Cranbourne railway station

Cranbourne railway station is a railway station and the current terminus of the South Gippsland line, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne, opening on 1 October 1888. It is the terminus of Cranbourne line services from the city.

History
Cranbourne station opened on 1 October 1888, as a station on the South Gippsland line, that until 24 July 1993, was serviced by V/Line services to Leongatha.

Between March 1920 and June 1956, trains regularly ran from a series of sidings about a mile south of the station, dispatching between ten and thirty trucks per week loaded with locally mined construction-quality sand. .

However, the Victorian government still has plans to reintroduce rail services to Leongatha in the future, as well as extending the electrified line 3.5 kilometres to Cranbourne East and possibly Clyde. The last regular train ran beyond Cranbourne on 15 January 1998, when the Koala Siding (near Nyora) to Spotswood station sand train ceased operation.

A water tank located within the former train yard was removed in early 1973.

In November 1993, Train Order Working replaced Electric Staff safeworking to Cranbourne, then on 24 March 1995, the electrification and power signalling on the line was commissioned from Dandenong.

In April 2008, work started on the construction of six train stabling sidings at Cranbourne, to enable more trains to run on the line at peak times without duplicating the line. The works were completed in November 2008. As part of these works the station & bus interchange received an upgrade.

As part of the Liberal-National Coalition's 2018 Victorian state election campaign, a pledge was made to extend the Cranbourne line to the suburb of Clyde.

Facilities, platforms & services
Cranbourne has one island platform with two faces. The platform features a customer service window, two enclosed waiting rooms and toilets. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Cranbourne line services.

Platform 1:
 * Cranbourne line: terminating services to & from Flinders Street

Platform 2:
 * Cranbourne line: terminating services to & from Flinders Street

Transport links
Cranbourne Transit operates eight routes via Cranbourne station:
 * 791: to Frankston station
 * 792: to Pearcedale
 * 795: to Warneet
 * 796: to Clyde
 * 798: Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre – Selandra Rise (Cranbourne East)
 * 893: Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre – Dandenong station
 * 897: Clyde – Lynbrook station
 * 898: to Cranbourne East

Ventura Bus Lines operates two routes via Cranbourne station:
 * 841: Narre Warren North – Cranbourne
 * Night Network (Melbourne) 978: Dandenong station – Cranbourne (Saturday and Sunday mornings only)