Holdfast Bay railway line

Holdfast Bay railway line
Overview
Status	Closed and removed
Termini	Adelaide railway station Colley Terrace, Glenelg
Service
Operator(s)	Holdfast Bay Railway Company (1880–1882) Adelaide, Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company (1882–1924) South Australian Railways (1924–1929)
History
Opened	24 May 1880 (1880-05-24)[1]
Closed	December 1929 (1929-12)
Technical
Line length	10.86 kilometres (6.75 miles)[1]
Number of tracks	Single initially, duplicated by 1914
Track gauge	1600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
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The Holdfast Bay railway line was a railway in western Adelaide, built in 1880 to compete with the Adelaide, Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company. The line started at the Adelaide railway station, on the northern edge of the central business district, and proceeded to the northern edge of Mile End, South Australia immediately to the west of the city. From there the line headed south-west to the seaside suburb of Glenelg.

Today, much of the corridor in which the line ran remains as a rail trail for cyclists, which is known as the Westside Bikeway.^[2] Part of the north section of the corridor has been built over as James Congdon Drive. A plarform remains on the site of Plympton station near Marion Road in the suburb of Plympton.^[3] The line was closed in 1929, after which remnants remained for some time, including rails across Marion Road in the 1950s.^[4] A signal from the line was preserved and put in the main pavilion of the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.