January 2025

#SouthYarraStation, this front built 1918, when the station was rebuilt to its current form, with 6 platforms.

Not terribly exciting, compared to some of the more exuberant brick and render Edwardian stations, but nice, though last time I swapped trains here, it was all a bit crowded. A nice set of ramps and canopies (pics 3,4 not mine). Originally built in 1860, when there was only a line to Brighton, and the station entrance was a small brick arched thing, which surprisingly is still there ! And the waiting rooms behind, now a bar. There’s a great shot of a steam train there in 1874, and another firing a flood in 1907.

Update : many of you will say the metro tunnel should have had a station here, but I can see it would have been difficult to fit (see plan I found)- the tracks come out of the ground here, where they could make room for them by shrinking that triangular park, so the station would have had to be much further towards the city, because they have to not slope. They also require a fairly large area to excavate, so that would have meant buying up a bunch of houses or shops on Toorak Road. But yes it would have been useful, though if you’re coming from the Dandenong line you can change at Caulfield to get here, or coming from Sunbury direction change at Footscray or Town Hall.

A follower sent me some current pics of the old entrance and the bar in there now

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