Glenferrie railway station

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Glenferrie
PTV commuter rail station
East end of platforms looking west at Glenferrie Railway Station in Hawthorn, Melbourne.jpg
Westbound view from Platform 2, August 2024
General information
Location Glenferrie Road,
Hawthorn, Victoria 3122
City of Boroondara
Australia
Coordinates 37°49′18″S145°02′12″E / 37.8216°S 145.0367°E / -37.8216; 145.0367
Owned by VicTrack
Operated by Metro Trains
Line(s)
Distance8.12 kilometres from
Southern Cross
Platforms3 (1 island, 1 side)
Tracks3
Connections Melbourne tram logo.svg Tram
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleNo—steep ramp
Other information
StatusOperational, premium station
Station codeGFE
Fare zone Myki Zone 1
Website Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened3 April 1882;143 years ago (1882-04-03)
Rebuilt8 December 1963
ElectrifiedDecember 1922
(1500 V DC overhead)
Previous namesGlenferrie Road (1882)
Passengers
2005–20061,933,463 [1]
Preceding station Melbourne train logo.svg Metro Trains Following station
Hawthorn
towards Flinders Street
Lilydale line Auburn
towards Lilydale
Belgrave line Auburn
towards Belgrave
Alamein line
Weekday peak only
 Auburn
towards Alamein
Track layout
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Glenferrie railway station is a commuter railway station on the Alamein, Belgrave and Lilydale lines, which are all part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the eastern suburb of Hawthorn, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Glenferrie station is an elevated structure premium station, featuring three platforms, an island platform with two faces and one side platform. It opened in 3 April 1882, with the current station provided in 1963. The station is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. [4] [5]

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Initially opened as Glenferrie Road, the station was given its current name of Glenferrie on 1 September 1882, seven months after services began. Much of the station's current traffic serves the nearby Hawthorn campus of the Swinburne University of Technology. [6]

History

Glenferrie station opened on 3 April 1882, when the railway line from Hawthorn was extended to Camberwell. [5] The station is named after nearby Glenferrie Road, itself named after a property which was purchased by solicitor Peter Ferrie in 1840, who later named the property Glen Ferrie. [7] [8]

In 1963, a third line was provided between Hawthorn and Camberwell. [5] These works included a new up platform (Platform 1), with Platform 2 becoming a bi-directional platform. [5]

On 26 February 1996, Glenferrie was upgraded to a premium station. [9]

Platforms and services

An X'Trapolis train on a Flinders Street-bound service arrives at Platform 1, August 2024 Xtrapolis train running a service to Flinders Street arriving on Platform 1 at Glenferrie Railway Station in Hawthorn, Melbourne.jpg
An X'Trapolis train on a Flinders Street-bound service arrives at Platform 1, August 2024

Glenferrie has one island platform with two faces, and one side platform. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein line services. [10] [11] [12]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

Platform 3:

Yarra Trams operates one route via Glenferrie station:

Notes

  1. ↑ weekday peaks only

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Estimated Annual Patronage by Network Segment Financial Year 2005-2006 to 2018-19 Department of Transport
  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. 1 2 Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries) Data Vic
  4. ↑ "Glenferrie railway station complex, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1671, Heritage Overlay HO48". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Glenferrie". vicsig.net. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Getting to the Hawthorn campus". Swinburne University of Technology. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  7. ↑ "Glenferrie". Victorian Places. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  8. ↑ First, Jamie (7 January 2014). "The A-Z story of Melbourne's suburbs". Herald Sun . Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "Upgrading Eltham to a Premium Station". Newsrail . Australian Railway Historical Society. October 1997. pp. 303–315.
  10. ↑ "Lilydale Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  11. ↑ "Belgrave Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  12. ↑ "Alamein Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  13. ↑ "16 Melbourne University - Kew via St Kilda Beach". Public Transport Victoria.

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