Brunswick railway station, Melbourne

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Brunswick railway station is a commuter railway station on the Upfield line, part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the northern suburb of Brunswick in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Brunswick station is a ground-level unstaffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 9 September 1884.<ref name="VicsigBrunswick">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The station is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.<ref>Brunswick Signal Box Gates & Station Template:Webarchive Department of the Environment</ref>

History

Brunswick station opened when the railway line from North Melbourne was extended to Coburg. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after Brunswick Park, a property that was purchased by Thomas Wilkinson and a partner.<ref name="vpbrunswick">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="heraldsun">Template:Cite news</ref> Brunswick Park was named in honour of either Princess Caroline of Brunswick, or the 1840 marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, of the royal house of Brunswick.<ref name=vpbrunswick/><ref name=heraldsun/>

Brunswick had a goods yard which closed in 1966.<ref name=VicsigBrunswick/> The goods siding and associated points and signal discs were abolished in that same year.<ref name=VicsigBrunswick/> In 1972, the station platforms were lengthened.<ref name=VicsigBrunswick/>

Just after 4:45am on 2 August 1977, a seven-car Harris train set rolled away from Gowrie, after the driver and guard were changing ends after taking the train out of a siding, because it was scheduled to operate a city-bound service from Upfield.<ref name="theage">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="herald">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="sun">Template:Cite news</ref> The train passed through fifteen level crossings and destroyed seven sets of hand gates, before stopping just south of Brunswick, between the Albert and Dawson Streets level crossings.<ref name=theage/><ref name=herald/><ref name=sun/>

In 1998, boom barriers replaced hand gates at the Albert Street level crossing, at the up end of the station,<ref name="somersaultnov98">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and replaced interlocked gates at the Victoria Street level crossing, at the down end of the station.<ref name="somersaultjan99">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The signal box protecting Victoria Street was also abolished during that time.<ref name=somersaultjan99/>

Future

The station is slated for closure or relocation under the Level Crossing Removal Project. The project intends to remove the adjacent Albert St and Victoria Street level crossings, as well as six other level crossings in Brunswick, by grade separation to become an elevated.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Under the plan, announced in 2024 and expected to be completed in 2030, the three nearby stations of Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey will be replaced by two new stations, each located about 450 metres from the existing Brunswick station: the new southern station is planned to be located next to Union Street and Dawson Street, while the new northern station is planned to be located next to Hope Street. The heritage listed Brunswick station building on Platform 1 at the existing station and some heritage listed interlocking hand gates at some closed level crossings will be kept and located at its current spot.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The decision to build two stations in different locations instead of rebuilding Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey generated criticism from residents and the local council. Local newspaper Brunswick Voice reported that the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, Danny Pearson, claimed "the decision to build two stations followed 18 months of technical and engineering assessments which found fewer stations would boost capacity on the line in the future and deliver more open space", noting that "the government claimed the plan would also minimise the impact to heritage in the area, but the politician provided no detail about whether the three station buildings and the historic boom gate operators' cabins would be preserved".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Platforms and services

Brunswick has two side platforms. It is served by Upfield line trains.<ref>Template:Cite PTV route</ref>

Current

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Platform Line Destination Via Service Type
1 Template:RouteBox Flinders Street City Loop All stations
2 Template:RouteBox Upfield All stations

Dysons operates two bus routes via Brunswick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

Ventura Bus Lines operates one route to and from Brunswick station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

Yarra Trams operates one route via Brunswick station:

References

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