Calder Park railway station
Calder Park | |||||||||||
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A view of the Metro Trains stabling yards located nearby | |||||||||||
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| Location | Calder Park Drive, Calder Park Melbourne Australia | ||||||||||
| Owned by | VicTrack | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains | ||||||||||
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| Distance | 26.2 kilometres from Southern Cross | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (Side platform) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Status | Proposed | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||
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Calder Park station is a currently proposed station on Metro Trains Melbourne’s Sunbury line in Melbourne. The station will be located next to Calder Park Drive and adjacent to the Calder Park Raceway.
History
As part of the construction of the Bendigo line during the 1850s, a railway station was built nearby at Holden Road and was named Holden. However it closed only a year after opening in 1860.[1] The area around Calder Park remained unbuilt on until 1962 when the Calder Park Raceway was built.[2]
The surrounding area began to be gazetted and developed beginning in the 1970s and rapidly in the 1990s and into the 2000s with the suburbs of Taylors Lakes, Hillside and Keilor North being built around the area.[3] As a result of the urbanisation the St Albans line was extended to Sydenham in 2002 and Sunbury in 2012[4][5] As a result of the electrification to Sunbury, provision was left in the overhead structures for a station next to Calder Park Drive. Ever since there have been numerous promises and proposals for a station at the location but none have ever surfaced.[6]
New Metro sidings opened near the site on the 15th of December 2014,[7] in order to replace sidings at St Albans which were removed as part of Level Crossing Removal works in March 2015.[8] The stabling yard would later be expanded in 2022.[7]
Platforms and Services
Calder Park will feature 2 side platforms and will be served by trains on the Sunbury line.
| Calder Park platform arrangement | ||||
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| Platform | Line | Destination | Via | Service Type |
| 1 | Sunbury line Sunbury line |
East Pakenham or Cranbourne |
Town Hall |
All stations and limited express services |
| 2 | Sunbury line Sunbury line |
Sunbury | All stations | |
References
- ^ "FLAG STATION AT HOLDEN. - The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) - 27 Mar 1890". Trove. 1890. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "HOME". Calder Park Raceway. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "More Homes And Green Space In Melbourne's North West". www.premier.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "St. Albans to Sydenham rail electrification project - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "Sunbury Electrification Alliance". BMD Group. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ^ "Rail". Moving Melton. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ a b "VICSIG". vicsig.net. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ^ "VICSIG". vicsig.net. Retrieved 31 October 2025.