Sandown Park railway station, Melbourne
Sandown Park railway station is located on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Springvale, and it opened in 1889 as Oakleigh Racecourse. It was renamed Sandown Park in 1892. The station was built to service the nearby Sandown Racecourse. In addition to the two main lines, there was a signal box and booking office, and two sidings each over 600 metres long on the eastern side of the tracks, for the stabling of special race trains. The station had no platform on the Up track , instead having an island platform on the Down track, the other face serving one of the sidings on the eastern side. By 1937, a crossover at the Down end of the station was removed, and in 1943, the sidings that adjoined the back platform were abolished. The station was only used for racecourse traffic, and was closed on 16 May 1955. In June 1965, it reopened as an island platform for passengers on race days only. It was opened for general passenger traffic in October of the same year. The station once had a second exit and subway at the  Up end of the platform, but that has since been closed and filled in. Nearby, towards Noble Park, the Corrigan Road level crossing was removed in 2018, as part of the Victorian Government's Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP). Platforms and services. Sandown Park has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Pakenham and Cranbourne line services. Platform 1: Platform 2: It is planned to connect the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines to the Sunbury line, through the new Metro Tunnel, in late 2025.