NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sandringham railway line, Melbourne

The Sandringham railway line is a suburban railway line in Melbourne, Australia. It branches from other southeastern lines (Caulfield group) at South Yarra station. It serves the City of Bayside, and small sections cover the Cities of Glen Eira, Port Phillip, Stonnington, and Yarra. Various sections of the track opened between 1857 and 1859, and in May, 1919, the whole line was electrified. Melbourne, capital city of the State of Victoria, Australia, has a long history of railway development. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2126x2325, 175 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Connex Melbourne is a private company which operates suburban trains in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on behalf of the State Government of Victoria. ... A Hitachi train (left) and newer XTrapolis (right) at Flinders Street Station Hitachi on a Belgrave service The Hitachi train (often called tachis [] or Silvers) is a type of electric train that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. ... Alstom now United Group LTD refurbished Comeng in Connex livery The term Comeng originally defined the company COMmonwealth ENGineering which, among others things, manufactured Melbournes A, B and Z class trams, some Sydney R, L & S class double-decker trains and Brisbane buses, although now is popularly used to... The Siemens MOMO Train (Modular Metro, originally NEXAS, but more generally Siemens train) is a type of electric train that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. ... The St Kilda to Windsor line was a section of railway that linked the isolated Windsor to Brighton (Bay Street) section of railway to the city. ... Diagram of the Rosstown Railway and stations as eventually constructed Artists impression of the Rosstown sugar beet mill and railway, in 1876 and before construction had begun The Rosstown Railway was a private railway in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, running between the current stations of Elsternwick on... Melbourne, capital city of the State of Victoria, Australia, has a long history of railway development. ... This is a list of the 200 currently operating suburban railway stations (216 including greater metropolitan stations) in Melbourne, Australia. ... This is a list of former railway stations in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... In Melbournes train system several new train lines, electrification of existing lines, extensions to existing lines, and new stations on existing lines, have been seriously considered at various times (some were so advanced in plans that they were even printed on Hitachi train destination rolls). ... â€œSuburbiaâ€ redirects here. ... railroads redirects here. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... South Yarra is a railway station (station code: SYR) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The City of Bayside is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... The City of Glen Eira is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... Mayor/President Cr BOLITHO, Janet CEO Mr SPOKES, David Electoral Divisions WARDS (Alma, Albert Park, Blessington, Emerald Hill, Ormond, Sandridge, St Kilda) Councillors Cr RAY, Darren, Cr KLEPNER, Judith, Cr GROSS, Dick, Cr LOGAN, Peter, Cr CRIBBES, Janet, Cr BOLITHO, Janet, Cr SAIT, Karen. ... Stonnington City Centre (Malvern Town Hall) is now the corporate headquarters of the City of Stonnington. ... The City of Yarra is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Infrastructure

The line is double-tracked throughout, although it runs alongside the Frankston and Pakenham lines from Melbourne to South Yarra, making a total of six tracks in this section. For the sound recording technique, see doubletracking. ... The Frankston railway line is a bay-side suburban electrified railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Pakenham railway line in Melbourne, Australia is the suburban electrified portion of the railway to Bairnsdale in eastern Gippsland. ... Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... South Yarra is a railway station (station code: SYR) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

The speed limit is 70 km/h between South Yarra and Sandringham, and the line has a total of 11 level crossings between South Yarra and Sandringham, one of which (at New Street) is the only remaining hand-operated crossing in Melbourne. Much of the line, however, is either in cuttings or on embankments, and there are many more bridges over or under roads. Terminating facilities are provided at Elsternwick (emergency only) and Brighton Beach. Stabling facilities are provided at Brighton Beach and Sandringham, although Brighton Beach has not normally been used for stabling for many years, and the sidings have been converted for use in making modifications to trains. Sandringham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Elsternwick railway station, Melbourne (station code: ELS) is on the Sandringham line line in Melbourne, Australia. ... Brighton Beach is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Brighton on the Sandringham railway line. ...

Power signalling is provided throughout, it being the first line in Victoria to be so equipped, as well as the first (along with part of the Broadmeadows line) to have a regular electric service. A signal is a mechanical or electrical device that indicates to train drivers or engineers information about the state of the line ahead, and therefore whether he or she must stop or may proceed, or instructions on what speed the train may go. ... The Broadmeadows railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Services and patronage

The Sandringham line runs at 10-minute frequencies in the weekday peak period and is the only line in Melbourne to operate on a 20-minute frequency at night, and does so seven days a week. This compares to 30-minute frequencies on other lines (and 40-minute frequencies on some lines on Sundays). It was also the first to provide a 15-minute frequency between weekday peak periods. These frequencies are not due to it having greater use, but from an experiment in 1992 in increasing frequencies to see if that attracts additional patronage, this being possible on the Sandringham line without using extra trains by reducing layover time at the ends of the journeys.

Frequencies, this time in peak periods, were further improved a few years later, as compensation for withdrawal of the Sandringham services from the City Loop. The Cain Labor government in the 1980s proposed rebuilding the line as a light rail line, but since then patronage has grown considerably and even with the 10-minute peak-period frequency, trains are heavily loaded. The City Loop (properly called the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop or MURL) is a railway - mostly underground, but partly surface-level and partly elevated - that encloses the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... John Cain (born 26 April 1931), Australian politician, was Labor Premier of the state of Victoria from 1982 to 1990. ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ...

History

The Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company opened their line from Princes Bridge (later amalgamated with Flinders Street station) to a temporary station on Punt Road in February 1859, then to Cremorne (now closed) in December of that year. The Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company opened a line from Princes Bridge railway station in Melbourne, Australia to Punt Road (Richmond) and South Yarra in 1859, Prahran in 1859 and Windsor in 1860, connecting with the St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company line. ... THE PRINCES BRIDGE RAILWAY STATION WAS BUILT IN THE 1800S AND WAS THE TERMINUS FOR ALL EPPING LINE TRAINS.THE ORIGINAL STATION BUILDINGS WERE DEMOLISHED IN 1964 AND REPLACED WITH THE GAS AND FUEL TOWERS.THE STATION CONTINUED TO USE THE NAME PRINCES BRIDGE UNTIL 1980 WHEN IT BECAME... Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Cremorne railway station was an early inner suburban station in Melbourne, Australia. ...

A few days later, the St. Kilda and Brighton Railway Company (St. K. & B. R. C.) opened their railway line from St. Kilda to Bay Street (now North Brighton) in December 1859. Twelve months after that, the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company extended their line from Cremorne to Chapel Street (now Windsor) station, on the St. K. & B. R. C.'s line, providing a second route to the city from the Brighton line. The following year, again in December, the St. K. & B. R. C. extended their line to Beach (now Brighton Beach). The St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company opened a line from St Kilda in Melbourne, Australia to Bay Street (now North Brighton) in 1859 and Beach (now Brighton Beach) in 1861. ... St Kilda railway station was the terminus of the line of the same name of the Melbourne suburban rail system. ... This is a stub related to the city of Melbourne. ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Windsor is a railway station (station code WIN) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Brighton Beach is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Brighton on the Sandringham railway line. ...

The link between St. Kilda and Windsor , unused since 1862, was dismantled in 1867, although part of it at the Windsor end was used as a siding for some time afterwards. The St Kilda to Windsor line was a section of railway that linked the isolated Windsor to Brighton (Bay Street) section of railway to the city. ... This article is about 1862 . ... Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1865, the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, who owned the St. Kilda line, purchased the Melbourne Suburban Railway Company and became the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company, and subsequently bought the St. K. & B. R. C., which was in financial difficulties, for £99,500. The Victorian Government acquired the United railway company in July 1878. 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway Company built Australias first railway broad gauge (1600 mm) line, opened in September 1854, which ran for 4km from the Melbourne (or City) Terminus (on the site of modern day Flinders Street Station), crossing the Yarra River on the original Sandridge Bridge... VIC redirects here. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

In September 1887, the Brighton line was extend to Sandringham. Sandringham station Sandringham railway station is located in the suburb of the same name beside Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne, Australia. ...

The Sandringham line became the first line in Victoria to be provided with automatic signals, with the line as far as Elsternwick converted in stages from 1915 to 1918. Then in 1919, the Sandringham line became, with the line to Essendon, the first line in the country to be electrified (apart from a test installation on the Flemington Racecourse line). Automatic signalling was provided the rest of the way to Sandringham in two stages in 1926. A signal is a mechanical or electrical device that indicates to train drivers or engineers information about the state of the line ahead, and therefore whether he or she must stop or may proceed, or instructions on what speed the train may go. ... Elsternwick railway station, Melbourne (station code: ELS) is on the Sandringham line line in Melbourne, Australia. ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Essendon stations island platform Essendon railway station is located on Buckley Street near Mt Alexander Road in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, 9. ... The Flemington Racecourse railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Service changes

Services on the line originally ran via the St. Kilda line, but from 1862 ran exclusively via the Cremorne route. In 1894, through services from Brighton Beach to Essendon were introduced, an arrangement that continued until 1973, when Sandringham services were altered to run through to the St. Kilda and Port Melbourne lines. This article is about 1862 . ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... The Port Melbourne railway line was a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ...

When the underground City Loop line was designed, it was not intended to cater for trains on the Port Melbourne, St. Kilda, and Sandringham lines. However, a crossover was installed near Richmond to allow Sandringham trains to cross to the tracks used by the Frankston and Pakenham trains, which had access to the underground loop. In 1985, two Sandringham trains each way were altered to run via the underground loop, and in 1988, with the Port Melbourne and St. Kilda lines now converted to light rail operation, all off-peak and many peak trains were routed via the underground loop. The City Loop (properly called the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop or MURL) is a railway - mostly underground, but partly surface-level and partly elevated - that encloses the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... A crossover is a pair of switches that connects two parallel rail tracks, allowing a train on one track to cross over to the other. ... The Frankston railway line is a bay-side suburban electrified railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Pakenham railway line in Melbourne, Australia is the suburban electrified portion of the railway to Bairnsdale in eastern Gippsland. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

However, congestion caused by merging with the Frankston and Pakenham services resulted in a number of changes to Sandringham trains operating via the underground loop, and today only weekend services run that way. Some weekday peak services are through-routed with Williamstown line services. The Williamstown railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ...

List of stations

Bold stations are terminuses, italic stations are staffed and stations with an asterisk (*) are staffed during morning peak periods.

Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... Richmond station Richmond station (station code: RMD) is a suburban railway station in Melbourne, Australia. ... South Yarra is a railway station (station code: SYR) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Frankston railway line is a bay-side suburban electrified railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Pakenham railway line in Melbourne, Australia is the suburban electrified portion of the railway to Bairnsdale in eastern Gippsland. ... The Cranbourne railway line is a suburban electric railway in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. ... Prahran station, originally known as Greville Street Station, is located in the middle of Greville Street. ... Windsor is a railway station (station code WIN) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Balaclava is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, located in the suburb of Balaclava, on the Sandringham railway line. ... Ripponlea railway station, Melbourne (station code: RIP) is on the Sandringham line line in Melbourne, Australia. ... Elsternwick railway station, Melbourne (station code: ELS) is on the Sandringham line line in Melbourne, Australia. ... Gardenvale is a railway station on the Sandringham railway line. ... This is a stub related to the city of Melbourne. ... Middle Brighton station cafe. ... Brighton Beach is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Brighton on the Sandringham railway line. ... This is a stub related to the city of Melbourne. ... Sandringham station Sandringham railway station is located in the suburb of the same name beside Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Trivia

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External links, maps, and timetables

References

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