Hughesdale railway station
Hughesdale railway station is a railway station on the Gippsland line in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern suburbs of Murrumbeena and Hughesdale, and opened on 28 February 1925. Pakenham and Cranbourne commuter rail services stop at this station.
The station and suburb were named in honour of James Vincent Hughes, mayor of Oakleigh from 1924 to 1925, who, with the Poath Road Railway Station League, lobbied heavily for a new station for the area. Before the station was built, Hughesdale was the site of the junctions of both the Outer Circle and Rosstown railway lines with the Dandenong/Gippsland line.
A new station building was provided in 1977, after the former station building was destroyed by fire in 1975. The former station building was of a timber construction.
In 2016 the Level Crossing Removal Authority announced a grade separation project to replace the Poath Road level crossing immediately to the west of the station. The railway station was closed on 14 October 2017 and demolished on 28 October 2017.
A new Hughesdale railway station opened on 25 August 2018 about 250 metres west of the old station, as part of construction of the new section of elevated rail between Caulfield railway station and Oakleigh railway station.Platforms & services
Hughesdale has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Metro Trains' Pakenham and Cranbourne line trains.
Platform 1:
- Pakenham line: all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street
- Cranbourne line: all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street
Platform 2:
- Pakenham line: all stations and limited express services to Pakenham
- Cranbourne line: all stations services to Cranbourne
It is planned to connect the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines to the Sunbury line, via the new Metro Tunnel, in late 2025.Transport links
operates one route via Hughesdale station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
