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A High Capacity Metro Train on an East Pakenham bound service arrives at Platform 6, July 2024. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Alamein, Belgrave, Cranbourne, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Lilydale, Pakenham and Sandringham line services, and V/Line's Gippsland line services. Platform 6 signage for Gippsland and Dandenong group lines. Platform 1:
It is serviced by Metro Trains' Glen Waverley line services. [9] Platform 1: Glen Waverley line all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street; Platform 2: Glen Waverley line all stations services to Glen Waverley
Platform 1: Glen Waverley line ... North-west view from Platform 1, with a Comeng train arriving on Platform 2, January 2007. References
The Glen Waverley line is a commuter railway line in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne , it is the city's sixth shortest metropolitan railway line at 21.3 kilometres (13.2 mi).
The main platform (operationally divided into platforms 1 and 14) is Australia's second longest, and the eighteenth-longest railway platform in the world. [5] Trains at Flinders Street station connect with several tram services, and is the site of two of Melbourne's busiest pedestrian crossings, both across Flinders Street, including one of ...
The collective name "Waverley", after the Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott, was used for the three from around 1854 when the through "Waverley" route to Carlisle opened. Canal Street station was also known as Edinburgh Princes Street, [ 1 ] not to be confused with the Caledonian Railway railway station later built at the West End which was ...
The station consists of a single island platform with two faces, that is connected to Kingsway via a ramp on the station's eastern end. [4] Glen Waverley is the terminus of the Glen Waverley line, which is part of the Melbourne rail network. [6] Additionally, the station is served by ten bus routes, including SmartBus route 902. [7]
Mount Waverley station opened on 5 May 1930, when the railway line was extended from East Malven to Glen Waverley. [5] Like the suburb itself, the station was named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley. The suburb was given the name "Mount Waverley" in 1905 to distinguish it from the neighbouring suburb of Glen Waverley. [12] [13]