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Kembla Grange is a single-platform intercity train station located in Kembla Grange, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink trains travelling south to Kiama and north to Wollongong and Sydney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Coast Line – Bomaderry or Port Kembla to Central and Bondi Junction )〕 Premier Illawarra bus services to Wollongong, Keiraville, Port Kembla, Shellharbour and Unanderra stop near the station. The station ranked equal last for patronage on the metropolitan network in 2012,〔 and was one of 23 on the metropolitan rail network to record an average of fewer than one passenger per day in 2014.〔 The railway through Kembla Grange was built as part of a South Coast Line extension from Wollongong to Bombo and opened in November 1887.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= NSWrail.net: South Coast Line – history )〕 Three years later, Kembla Grange Station was opened to serve the Kembla Grange Racecourse across the road. As the last remaining 'racecourse' station on the NSW network, Kembla Grange is only open on Saturdays, Sundays and other race days. When open, the station operates as an on-request stop.〔 A special siding and loading bank for horses operated at the station between 1912 and 1942.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=City of Wollongong Library )〕 The internal NSW TrainLink code used for the station is KGG, a reference to the racehorses. The small breeze block waiting shed features a decorative gabled roof, and nameboard designed to suggest a racecourse winning post. The building was installed around the time the racecourse was redeveloped by the Department of Sport & Recreation in 1987.〔 Electrification reached Kembla Grange in 1993 and electronic ticketing, in the form of the Opal smartcard system, arrived in 2014.〔(Opal card available on all Sydney trains by next Friday ) ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 20 March 2014〕 ==References== 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「Kembla Grange railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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