Carnegie, Victoria

Carnegie Melbourne, Victoria
Princes Entertainment Centre in Carnegie on Princes Hwy.
Population	15,084 (2006)
• Density
Postcode(s)	3163
Area	3.8 km2 (1.5 sq mi)
Location	14 km (9 mi) from Melbourne
LGA(s)	City of Glen Eira
State electorate(s)	Oakleigh
Federal division(s)	Higgins, Goldstein, Hotham
Suburbs around Carnegie: Caulfield East Malvern East Glen Huntly Carnegie Murrumbeena Ormond Ormond Bentleigh East

Carnegie is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira. At the 2006 Census, Carnegie had a population of 15,084.

Its postcode is 3163.

The suburb's main shopping precinct is on Koornang Road, between Dandenong Road and Neerim Road.

Carnegie has a diverse cultural cross-section, with many permanent settlers from across the globe, and transient international students studying at the nearby Monash University (Caulfield campus). On Koornang Road alone there are restaurants and grocers offering Malaysian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Greek and Russian foods, as well as the Rosstown Hotel.

Carnegie is home to a large suburban library and civic centre for the City of Glen Eira, which was built in 2005, as well as the Outdoor Caulfield Swim Centre located opposite Lords Park. GlenEira Swimming Centres Page

Transport

The northern part of Carnegie and the Koornang Rd shopping strip is served by Carnegie Station on the Cranbourne/Pakenham line. Carnegie is served by bus routes 623, 624, 627, 900 and NightRider 980. The terminus of the Carnegie tram route is just south of the shopping centre and serves the southern part of Carnegie. The Public Transport Users Association has instigated calls for its extension to the nearby Carnegie railway station which services the shopping centre, as a major mode interchange [1].

Buses

• The SmartBus service frequency is 15 mins on weekdays only.
• NightRider services applies to all days of the week, however, from 12:30am to 5:30am running at 30 min frequencies.

Trains

There are two train services that pass through Carnegie Station. Both to Flinders Street station and to Pakenham or Cranbourne stations.

Destination	Destination	Via.
Flinders Street	Pakenham	Direct or the City_Loop, Dandenong Station
Flinders Street	Cranbourne	Direct or the City_Loop, Dandenong Station

History

Originally called Rosstown, after William Murray Ross, a developer. The name was changed in 1909 to try and distance the suburb from the connotations of failure brought about by Ross' sugar beet mill project which never began production, and the Rosstown Railway. The name Carnegie was chosen in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The original name lives on in the name of the local hotel, and Rosstown Road. Leila Road is named after Mr Ross's wife, and Grange Road is named after Ross's estate, The Grange, which has since been subdivided and is now suburban housing estates. Carnegie Post Office opened on 1 September 1911.

The southern view from Princes Entertainment Centre in Carnegie. Notably, the Rosstown Hotel front sign can be seen in the background.

Carnegie Primary School (No. 2897) was established in 1888 as Rosstown State School.
The Carnegie theatre was, in the 1930s, a popular cinema, but has since been converted into offices.

See also

• City of Caulfield - the former local government area of which Carnegie was a part.
• The Carnegie libraries
• Rosstown Railway, Melbourne

References

• Isabel Couper & Deirdre Lynch, Carnegie Primary School no.2897 The first 100 years 1888-1988 ISBN 0 7316 28314

External links

• Australian Places: Carnegie