Rosewater railway station was a railway station located in the northwestern Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 suburb

Suburb

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 of Rosewater

Rosewater, South Australia

Rosewater is one of the western suburbs of Adelaide and is located 10 km north-west of Adelaide's central business district . Although mainly residential, there are many shops along Grand Junction Road and the retired "Rosewater Loop" railway line runs through the suburb...

. The station was right next to the Eric Sutton

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 Oval, and was located about 7 km from Dry Creek station on the Dry Creek to Port Adelaide line.

History

The station opened in 1916, along with the Rosewater Loop. The station consisted merely of a shelter and a 2 metre-long step-down platform. When the Dry Creek to Port Adelaide line closed to passengers on 29 May 1988, Rosewater was one of two stations to operate until the line's closure (the other being Junction Road station), because the stations east of Junction Road station closed in 1987. The platform

Railway platform

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and shelter were removed shortly after. There is no evidence of the station left.