Islington Works railway station is a railway station on the Gawler Central railway line located in the inner northern Adelaide suburbs of Regency Park and Kilburn to serve the adjacent Islington Workshops.
It is located 6.6 km by railway from the Adelaide Railway Station, but is now in a state of disuse. Both platforms are 50 metres in length and are not facing each other, just like the operating stations Kilburn, Nurlutta, Munno Para before it's 2011-12 upgrade (also on the Gawler Central railway line) and Seacliff (on the Noarlunga Centre railway line). The station was probably closed in 2000 with all trains running express through the station. It is not known if this station will be demolished in the near future or not.
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“There was a youthe, and a well-loved youthe,
And he was a squires son:
He loved the bayliffes daughter deare,
That lived in Islington.”
—Unknown. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (l. 1–4)
“My first childish doubt as to whether God could really be a good Protestant was suggested by my observation of the deplorable fact that the best voices available for combination with my mother’s in the works of the great composers had been unaccountably vouchsafed to Roman Catholics.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
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—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)