Until a new bridge could be built, these were diverted from near Monash via Morgan and Eudunda to rejoin the highway at Gawler, thus travelling further but avoiding the Kingston and Blanchetown bridges.
Gawler is the first country town in the state of South Australia, and is named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler.
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The hit Australian television program about the McLeod sisters, McLeod's Daughters, was shot at "Kingsford", a working property outside Gawler's northeastern fringe.
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The town plan was devised by the colonial surveyor William Light, and was the only town planned by him other than Adelaide.
Kym Andrew Harrison (born in Gawler, South Australia) known as "Myk Aussie" is an Australian Sports, Comedy, Media personality.
In September 1943 No. 21 Squadron was re-formed at Gawler, South Australia, and re-equipped with Vultee Vengeance dive bombers.
With the opening of the railway from Adelaide to Gawler in 1857, the Copper Company's traffic came to a sudden end, leaving only pastoral produce to flow to the port.
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The inaugural 1877 season was contested by those 12 clubs: South Park, Willunga, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, South Adelaide and Victorian.
The overland road diverged at the Pound – one track went south toward Mount Barker and the other west to Narcoota, then on to Gawler Town and Adelaide.
The new road was built to four-lane standard to provide a faster route between Adelaide and Gawler, whilst reducing the amount of traffic on Main North Road and Salisbury Highway.
The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.
There are some 140 species of birds in the Gawler Ranges, including the Emu, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo and Singing Honeyeater.
Main North Road joins from the south and continues on to the north-east, towards Parafield, Elizabeth and Gawler, while Port Wakefield Road begins at this location, travelling due north to the northern Adelaide Plains and 90 kilometres to the town of Port Wakefield.
Both platforms are 50 metres in length and are not facing each other, just like the operating stations Kilburn, Nurlutta, Munno Para before its 2011−12 upgrade (also on the Gawler Central railway line) and Seacliff (on the Noarlunga Centre railway line).
John Cox Gawler was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler.
Kilburn railway station, Adelaide, a TransAdelaide station on the Gawler railway line
The town was named after a nearby peak, Mount Bryan, which was discovered in December 1839 by Governor George Gawler and who named it in honour of Henry Bryan, a young man who became lost and perished of thirst during Gawler's expedition.
The Water Witch and Porter parted there, the Porter returning to Port Lincoln with Gawler and the Water Witch to Adelaide via Point Riley, near Wallaroo.
The line went east from the Gawler line and served three stations: Cavan, Pooraka, and Northfield.
The South Gawler Football Club is a country Australian rules football club, founded by James Fitzgerald in the Gawler South area of the Barossa Valley town of Gawler, South Australia, in 1889.
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Names such as Winky Price, Eddie Mahoney, Howard Abbott, Laurie Rusby, John Nottle, Robin Mulholland, Steven Officer and Eddie Schwerdt lead up to Sam Butler who became South Gawler's first fully professional footballer with the AFL's West Coast Eagles in 2004 and a member of the Eagles' 2006 Premiership team.
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Their club and oval today situated at Eldred Riggs Reserve, Evanston, in Gawler.