Elsternwick railway station

Elsternwick
Entrance from Glen Huntly Road in May 2005
Location	Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick
Coordinates	37°53′05″S 145°00′03″E / 37.8848°S 145.0009°E / -37.8848; 145.0009Coordinates: 37°53′05″S 145°00′03″E / 37.8848°S 145.0009°E / -37.8848; 145.0009
Owned by	VicTrack
Operated by	Metro Trains
Line(s)	Sandringham
Distance	10.95 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus Tram
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Parking	84
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Status	Premium station
Station code	ELS
Fare zone	Myki zone 1
Website	Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened	19 December 1859
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station   Metro Trains   Following station Ripponlea toward Flinders Street Sandringham line Gardenvale toward Sandringham

Elsternwick railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It opened on 19 December 1859, serving the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick.

The station was originally part of the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's network. The company and network was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878 to become part of Victorian Railways. As with the suburb Ripponlea, which had been named after the adjacent "Rippon Lea Estate" of Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick had been named after the largest property in the district, Charles Ebden's "Elster".

In the 1880s, Elsternwick station also functioned as the eastern end of the cross-suburban Rosstown Railway, which was built by entrepreneur William Murray Ross, mainly to serve the sugar beet processing mill that he had established, with an adjoining residential estate, in the locality he called Rosstown, now known as Carnegie. The railway was seldom used and it was officially closed in 1916.

An electric tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened in 1915 and closed on 22 October 1960, after which the tram route became part of an extended 246 bus route. In February 1959 a project commenced to eliminate the Glen Huntly Road tramway / railway level crossing was being carried out, a temporary two-track station was provided in a side street adjoining the station to allow rail services to continue uninterrupted. The work was completed in October 1960, which was when the present railway buildings were provided.