Queens Park Station is a railway station on the

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network. It is located on the Armadale and Thornlie lines, 11.4 kilometres from

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serving the suburb of

Queens Park, Western Australia Queens Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning. Its postcode is 6107. There are 6,853 persons living in Queens Park. The top five ancestries represented in the suburb were English, Chinese, Australian ...

History

Queens Park Station opened in 1899 as Woodlupine, being renamed Queens Park on 16 April 1912. In 2012, the station was refurbished.

Future

As part of a

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project for several level crossing removals on the Armadale line, Queens Park Station will be rebuilt as an elevated station and the Hamilton Street and Wharf Street

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s will be replaced with elevated rail. The planned design has Queens Park Station about closer to Hamilton Street, and the passenger car park underneath the elevated railway. The new station will initially be accessed via stairs and lifts, and its design will allow escalators and fare gates to be added in the future. The new station platforms will be side platforms, as opposed to the current island platforms. This is to reduce the impact of the bridge structure on the surrounding area. The platforms will also be built to the length of a six-car train, as opposed to the current station which only has a length of a four-car train.

Services

Queens Park Station is served by

Armadale and Thornlie line services.Armadale/Thornlie Line Timetable
Transperth 31 January 2016 The station saw 238,960 passengers in the 2013-14 financial year. This station is also served by the twice daily B pattern which is meant as a school special

Platforms

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History of Western Australian Railways & Stations {{Public Transport Authority of Western Australia railway stations, Armadale=y, Thornlie=y, state=collapsed Armadale and Thornlie lines Transperth railway stations Railway stations in Australia opened in 1899