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Bolivar is a railway station in South Australia with originally little more than a crossing loop for passing trains going in opposite directions. The crossing loop is located about 30 km by rail from Mile End, South Australia, between Heaslip Road and the western end of the Northern Expressway, near Virginia.[1][2]
At the time of the naming of the location, the nearest named locality was Bolivar, South Australia. The area between the crossing loop and Bolivar is now more densely settled and contains RAAF Base Edinburgh to the north-east of the line, and the Adelaide northern suburbs of Paralowie, Burton, Direk, Waterloo Corner, Salisbury North and Salisbury Downs to the south-west of the line.
When the loops on the line were increased to around 1800m in the 1980s, the Bolivar loop was only lengthened to 1230m because of level crossings at either end.
In the 2010s, SCT Logistics[3] and another company started to develop an intermodal hub,[4][5][6][7] and the loops needed to be lengthened, thus requiring one of the level crossing loops to be replaced by an overbridge. The Taylors Road, Virginia, crossing was replaced by the Northern Expressway in 2010/2011. The new crossing loop and intermodal hub facilities commenced construction on the north-east side of the line, between the Northern Expressway and RAAF Base Edinburgh, in 2011/2012.
There is no local passenger train service on this line, and long distance passenger trains do not stop.
ARTC has a file dated 2004 with a diagram of Bolivar loop.[8]
Adjacent stations
- The next station with a crossing loop to the north is Two Wells.
- The next station with a crossing loop to the south in Dry Creek.
References
- ^ Curve Details: Dry Creek North to Crystal Brook, pg.1, in Curve Details: Mile End to Crystal Brook, ARTC, Jun 2006
- ^ Protected Level Crossings, Appendix V, ARTC Document No. TA02, Issue 2.2, 30 June 2004, pg.2
- ^ http://www.sct.net.au/ SCT Logistics home page
- ^ $30 Million rail freight terminal for South Australia, 4 February 2011, T&DC Pty Ltd, www.tndc.com.au
- ^ Rail Freight Terminal for South Australia, Media Release from the City of Playford, 25 January 2011, www.playford.sa.gov.au
- ^ Penfield intermodal rail freight facility amendment, Development Plan Amendment (DPA), Minister for Urban Development and Planning, www.sa.gov.au
Written submissions on the DPA were received for a period of eight weeks, from Thursday 14 February 2008 to Thursday 10 April 2008. The Penfield Intermodal Rail Freight Facility DPA was approved by the Minister for Urban Development and Planning on 7 August 2008. - ^ Community information sheet, Rail Freight Terminal at Penfield – rezoning for an Intermodal facility, Planning SA, February 2008, www.sa.gov.au
- ^ Interstate Network Overview, Appendix II, ARTC Document No. TA02, Issue 2.2, 20 June 2004, pg.7
34°46′30″S 138°35′20″E / 34.775°S 138.589°E
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