Yarraville station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, both part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the inner-western suburb of Yarraville, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Yarraville station is a ground-level host station, featuring two side platforms. The station opened on 20 November 1871 as South Footscray.
The station and associated buildings were added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 19 December 2024.
History Yarraville station opened twelve years after the line from Footscray was extended to Newport. Like the suburb, the station was named after the Yarraville real estate development, which was promoted by Biers, Henningham & Co. Land sales began in 1859.
In 1892, the present station buildings were provided, replacing timber buildings that had been destroyed by fire in 1890. The station opened to goods traffic in 1883 and, in 1893, a goods shed that had been at South Morang was relocated to Yarraville. In 1912, an extension of the yard was provided at the up end.
By July 1969, the station had been closed to goods traffic, with the goods shed demolished shortly after. In 1970, an overpass replaced a level crossing at nearby Somerville Road and, in 1991, the goods yard was removed.
Interlocked crossing gates, controlled from a signal box at the down end of Platform 1, protected the Anderson Street level crossing until 1995, when the gates were fixed in the open position and replaced by boom barriers, leading to the closure of the signal box the next year. In 1997, a pedestrian subway under the line in Anderson Street was filled in and replaced by pedestrian gates. In October 2022, the Level Crossing Removal Project announced that the Anderson Street level crossing would be closed to vehicular traffic by 2030, and would be replaced by a pedestrian subway.
Heritage listing The interlocking gates (1890) were added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 29 September 1994. In December 2024, the heritage curtail was expanded to also include the former weatherboard residence (1887-88) for the stationmaster, upside brick station building (1892), male toilet block (1892-93), former goods siding (1893-94), downside shelter (), booking hall (1922), brick signal box (1927), shops (), and the Anderson Street bus interchange (1949). The stationmaster's residence was sold in 1996 and used as a private residence. The southern section of the property was excised in 1998 and became the site of a separate housing development.
Platforms and services Yarraville has two side platform and is served by Werribee and Williamstown trains.
Yarraville platform arrangementPlatformLineDestinationViaService TypeNotesSource1Flinders Street or SandringhamFlinders StreetAll stations2Laverton or WerribeeAll stationsLaverton services operate on weekdays.Williamstown
Transport links
CDC Melbourne operates one bus route to and from Yarraville station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: : to Highpoint Shopping Centre
Transit Systems Victoria operates two bus routes to and from Yarraville station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: : to Kingsville : to Newport station
See also
List of railway stations in Melbourne List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Maribyrnong
References
External links
Melway map at street-directory.com.au