Caroline Springs railway station is located on the
Serviceton line in
Victoria
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,
Australia. It serves the western
Melbourne
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suburb of
Ravenhall, and opened on 28 January 2017.
History
The ''
Victorian Transport Plan
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'', released in 2008, proposed the progressive upgrade of the
Melton line, to support future urban development in the corridor.
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/ref> Construction of the station was to have commenced in 2010, and be completed in 2012.
After the 2010 State Election, the Baillieu Government put further construction on hold, with an access road to the site having been partially constructed. Construction of a bridge over the railway line had to be completed, to serve the nearby Boral quarry
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, which otherwise would have been isolated by the new Regional Rail Link
The Regional Rail Link (RRL) was a project to build a 47.5 kilometre length of railway through the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, the main aim of which was to separate regional V/Line Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong services from the el ...
line that runs north-south across it.
In May 2014, in the run-up to the 2014 State Election, the Napthine Government announced that construction would commence in 2014, with a scheduled 2016 completion date. Construction commenced in August 2015.
However, in May 2016, the Andrews Government made the decision to "future-proof" the station for the duplication
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of the Ballarat line, by redesigning the station with a second platform. As a result, the opening of the station was delayed until early 2017.
On 28 January 2017, the station was officially opened by the Member for Kororoit, Marlene Kairouz
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Polit ...
, during a community day, with the first services calling at the station the following day.Western Rail Plan
The Western Rail Plan is a metropolitan rail infrastructure project being planned in Melbourne, Australia. The project was initially announced during the 2018 Victorian State Election by the State Government. It includes the electrification of two ...
.
As part of the Regional Rail Revival project, 18km of track was duplicated between Deer Park West and Melton. It was provided in late 2019, coinciding with the opening of Cobblebank.[
]
Platforms and services
Caroline Springs station has one island platform
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with two faces. It is served by V/Line
V/Line is a statutory authority that operates regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia. It provides passenger train services on five commuter lines and eight long-distance routes from its major hub at Southern Cros ...
Ballarat and Ararat line trains.
Platform 1:
* services to Southern Cross
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* services to Southern Cross
Platform 2:
* services to Melton, Bacchus Marsh and Wendouree
Wendouree () is a large suburb on the north western rural-urban fringe of the city of Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia. It is the second most populated suburb in the City of Ballarat with a total of 10,376 inhabitants at the .
It is named af ...
* services to Ararat
Transport links
Kastoria Bus Lines
Kastoria Bus Lines is a bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Australia. It operates five routes under contract to Public Transport Victoria. It is owned by Northern Transit Holdings, which also operates Broadmeadows Bus Service, Nationwide Tour ...
operates two routes via Caroline Springs station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
* : to Watergardens station
* : to Watergardens station
References
External links
Rail Geelong gallery
{{Public Transport Victoria railway stations, Western=y, state=collapsed
Railway stations in Melbourne
Railway stations in Australia opened in 2017
Railway stations in the City of Melton