Roystead railway station, Melbourne

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Roystead
Station information
Line	Outer Circle
Number of Platforms	1
Number of Tracks	1
Station opened	May 14, 1900
Station closed	October 9, 1927

Roystead Railway Station was a railway station on the Outer Circle line, in the suburb Canterbury, Melbourne, Australia. It was opened after the line itself on May 14, 1900, as Stanley, to serve passengers on the Deepdene Dasher shuttle service. It was located south of Mont Albert Road and had a single platform on the west side. Much of the line was in a deep cutting, with red brick and green-painted iron bridges.

Named after adjacent Stanley Grove, the name was altered to Balwyn in 1902, then to Roystead in September 1923, after the white, Victorian style house nearby, which is now used by Camberwell Grammar School, a private school in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The station closed on October 9, 1927, along with the passenger service though it, but goods train passed though until 1943.

[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. 

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