Grand Junction Road

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South Australia

The Grand Junction Road is a main road in the north of the Australian city of Adelaide in South Australia. This is the longest east- west connection in Greater Adelaide is located 9 km north of the city center.

Course

It runs from Port Adelaide to the east as a four-lane road (from the Tolley Road in Hope Valley only two lanes ) 21 kms to the foot of the Adelaide Hills. Your western end lies at the intersection with the Old Port Road, 300 meters east of a dam which separates the Port River from West Lakes. The 2.4 km long stretch of road west of the Old Port Road until after semaphore is called Bower Road. The eastern end of Grand Junction Road is located in the suburb of Hope Valley at the intersection of Hancock Road and Lower North East Road, shortly before the latter continues in the Adelaide Hills on the Anstey Hill Recreation Park Houghton and Inglewood.

History

The road was originally called Junction Road, but received its current name after a small settlement with a school and guest house, which was called at least since 1850 The Grand Junction. The settlement was located at the junction of the roads to Adelaide, Port Adelaide and the towns in the north of Adelaide level.

Important intersections

Along the Grand Junction Road, there are a number of important intersections. The largest of these is the original Grand Junction in Gepps where the Main North Road ( A1 / A20 ) and the Port Wakefield Road meet (A1). The Main North Road from the south and leads northeast towards Parafield, Elizabeth and Gawler, while the Port Wakefield Road begins at this intersection and north over the northern Adelaide - level leads to Port Wakefield.

  • Beginning of the intersection with the Lower North East Road: Vista   North East Road: Holden Hill
  • Hampstead Road / Briens Road Northfield - Straßennumerierung changes to
  • Port Wakefield Road / Main North Road: Gepps Cross
  • Cavan Road Kilburn
  • South Road: ' Regency Park - street numbering changes to
  • Hanson Road: Mansfield Park - north to
  • Port Road Alberton
  • Ends at the intersection with Old Port Road Queenstown

The street belongs officially to the National Highway System, therefore, has a street sign and is maintained by the federal government. The National Highway runs down after from Port Augusta to the south, at the intersection of Salisbury Highway / South Road, along the Grand Junction Road about Gepps (where it is in the Main North Road on another National Highway (A20 ), the north-east direction Sydney leads, applies) to the junction with Hampstead Road a few miles away, where he south towards Melbourne, turns. The Grand Junction Road leading from there without national road sign on.

Railway level crossings

The construction of the railway system in the region north of the Adelaide city center leads to some former and still in operation crossroads of Grand Junction Road and railway lines. These are:

  • The bridge over the line Adelaide Outer Harbour in Alberton
  • A railroad crossing the line Adelaide Dry Creek in Rosewater
  • A former railway crossing at the Glenroy Street and the Eastern Parade in Pennington and Ottoway ( at the former Finsbury Railway Line)
  • The bridge over the line Adelaide - Gawler and the ARTC main line to Port Augusta in Kilburn and Wingfield
  • The O- Bahn bridge in Holden Hill

Educational institutions

A number of schools and other educational institutions are located directly on the Grand Junction Road:

  • Enfield High School in Enfield
  • Gepps Cross Girls School in Gepps
  • St. Paul's College in Gilles Plains
  • Tauondi College in Port Adelaide, opposite Alberton
  • Torrens Valley Christian School in Hope Valley

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 64

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