpass over South Road and the North–South Motorway . In 2024, transport minister Tom Koutsantonis flagged another possible electrification and an extension of the line to accommodate workers at the Australian Submarine Corporation at Osborne . There are a total of five railway tracks on three bridges in parallel across
322-492: The local government area of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield . Outer Harbor railway line The Outer Harbor line is a suburban commuter service in Adelaide , South Australia , that runs from Adelaide station through the north western suburbs to Port Adelaide and Outer Harbor . The Port Dock line is a service that shares its route with the Outer Harbor line until north of Alberton , where it branches along
345-421: The return journey without shunting, requiring a turntable or triangle, or requiring the driver to change ends. The loop was cut when rail freight moved off the broad-gauge Outer Harbor railway to the nearby standard-gauge line on the eastern side of the peninsula. Various plans to modify the line have been proposed. In 2008, the state government announced a plan to rebuild the Outer Harbor line in preparation for
368-557: The suburb – Midlunga railway station and the Osborne railway station which is located nearby in the suburb of North Haven. Osborne is also traversed by the Dry Creek–Port Adelaide railway line which carries freight to the Outer Harbor container and grain export terminals via the Mary MacKillop Bridge . Osborne is located within the federal division of Hindmarsh , the state electoral district of Port Adelaide and
391-479: The suburb. The closest schools are in the adjacent suburbs of North Haven (North Haven School R-7) and Taperoo (Ocean View College B-12), (originally Taperoo High School). Adelaide Metro provides two bus services that directly serve the suburb – route 333 that runs between the suburb and Port Adelaide and route 150 that starts on Victoria Road within the suburb and continues to the Adelaide city centre. The Outer Harbor railway line has two stations that serving
414-534: The track that carries rail freight between Melbourne and the main freight terminals in Adelaide, Perth and Darwin. In 2017, the Torrens Junction project worked to remove this operational conflict. The outcome was to make the Gawler trains use the central pair of tracks, while the Outer Harbor line now uses the eastern pair across the bridge, then descends into a trench and passes underneath the Gawler and standard gauge lines and Park Terrace which had previously been
437-502: The west by Gulf St Vincent and to the north west by the suburbs of North Haven and Outer Harbor and to the east by the suburb of Torrens Island . Osborne originally started as a private sub-division in Section 2015 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Port Adelaide . It was named after Captain R.W. Osborne (c.1834-1920). A portion was subsequently added to North Haven. The name
460-643: Was "formally submitted by the City of Port Adelaide at a council meeting held on 10 May 1945" and was formally adopted in 1951 by the Nomenclature Committee. Since 1951, its boundaries have varied as follows. A portion was renamed as North Haven while another portion was added to the suburb of North Haven. In March 2006, its boundaries were varied to ensure that the Osborne Maritime Precinct was within its boundaries. In August 2009, its eastern boundary
483-466: Was closed in 1981, with part of its site later repurposed for the National Railway Museum . Some land was reclaimed for track leading to, and platforms of, a new-build station in 2024. The line between Port Adelaide Junction and Glanville was dual gauge until December 2009, when the standard gauge rails were removed. Outer Harbor was configured as a balloon loop so that trains could make
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#1733085012490506-512: Was completed soon after. The plant was decommissioned in 1989-90, and demolished from 1998. Osborne, South Australia Osborne is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Lefevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about 21 kilometres (13 miles) north-west of the Adelaide city centre . Osborne is bounded to the south by the suburb of Taperoo , to
529-421: Was extended to the centre of the Port River . Osborneville Post Office opened around 1922; it was renamed Taperoo on 1 February 1964, and North Haven in 1989. Osborne was also known as Brooklyn after the name change from Osborneville. Osborne is the home of a number of industrial employers, including Osborne is the home of LeFevre Reserve, which also hosts a community centre. There are no schools in
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