Hartwell railway station is located on the Alamein line in

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, Australia. It serves the eastern

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suburb of Camberwell, and it opened on 7 May 1906 as Hartwell Hill. It was renamed Hartwell on 1 August 1909.Hartwell
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History

Hartwell station opened on 7 May 1906, and was originally served by a train consisting of a locomotive and one or two carriages, dubbed the ''Deepdene Dasher'', which shuttled between Ashburton and Deepdene stations. After the line from Camberwell to Ashburton was electrified in 1924, Hartwell was served by electric trains on the Ashburton line, which was extended to Alamein in 1948. Hartwell is named after one of the early estates in the area, "''Hartwell House''", the residence of James Irwin who, in the mid-1850s, owned and operated Irwin's Hotel, located on the corner of Norwood (now Toorak) and Wattle Valley Roads, and which was demolished about the time the railway line was built. In the 1850s, Hartwell was a small hamlet known as "Back Creek", named after the nearby creek. Minutes of meetings from the Boroondara District Roads Board noted that "c/- Irwin Hotel, Back Creek" was used as a polling station. The station building was originally at Walhalla station, the terminus of the Walhalla line, but was moved to Hartwell in December 1938, six years before the Walhalla line closed in 1944. Hartwell is the only station on the Alamein line to have an

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. Until the Alamein line was converted from

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to double track in 1954 (to Ashburton) and 1955 (to Riversdale), Hartwell was the only crossing loop on the line. On 27 December 1948, a

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occurred at the Flinders Street ( Up) end of the station, when the two front

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of an Alamein-bound train derailed near a set of points.

Platforms and services

Hartwell has one

with two faces. It is serviced by

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' Alamein line services. Platform 1: * weekday all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street; all stations services to Camberwell Platform 2: * all stations services to Alamein

References

External links

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Melway map
at street-directory.com.au {{Public Transport Victoria railway stations, Alamein=y, state=collapsed Railway stations in Melbourne Railway stations in Australia opened in 1906 Railway stations in the City of Boroondara