Camberwell

Station information
Code	CAM
Distance from Flinders St	9 km
Line	Alamein, Belgrave, Lilydale
Number of platforms	3
Number of tracks	3
Station status	Premium Station
Station facilities, connecting transport and timetables	Link
Melway map of station	Not available
Google map of station	Link
GPS Coordinates	Not available
Zone location	1

For other uses of the name Camberwell, see Camberwell (disambiguation).

Camberwell railway station (station code: CAM) serves the Belgrave, Lilydale and Alamein railway lines in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the corner of Burke Road and Cookson Street, Camberwell, and is 10.2 km by rail from Flinders Street Station, the centre of the city's suburban train network. Image File history File links MetlinkSignBase_313. ... Camberwell station platform where passengers wait for a train to Flinders Street and the City Loop. ... Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... For other uses of the name Alamein, see Alamein. ... The Belgrave railway line is a broad gauge electric suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Lilydale railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... A premium station is a railway station on Melbournes suburban rail network that has: An enclosed waiting area Open toilets (at most stations toilets close after evening peak to prevent illegal activity) Staff from first to last train, who are available for ticket sales (including concession cards and V... Melway (usually The Melways) is the most ubiquitous street directory for Melbourne, Australia, and its immediate surrounds. ... Screenshot of Google Maps showing a route from Toronto to Ottawa on the 400-Series highways. ... Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... Camberwell can refer to: The district of London, United Kingdom The Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell in London The suburb of Melbourne, Australia The railway station in Melbourne, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... The Belgrave railway line is a broad gauge electric suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Lilydale railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... For other uses of the name Alamein, see Alamein. ... Railway tracks running through a railway station in North East England A railway yard in Portland, Oregon. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Burke Road, Camberwell (looking north from the Junction) Camberwell is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the local municipality of the City of Boroondara. ... km redirects here. ... Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ...

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Layout and services

The station has three platforms; platforms 1 (the southernmost) and 2 form an island platform, with platform 3 to the north. The Edwardian-style booking office is located above the island platform, with a footbridge connecting it to platform 3 and the northern exit, and to the southern exit over the adjacent railway yard. A late-1940s signal box is located on the island platform, to the east of the main building. A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Platform 1 is used for city-bound services all day, as well as terminating shuttle trains from Alamein. Depending on the frequency of the shuttle service (which varies according to the time of the week), these shuttles return to Alamein from platform 1, or shunt to platform 3 (by a siding at the west end) to return to Alamein from there. Two rail welds in continuous welded rail in Wisconsin. ...

Platform 2 is used for city-bound express services in the morning, express services towards Belgrave and Lilydale in the evening, and stopping services to the city and towards Belgrave and Lilydale at times when the Alamein shuttle service is departing from platform 1. It is also used by terminating shuttle trains from Alamein as an alternative to platform 1. Two rail welds in continuous welded rail in Wisconsin. ...

Platform 3 is used by all services towards Belgrave, Lilydale, and Alamein during the morning peak period, by stopping services to destinations on those lines during the evening peak period, by Alamein shuttle services when the frequency of the shuttle requires it, and by all services towards Belgrave and Lilydale when the Alamein shuttle services are using platform 1.

All but a handful of shuttle services are operated by 3-carriage trains, and due to the length of the west-end siding (siding A), only 3-carriage trains can run Alamein shuttles when using this siding (otherwise trains are 6 cars in length, formed by coupling 2 3-car sets together).

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History

View to the north of all three platforms

Camberwell station was first opened in 1882. It was the terminus of its own line for one year, before the railway was extended to Lilydale. When the first section of the Outer Circle line opened in 1891, a new station was built at East Camberwell to provide an interchange. However, as the line slowly failed, with more and more sections closing, until only the Alamein line remained, trains to the remnants of the Outer Circle began to depart from Camberwell. Camberwell railway station platform. ... Camberwell railway station platform. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Lilydale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... East Camberwell railway station is situated on the Belgrave Lilydale line. ...

The station was demolished and the current station opened in 1919, when the railway lines were placed in a cutting. This was done so as to remove the steep gradient from Auburn station to the west. This length of track was so steep that steam locomotives could not pull a fully-laden train between the two stations, requiring peak hour trains to be separated. The locomotive would bring one set of carriages to Camberwell, then return for the other set, causing significant delays. The other reason for the grade-separation was the extension of tram route 72 (then route 7) to Camberwell in 1910 – removal of the level crossing at Burke Road was a government stipulation. Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... The entrance to Auburn Station Auburn is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Hawthorn East on the Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein railway lines. ... Great Western Railway No. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A CLRV Streetcar in the City of Toronto. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The term level crossing (also called a railroad crossing, railway crossing, train crossing or grade crossing) is a crossing on one level (at-grade intersection) — without recourse to a bridge or tunnel — of a railway line by a road, path, or another railroad. ...

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Redevelopment controversy

In 2001, the Victorian State Government launched a new Metropolitan Planning Strategy, Melbourne 2030. In line with the policy of residents' groups such as Save Our Suburbs, one of its core principles was the intensification of development around public transport nodes such as railway stations and tram routes, while placing greater limits on such development in residential neighbourhoods. The strategy identified over a hundred potential sites for intensification, in a hierarchy of 'activity centres'^[1]. The precinct around Camberwell railway station was identified as a one of the more significant of these nodes. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 956 KB) Railway Station Concord West, looking south from the overhead bridge. ... Melbourne 2030 is a Victorian Government urban planning blueprint for the metropolis of Melbourne covering the period 2000-2030 in which the population of the urban area is expected to grow to just under 5 million people. ... Save Our Suburbs (SOS) is an influential movement of residents groups concerned about the impact of new development on established residential suburbs in Australian cities. ...

In March 2003, VicTrack, the state government body that owns the station, announced plans to develop the airspace over the site. It is believed that these involved decking over the station platforms and the adjacent marshalling yard with 3-4 levels of carparking topped by 3-4 of storeys of commecial space, mainly offices, with a new frontage on Burke Road, and possibly involving the demolition of the station. As the station is in a deep cutting in the side of a hill, this would have resulted in a building that was a similar in height to the commercial development adjacent to the station precinct, to the east of Burke Road. The car park would have provided approximately 400 spaces, intended for the office workers in the building above, an idea that, along with its complete lack of a residential component, was completely at odds with the aim of the principles of Transit-oriented development (TOD) that is was argued to be based on. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aerial view of growth patterns in Arlington County, Virginia. ... TOD may refer to: Tioman Airport, which is assigned the IATA code TOD Tales of Destiny, a PSX videogame developed by Namco Transit-oriented development (a form of land use planning) Television On the Desktop Television on Demand (product of entertainment providers) Time of Death, used by many departments of...

The original plans involving the station's demolition led to a vocal outcry from the local community, receiving a significant amount of media attention. Actor Geoffrey Rush (local resident and self-proclaimed user of the station), and comedian Barry Humphries (a former resident who claims Camberwell as his "spiritual home"), publicly backed the campaign, with Humphries joining Rush at the head of a protest march up Burke Road from Camberwell Junction to the station. The comedian performed a poem about planners at the rally and noted that the railway line was sometimes called 'The Orient Express'. Among the concerns expressed by residents was that such a development could become like Box Hill, a station further up the line. The comedian satirised this concern in his poem with the line that the proposed redevelopment would mean that the kids of Camberwell wouldn't "have to go to Box Hill for their drugs". To those supporting development of the station, the actions of the protesters have been taken as an example of NIMBYism (from "Not In My Back Yard"). Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, as depicted in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Geoffrey Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian Academy Award and Emmy Award winning actor. ... John Barry Humphries AO (born 17 February 1934 in Kew, Melbourne) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australias foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. ... Box Hill is a multicultural suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... NIMBY (an acronym of Not In My Back Yard) describes the phenomenon in which residents oppose a development as inappropriate for their local area, but by implication do not oppose such development in anothers. ...

The Boroondara Residents Action Group worked with architects McGauran Giannini Soon, to provide alternative ideas for developing the air-space over the railway station and yard that were more in-keeping with their views of community preferences. It is believed one of these proposals involved a small public plaza and a new public library, with some small-scale shops.

Although the station is historic, it is not actually protected by any of the state's heritage listings for any architectural or cultural reasons, and failed to gain this protection after the community outrage at the development plans.

As of early 2007, it is unclear exactly what the future of any development on this site will be.