Wattle Glen railway station
Wattle Glen | |||||||||||
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 Looking north in August 2014 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Other names | Wattleglen | ||||||||||
| Location | Hurstbridge Road, Wattle Glen Australia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°39′50″S 145°10′54″E / 37.6640°S 145.1816°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | VicTrack | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Hurstbridge | ||||||||||
| Distance | 35.06 kilometres from Southern Cross | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||
| Parking | 53 | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Station code | WTT | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | Myki zone 2 | ||||||||||
| Website | Public Transport Victoria | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 25 June 1912 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 55,000 (2011) | |||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Wattleglen railway station is located on the Hurstbridge line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Wattle Glen, and opened on 25 June 1912 as Balee. It was renamed Wattleglen on 14 August 1922.[1][2] In 2011/12, it was the least used station on Melbourne's metropolitan network, with 55,000 passenger movements.[3]
Although the railway station signage and the operator's public timetables[4] have, and continue to give the name of the station as two words, sources, such as VicNames, and the operator's internal working time tables, give the official spelling of the station as Wattleglen.[5] It is unclear why the suburb was made two words, after the Post Office was renamed from Diamond Creek Upper on 1 November 1922, and after the station was renamed (as one word) two and a half months earlier.
The former station building was destroyed by fire in 1979.[6]
Platforms & services
Wattleglen has one platform. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Hurstbridge line services.[7]
Platform 1:
- Hurstbridge line: all stations and limited stops services to Hurstbridge & Flinders Street
Transport Links
Panorama Coaches operates one route via Wattleglen station:
- 343: to Greensborough – Hurstbridge railway station
References
- ^ Balee was changed to Wattleglen (one word) on 14 August 1922 as advised by Victorian Railways Weekly Notice No. 32 of 1922
- ^ Wattle Glen station profile on VICSIG
- ^ Station Patronage Research Public Transport Victoria
- ^ Hurstbridge Line Public Transport Victoria
- ^ http://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp
- ^ "Works". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. August 1979. p. 174.
- ^ Hurstbridge Line timetable Public Transport Victoria
External links
- Victorian Railway Stations gallery
- Melway map at street-directory.com.au