Platform 2 at East Richmond Station, looking toward Church Street

East Richmond is a railway station (station code: ERM) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave, Glen Waverley, and Alamein lines, at Church and Adolph Streets in the suburb of Cremorne. Prior to 1867 it was called Church Street station on what was then the Melbourne to Hawthorn line, one of Melbourne's earliest. It is 4.3 km from Flinders Street Station, the center of the city's suburban railway network, and in Metcard ticketing Zone 1. Image File history File linksMetadata ERMstation. ... Image File history File linksMetadata ERMstation. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Lilydale railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Belgrave railway line is a broad gauge electric suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Glen Waverley railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... For other uses of the name Alamein, see Alamein. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Cremorne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses of the name Hawthorn, see Hawthorn (disambiguation). ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Flinders Street Stations main entrance and dome. ... This is a list of the 200 currently operating suburban railway stations (216 including greater metropolitan stations) in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Metcard is the ticket used to access public transport in Melbourne, Australia (under the moniker Metlink). It is a universal ticket which allows commuters to ride on the citys trains, trams, and buses. ...

East Richmond station has two platforms, although four tracks run through it. Platform 1, for city bound services has a 1960s station building. Platform 2, for outbound services, has a Victorian era building stripped of most of its decoration. The station is not staffed and the ticket office and other facilities are locked. The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...

Due to its location at the inner end of Melbourne's busiest group of railway lines a large number of services pass East Richmond although only a limited number stop, largely because of its proximity to Richmond station, a major interchange, a few hundred metres down Swan Street. Outbound services to Belgrave and Lilydale do not stop at East Richmond and only a small number of inbound services do. Most services to and from Blackburn and Ringwood, which are intermediate destinations on the Belgrave/Lilydale line do however. All oubound Alamein services stop there, however a few inbound services from Alamein do not stop at East Richmond. Glen Waverley trains stop there in off-peak, but many both to and from Glen Waverley in peak do not stop there. In off-peak on weekdays and weekends, the Glen Waverley services are the only trains to stop necessitating a change at Burnley for the Belgrave and Lilydale lines and an additional change at Camberwell for the Alamein line. Richmond station Richmond station (station code: RMD) is a suburban railway station in Melbourne, Australia. ... Burnley is a railway station (station code: BLY) in Melbourne, Australia. ... A city-bound Connex Comeng train arrives at platform 1 Camberwell railway station (station code: CAM) serves the Belgrave, Lilydale and Alamein railway lines in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...