Cooke Plains railway station

Railway station in Cooke Plains, South Australia

Preceding station	Australian Rail Track Corporation			Following station
Tailem Bend towards Adelaide		Adelaide-Wolseley railway line		Coomandook towards Serviceton

Cooke Plains railway station was located in the town of Cooke Plains, about 137 kilometres from Adelaide station.

History

Cooke Plains station was located between Tailem Bend and Coomandook on the Adelaide-Wolseley line, and opened in 1886 as part of the extension from Nairne to Bordertown.^[1] The line opened in stages: on 14 March 1883 from Adelaide to Aldgate, on 28 November 1883 to Nairne, on 1 May 1886 to Bordertown and on 19 January 1887 to Serviceton.^[2] The original station was replaced with a smaller brick building and platform in later years. This station design was also used at other stations on the Tailem Bend-Wolseley section of the line. The station closed on 31 December 1990 upon cessation of all AN intrastate services in South Australia. It has since been demolished.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "THE OVERLAND RAILWAY". Adelaide Observer. Vol. XLIII, no. 2316. South Australia. 20 February 1886. p. 33. Retrieved 30 September 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Newland, Andrew; Quinlan, Howard (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 53. ISBN 0-909650-49-7.