Ashburton railway station, Melbourne


Ashburton Railway Station is located on the Alamein line in Victoria, Australia, serving the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ashburton. The station opened as Norwood on 30 May 1890 and was renamed Ashburton on 12 December 1890. It was part of the first section of the Outer Circle line.
By 1893, the northern half of the Outer Circle had been closed, and on 9 December 1895, the stretch beyond Ashburton, connecting with Oakleigh was closed as well. For a short period, that left the line from Camberwell to Ashburton as the only remaining stretch.
On 1 May 1897, Ashburton closed, along with the line from Camberwell. After an outcry from the local community, that section of the line reopened on 4 July 1898, becoming the Ashburton line once again. The line was electrified on 30 October 1924, but in the years leading up to that, it was served by the so-called Deepdene Dasher, which ran a shuttle between Ashburton and Deepdene stations, and usually consisted of an F-Class engine and one or two American-type carriages. When the track was extended 600 metres to a new terminus at Alamein on 28 June 1948, the Ashburton line became the Alamein line.
Timetabled use of the stabling siding ended in July 1989, due to vandalism of trains stabled there, and the siding was booked out of service in 2015. It was upgraded to a Premium station on 1 February 1996.
Immediately north of the station, the double track becomes single for the rest of the section to Alamein.

Platforms & services

Ashburton has one platform. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Alamein line services.
Platforms 1:
operates one route via Ashburton station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: