This is a list of the 200 currently operating suburban railway stations (216 including greater metropolitan stations) in Melbourne, Australia. The stations make up 16 railway lines going out from the city (and 4 greater metropolitan lines), as well as the central City Loop.
There are also a further 19 stations on 3 old, volunteer-operated, tourist railways. These are not a part of the suburban network.
Stations are broken up into 2 Myki ticketing zones (some stations are included in both zones, where tickets for either zone may be used), as well as the City Saver area, which is within Zone 1 and covers the central business district. On March 4, 2007 zone 3 was made part of zone 2.
For detailed travel information, do not rely only on this page; please go to the Metlink website.
56 stations
Separates from the Pakenham line at Caulfield station.
19 stations
The Stony Point line is a greater metropolitan line that joins the Frankston line.
Separates from the Sandringham line at South Yarra station.
23 stations
The Traralgon line is a regional line that continues the Pakenham line.
Separates from the Pakenham line at Dandenong station.
Separates from the Eastern lines (Burnley group) at Richmond station.
12 stations
53 stations
Separates from the City Loop at Southern Cross and Flagstaff stations.
14 stations
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at North Melbourne station.
13 stations
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at North Melbourne station.
12 stations
The Sunbury line is a greater metropolitan line that joins the Sydenham line.
Separates from the Sydenham line at Footscray station.
7 stations
Separates from the Williamstown line at Newport station.
7 stations
The Geelong and Warrnambool regional lines join the Werribee line.
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at Newmarket station. Trains may start running on this line every day, as part of renewing the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds.
49 stations
Separates from the City Loop at Flinders Street and Parliament stations.
23 stations
Separates from the Lilydale line at Burnley station.
12 stations
Separates from the Lilydale line at Ringwood station.
8 stations
Separates from the Lilydale line at Camberwell station.
6 stations
37 stations
Separates from the City Loop at Flinders Street and Parliament stations.
23 stations
Separates from the Hurstbridge line at Clifton Hill station.
14 stations
These lines have trains pulled by diesel engines and railcar services, and use Myki tickets. All trains are run by V/Line, except for the Stony Point line run by Metro Trains Melbourne using engines borrowed from V/Line Passenger.
15 stations
Begins at Frankston station on the Frankston line.
9 stations
Separates from the Sydenham line at Sunshine station.
The Ballarat regional line is joined to the Melton line.
Continues from the Sydenham line.
The Bendigo regional line is joined to the Sunbury line.
These lines are run part-time (full-time in the case of Puffing Billy) by groups of people who want to keep old trains running, and are do not use Myki tickets.
19 stations
12 stations. In this list only, a star ( * ) shows stations at which trains do not normally stop, and are there mainly to be historic.
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Silence (band)
Silence is a German rock - heavy metal band. It was founded in 1995 in Bavaria, Germany. Its founding members were Stefan Mueller (guitar), Holger Kronester (drums), and the brothers Bernd (guitar) and Marco Wolf (bass). They played a mix of rock and metal music. Their music always had a dark, depressive side.
The band's first successful album was "Enola". It was listed as "Album of the month" in German Metal-Hammer. The album was released in 2000. Three years later they recorded "the p/o/u/r letters". It got very good reviews all over Germany and Europe. In 2007 they released their 5 track EP "The Badtime Stories". With this album they got a record deal with the German record label Biohazzard Records, a sublabel of Danse macabre.
In 2010 they released the follow-up full-length album to "the p/o/u/r letters". It was titled "Life: Failed".
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He was the son of a doctor and born in Goddelau near Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt. Büchner went to a secondary school that focused on Latin, Greek and on modern languages (including French, Italian and English). But he was mainly interested in science and when he went to university he studied medicine in Strasbourg.
In 1828 he became interested in politics and joined a group which later on probably became the Gießen and Darmstadt section of the "Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte" (Society for Human Rights). In Strasbourg, he studied not only medicine but French literature and political thought as well.
While Büchner continued his studies in Gießen he started a secret society which wanted revolutionary change. With the help of the Protestant theologian Friedrich Ludwig Weidig he published the leaflet "Der Hessische Landbote", a revolutionary text that criticized social problems in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The authorities charged them with treason and issued a warrant of apprehension. While Weidig was arrested, tortured and died imprisoned in Darmstadt, Büchner fled across the border to Strasbourg where he wrote most of his literary work and translated two plays by Victor Hugo, "Lucrèce Borgia" and "Marie Tudor". Two years later, his dissertation, "Mémoire sur le Système Nerveux du Barbeaux (Cyprinus barbus L.)" was published in Paris and Strasbourg. The ideas of François-Noël Babeuf and Claude Henri de Saint-Simon had an important influence on his work. In October 1836 he got a job at the University of Zürich as a lecturer in anatomy and went back to Zürich where he spent his final months writing and teaching until he died of typhus at the age of twenty-three.
In 1835, his first play, "Dantons Tod" (Danton's Death), about the French revolution, was published, followed by "Lenz". It is a novella based on the life of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In 1836 his second play, "Leonce and Lena" he describes the nobility. His unfinished and most famous play, "Woyzeck", was the first literary work in German whose main characters were members of the working class. Published after Büchner's death, it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" which was first performed in 1925.