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- Coonamia railway station was a "provisional stopping place" for passenger trains in the rural locality of the same name, 5.0 km (3.1 mi) by rail south-east of the centre of the city of Port Pirie, South Australia. It was operational for two separate periods:
* on the narrow-gauge route to Gladstone, from 1929 until an unknown date before 1970, when it closed
* on the same route (by then standard-gauge), from 1989 to the early 2010s, when it was the final locality in a series of six successive stations for passengers to board and alight trains at Port Pirie. The stopping place was on Railway Terrace South, near its intersection with Old Race Course Road (now called Hillview Road). The South Australian Railways included it in timetables from about 1929 on the narrow-gauge railway line leading into the hinterland from Port Pirie. It was instituted for local passengers to board and alight trains without having to walk to the station at Port Pirie South. Infrastructure was meagre: only a waiting shed and sign. There was no platform, as for all stations in the Mid North of South Australia at the time. Trains did not stop there unless a passenger signalled the driver to stop or notified the guard to be let off – indicated by an asterisk on timetables and its classification as a "provisional stopping place". In 1937 a new, more direct, broad-gauge line from Adelaide followed a different route that bypassed Coonamia. The number of passengers using the stopping place declined further and it was eventually closed. In 1989, the last major Port Pirie station (Mary Elie Street) closed. It was necessary to provide a facility for Port Pirie passengers — not for services to Adelaide, since all South Australian intrastate country passenger services were discontinued that year — but for interstate trains that passed through. The trains involved were The Ghan, Indian Pacific and (until June 1991) the Trans-Australian. As shown on the map, having a stop at Coonamia would allow trains to pick up and drop off Port Pirie passengers without having to reverse 3.8 km (2.4 mi) from the stub terminal to the mainline. A small ATCO demountable building, a public telephone booth and a car park were therefore put in place in 1989. The distance between the ground and the lowest step on passenger cars, however, caused difficulty for passengers who were not able-bodied. Under the new arrangements, passengers had to pre-book to board or alight at Coonamia. Although the stopping place was also utilised by Crystal Brook passengers, since trains no longer stopped at that town, in the early 2010s the two remaining interstate trains no longer stopped and the infrastructure was removed. Only the Coonamia sign and car park remained at the locality as of 2019. (en)
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- Railway Terrace South (corner of Hillview Road),Coonamia, nearPort Pirie, South Australia (en)
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- Railway Terrace South , Coonamia, near Port Pirie, South Australia (en)
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- Site of the former Coonamia provisional stopping place in 2020. Trains no longer stopped there; the sign marked the boundary of two train control districts. The round structure houses railway signalling and communication equipment. (en)
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- Coonamia "provisional stopping place" (en)
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- Coonamia railway station was a "provisional stopping place" for passenger trains in the rural locality of the same name, 5.0 km (3.1 mi) by rail south-east of the centre of the city of Port Pirie, South Australia. It was operational for two separate periods:
* on the narrow-gauge route to Gladstone, from 1929 until an unknown date before 1970, when it closed
* on the same route (by then standard-gauge), from 1989 to the early 2010s, when it was the final locality in a series of six successive stations for passengers to board and alight trains at Port Pirie. (en)
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- Coonamia railway station (en)
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