Fairfield railway station, Melbourne

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Fairfield
PTV commuter rail station
Fairfield Westbound View.jpg
Westbound view from Platform 2 in November 2022
General information
LocationRailway Place,
Fairfield, Victoria 3078
City of Darebin
Australia
Coordinates 37°46′45″S145°01′01″E / 37.7792°S 145.0169°E / -37.7792; 145.0169
Owned by VicTrack
Operated by Metro Trains
Line(s) Hurstbridge
Distance9.15 kilometres from
Southern Cross
Platforms2 side
Tracks2
Connections Victoria bus logo.svg Bus
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parking70
Bicycle facilities54
AccessibleYes—step free access
Other information
StatusOperational, host station
Station codeFFD
Fare zone Myki Zone 1
Website Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened8 May 1888;135 years ago (1888-05-08)
ElectrifiedJuly 1921 (1500 V DC overhead)
Previous namesFairfield Park (1888-1943)
Passengers
2005–2006537,938 [1]
Preceding station Melbourne train logo.svg Metro Trains Following station
Dennis
towards Flinders Street
Hurstbridge line Alphington
towards Hurstbridge
Former services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Junction  Outer Circle line   Fulham Grange
  List of closed railway stations in Melbourne  
Track layout
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Station Street
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Fairfield railway station is a suburban railway station located on the Hurstbridge line in the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Fairfield in Victoria, Australia. It opened on 8 May 1888 as Fairfield Park and was renamed Fairfield on 14 November 1943. [4]

Contents

Fairfield Industrial Dog Object (FIDO), a 6-metre-tall wooden sculpture of a dog, is located adjacent to the level crossing, at the eastern end of Platform 2.

History

The station opened on 8 May 1888 when a railway line between Collingwood and Heidelberg was built. [4] Fairfield station, like the suburb itself, was named after Fairfield Park, an estate that was subdivided on land that was purchased by land speculator Charles Henry James. [5] [6] The estate is believed to have been named after Fairfield in Derbyshire, England. [5] [6] He had previously built Melbourne's first tram in 1884, which ran from the station northwards to the Fairfield Park Estate. It closed shortly after the station opened in 1890. [7]

From 1891 to 1893, Fairfield was the junction for the northern end of the former Outer Circle line, [8] and was later the junction for the APM Siding, which operated from 1919 to the 1990s and served the nearby Australian Paper Manufacturers paper mill.

The station was upgraded in the early 1910s with new timber station buildings constructed in 1912. [9] This included replacing the former at-grade pedestrian crossing at Rathmines Street with a pedestrian footbridge in March 1914. [10]

In 1969, boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Station Street level crossing, located at the down end of the station. [11] [12] In 1988, a goods siding at the station was abolished. [4]

In 1999, the station building on Platform 1 underwent restoration works. [13]

Platforms and services

Fairfield has two side platforms, and is served by Hurstbridge line trains. [14]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

Dysons operates two bus routes via Fairfield station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

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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
  3. ↑ Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries) Data Vic
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  7. ↑ Jones, Russell. "Melbourne Tram Museum: Melbourne's horse trams". www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "THE RAILWAYS". The Age . No. 17, 878. Victoria, Australia. 5 July 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 9 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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