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Wayville is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley.It is most notable for hosting of the Royal Adelaide Show at the Adelaide Showgrounds.. The suburb is bordered to the north by Adelaide's South Parklands, [3] to the west by Adelaide-Goodwood railway line, to the east by King William Road, and to the south by Leader Street, Parsons Street and Simpson Parade.
UTC+08:45 is used as a time in Australia (Central Western Time, or CWT). It is used by some roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in Western Australia and South Australia . Although not legally defined by the state or federal governments, [ 1 ] the boundaries where it commences and ends are clearly understood and recognised by the Shire of Dundas ...
Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian ...
The main arena of the Showground, which at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s held 35,000 people, but now can hold approximately 14,000, was known as the Speedway Royal during its heyday from 1926 until 1934, and is sometimes referred to as "The birthplace of Australian Speedway", even though dirt track speedway in Australia actually started in Maitland, New South Wales, in 1923.
On 14 April 2020, the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia announced the show would be cancelled due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus. [16] [17] The following year the 2021 show was scheduled to go ahead but was cancelled about three weeks before the show; this is due to risks associated with the Delta variant.
Downstream from Wayville the watercourse is known as Keswick Creek. From there flows are typically directed via a constructed drain through the inner western suburbs of Keswick , Mile End South , Richmond , Cowandilla , West Richmond and Brooklyn Park before draining along the eastern edge of Adelaide Airport to join Brown Hill Creek near ...
The South Australian Government announced a 1.2 kilometre extension from Victoria Square along King William Street to Adelaide railway station and the western city campus of the University of South Australia in April 2005. An additional two Bombardier Flexity Classic trams were ordered to cater for services on the city centre extension.
Currently, all public transport modes in South Australia are privately operated. Adelaide Metro trains are operated by Keolis Downer , and trams are operated by Torrens Connect . Regional bus services are operated by several different private operators, and are not run under the Adelaide Metro banner, meaning these services do not accept ...