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Adamstown is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Newcastle local government area. It has a railway station, opened in 1887 with the Newcastle–Gosford section of the Main North line. The now closed branch line to Belmont formerly left the main line just south of Adamstown Station. The town also includes the beginning of the Fernleigh Track, a multi-use rail trail near Belmont. The project is a joint venture between Newcastle City Council and Lake Macquarie City Council and extends from Adamstown to Belmont over an approximate distance of 15.5 km (10 mi). The suburb of Adamstown had a population of 5,642 in 2011. ==Education== A number of schools are located in the suburb; * Kotara High School, part of the KLN School Collegiate and one of the three major high schools in the Newcastle area, was established in 1968 as a public high school catering for years 7 to 12, and presently has over 1,000 enrolled students. It contains a Hearing Support Unit for hearing-impaired students and a multi-purpose centre. * St Pius X High School, first established in 1957 as a Catholic boys' school, became a co-educational junior high school (years 7 to 10) in 1983, absorbing the campus of St Anne's College, a girls' school established in 1966, in the process. Students transfer in year 11 to St Francis Xavier College in Hamilton. In 2007, the school had an enrolment of 1,010 and a staff of 97. * Adamstown and Belair Primary Schools, both public, and St Columba's Primary School, a Catholic school, are also located within the suburb's boundaries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adamstown, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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