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| Distance from Flinders St |
19. Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. 3km. [1] |
| Lines | Craigieburn |
| # Platforms | 2 |
| Metcard Zone | 2 |
Coolaroo is a proposed railway station on the Craigieburn railway line in the Melbourne suburb of Coolaroo, Victoria. The Craigieburn railway line is a Suburban electric railway inner section of the main North East railway line serving the northern suburbs of Melbourne Metcard is the brand name of the ticket used to access Public transport in Melbourne, Australia. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains The Craigieburn railway line is a Suburban electric railway inner section of the main North East railway line serving the northern suburbs of Melbourne Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Coolaroo is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. Although long proposed the station will be opened around two years after the extension of the electrification from Broadmeadows to Craigieburn. Broadmeadows is a suburb in Melbourne Victoria, Australia, 17 km from Melbourne's Central business district. This article is about Craigieburn in Melbourne Australia For Craigieburn in New Zealand 's South Island, see Craigieburn New Zealand. [2]
The station will feature:[2]
- a bus interchange
- car parking and 'kiss-and-ride' facilities
- island platform layout
- pedestrian overpass. An island platform (also known as center platform or centre platform) on a Railway is where a single platform lies between two tracks
The State Government set aside $38 million for the construction of the station in the 2007-2008 budget,[2] an amount criticised by the Public Transport Users Association as excessive. The Public Transport Users Association is a community-based Public transport lobby group in Victoria, Australia, based in Melbourne. [3] Completion is expected in 2010. [2]
References
- ^ Connex Melbourne - Working Timetable System Description page 51 (June 2006)
- ^ a b c d Department of Infrastructure - New metropolitan railway stations
- ^ Hume Leader - 'Rail pledge quizzed' - November 21 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-30. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off
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