Elsternwick railway station

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Elsternwick
PTV commuter rail station
Elsternwickstation2021.jpg
North-west bound view from Platform 2,
December 2021
General information
LocationGlen Huntly Road,
Elsternwick, Victoria 3185
City of Glen Eira
Australia
Coordinates 37°53′05″S145°00′03″E / 37.8848°S 145.0009°E / -37.8848; 145.0009
Owned by VicTrack
Operated by Metro Trains
Line(s) Sandringham
Distance10.95 kilometres from
Southern Cross
Platforms1 island
Tracks2
Connections
  • Victoria bus logo.svg Bus
  • Melbourne tram logo.svg Tram
  • Melbourne skybus logo.svg SkyBus
Construction
Structure typeBelow ground
Parking84
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes—step free access
Other information
StatusOperational, premium station
Station codeELS
Fare zone Myki Zone 1
Website Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened19 December 1859;164 years ago (1859-12-19)
Rebuilt2 October 1960
ElectrifiedMay 1919 (1500 V DC overhead)
Passengers
2005–2006841,257 [1]
Preceding station Melbourne train logo.svg Metro Trains Following station
Ripponlea
towards Flinders Street
Sandringham line Gardenvale
towards Sandringham
Former services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Junction  Rosstown Railway   Garden Vale
towards Oakleigh
Track layout
Legend
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BSicon STR.svg
BSicon MFADEg.svg
BSicon STR.svg
to Ripponlea
BSicon STRg.svg
BSicon STRf.svg
1
BSicon PSTR(L).svg
BSicon PSTR(R).svg
BSicon PSTR(L).svg
2
BSicon PSTR(R).svg
BSicon KRWgl.svg
BSicon KRWg+r.svg
BSicon STRg.svg
BSicon STRf.svg
BSicon MFADEf.svg
BSicon STR.svg
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BSicon STR.svg
to Gardenvale

Elsternwick railway station is a commuter railway station on the Sandringham line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Elsternwick, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Elsternwick station is a ground level premium station, featuring an island platform. It opened on 19 December 1859, with the current station provided in 1960. [4]

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History

Elsternwick station was originally part of the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's network. The company and network was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878, to become part of Victorian Railways. As with the nearby suburb of Ripponlea, which had been named after the adjacent Rippon Lea Estate of Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick had been named after the largest property in the district, Charles Ebden's Elster. [5]

In the 1880s, Elsternwick also functioned as the western end of the cross-suburban Rosstown Railway, which was built by entrepreneur William Murray Ross, mainly to serve the sugar beet processing mill that he had established, along with an adjoining residential estate in the locality he called Rosstown, now known as Carnegie. The railway was seldom used and it was officially closed in 1916.

In 1915, an electric tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened. It closed on 22 October 1960, after which the tram route became part of an extended 246 bus route. In February 1959, a project commenced to eliminate the Glen Huntly Road level crossing, where a tramway also crossed the rail line. A temporary two-track station was provided in a side street parallel with the station, which allowed rail services to continue uninterrupted. In October 1960, the work was completed, which was when the present railway buildings were provided. [6] [7] [8]

In 1992, the station was the first in Melbourne to receive the former Public Transport Corporation's teal, sunflower and white coloured station signage, [9] which has since been replaced with Public Transport Victoria branded blue signage. On 13 November 1995, Elsternwick was upgraded to a premium station. [10]

During 2002–2003, the ground-level station car-park was closed, with a residential/retail development built on it, as part of a deal under which a developer was given the land with the condition that a multi-storey car park, including a lift, was provided for passengers. In 2004, the station underwent a refurbishment. [4]

Platforms and services

Elsternwick has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Sandringham line services. [11]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

CDC Melbourne operates two bus routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

Kinetic Melbourne operates three routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

Yarra Trams operates one route via Elsternwick Station

SkyBus also operates a service to Melbourne Airport via Elsternwick station. [17]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Railway station and tram stop patronage in Victoria for 2008–2021 Philip Mallis
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  4. 1 2 "Elsternwick". vicsig.net. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Elster was German for "magpie". The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek and, when a village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix ‘wick’, meaning village, was added. Archived 1 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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  7. ↑ "Grade Separation Scheme" Railway Gazette 11 November 1960 page 560
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