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The railway line opened for business on 28 November 1917 without any "special ceremony" and with passenger services scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. [8] 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.
Part of this line was used for Limestone Coast Railway tourist services to the border until it ceased 20 March 1999. [6] The Heywood line was permanently severed from the Wolseley line when the remains of Mount Gambier railway station was made into a public community space in 2015 with a two track easement left for right of way if standardised.
On 28 November 1917, a broad gauge line opened from Mount Gambier to Heywood near Portland. In the 1950s, the narrow gauge lines were converted to broad gauge. [2] 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.
A line known as the Mount Gambier-Heywood railway line was opened between Heywood and Mount Gambier in 1917. [5] Service was suspended on 11 April 1995, due to the standardisation of the Maroona – Portland line and is pending for standard gauge conversion. [citation needed]
Mt Gambier-Heywood rail ticket 1979. A short lived branch line was opened from Dunkeld to Penshurst in 1890 but closed only eight years later. [2] A branch line was opened from Hamilton north to Cavendish between 1910 and 1920. This was connected to the Horsham - Balmoral railway in the 1920s, which itself connected back to the main Serviceton ...
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.
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.
The last service to use the station was the Bluebird railcar service to Mount Gambier, known as the Blue Lake. When AN ceased all intrastate passenger services in South Australia including the Blue Lake, the station closed on December 31, 1990. The passenger building and platform were demolished in 2007, but the goods shed remains in disuse. [10]