Fawkner railway station is located on the Upfield line in

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. It serves the northern

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suburb of Hadfield, and it opened on 8 October 1889 as Fawkner. It closed on 13 July 1903, and reopened on 12 December 1906 as Fawkner Cemetery. It was renamed Fawkner in 1914.Fawkner
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History

Fawkner station originally opened on 8 October 1889, when the line from

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was extended to

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. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after

John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early Australian pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail ...

, one of the founders of Melbourne. It is located adjacent to the

Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park Fawkner Memorial Park is located in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest cemetery by land size in the state, and managed by Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust. Merlynston Creek, a tributary ...

, which opened in 1906, and from then until 1939, special mortuary trains ran. From October 1914, only seven trains ran to Fawkner daily, as well as the daily mortuary train to the cemetery. A former mortuary van is located near the entrance to Platform 2. Until 1959, Fawkner was the extent of suburban electrified services, with an

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used from 1928 until 1959, to provide a connecting service north to Somerton. The line between Coburg and Fawkner was duplicated in 1959, however the duplicated line converged at the Up end of the station, and until 1998, the station had one platform (present day Platform 2). The second track and Platform 1 were added as part of the duplication of the line between Fawkner and

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Platforms and services

Fawkner has two

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s. It is serviced by

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' Upfield line services. Platform 1: * all stations services to Flinders Street Platform 2: * all stations services to Upfield

Transport links

Broadmeadows Bus Service Broadmeadows Bus Service is a bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Australia. It operates eight routes under contract to Public Transport Victoria. It is owned by Northern Transit Holdings, which also operates Kastoria Bus Lines, Nationwide Tour ...

operates two routes via Fawkner station, under contract to

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: * : Campbellfield Plaza Shopping Centre –

* : Upfield station – North Coburg

References

External links

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Melway map
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