Brunswick railway station is a commuter railway station on the Upfield line, part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the northern suburb of Brunswick in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Brunswick station is a ground-level unstaffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 9 September 1884.[4]
Brunswick had a goods yard which closed in 1966.[4] The goods siding and associated points and signal discs were abolished in that same year.[4] In 1972, the station platforms were lengthened.[4]
Just after 4:45am on 2 August 1977, a seven-car Harris train set rolled away from Gowrie, after the driver and guard were changing ends after taking the train out of a siding, because it was scheduled to operate a city-bound service from Upfield.[8][9][10] The train passed through fifteen level crossings and destroyed seven sets of hand gates, before stopping just south of Brunswick, between the Albert and Dawson Streets level crossings.[8][9][10]
In 1998, boom barriers replaced hand gates at the Albert Street level crossing, at the up end of the station,[11] and replaced interlocked gates at the Victoria Street level crossing, at the down end of the station.[12] The signal box protecting Victoria Street was also abolished during that time.[12]
Future
The station is slated for closure or relocation under the Level Crossing Removal Project. The project intends to remove the adjacent Albert St and Victoria Street level crossings, as well as six other level crossings in Brunswick, by grade separation to become an elevated.[13] Under the plan, announced in 2024 and expected to be completed in 2030, the three nearby stations of Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey will be replaced by two new stations, each located about 450 metres from the existing Brunswick station: the new southern station is planned to be located next to Union Street and Dawson Street, while the new northern station is planned to be located next to Hope Street. The heritage listed Brunswick station building on Platform 1 at the existing station and some heritage listed interlocking hand gates at some closed level crossings will be kept and located at its current spot.[14]
The decision to build two stations in different locations instead of rebuilding Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey generated criticism from residents and the local council. Local newspaper Brunswick Voice reported that the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, claimed "the decision to build two stations followed 18 months of technical and engineering assessments which found fewer stations would boost capacity on the line in the future and deliver more open space", noting that "the government claimed the plan would also minimise the impact to heritage in the area, but the politician provided no detail about whether the three station buildings and the historic boom gate operators' cabins would be preserved".[15]
Stations and services in italics are planned or under construction
Stations in (parentheses) are uncommon stops for the listed service
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