Glenroy railway station is a commuter railway station located in the northern suburb of Glenroy in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[5] The station opened on 24 January 1887, with the former ground level station closed and demolished in April 2022 and the current lowered rail trench station provided in May 2022 by the Level Crossing Removal Project.[6]
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2025)
Glenroy station consists of two side platforms with two edges. As is standard in Melbourne, the platform has an asphalt surface with concrete on edges. The side platforms are approximately 160m (524ft 11in) long, long enough for a 7 car High Capacity Metro Train.[5] The station features a ground level concourse, accessible by stairs and lifts up to the elevated platforms.[7] There is one main station building, opening in 2022, which contains a waiting room, a customer service, a PSO office and a ground level concourse inside the main station building.[9]
The station building, concourse and platform largely stayed the same since the station was rebuilt in 2022.[5] There are 600 parking spaces; 396 spaces on Dowd Place, 141 spaces on Hartington Street and 66 spaces on Station Road and 25 protected bike parking at the station.[10][11] The station is listed as fully accessible on the Metro Trains website, as there are lifts and accessible features available at the station.[7]
History
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2025)
Glenroy station opened on 24 January 1887, with the railway line past the site of the station opening in 1872, as part of the North East line to School House Lane.[12] Like the suburb itself, the station is named after a pastoral run occupied by Duncan Cameron, who originated from Glen Roy, Scotland.[13][14]
On 14 September 1973, Tait motor carriage 424M was destroyed by fire at the station.[16] The original station buildings were provided in 1886 and, in 1976, were replaced with brick structures.[17] In 1999, Glenroy was upgraded to a premium station, featuring the addition of customer service facilities and the conversion of the former ground-level station building into a waiting room.[18]
The station was rebuilt for a second time by the Level Crossing Removal Project, due to the grade separation of the Glenroy Road level crossing.[19] On 2 July 2019, it was announced that the level crossing would be removed by lowering the railway line underneath Glenroy Road, and would include a rebuilt station.[20] On 11 October 2020, designs for the new station were released.[21] Major construction began soon after and, on 6 May 2022, the rebuilt station opened.[6]
↑ Turton, Keith W (1973). Six And A Half Inches From Destiny. The first hundred years of the Melbourne-Wodonga Railway 1873-1973. Australian Railway Historical Society. p.87. ISBN0-85849-012-9.
↑ "Glenroy". Victorian Places. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
Stations and services in italics are planned or under construction
Stations in (parentheses) are uncommon stops for the listed service
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
Bus 
2.4%
13.05%
