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Footscray railway station is located on the Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of Footscray opening on 17 January 1859.〔(Footscray ) Vicsig〕〔(Footscray Station ) Rail Geelong〕 It is also serviced by V/Line Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong services. In 2011/12 it was the sixth busiest station on Melbourne's metropolitan network, with 4.2 million passenger movements recorded.〔(Station Patronage Research ) Public Transport Victoria〕 A disused signal box is located on the island platform at the Flinders Street end of platform 5, and a pair of dual gauge tracks form the mainly freight only South Kensington-West Footscray line under the station, running in a cutting before entering the Bunbury Street tunnel. providing a rail link to the Port of Melbourne and other freight terminals, as well as access to Southern Cross for the NSW TrainLink XPT, ''The Overland'', and V/Line Albury services. ==History== On 17 January 1859 the railways arrived in Footscray when the new Williamstown line opened with trains running from Spencer Street in Melbourne to the important cargo port of Williamstown. This railway connected to the 18-month-old Geelong railway at the junction near where the current Newport station lies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rail Geelong - Geelong Line History )〕 The railway between Melbourne and Footscray, via the new station at North Melbourne, had been made possible with the construction of a railway bridge over the Maribyrnong River. The first station to open in Footscray opened on this line on the opening day of service; it was not, however, where the current Footscray station lies, but was situated on Napier Street. Shortly afterwards, Footscray became a junction station when a second railway, branching at Footscray, was opened to Sunbury. By 1862 this railway had been extended to Sandhurst (later renamed Bendigo). Therefore, on 1 March 1859, less than two months after the first, Footscray's second railway station opened on Nicholson Street, not far from the other one, for services on the new railway line.〔(Infrastructure - Footscray ) Vicsig〕 A signal box was provided at the junction from 1879. On 16 September 1900 the current station opened, located at the precise point of junction of the two lines. The two original stations were closed.〔 A number of sidings once existed at the station, now covered by car parking on the eastern side of the Newport bound lines. The two tracks under the station were opened on 21 October 1928 as part of the South Kensington-West Footscray line, and were dual-gauged in the early 1960s as part of the construction of the Melbourne-Albury standard gauge line. Quadruplication of the tracks towards Melbourne in November 1976 put an end to the junction and closed the signal box. The building is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. It was upgraded to a Premium station on 31 May 1996, although the enclosed waiting area and ticket facilities were built in 1993 as part of the 'Travel Safe' program in the early 1990s. In 2010, as a part of the Brumby State Government's Footscray renewal program,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://enews.transport.vic.gov.au/link/id/zzzz4ed56ac459884508/page.html?ib=1 )〕 the existing footbridge over the platforms, which was accessed by ramps, was replaced with a $15 million footbridge. The bridge, named after indigenous activist William Cooper, has stairs and associated lifts. Complaints have been made that the new footbridge is less usable than the one it replaced. It has a roof, but that has not been designed to be weatherproof, and the lifts are prone to breakdown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ffrr.footscray.org/documents/colander-bridge )〕 In 2013 the new footbridge was partially demolished. As part of the Regional Rail Link, an additional two platforms were built to the north of the existing platforms to separate Metro Trains Sunbury services from V/Line services to Ballarat and Bendigo. In January 2014, platforms 1 to 4 were renumbered 3 to 6 with the new platforms commissioned as platforms 1 and 2.〔(Major access changes ) V/Line January 2014〕 At the same time, Platforms 3 and 4 were closed to be rebuilt as dedicated platforms for V/Line services, reopening in July 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Footscray railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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