The first railway in colonial South Australia was a line from the port of Goolwa on the River Murray to an ocean harbour at Port Elliot, which first operated in December 1853, before its completion in May 1854.
Pacific National freight passing Belair in the Adelaide Hills
FreightLink Adelaide to Darwin freight train at Dry Creek
After decades of closures of the former South Australian Railways' intrastate routes, the last in broad gauge was the limestone service from Penrice quarry to Osborne, which ceased in 2014. Nine years before that, in 2005, a loaded train from Penrice is at Birkenhead, hauled by Australian Railroad Group broad-gauge locomotives 704 and 904.
TransAdelaide 3000 class railcar as used on Adelaide suburban services
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Adelaide Metro is the public transport system of the Adelaide area, around the capital city of South Australia. It is an intermodal system offering an integrated network of bus, tram, and train services throughout the metropolitan area. The network has an annual patronage of 79.9 million, of which 51 million journeys are by bus, 15.6 million by train, and 9.4 million by tram. The system has evolved heavily over the past fifteen years, and patronage increased dramatically during the 2014–15 period, a 5.5 percent increase on the 2013 figures due to electrification of frequented lines.
An Adelaide Metro Scania K280UB
Alstom Citadis and Flexity Classic trams
Tea Tree Plaza Interchange (2007)
Image: Railcars At Unley Park