Nunawading railway station is located on the Lilydale and

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. It serves the eastern

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suburb of

Nunawading Nunawading is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 18 km (11 miles) east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Whitehorse, Whitehorse Local g ...

, and opened on 4 June 1888 as Tunstall. It was renamed Nunawading on 1 November 1945.Nunwading
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History

Nunawading station opened on 4 June 1888, almost six years after the line from

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was extended to Lilydale. Like the suburb itself, the station is named after an

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, 'numphawading', meaning ceremonial ground or battlefield. The area's original name, Tunstall, was named after Tunstall,

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, famous for its potteries. In 1956,

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s replaced hand gates at the former Springvale Road

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, which was located at the Up end of the station. In 1979, the station was one of three used as trial sites for new bike lockers under the ''Melbourne Bicycle Strategy'', either for occasional, monthly or quarterly hire. On 18 December 2009, the original ground-level station closed, as part of a

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project to replace the Springvale Road level crossing. It was replaced by a new station in a

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west of Springvale Road, which opened on 11 January 2010.

Platforms and services

Nunawading consists of an

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with two faces, and is located on the western side of Springvale Road, with concourses on both sides of the road. The main concourse, on the western side, comprises a customer service counter, an enclosed waiting room, toilets and a café. The concourse on the eastern side is linked to the platforms via an underpass beneath Springvale Road. Both concourses have stairs and

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s that provide access to the platforms. On both concourses of the station there is access to the Ringwood – Box Hill

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. On the platforms there are metal benches,

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s and passenger information displays. Long term customer parking is available along the corner of Laughlin Avenue and Springvale Road, on the west side of Springvale Road, as well as Station Street, on the east side of Springvale Road. The station is served by Lilydale and

line trains. Platform 1: * all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street * all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street Platform 2: * all stations services to Lilydale * all stations services to

Transport links

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operates two bus routes via Nunawading station, under contract to

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: * : to

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* : Chelsea station – Westfield

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operates one route to and from Nunawading station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: * : to Box Hill station

Gallery

Image:Nunawadingbuilding.jpg, Former ground level Platform 2 building in September 2005, prior to demolition Image:Nunawading Railway Station exterior.jpg, Station front and entrance in May 2014

References

External links

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