Oak Park railway station, Melbourne

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Oak Park
PTV commuter rail station
Oak Park Southbound View.jpg
Southbound view from Platform 2, December 2022
General information
LocationWaterloo Road,
Oak Park, Victoria 3046
City of Merri-bek
Australia
Coordinates 37°43′04″S144°55′18″E / 37.7179°S 144.9216°E / -37.7179; 144.9216
Owned by VicTrack
Operated by Metro Trains
Line(s) Craigieburn
Distance12.88 kilometres from
Southern Cross
Platforms2 side
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parking37
AccessibleNo—steep ramp
Other information
StatusOperational, unstaffed
Station codeOPK
Fare zone Myki Zone 1/2 overlap
Website Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened13 August 1956;67 years ago (1956-08-13)
ElectrifiedSeptember 1921
(1500 V DC overhead)
Passengers
2005–2006314,041 [1]
Preceding station Melbourne train logo.svg Metro Trains Following station
Pascoe Vale
towards Flinders Street
Craigieburn line Glenroy
towards Craigieburn
Track layout
Legend
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BSicon STR.svg
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BSicon STR.svg
to Pascoe Vale
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BSicon SKRZ-G2BUE.svg
Devon Road
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BSicon STRf.svg
1
BSicon PSTR(R).svg
2
BSicon PSTR(L).svg
BSicon PSTR(R).svg
BSicon PSTR(L).svg
BSicon STRg.svg
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BSicon STR.svg
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to Glenroy

Oak Park railway station is located on the Craigieburn line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the northern Melbourne suburb of Oak Park, and opened on 13 August 1956. [4]

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History

Oak Park station opened on 13 August 1956, with the railway line past the site of the station originally opening in 1872, as part of the North East line to School House Lane. [5] Like the suburb itself, the station was named after a property that was renamed after it was purchased from the widow of John Pascoe Fawkner in 1879. [6] [7] Fawkner originally purchased 316 hectares of land, including the area now known as Oak Park, in 1839. [6]

In 1962, boom barriers replaced hand-operated gates at the Devon Road level crossing, located nearby in the up direction of the station. [8] [9] In 1965, a number of signals at the station were abolished, in conjunction with the replacement of double line block signalling with three-position signalling between Broadmeadows and Essendon. [4]

In 1989, the station was damaged by fire. [10] In 1994, it was provided with CCTV. [10]

Platforms and services

Oak Park has two side platforms. It is served by Craigieburn line trains. [11]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

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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. ↑ Annual metropolitan train station patronage (station entries) Data Vic
  4. 1 2 "Oak Park". vicsig.net. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  5. ↑ 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. ISBN   0-85849-012-9.
  6. 1 2 "Oak Park". Victorian Places. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  7. ↑ First, Jamie (7 January 2014). "The A-Z story of Melbourne's suburbs". Herald Sun . Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "SRS Showday Tour Notes Kensington-Broadmeadows and Newmarket-Flemington Racecourse Derby Day 1996" (PDF). VR History by Andrew Waugh. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  9. ↑ John Sinnatt (January 1990). "Level Crossing Protection". Somersault. Signalling Record Society Victoria. pp. 9–17.
  10. 1 2 "Works". Newsrail . Australian Railway Historical Society. February 1994. p. 61.
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