page_title: Mentone railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Mentone railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: The building on platform 1.
context_page_description: Mentone railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Mentone, and opened on 19 December 1881. It was renamed Balcombe on 1 September 1882, and renamed Mentone on 7 January 1884. It is classed as a Premium station and it is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
  A number of sidings and a head shunt were removed at the station in late 1984/early 1985. A former siding also existed until the 1940s, running across Station Street to a timber yard.
  The former adjacent railway crossing on Balcombe Rd was the first in Melbourne to have boom gates.
context_section_description: Mentone railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Mentone, and opened on 19 December 1881. It was renamed Balcombe on 1 September 1882, and renamed Mentone on 7 January 1884. It is classed as a Premium station and it is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
  A number of sidings and a head shunt were removed at the station in late 1984/early 1985. A former siding also existed until the 1940s, running across Station Street to a timber yard.
  The former adjacent railway crossing on Balcombe Rd  was the first in Melbourne to have boom gates.
caption: Building on platform 1 prior to Grade Separation works.
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