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Council pushes for interstate trains at Adelaide Railway Station

Wednesday, 29 Jun 2016 11:22:04 | Claire Campbell

Lord Mayor Martin Haese says the Adelaide Railway Station should be celebrated. (Wikimedia Commons)

Adelaide City Council will move to bring interstate passenger trains back to the Adelaide Railway Station in an effort to boost visitor numbers to the CBD by 2020.

The idea was included in the council's 63-page 2016-2020 strategic plan, which was adopted at a meeting on Tuesday night.

Interstate passenger trains currently disembark at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal in Keswick, but Lord Mayor Martin Haese said more people would visit Adelaide city if interstate trains arrived in the CBD.

"The Adelaide Railway Station is a magnificent building, it is absolutely grand and I think it's something to be celebrated," he said.

"Your first impressions absolutely count so if people are getting off an interstate train and they're going into the magnificent Adelaide Railway Station, what a great welcoming that is.

"We think that great cities around the world really do this well whereby their interstate trains, as well as their domestic trains, leave from the same CBD-based railway station."

With both council and the State Government recently pledging $7.3 million each to upgrade laneways between the Adelaide Central Market and the railway station, Mr Haese said the idea made sense.

"What we're doing is we're putting the infrastructure in place to funnel more people into that railway station," he said.

"And then of course there'll be the State Government-led project around the upgrade of the river bank, so all things point to this."

Council will start discussions with the State Government and railway operators for the station switch within the next few weeks.

Over the next four years, council will also work towards becoming a "smart, green, creative and liveable city" as outlined in the strategic plan.

That includes investing in IT infrastructure upgrades in the CBD, reducing carbon emissions by 35 per cent and boosting the arts to in turn increase tourism.

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