Fulham Grange railway station, Melbourne

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Fulham Grange
Site of Fulham Grange, looking away from the Grange and Heidelberg Road intersection towards the Hurstbridge line
Site of Fulham Grange, looking away from the Grange and Heidelberg Road intersection towards the Hurstbridge line

Station information
Line Outer Circle
Number of Platforms 2
Station opened March 24, 1891
Station closed April 12, 1893

Fulham Grange was a railway station on the Outer Circle located in the suburb of Alphington, Melbourne, Australia. Located near the Grange and Heidelberg Road intersection, it was a quarter mile (0.4 km) from Fairfield Park station. Opened to serve the speculative housing estate after which it was named,it was provided with 2 side platforms, one located on a loop to the north of the main line. The station was opened with the line on March 24, 1891, and closed with it on April 12, 1893. The line through it reopened on July 29, 1919, as part of the APM Siding, closing again in the 1990s.

[edit] References

  • David Beardsell and Bruce Herbert (1979). The Outer Circle: A history of the Oakleigh to Fairfield Park Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). ISBN 0 85849 024 2.