Ashburton railway station is located on the

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. It serves the eastern

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suburb of Ashburton, and opened on as Norwood on 30 May 1890. It was renamed Ashburton on 12 December 1890.Ashburton
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History

Ashburton station opened on 30 May 1890, and was on the first section of the Outer Circle line. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after Ashburton Terrace in

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, where

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E. Dillon, who suggested the name, had previously lived. By 1893, the northern half of the Outer Circle had been closed and, on 9 December 1895, the line beyond Ashburton, connecting with Oakleigh was closed as well. For a short period, that left the line from

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to Ashburton as the only remaining stretch of the Outer Circle line. On 1 May 1897, Ashburton closed, along with the line from Camberwell. After an outcry from the local community, that section of the line reopened on 4 July 1898, becoming the Ashburton line once again. The line was

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on 30 October 1924 but, in the years leading up to that, it was served by the popularly-named ''Deepdene Dasher'', which ran a shuttle between Ashburton and Deepdene stations, and usually consisted of an F-Class engine and one or two American-type carriages. When the track was extended 600 metres to a new terminus at Alamein, on 28 June 1948, the Ashburton line became the Alamein line. Immediately north of the station, the

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becomes

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for the rest of the section to Alamein. A disused stabling

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is located at the Flinders Street ( up) end of the station. In July 1989, timetabled use of the siding ended, due to the vandalising of trains stabled there. However, from time to time, maintenance trains used the siding during track works. In 2015, the siding was officially booked out of service. On 1 February 1996, Ashburton was upgraded to a

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. Also in that year, the station was the first on the metropolitan railway system where the former

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ticketing system was trialed.

Platforms and services

Ashburton has one platform and is served by

trains. Platforms 1: * services to Alamein; weekday all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street; all stations services to

Transport links

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operates one route via Ashburton station, under contract to

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: * : Glen Iris station – Glen Waverley station

References

External links

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