Frankston railway line, Melbourne

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The Frankston railway line is a bay-side suburban electrified railway in Melbourne, Australia. The line continues on to Stony Point (See Stony Point line). Apart from suburban electric trains, the line is used by goods trains to and from the Steel mills near Hastings, Victoria.

1 Description
2 Infrastructure
3 History
4 List of stations
5 External links, maps, and timetables

[edit] Description

The Frankston line runs south from Caulfield, and from around Mentone, the line is never more than about one kilometre from the eastern shore of Port Phillip and runs alongside the Nepean Highway for much of its length.

After Caulfield, the line traverses flat country and has fairly minor earthworks, and has numerous level crossings, including one of Melbourne's four crossing of tram tracks, and the only one with three railway tracks crossing two tramway tracks.

The line runs through built-up areas for its entire length.

[edit] Infrastructure

The Frankston railway line shares four tracks with the line to Dandenong and beyond from near Richmond to Caulfield, running next to the Sandringham line as far as South Yarra.

From Caulfield, the Frankston line has three tracks to Moorabbin. The centre track is signalled for bidirectional operation, allowing for express trains overtaking stopping trains in the peak direction. From Moorabbin to Frankston the line is double track.

Power signalling is provided throughout, and intermediate terminating facilities are provided at Moorabbin, Cheltenham, Mordialloc, and Carrum. Stabling facilities for suburban trains are provided at Mordialloc, Carrum, and Frankston.

[edit] History

The line from Caulfield to Mordialloc opened in December 1881 and extended to Frankston in August 1882. The Frankston line was electrified in three stages between March and August of 1922.

Power signalling of the line was begun in 1933 with the section from Caulfield to Glenhuntly, and the remainder of the line was converted in a number of stages from 1958 to 1986.

In 1987 the section from Caulfield to Moorabbin was triplicated.

[edit] List of stations

Bold stations are terminuses, italic stations are staffed.

Zone 1 & City Saver

Flinders Street (FSS)
Richmond (RMD)

Zone 1

South Yarra (SYR) – Sandringham line branches
Hawksburn (HKN)
Toorak (TOR)
Armadale (ARM)
Malvern (MAL)
Caulfield (CFD) – Pakenham, Cranbourne lines branch
Glenhuntly (GHY)

Zones 1 & 2 overlap

Ormond (OMD)
McKinnon (MCK)
Bentleigh (BEN)

Zone 2

Patterson (PAT)
Moorabbin (MRN)
Highett (HIG)
Cheltenham (CTM)
Mentone (MEN)
Parkdale (PKD)
Mordialloc (MOR) – Limited number of peak hour services commence/terminate here.
Aspendale (ASP)
Edithvale (EDI)