Waurn Ponds railway station

Waurn Ponds railway station is located in the southern Geelong suburb of Waurn Ponds and is the current terminus of the Geelong railway line. Located on the north side of the Port Fairy line, between Oakwood Crescent and Rossack Drive, the station was initially to be named Grovedale, but was renamed Waurn Ponds before opening.

In April 2013, the State Government announced that a new Waurn Ponds station would be built at Waurn Ponds to serve the nearby suburbs of Grovedale and Armstrong Creek. The station was budgeted at $25.9 million - $9.4 million for planning and land acquisition, and $16.5 million to build a single platform with passenger amenities, booking office and toilets, on road bus bays, bicycle storage and parking for 200 cars.^[1]

Contracts for the construction of the station were awarded in February 2014.^[2] In July 2014 the name of the future station was changed to Waurn Ponds, and the size of the planned carpark was increased to 292 spaces, along with overflow parking for a further 100 to 150 vehicles.^[3] The new station opened on 12 October 2014.^[4][5]

Freight sidings

The Waurn Ponds name is also used by V/Line's network access division to refer to the Victorian Portland Cement Company Sidings,^[6] which serve freight trains for the Blue Circle Southern Cement plant a short distance to the west of the passenger station.

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