Hughesdale railway station
Hughesdale | |||||||||||||||
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 Southbound view in December 2012 | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Willesden Road, Hughesdale | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°53′42″S 145°04′39″E / 37.8949°S 145.0776°E | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | VicTrack | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Pakenham Cranbourne | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 15.48 kilometres from Southern Cross | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 island) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| Parking | 70 | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | HUG | ||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | Myki zone 1/2 overlap | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Public Transport Victoria | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 28 February 1925 | ||||||||||||||
| Closed | 14 October 2017 | ||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 25 August 2018 | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Hughesdale railway station is located on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Hughesdale, and opened on 28 February 1925.[1]
The station and suburb were named in honour of James Vincent Hughes, mayor of Oakleigh from 1924 to 1925, who, with the Poath Road Railway Station League, lobbied heavily for a new station for the area. Before the station was built, Hughesdale was the site of the junctions of both the Outer Circle and Rosstown railway lines with the Dandenong/Gippsland line.
A new station building was provided in 1977, after the former station building was destroyed by fire in 1975.[2] The former station building was of a timber construction.[3]
In 2016 the Level Crossing Removal Authority announced a grade separation project to replace the Poath Road level crossing immediately to the west of the station. The railway station was closed on 14 October 2017 and demolished on 28 October 2017.
A new Hughesdale railway station opened on 25 August 2018 about 250 metres west of the old station, as part of construction of the new section of elevated rail between Caulfield railway station and Oakleigh railway station.[4]
Platforms & services
Hughesdale has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Pakenham and Cranbourne line services.[5][6]
Platform 1:
- Pakenham line: all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street
- Cranbourne line: all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street
Platform 2:
- Pakenham line: all stations and limited express services to Pakenham
- Cranbourne line: all stations services to Cranbourne
Transport links
Ventura Bus Lines operates one route via Hughesdale station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
References
- ^ Hughesdale Vicsig
- ^ "Works". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. August 1977. p. 183.
- ^ "Works & Safeworking". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. January 1976. p. 18.
- ^ "Cranbourne/Pakenham lines: Hughesdale Station opened today, Saturday 25 August". Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ Pakenham Line timetable Public Transport Victoria
- ^ Cranbourne Line timetable Public Transport Victoria
- ^ Route 767 Southland - Box Hill timetable Public Transport Victoria
External links
Media related to Hughesdale railway station, Melbourne at Wikimedia Commons- Melway map at street-directory.com.au
