East Camberwell railway station, Melbourne

MelbourneRailwayStation1
NAME=East Camberwell
IMAGELINK=EastCamberwell1.jpg
CAPTION=Platform 1 looking at the island main platform, and towards Box Hill
CODE=ECM
DISTANCE=9.8 km
LINES=Belgrave,
Lilydale
PLATFORMS=3
TRACKS=3
STATUS=Unmanned Station
FACILITIES= [http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/stop/view/19892 Link]
TIMETABLES= [http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/stop/view/19892#lineInformation Link]

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=-37.825684,145.068326&spn=0.012559,0.019956 Link]
ZONE=1

East Camberwell is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Camberwell on the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines. East Camberwell station is unmanned and is in Metcard Zone 1.

Facilities

The station is located between Sefton Place and the Alamein railway line, with station access from Sefton Place.

The station consists of three platforms, two in an island format. The island platform (platforms 1 & 2) has a small steel shelter, while platform 3 has a small weatherboard building. A large Metcard machine is located at the entrance to platforms 1 & 2, and is able to dispense most ticketing options available and also accepts notes and coins. A small Metcard machine is located at the entrance to platform 3. An underpass is situated at the Ringwood end of the station.

History

East Camberwell station opened on May 14 1900, as the interchange station for the "Deepdene Dasher" service northwards along the Outer Circle line. The Outer Circle line itself had been opened under the line in 1891.cite book
author = David Beardsell and Bruce Herbert
title = The Outer Circle: A history of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway
publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division)
year = 1979
isbn = 0 85849 024 2 ]

Three platforms were provided, two high level ones for trains on the Lilydale line and a single low level one for trains on the Outer Circle. Steps were provided between all platforms to enable passengers to change between services. Between 1915 and 1922 a signal box at the Melbourne end was provided, to control the junction towards Riversdale (on today's Alamein line), as the three tracks though to Camberwell had been reduced to 2 to allow the regrading works at Camberwell to proceed. The "Deepdene Dasher" service was withdrawn on October 9, 1927 and the line itself closed on September 6, 1943 when goods services ended.

The platforms on the Lilydale line were rebuilt in 1964 when the Camberwell - East Camberwell third track amplification works were carried out, with the southern platform converted into a island platform. [cite web
url=http://signaldiagramsandphotos.com/My%20Web%20pages/VR/Metropolitan/EAST%20RICHMOND%20to%20EAST%20CAMBERWELL%2020%20'66.htm
title=Victorian Railways: East Richmond to East Camberwell diagram 20' 66
publisher=signaldiagramsandphotos.com
accessdate=2008-03-11] The third track was later extended to Box Hill in 1971.cite book
last = S.E. Doorman and R.G. Henderson
title = Electric Railways of Victoria
publisher = Australian Electric Traction Society
page = page 80
year = 1979
isbn = 0 909459 06 1 ]

The station was one of four used for the first trials of the myki ticketing system on the rail network, carried out in August 2008 by Kamco staff. The other stations were Canterbury, Chatham and Mont Albert stations. [cite web
url=http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24147118-15306,00.html
title=Myki smartcard put to test
work=Australian IT
author=Ashley Gardiner
date=August 8, 2008
publisher=www.australianit.news.com.au
accessdate=2008-08-18]

Gallery

References

MetlinkAndClosedStations
Line1=Belgrave & Lilydale lines
Previous1=Camberwell
Next1=Canterbury
ClosedLine = Intersection with the Outer Circle line
ClosedNext = Riversdale
ClosedPrevious = Shenley
VICORMELB=Melbourne