Darling railway station

Track layout
	Legend

Darling
Darling
PTV commuter rail station
	Eastbound view from Pedestrian Footbridge, May 2023
General information
Location	Clynden Avenue,; Malvern East, Victoria 3145; City of Stonnington ; Australia
Coordinates	37°52′08″S145°03′46″E / 37.86894°S 145.06288°E
Owned by	VicTrack
Operated by	Metro Trains
Line(s)	Glen Waverley
Distance	12.68 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms	2 side
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	At-ground
Parking	200
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes—step free access
Other information
Status	Operational, premium station
Station code	DLG
Fare zone	Myki Zone 1/2 overlap
Website	Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened	24 March 1890;134 years ago
Rebuilt	1979
Electrified	1500 V DC overhead ; (December 1922)
Passengers
2017–2018	380,387 18.02%

Last updated January 25, 2025

Preceding station	Metro Trains			Following station
Glen Iris towards Flinders Street		Glen Waverley line		East Malvern towards Glen Waverley
Richmond Weekday peak express services towards Flinders Street		Glen Waverley line		East Malvern towards Glen Waverley

Former services

towards Burnley		Outer Circle connection		Waverley Road
	List of closed railway stations in Melbourne

Darling railway station is a commuter railway station in Malvern East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.^[3] The station opened on 24 March 1890 as part of the branch line from Burnley to Waverley Road station.^[4] The station consists of two side platforms accessed by a pedestrian bridge. There are two principal station buildings with one located on each platform. These buildings are both single story and act as customer service, staff, and waiting room facilities. These buildings were provided in 1979 as part of a station rebuild.^[5] The station is fully accessible and comply with DDA accessibility guidelines.^[6]

Description

Darling railway station is located in the suburb of Malvern East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The station is located nearby to the Malvern Road shopping precinct and Dorothy Laver Reserve West.^[9] The station is owned by VicTrack, a state government agency, and the station is operated by Metro Trains.^[6] The station is approximately 12.68 kilometres (7.88 mi), or a 29-minute train journey, from Southern Cross station.^[8] The adjacent stations are Glen Iris station up towards Melbourne, and East Malvern station down towards Glen Waverley.^[3] A crossover on the up side allows trains to reverse at this station in either direction.

The station consists of two side platforms with a total of two platform edges. Standard in Melbourne, the platform has an asphalt surface with concrete on the edges. The platforms are approximately 160 metres (524.93 ft) long, enough for a Metro Trains 7 car HCMT. The station features a pedestrian bridge, accessed from the centre of the platforms by a ramp built in 1987.^[10] The station features two principal station buildings, one of each side of the platforms built in 1979. These buildings act as staff facilities and passenger waiting rooms, and are constructed with cream bricks and ribbed roofing panels.^[5]

The station building, platform, and overpass are largely the same as when it was rebuilt in 1979, with the main change being updated signage, technology, and more car parking.^[11] The station features 200 car-parks on the south side of the station.^[11] The station is listed as a "fully accessible" station on the Metro Trains website, as the access ramp adheres to DDA accessibility standards.^[6]

History

Darling railway station was opened on 24 March 1890, with the line through the station originally built to link Burnley to the Outer Circle line at Waverley Road, before continuing onto Oakleigh.^[5] The station was named after the former Governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Henry Darling.^[12] The section of the line from Darling to Oakleigh station was closed on 9 December 1895, after 5 years of operation.^[13] The line was re-opened to Eastmalvern on 3 February 1929, with the line being extended further to Glen Waverley on 5 May 1930.^[13] In 1956, the line was duplicated, with three position signalling also provided. In 1974, the goods siding was closed after 59 years of operation since its opening in 1915.^[4]

The station was rebuilt in 1979 to coincide with the construction of the South Eastern Arterial link. This was the final station rebuild with the station buildings remaining almost the same into the 21st century.^[14] Until 1987, a level crossing was provided at Moira Street, located at the up end of the station.^[4] An overpass replaced the level crossing as part of the South Eastern Arterial link, built between Toorak and Warrigal Roads. Minor upgrades have occurred at the station since 1979, with the station being upgraded to a premium station in 2008 and a signal box located at Platform 1 being decommissioned on 8 June 2019.^[14]^[15]

Platforms and services

Darling has two side platforms with two faces. The station is currently served by the Glen Waverley line, a service on the metropolitan rail network.^[16] The Glen Waverley line runs from Glen Waverley station south east of Melbourne, joining the Belgrave, Lilydale, and Alamein lines at Burnley station, before travelling through the City Loop .^[17]

Platform 1:

Glen Waverley line all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street

Platform 2:

Glen Waverley line all stations services to Glen Waverley

Transport links

Darling station has one bus connection. The station connects to the route 624 bus service from Kew to Oakleigh station.^[7] The station does not have a bus interchange due to the limited number of transport links stopping at the station, and instead is operated through on-street bus stops. Darling station also has train replacement bus stops located adjacent to the station.

Bus connections:

624 : Kew – Oakleigh station

Related Research Articles

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The Outer Circle Railway was opened in stages in 1890 and 1891, as a steam-era suburban railway line, in Melbourne, Australia. It traversed much of the modern City of Boroondara, including the suburbs of Kew East, Camberwell, Burwood, Ashburton, and Malvern East. At its longest, it ran from Fairfield station, on what is today the Hurstbridge line, to Oakleigh station, on the current Gippsland line.

The Glen Waverley line is a commuter railway line in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, it is the city's sixth shortest metropolitan railway line at 21.3 kilometres (13.2 mi). The line runs from Flinders Street station in central Melbourne to Glen Waverley station in the east, serving 20 stations including Burnley, Kooyong, East Malvern, and Jordanville. The line operates for approximately 19 hours a day with 24 hour service available on Friday and Saturday nights. The line operates with headways of up to 10 minutes during peak hours and as long as 30 minutes during off-peak hours. Trains on the Glen Waverley line run with two three-car formations of X'Trapolis 100 trainsets.

Waverley Road was a station on the Outer Circle railway line, opened on 3 March 1890 as "Waverley" on the section between Burnley and Oakleigh stations, and was renamed on 23 June 1890. It became a junction on 30 May 1890 when the line from Camberwell opened, and was a Staff and Ticket station, being provided with a signal box of 28 levers. Two platforms were provided, with the junction of the two lines at the North (Camberwell) end, as was a goods siding located near the current East Malvern station in Malvern East, Victoria, Australia, in what is now the Malvern Urban Forest. The platform, the mound of which can still be seen, was located approximately 120 metres SSE of where the line crossed Waverley Road.

References

1 2 3 4 Railway station and tram stop patronage in Victoria for 2008–2021 Philip Mallis
1 2 Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries) Data Vic
1 2 3 Victoria, Public Transport. "Darling Station". Public Transport Victoria. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
1 2 3 "Darling". vicsig.net. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
1 2 3 Beardsell, David; Herbert, Bruce (1979). The Outer Circle: A History of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). ISBN 978-0-85849-024-6.
1 2 3 "Darling". www.metrotrains.com.au. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
1 2 "624 Kew – Oakleigh via Caulfield & Carnegie & Darling and Chadstone (from 30 Jan 2023)". Public Transport Victoria . Retrieved 29 April 2023.
1 2 Ltd, Rome2rio Pty. "Rome2rio". Rome2rio. Retrieved 28 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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[patronage2008-2021-1] 1 2 3 4 Railway station and tram stop patronage in Victoria for 2008–2021 Philip Mallis

[patronage2021-2023-2] 1 2 Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries) Data Vic

[:2-3] 1 2 3 Victoria, Public Transport. "Darling Station". Public Transport Victoria. Retrieved 28 December 2022.

[vicsigdarling-4] 1 2 3 "Darling". vicsig.net. Retrieved 29 April 2023.

[:3-5] 1 2 3 Beardsell, David; Herbert, Bruce (1979). The Outer Circle: A History of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). ISBN 978-0-85849-024-6.

[:0-6] 1 2 3 "Darling". www.metrotrains.com.au. Retrieved 28 December 2022.

[ptv624-7] 1 2 "624 Kew – Oakleigh via Caulfield & Carnegie & Darling and Chadstone (from 30 Jan 2023)". Public Transport Victoria . Retrieved 29 April 2023.

[:5-8] 1 2 Ltd, Rome2rio Pty. "Rome2rio". Rome2rio. Retrieved 28 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[9] Boroondara, City of (12 February 2018). "Basketball – Dorothy Laver Reserve West". City of Boroondara. Retrieved 28 December 2022.

[10] Report of the Road Construction Authority Year ended 30 June 1989

[:1-11] 1 2 "Darling Station – Parking in Malvern East | ParkMe". www.parkme.com. Retrieved 28 December 2022.

[12] Knox, B. A., "Barkly, Sir Henry (1815–1898)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 28 December 2022

[:6-13] 1 2 David Beardsell & Bruce Herbert (1979). The Outer Circle: A history of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society. ISBN 0-85849-024-2.

[:7-14] 1 2 "Works". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society. May 1979. p. 93.

[signalbox-15] "Darling Signal Box (DLG)". vicsig.net. Retrieved 29 April 2023.

[16] "Glen Waverley Line". Public Transport Victoria.

[17] "Victorian train network map" (PDF). ptv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 26 March 2023.

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