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South Yarra railway station is located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of South Yarra on the Cranbourne, Frankston, Pakenham and Sandringham lines in Victoria, Australia. V/Line's Bairnsdale rail service (the Gippsland line) passes non-stop through the station. The station is a Premium station, and according to Public Transport Victoria data, was the 11th busiest train station on the Melbourne metropolitan network, with 49,003 entries each week in 2011/12.〔()〕 ==History== The station was opened on 22 December 1860 by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company as Gardiners Creek Road. Initially, the station served the Brighton line on what was called the "Prahran Branch". The station was renamed South Yarra on 1 January 1867.〔(South Yarra ) Vicsig〕 The private railway company, then known as the Melbourne and Hobsons Bay United Railway Company, was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878, becoming part of Victorian Railways. Cooper (1924) advises that when the South Yarra to Oakleigh line was first laid a set of points connected the line to the existing Brighton line. In practice it was found that a high embankment obscured vision from approaching trains on both lines. To avert a disaster, it was decided that the Oakleigh line should have its own tracks into Melbourne, and soon after a second bridge spanning the Yarra River was built to facilitate this. (p. 307). The construction of the South Yarra to Oakleigh line hastened the demise of the Outer Circle railway line. The station was upgraded to a Premium station in 1996. 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「South Yarra railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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