Elsternwick railway station

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Elsternwick
PTV commuter rail station
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Elsternwick station
LocationGlen Huntly Road, Elsternwick, Victoria 3185
City of Glen Eira
Australia
Coordinates37°53′05″S 145°00′03″E / 37.8848°S 145.0009°E / -37.8848; 145.0009Coordinates: 37°53′05″S 145°00′03″E / 37.8848°S 145.0009°E / -37.8848; 145.0009
Owned byVicTrack
Operated byMetro Trains
Line(s)Sandringham
Distance10.95 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms1 island
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus
Tram
Construction
Structure typeBelow ground
Parking84
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
StatusOperational, Premium Station
Station codeELS
Fare zoneMyki Zone 1
WebsitePublic Transport Victoria
History
Opened19 December 1859
Rebuilt2 October 1960
Electrified1500 V DC overhead
Passengers
2008-20091.008 million[1]
2009-20101.047 million[1] Increase 3.87%
2010-20111.069 million[1] Increase 2.1%
2011-20121.004 million[1] Decrease 6.08%
2012-2013Not measured[1]
2013-20141.075 million[1] Increase 7.07%
Services
Preceding station Metro Trains Following station
Ripponlea
towards Flinders Street
 Sandringham line Gardenvale
towards Sandringham
Track layout
Legend
to Ripponlea
1
2
to Gardenvale

Elsternwick railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, and it opened on 19 December 1859.[2]

History[]

Elsternwick station entrance 2005

The station was originally part of the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's network. The company and network was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878, to become part of Victorian Railways. As with the suburb Ripponlea, which had been named after the adjacent "Rippon Lea Estate" of Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick had been named after the largest property in the district, Charles Ebden's "Elster".[3]

In the 1880s, Elsternwick station also functioned as the eastern end of the cross-suburban Rosstown Railway, which was built by entrepreneur William Murray Ross, mainly to serve the sugar beet processing mill that he had established, along with an adjoining residential estate, in the locality he called Rosstown, now known as Carnegie. The railway was seldom used and it was officially closed in 1916.

An electric tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened in 1915, and closed on 22 October 1960, after which the tram route became part of an extended 246 bus route. In February 1959, a project commenced to eliminate the Glen Huntly Road level crossing, where a tramway also crossed the rail line. A temporary two-track station was provided in a side street parallel with the station, which allowed rail services to continue uninterrupted. The work was completed in October 1960, which was when the present railway buildings were provided.[4][5][6]

In 1992, the station was the first in Melbourne to receive the former Public Transport Corporation's teal, sunflower and white coloured station signage,[7] which has since been replaced with Public Transport Victoria branded blue signage. It was upgraded to a Premium Station on 13 November 1995.[8]

The ground-level station car park was closed in 2002/2003, and a residential/retail development was built on it, as part of a deal under which a developer was given the land with the condition that a multi-storey car park, including a lift, was provided for passengers. The station itself was refurbished in 2004.[2]

Platforms and services[]

Elsternwick has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Sandringham line services.[9]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

Transport links[]

CDC Melbourne operates two routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

  •  606 : to Fishermans Bend[10]
  •  625 : Elsternwick – Chadstone Shopping Centre[11]

Transdev Melbourne operates two routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

Yarra Trams operates one route via Elsternwick Station

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Train Station Patronage FY2008-2014". Public Transport Victoria. 14 May 2015. Archived from the original (XLS) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016. (access from [1] Archived 3 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine)
  2. ^ a b Elsternwick Vicsig
  3. ^ Elster was German for "magpie". The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek and, when a village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix ‘wick’, meaning village, was added.[2] Archived 1 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Grade Separation Scheme" Railway Gazette 19 February 1960 page 216
  5. ^ "Grade Separation Scheme" Railway Gazette 11 November 1960 page 560
  6. ^ SE Dornan & RG Henderson (1979). Electric Railways of Victoria. Australian Electric Traction Society. p. 50. ISBN 0-909459-06-1.
  7. ^ MacDonald, Jacqui (13 June 1992). "PTC tackles its image problem with a $75,000 logo". The Age. p. 6.
  8. ^ "Upgrading Eltham to a Premium Station". Newsrail. Australian Railway Heritage Society. October 1997. p. 310.
  9. ^ "Sandringham Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  10. ^ "606 Elsternwick Station - Fishermans Bend". Public Transport Victoria.
  11. ^ "625 Elsternwick - Chadstone via Ormond & Oakleigh". Public Transport Victoria.
  12. ^ "246 Elsternwick - Clifton Hill via St Kilda". Public Transport Victoria.
  13. ^ "603 Brighton Beach - Alfred Hospital via Elsternwick Station". Public Transport Victoria.
  14. ^ "67 Melbourne University - Carnegie". Public Transport Victoria.

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