East Richmond railway station, Melbourne

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East Richmond
Station information

Code	ERM
Distance from Flinders St	3.1 km
Line	Alamein, Belgrave, Glen Waverley, Lilydale
Number of platforms	2
Number of tracks	4
Station status	Unstaffed station
Station facilities, connecting transport and timetables	Link
Melway map of station	Link
Google map of station	Link
Zone location	1

East Richmond is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave, Glen Waverley, and Alamein lines, at Church and Adolph Streets in the suburb of Cremorne. Prior to 1867 it was called Church Street station on what was then the Melbourne to Hawthorn line, one of Melbourne's earliest. It is 4.3 km from Flinders Street Station, the center of the city's suburban railway network, and in Metcard ticketing Zone 1.

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East Richmond station has two platforms, although four tracks run through it. Platform 1, for city bound services has a 1960s station building. Platform 2, for outbound services, has a Victorian era building stripped of most of its decoration. The station is not staffed and the ticket office and other facilities are locked.

Due to its location at the City end of Melbourne's busiest group of railway lines a large number of services pass through East Richmond although only a limited number stop, largely because of its proximity to Richmond station, a few hundred metres down Swan Street. Services to and from Belgrave and Lilydale do not stop at East Richmond. Most services to and from Blackburn and Ringwood do, however. All outbound Alamein services stop there, however inbound services from Alamein do not stop. Glen Waverley trains stop there in off-peak, but trains to and from Glen Waverley in peak hours do not stop there. On weekends, the Glen Waverley services are the only trains to stop there, necessitating a change at Burnley for those wishing to use the Belgrave and Lilydale lines and an additional change at Camberwell for Alamein line passengers.