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22-537: Eden Hills may refer to: Eden Hills, South Australia , a suburb in Adelaide, Australia Eden Hills, a fictitious suburb in the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eden Hills . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

44-422: A reception area. The Ashby family instigated the building of a Friends meeting house in 1912 which served as a venue for several religious denominations, the local dramatic society and other community events. It was demolished in 1956. An Anglican Parish Hall was built in 1927, and a Methodist church established in 1937, moving to its current location (now Eden Hills Uniting Church ) in 1957. A brickworks

66-648: Is a suburban rail commuter route in the city of Adelaide , South Australia , that runs from the Adelaide station to Belair in the Adelaide Hills via the Adelaide-Wolseley line using diesel 3000/3100 class railcars. Prior to 1995, this part of Adelaide-Wolseley was a two-track broad gauge line. In 1995, Adelaide-Wolseley was converted to standard gauge meaning Adelaide to Belair is now effectively two separate single-track lines running in parallel:

88-572: Is on the Belair railway line . Eden Hills also has a Country Fire Service Station, established in 1951. A part of Scouts SA, and the World Scouting Movement. It has been providing opportunities for youth in the local community to experience the outdoors and undergo leadership development. It has had a significant impact on the local community through service projects such as cleaning up the land by Eden Hills Station, fundraising for

110-404: The 1950s. The Reserve also contains remnants of the original 1880s Adelaide to Melbourne railway line , including an original single-track tunnel and concrete viaduct buttresses. The Reserve contains the first National Trust of South Australia plaque to be erected, which was unveiled in 1959. Watiparinga Reserve was developed as farmland in 1850–51. The South Australian Railways bought some of

132-581: The Belair commuter line (still broad gauge) and the Adelaide-Wolseley standard gauge freight line. The Adelaide-Wolseley line from Adelaide to Belair and Bridgewater opened in 1883. In 1919, a new alignment was built around Sleeps Hill as part of the duplication of the line. This involved a new double track tunnel being built to replace two tunnels and two viaducts. The new alignment was also 400 metres (1,300 ft) shorter. On 18 June 1928,

154-401: The adjacent Seaford line) and construction of a grade separation at Goodwood Junction with relatively little work performed on the Belair line itself. The Belair line does not run electric services, though the electrified section of track is used by Seaford and Flinders line trains. In 2021 the new operator of the line, Keolis Downer , enforced the limit on bicycles per carriage, constricting

176-657: The area. Ashby and fellow land agent and financier Ernest Saunders owned and largely developed much of Eden Hills from 1890 and Ashby established the property Wittunga (now the Wittunga Botanic Garden ) in Blackwood . The opening of the Eden Hills railway station in 1911 hastened development in the area. A post office and store opened in 1912 and a school (now Eden Hills Primary School ) opened in 1916. The school's original stone classroom survives as

198-658: The droughts and teaching youth to be global citizens. Watiparinga Reserve and adjacent land near Gloucester Avenue in Eden Hills was added to the Register of the National Estate in 1996. It comprises approximately 32 hectares (79 acres) and is considered a significant cultural landscape, exhibiting a diverse range of flora and provides an early example of nature conservation efforts in South Australia from

220-527: The foothills of Adelaide , South Australia. It is part of the local government area of the City of Mitcham. Whilst the derivation of the name is not conclusive, the Department of Lands Grant Book reveals the first land owner in the area was William Detmar Cook who purchased a property on 29 October 1839. Cook was Master of the barque Eden . There was little settlement of the area until the early 1880s, when

242-452: The land for the single-track railway line and viaduct in 1880. In 1911, the farmland was acquired by Ernest Saunders and Edwin Ashby . During World War II, the former railway tunnel in the reserve was used for safe storage of South Australian art treasures and is now used to grow mushrooms commercially. The property was transferred to Ashby in 1922 and farmed as part of his Wittunga property. In

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264-641: The late 1950s, daughter Alison Marjorie Ashby began planting thousands of seedlings of Australian plants in Watiparinga. She eventually donated Watiparinga to the National Trust of South Australia in 1957. The Wittunga Botanic Garden , in the southeastern corner of the suburb and extending east into Blackwood, was also part of Edwin Ashby's Wittunga property. Originally a formal English garden at Ashby's home, his son Arthur Keith Ashby later included South African and native Australian plants. The garden

286-419: The line to be converted to standard gauge at a future date. Unlike the other lines this is not planned in the immediate future due to extra engineering work and complications with the standard gauge line. The line reopened on 23 August 2009. The Belair line was closed from 1 January 2013 to 14 July 2013 to allow electrification of the line from Adelaide to Goodwood (built concurrently with electrification of

308-510: The line was duplicated from Eden Hills to Blackwood and on to Belair on 24 June 1928. State Transport Authority passenger services ceased beyond Belair on 23 September 1987. In 1995, the track used by Adelaide bound services was converted to standard gauge as part of the Adelaide to Melbourne standardisation project . The broad gauge passenger services south of Goodwood were thus restricted to one track with crossing loops located at Mitcham , Sleeps Hill , Eden Hills and Blackwood. At

330-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eden_Hills&oldid=697240558 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eden Hills, South Australia Eden Hills is a south eastern suburb located in

352-406: The local Mitcham Hills mountain bike circuit. All services are operated by Adelaide Metro 's 3000 class railcars . Until June 2007, some services on weekends were operated by a 2000 class railcar modified to incorporate increased bike capacity. In 2005, trains ran the route every 30 minutes on weekdays (hourly after 7pm) and every 60 minutes on weekends and public holidays. From 2006, because of

374-513: The property was in poor condition and the home was finally closed in 1972 and demolished in 1973. The Reconciliation Park was born out of meetings in the 1990s between a local reconciliation study group and the Tji Tji Tjuta (former residents) of Colebrook Home. This led to memorial works including Fountain of Tears , created in 1998 by Silvio Apponyi and Grieving Mother in 1999. Belair railway line The Belair line

396-410: The railway from Adelaide to Nairne opened, being the first stage in the plan to link Adelaide to Melbourne . In 1883, a syndicate comprising John Whyte, James Cowan, Ebenezer Ward , John Hill, R. D. Moore, Seth Ferry and G. H. Catchlove acquired the sections of land where the suburb is now centred, and following a survey laid out the land into allotments. Around that time Edwin Ashby moved into

418-478: The same time, the stations at Millswood , Hawthorn and Clapham were closed to speed up services. Millswood was later reopened on 12 October 2014. In 2008, the State Government announced a plan to rebuild the Belair line. The line closed on 26 April 2009 with buses replacing trains. This work saw the track removed, with the track bed and track renewed. Dual gauge sleepers were laid to allow for

440-547: The single line, this was downgraded to every 36/24 minutes on weekdays. In 2018 trains depart at least twice every hour on weekdays, with as little as 10 minutes waiting time during rush hour. The standard gauge track is owned by the Australian Rail Track Corporation and continues beyond Belair as the Adelaide-Wolseley railway line . The track is used by freight trains operated by One Rail Australia , Pacific National and SCT Logistics , and by

462-951: Was donated to the State in 1965, and is now administered as one of the three Botanic Gardens in Adelaide, the others being the Adelaide Botanic Garden and the Mount Lofty Botanic Garden . Colebrook Reconciliation Park in Eden Hills was established from 1998 as a memorial to the children who were removed from their families and housed at Colebrook Home, a "United Aborigines" mission which had originated in Oodnadatta in 1924, moved to Quorn , then finally relocated to Eden Hills in 1942. At its Eden Hills location, Colebrook Home continued to house children, including prominent Aboriginal Australian health worker and public administrator Lowitja O'Donoghue . By 1956

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484-560: Was established near the railway line and (originally Shephard's) Shepherds Hill Road in 1881 to facilitate the building of railway tunnels and remained in operation until 1933. A smaller brickyard operated near Parham Road from 1884 to 1930. Nearby in Wade Road is Seaview , the oldest known residence in Eden Hills, built in 1849. Blackwood High School , 1st Eden Hills Scout Group Blackwood Primary School and Eden Hills Primary School are located in Eden Hills. Eden Hills railway station

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