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Oak Park railway station is a
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way station on the Craigieburn line, part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the northern suburb of Oak Park in
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, Victoria, Australia. Oak Park station is a ground-level unstaffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 13 August 1956.


History

Oak Park station opened on 13 August 1956, with the railway line past the site of the station originally opening in 1872, as part of the North East line to School House Lane. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after a property that was renamed after it was purchased from the widow of
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in 1879. Fawkner originally purchased 316 hectares of land, including the area now known as Oak Park, in 1839. In 1962,
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s replaced hand-operated gates at the Devon Road
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, located nearby in the up direction of the station. In 1965, a number of
signal A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In ...
s at the station were abolished, in conjunction with the replacement of double line block signalling with three-position signalling between Broadmeadows and
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. In 1989, the station was damaged by fire. In 1994, it was provided with
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.


Platforms and services

Oak Park has two
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...
s. It is served by Craigieburn line trains. Platform 1: * all stations services to Flinders Street Platform 2: * all stations services to Craigieburn


Gallery

Oak Park Station (4).jpg, Station building on Platform 1, May 2019


References


External links


Melway map
at street-directory.com.au {{Public Transport Victoria railway stations, Craigieburn=y, state=collapsed Railway stations in Australia opened in 1956 Railway stations in the City of Merri-bek