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Ashburton railway station, Melbourne

Coordinates: 37°51′43″S 145°04′53″E / 37.8619°S 145.0813°E / -37.8619; 145.0813
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Ashburton
PTV commuter rail station
Southbound view in June 2004
General information
LocationWelfare Parade,
Ashburton, Victoria 3147
City of Boroondara
Australia
Coordinates37°51′43″S 145°04′53″E / 37.8619°S 145.0813°E / -37.8619; 145.0813
Owned byVicTrack
Operated byMetro Trains
Line(s)Alamein
Distance15.39 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms1
Tracks1
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parking170
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes—step free access
Other information
StatusOperational, Premium Station
Station codeASH
Fare zoneMyki Zone 1
WebsitePublic Transport Victoria
History
Opened30 May 1890; 134 years ago (1890-05-30)
Electrified1500 V DC overhead
(October 1924)
Previous namesNorwood (1890)
Services
Preceding station Railways in Melbourne Metro Trains Following station
Burwood Alamein line Alamein
Terminus
Former services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Burwood
towards Fairfield
  Continued beyond Alamein as the Outer Circle line   Waverley Road
towards Oakleigh
  List of closed railway stations in Melbourne  
Track layout
Siding
1

Ashburton railway station is located on the Alamein line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ashburton, and opened on as Norwood on 30 May 1890. It was renamed Ashburton on 12 December 1890.[1]

History

Ashburton station was on the first section of the Outer Circle line. By 1893, the northern half of the Outer Circle had been closed and, on 9 December 1895, the line beyond Ashburton, connecting with Oakleigh was closed as well. For a short period, that left the line from Camberwell to Ashburton as the only remaining stretch of the Outer Circle line.

On 1 May 1897, Ashburton closed, along with the line from Camberwell. After an outcry from the local community, that section of the line reopened on 4 July 1898, becoming the Ashburton line once again. The line was electrified on 30 October 1924 but, in the years leading up to that, it was served by the popularly-named Deepdene Dasher, which ran a shuttle between Ashburton and Deepdene stations, and usually consisted of an F-Class engine and one or two American-type carriages.[2] When the track was extended 600 metres to a new terminus at Alamein, on 28 June 1948, the Ashburton line became the Alamein line. Immediately north of the station, the double track becomes single for the rest of the section to Alamein.

A disused stabling siding is located at the Flinders Street (up) end of the station. Timetabled use of the siding ended in July 1989, due to the vandalising of trains stabled there.[3] However, from time to time, maintenance trains used the siding during track works. The siding was officially booked out of service in 2015.[4]

Ashburton was upgraded to a Premium Station on 1 February 1996.[5] The station was the first on the metropolitan railway system where the former Metcard ticketing system was trialled, in 1996.[6][7][8]

Platforms and services

Ashburton has one platform and is served by Alamein line trains.[9]

Platforms 1:

Ventura Bus Lines operates one route via Ashburton station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

  •  734 : Glen Iris stationGlen Waverley station[10]

References

  1. ^ Ashburton Vicsig
  2. ^ Beardsell, David B.; Herbert, Bruce H. (1979). The Outer Circle: A History of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society: Victorian Division. p. 62. ISBN 0 85849 024 2.
  3. ^ "Operations". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. October 1989. p. 314.
  4. ^ "Works". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. February 2016. p. 56.
  5. ^ "Upgrading Eltham to a Premium Station". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. October 1997. p. 310.
  6. ^ Mitchell, Ben (19 April 1996). "A testing time for automated tickets". The Age. p. A3.
  7. ^ Kermond, Clare (25 April 1996). "The machines of tomorrow - well, perhaps next December". The Age. p. A2.
  8. ^ "Metcard - Public Field Trials". Victorian Public Transport Ticketing. Archived from the original on 23 January 2008. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Alamein Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  10. ^ "734 Glen Iris - Glen Waverley". Public Transport Victoria.