Spotswood railway station, Melbourne

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Spotswood
Station information

Code	SPT
Distance from Flinders St	10.5 km
Lines	Werribee Williamstown
# Platforms	2
# Tracks	2
Status	Unmanned station
Metlink profile	Link
Metcard Zone	1

Spotswood is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Spotswood, on the Werribee and Williamstown railway lines. The station is unmanned and is in Metcard Zone 1. Spotswood is located at the southern end of the Hudsons Road level crossing, which also provides platform access. The Scienceworks Museum a short walk from the station.

[edit] Facilities

The station consists of two side platforms. Platform 1 contains a large brick building while platform 2 contains a semi-large brick building. A large Metcard ticket machine is located at the entrance of platform 1, able to dispense most ticketing options available and also accept notes and coins. A small Metcard machine is located on platform 2. A signal box and a number of disused sidings are all located at the UP end of the station.

[edit] History

Spotswood station opened on Sunday, 1st December 1878 as Edom. It was later renamed to Bayswater in 1881, then renamed again to Spottiswoode in October of the same year before being renamed again to Spotswood in 1905. On opening there were a number of sidings provided in the area, in 1914 a line was opened from the Newport end of the station to the Newport Power Station, in addition to a number of other sidings serving oil terminals in the area. A siding at the Melbourne end of the station served the AGM glass factory, with the last sand train from Koala Siding (near Nyora on the South Gippsland line) to Spotswood running on January 15, 1998. The interlocked crossing gates at Hudson Road were replaced by boom barriers in 1989.

[edit] References

Rail Geelong - Spotswood Station. www.railgeelong.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
"Farewell - The Sand Train" (February 1998). Newsrail: pages 71-76. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division).