South Morang railway station

South Morang railway station is located on the Mernda line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of South Morang, opening on 22 April 2012.[2]

South Morang
Station front in April 2012
LocationMcDonalds Road, South Morang
Coordinates37°38′57″S 145°4′3″E
Owned byVicTrack
Operated byMetro
Line(s)Mernda
Distance25.99 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms2 (1 island)
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus
Construction
Structure typeBelow ground
Parking450
Disabled accessYes
Other information
StatusPremium station
Station codeSMG
Fare zoneMyki zone 2
WebsitePublic Transport Victoria
History
Opened1889
Closed1959
RebuiltApril 22, 2012
ElectrifiedYes
Traffic
Passengers (2013-2014)0.929 million[1]
Services
Preceding station   Metro Trains   Following station
Mernda line
towards Mernda

History

Stopping Place No 39[3] was the original South Morang station, a single platform at McDonalds Road,[4] on the Whittlesea line. Operated by DERMs, the Victorian Railways closed the line north of Lalor station in November 1959, after the electrification of the line from Reservoir to Lalor. Epping station was re-opened in November 1964, with the electrification of that section of the line, and the remaining section of track from Epping to Whittlesea was dismantled, with the former right-of-way remaining intact. All that remained of the original station was the platform mound.

From 26 August 2018, Comeng and X-Trapolis 100 trains began to operate on the Mernda line beyond South Morang.

Epping Line upgrade

Following the election of the Bracks State Government in October 1999, a promise was made to restore the rail service to South Morang by 2003. In 2004 it was decided a bus would be delivered instead and in May 2006, the original promise of rail was delayed until 2021. As a result of continued community pressure by the South Morang Rail Alliance, an alliance of all the community groups in the area, Premier Brumby announced in 2008 that construction of the extension would be brought forward to 2010, with the new station opening to the public on 22 April 2012.

The Epping line was extended to the border of South Morang and Mill Park, about two kilometres short of the original station site. As part of the extension project, five kilometres of track was duplicated between Keon Park and Epping stations, a second platform built at Thomastown, while a grade separation project resulted in a new station at Epping.[5] Provision was made to allow the line to be extended northwards to Mernda, opening on 26 August 2018.[6][7]

Platforms & services

South Morang has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Mernda line services.[8]

Platform 1:

Platform 2:

Dysons operate eight routes via South Morang station:

Transdev Melbourne operates one SmartBus route via South Morang station:

  • Eastbound view in April 2012
gollark: 3 of different types, I mean.
gollark: Just pick up the crystals, sleep, craft 3 crystals with redstone and flint and a bowl, and rightclick a bookshelf with the resulting salis mundus.
gollark: Vacuumulator or annihilation plane and weirdness.
gollark: I actually just used the AR one. Which isn't very cost-effective, but still.
gollark: Bipropellant things are convenient because all you need is an electrolyzer to make fuel.

References
  1. "Train Station Patronage FY2008-2014" (XLS). Public Transport Victoria. 14 May 2015. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016. (access from "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link))
  2. South Morang Vicsig
  3. "South Morang finally gets its line". The Age. 23 April 2012.
  4. Weston Langford Railway Photography
  5. Project Overview Transport Victoria
  6. Getting on with it: Mernda rail project released to market Premier of Victoria 28 February 2016
  7. "Meet Mernda, your new line". www.ptv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  8. "Mernda Line". Public Transport Victoria.
  9. "382 Whittlesea - Northland SC via South Morang Station". Public Transport Victoria.
  10. "564 Bundoora RMIT - South Morang". Public Transport Victoria.
  11. "569 Epping Plaza SC - South Morang". Public Transport Victoria.
  12. "386 Mernda Station - Bundoora RMIT via South Morang". Public Transport Victoria.
  13. "387 Mernda Station - Bundoora RMIT via Hawkstowe Pde & South Morang". Public Transport Victoria.
  14. "383 Palisades - University Hill". Public Transport Victoria.
  15. "577 Epping Plaza SC - South Morang Station via Findon Rd". Public Transport Victoria.
  16. "955 Night bus: City - Brunswick - Ivanhoe - Bundoora - Mill Park - South Morang - Mernda". Public Transport Victoria.
  17. "901 Frankston - Melbourne Airport (SMARTBUS Service)". Public Transport Victoria.
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