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Hartwell railway station is located on the Alamein line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Camberwell, and it opened on 7 May 1906 as Hartwell Hill. It was renamed Hartwell on 1 August 1909.[1]

Hartwell
PTV commuter rail station
Station front and entrance in March 2019
General information
Location	Georgina Parade, Camberwell, Victoria 3124 City of Boroondara Australia
Coordinates	37°50′39″S 145°04′32″E
Owned by	VicTrack
Operated by	Metro Trains
Line(s)	Alamein
Distance	13.30 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms	2 (1 island)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	No—steep ramp
Other information
Status	Operational, Unstaffed
Station code	HWL
Fare zone	Myki Zone 1
Website	Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened	7 May 1906; 116 years ago (1906-05-07)
Electrified	1500 V DC overhead (October 1924)
Previous names	Hartwell Hill (1906-1909)
Services
Preceding station Metro Trains Following station Willison towards Camberwell or Flinders Street Alamein line Burwood towards Alamein
Track layout Legend to Willison 1 2 to Burwood

History

Hartwell station 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.[2]

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 of 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.[1] Hartwell is the only station on the Alamein line to have an island platform. Until the Alamein line was converted from single to double track in the 1950s, Hartwell was the only crossing loop on the line.

On 27 December 1948, a derailment occurred at the Flinders Street (Up) end of the station, when the two front bogies of an Alamein bound train derailed near a set of points.[3]

Platforms and services

Hartwell has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Alamein line services.[4]

Platform 1:

•  Alamein line  weekday all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street; all stations services to Camberwell

Platform 2:

•  Alamein line  all stations services to Alamein

References

External links

• Media related to Hartwell railway station, Melbourne at Wikimedia Commons
• Melway map at street-directory.com.au

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