- Source: Abbeville railway station, South Australia
Abbeville was a railway siding on the Hamley Bridge-Gladstone railway line in the locality of Abbeville, South Australia. It was located 197 kilometers from Adelaide by rail. It opened in 1925 and closed in 1958.
History
The railway line was extended from Blyth to Gladstone in 1894. Abbeville siding officially opened on 28 January 1925 consisting of a 201 metres long siding and a grain stacking yard. On 1 August 1927, the line through Abbeville was converted from narrow gauge to broad gauge.
Abbeville was listed as an unattended siding in 1928. On 1 October 1958, Abbeville closed to all traffic, passengers, goods, parcels and livestock. On 15 October the same year, the siding was spiked ready to be removed. The line through Abbeville closed on 11 May 1988 and the line was dismantled and all traces of the Abbeville siding were removed.
On 16 May 2021, a group of local Abbeville residents unveiled a new Abbeville station sign and milepost on the site where the original siding once stood.