Deer Park railway station, Melbourne

MelbourneRailwayStation1
NAME=Deer Park
IMAGELINK=Deer_Park3.jpg
CAPTION=Spartan waiting shed on the island platform
CODE=DEK
DISTANCE=20.82 km
OPERATOR=V/Line
LINES=Melton,
Ballarat
PLATFORMS=2
TRACKS=2
STATUS=Unmanned Station
FACILITIES= [http://www.viclink.com.au/station_info/station_info_station_res.php?STATION=228 Link]
TIMETABLES= [http://www.viclink.com.au/timetables/landmark_search_results.php?LANDMARK=80 Link]
MELWAY=
ZONE=2

Deer Park is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Deer Park, on the Melton railway line. The station is unmanned and is in Metcard Zone 2.

Facilities

Deer Park station is located at the western end of the Mount Derrimut Road level crossing, which also provides platform access. The station consists of two platforms, in an island format. The island platform contains a small pebblemix shelter. A small Metcard machine is located inside the shelter, which dispenses only selected ticketing options.

History

The station opened as Kororoit on Wednesday, 2 April 1884 at the same time as the line though it. It was not renamed Deer Park until 1899, by which time the station had a three road yard, passenger platform on the southern track, and a goods platform on the northern track, and an interlocked signal box. Being on a single track railway, it served as a crossing loop for trains though it, this status remaining until 1913 when the signal box was abolished.

In 1928 a siding serving Nobel Chemical Finishes (Aust) Pty Ltd was opened at the Melbourne end of the station, running north to a loop siding and dead end. In 1929 alterations were made to the electric staff working of trains to permit workers trains to operate to the Nobels factories at Ardeer and Deer Park. In 1943 the signal box was reopened, in conjunction with the opening of the new Ravenhall Siding (Commonwealth Government Siding) at the down end of the yard. This new siding ran south from the line to a loop siding, before terminating at a dead end.

The Nobel siding (now ICIANZ) was closed in 1955, and in 1974 the line from Sunshine to Deer Park West Junction was duplicated, the current island platform provided, and the signal box closed as the line was now being worked by Centralised Traffic Control from Sunshine. Crossovers between lines were provided at each end of the platform. The Ravenhall siding was abolished in 1978.

In 1987 one of the loop sidings in the yard was removed, the last one being removed in 1989, leaving only the main line and platform. In 2005 as part of the Regional Fast Rail project control of the signalling was transferred to Ballarat.

References

*cite web
url=http://www.vrhistory.com/Locations/A011-Ardeer.pdf
title=Victorian Station Histories - Deer Park
publisher=www.vrhistory.com
accessdate=2008-05-26
*cite web
url=http://vicsig.net/index.php?page=infrastructure&interlocking=Deer%20Park
title=VICSIG - Infrastructure - Interlocking - Deer Park
publisher=vicsig.net
accessdate=2008-05-26

MetlinkVlineStations
Line1=Melton line (V/Line service)
VLine=Ballarat and Ararat lines
Next1=Rockbank
VNext=Rockbank
Previous1=Ardeer
VPrevious=Ardeer
VICORMELB=Melbourne