Victoria Park Railway Station

## Victoria Park

* New Victoria Park
* Old Victoria Park

**Victoria Park** opened in 1898 after pushes from the Municipality Of Victoria for a station along the line. Victoria Park gained a Station master in 1922 and was abolished in 1969. The railway area around Victoria Park was upgrade with such improvements as removing the Rutland Avenue level crossing and replacing it with the Miller Street bridge, The closure of Lathlain Station due to low passenger counts, The opening of the Thornlie Line allowing most Armadale Line to run express and the reconstruction of Victoria Park with better accessibility and with straight platforms. the new station opened on August 2nd 2008 with the old station demolished shortly afterwards.

## History

The South Western Railway opened on May 2nd 1893 through Victoria Park with the nearest station at Burswood. A station in Victoria Park opened in 1898 the first station featured only a platform. A footbridge was built to the station in 1912. The station received its first station master on the 1st of September 1922 with the last station master retiring on the 1st of March 1969, over the 47 years the station had 4 station masters are all commemorated by a plaque installed in 1997. In the late 1990s WestRail proposed to be rebuilt as part of the Armadale Line upgrade in preperation for the Mandurah Line to run through. However the Mandurah Line route was cancelled in 2002 to be built on its own right of way into the city. Many stations still had minor improvements built. Victoria Park was proposed to be rebuilt again in the early 2000s as part of a study finding out many stations on the line were to close together. As a result Lathlain was closed on the 2nd of Febuary 2003 and the Bishopsgate Street level crossing was closed and removed shortly after. construction of a new Victoria Park was planned to begin in October 2003 and to open by July 2004. In September 2003 after a massive delay contracts for the construction of the new island platform station and the lowering and slewing of the tracks to travel under a new Miller Street bridge. The slew had been completed by March 2004 and the bridge opened to road traffic in June that year after this the Bishopsgate Street level crossing was removed. After the Thornlie Line opened on the 8th of August 2005 Armadale Line services began running through the station on the express E Pattern. Delays were caused by staff shortages as the Mandurah Line construction was priority as it had been under construction for 4 years already beginning construction in 2003. The Mandurah Line opened on December 23rd 2007 but Victoria Park had been under constructions since August 2007. The new Victoria Park Station opened on the 2nd of August 2008 with the forner island platform demolished shortly afterwards.

Victoria Park once again received attention with the construction of a turnback on the up end of the station used primarily by Stadium services from Fremantle or Butler. During 2023 a temporary bus station was built at Victoria Park in preparation for the upcoming Armadale/Thornlie Line shutdown. The lines were closed on the 20th of November with the line to Victoria Park reopening 3 days later after having modifications to make Victoria Park a terminating station. The Armadale and Thornlie lines are projected to reopen in Mid 2025.