Elsternwick railway station
Elsternwick railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, and it opened on 19 December 1859. History. Elsternwick was originally part of the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's network. The company and network was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878, to become part of Victorian Railways. As with the nearby suburb of Ripponlea, which had been named after the adjacent "Rippon Lea Estate" of Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick had been named after the largest property in the district, Charles Ebden 's "Elster". In the 1880s, Elsternwick station also functioned as the western end of the cross-suburban Rosstown Railway, which was built by entrepreneur William Murray Ross, mainly to serve the sugar beet processing mill that he had established, along with an adjoining residential estate, in the locality he called Rosstown, now known as Carnegie. The railway was seldom used and it was officially closed in 1916. An electric tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened in 1915, and closed on 22 October 1960, after which the tram route became part of an extended 246 bus route. In February 1959 , a project commenced to eliminate the Glen Huntly Road level crossing, where a tramway also crossed the rail line. A temporary two-track station was provided in a side street parallel with the station, which allowed rail services to continue uninterrupted. The work was completed in October 1960, which was when the present railway buildings were provided. In 1992, the station was the first in Melbourne to receive the former Public Transport Corporation's teal, sunflower and white coloured station signage, which has since been replaced with Public Transport Victoria branded blue signage. It was upgraded to a Premium Station  on 13 November 1995. The ground-level station car park was closed in 2002/2003, and a residential/retail development was built on it, as part of a deal under which a developer was given the land with the condition that a multi-storey car park, including a lift, was provided for passengers. The station itself underwent a refurbishment in 2004. Platforms and services. Elsternwick has one island platform with two faces. It is currently serviced by Metro Trains' Sandringham line services. Platform 1: Platform 2: Transport links. CDC Melbourne operates two routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport  Victoria: Kinetic Melbourne operates two routes via Elsternwick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: Yarra Trams operates one route via Elsternwick Station