Tecoma railway station


Tecoma railway station is located on the Belgrave line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the outer eastern Melbourne suburb of Tecoma, and opened on 1 February 1924.
The station has been the second-least-used station in metropolitan Melbourne Melbourne since the 2015-2016 financial year, and most recently saw 73,957 passenger movements in the twelve months between June 2018 and July 2019.
The platform was used in a short cameo in the 2012 telemovie , and Metlink signs and tactile tiles are visible in the film.

History

The station first opened on the narrow-gauge Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Railway in 1924 and was initially constructed as a means of transporting timber from nearby woodcutters to sawmills in Gembrook. On 30 April 1954, a landslide between Selby and Menzies Creek saw the closure of the station as well as the railway. The sudden loss of the railway resulted in a groundswell of public pressure for the line to quickly reopen.
The formation of the Puffing Billy Preservation Society in 1955, saw the reopening of a section of the line between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave, and with it came the reopening of Tecoma railway station. Operations continued until the station closed in 1958, when the railway line to Belgrave was converted to broad-gauge and electrified. The station reopened on 19 February 1962.

Platforms & services

Tecoma has one platform. It is served by Metro Trains' Belgrave line trains.
Platform 1:
operates one route via Tecoma station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: