Edwardstown Railway Station

EDWARDSTOWN RAILWAY STATION

In our area there are three train stations. Edwardstown, Woodlands and Ascot Park.

Found this picture of Edwardstown Railway Station  from the Advertiser (Adelaide SA 1931-1954) Mon 22 Jun 1953 Page 7).

 Station Porter Mr Baum was held up at gunpoint by two males wearing handkerchiefs over their faces..  They tied him  up and escaped with cash worth about 4 Pounds.     The criminals then escaped through the stand of pine trees but were captured quite  quickly.  Two teenage boys were arrested.

The first station up and running was  Edwardstown.

In The Advertiser 4.8.1900 p11 there is a story about the proposed railway line connecting the city with Brighton. Two of the largest councils were at that time, Brighton and Mitcham. The speakers pointed out the benefits to all surrounding districts. A Mr M McLachlan of Brighton submitted figures that he said would show that it would be a better and cheaper route than from the city to Glenelg then on to Brighton.

“Mr G J Bawden said he had been a resident of Edwardstown for 12 years” and during that time the population had grown with more than 500 people settling into the district and many more travelling to Edwardstown to work at the factories there. He also said that nothing had been done to assist these people with contact of Adelaide city and also that the people of Edwardstown had been “badly served”. The latter comment seems to have  been a neglect  that has continued on by Marion council over the decades.  Edwardstown left out as the area around Marion Village, the shopping centre and new developments down south. Still the poor relations. Even in 2019, the concern of the Council is at Tonsley and surrounding areas to get hotels, new train line, and underpasses and overpasses.  Marion shopping centre, Oaklands xing.  We bike lanes.

The meeting in August followed a 'deputation of residents at Edwardstown, Hammersmith and neighbourhood” who had contacted the Railways Commissioner. “The Advertiser 3.8.1900 p4”

November 24^th, 1913 the first train to Willunga left Adelaide.

More to come............