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The rail service between Mount Gambier and Heywood was suspended on 11 April 1995 due to the standardization of the gauges of the Melbourne–Adelaide and the Maroona-Portland lines. [5] [3] The South Australian section of the line between Mount Gambier and Rennick was used by the tourist service, the Limestone Coast Railway, until 20 March 1999.
The Mount Gambier Rail Trail is a rail trail that follows the course of the railway line. It is open to pedestrians and cyclists, and runs for 10.5 km from Mount Gambier and ends in the suburb of Suttontown. [21] The trail was completed in early 2017 from Pick Avenue to Whites Avenue.
The Mount Gambier-Heywood railway line, a broad gauge line, was opened between Mount Gambier and Heywood near Portland in 1917. From 1953 to 1956, the southeastern lines were converted to broad gauge, with the exception of the Beachport – Millicent and the Wandilo – Glencoe line, which were closed down in 1957.
Mount Gambier had an extensive goods yard and a locomotive depot with a roundhouse. Ownership of the station and the railway lines was transferred to Australian National in 1978. The station closed on 31 December 1990 when the Bluebird railcar passenger service, known as the Blue Lake, ceased operating, along with every intrastate passenger ...
Prior to that, the only regular service on the line was the thrice weekly El Zorro containerised mineral sands train from Portland. [7] The last passenger train between Ararat and Portland was on 12 September 1981, operated by a DRC railcar. [14] A new passenger station at Portland had been officially opened on 29 June 1968. [15]
The Limestone Coast Railway was a tourist railway in the Australian state of South Australia which, from 1998 to 2006, operated a tourist service from Mount Gambier to stations on local 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge railway lines which had been closed in April 1995.
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Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 26,878 as of 2021.The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Victorian border.