Rushall railway station

Rushall
Platforms
Station statistics
Coordinates	37°47′00″S 144°59′31″E / 37.7832°S 144.9920°E / -37.7832; 144.9920Coordinates: 37°47′00″S 144°59′31″E / 37.7832°S 144.9920°E / -37.7832; 144.9920
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	RUS
Owned by	VicTrack
Myki zone	1
Station status	Unmanned station
Melway map	Link
Website	Link, includes timetables
Services
Preceding station   Metro Trains   Following station Clifton Hill toward Flinders Street South Morang line Merri toward South Morang
Location
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Rushall is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the South Morang railway line in the suburb of Fitzroy North in a part of the suburb that used to be known as Rushall. The station is in Metlink Zone 1 and is located 6.1 km from the city centre by rail. The station is unmanned, with few facilities.

Merri Creek bridge to the station

The station is located in a small cul-de-sac, at the intersection of Falconer Street and Rushall Crescent. The station backs up to Merri Creek, but is connected to Westgarth by an 80 metre long narrow bridge for pedestrians and cyclists on the Merri Creek Trail.

Facilities

Rushall Station is arranged with two side platforms on either side of the dual railway tracks, which are connected by an underpass. Each platform has a small station building, with a Telstra payphone located on the outbound platform. As it is somewhat isolated, Rushall station tends to be little-used, however, all advertised passenger services to and from Epping and South Morang stop there.

The Capital City Trail, which passes along the reservation of the Inner Circle railway line passes through the station in a tunnel underneath the tracks. The tunnel has conflict between pedestrians and cyclists and a strip of parkland is fenced off. Several plans have been drawn up but not implemented to redesign access.^[2]

In January 2009 one of its ticket machines was bombed.^[3]

Platforms, services and connecting bus services

Platform 1:

• Suburban Metro Trains services to Flinders Street

Platform 2:

• Suburban Metro Trains services to South Morang

• 250 Garden City – La Trobe University via Carlton North, Clifton Hill (every day). Operated by NationalBus.
• 251 Garden City – Northland SC via Carlton North, Clifton Hill (every day). Operated by NationalBus.

History

The station opened in 1927 and once played a larger role in the Melbourne rail system, as it was the eastern end of the Inner Circle, which passed between Rushall and Royal Park.

Rushall is the closest railway station to the Brunswick Street Oval, which was home of the Fitzroy Football Club until 1966.

In music

Melbourne indie band Underground Lovers wrote a song named "Rushall Station", about the quietness of the site, which then became the title track for an album. The station is also mentioned in Marcel Borrack's song "Ruthven to Rushall".

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