Nunawading railway station

Nunawading is a railway station on the Lilydale and Belgrave lines in Melbourne, Australia. It is located in Metcard ticketing Zones 2 & 3, and has 2 platforms. Nunawading is to be upgraded to Premium status, as part of the Victorian Government's Public Transport and Liveability statement in May 2006.

History

Opened in 1886, it was originally named Tunstall station, and was later renamed when the area known as Tunstall was renamed Nunawading. It initially served the clay and brick producers in the area. Bus services used to operate between the station and the former VFL Park but have ceased to the grounds closure.

Facilities

Despite being located next to a bus interchange, the station is unstaffed except on weekday mornings. Platform 1 (to city) has a fibro station building resting on brick foundations, and platform 2 (from city) has a wooden building. A Telstra payphone is located on platform 2. There are three ticket machines at the station, with two on the citybound side and one coin-only machine on the outbound platform. On the citybound side there is also a newspaper dispencer and a pair of vending machines.

Semi-enclosed waiting facilities are provided on either platform. Nunawading is one of few host stations that has an attended booking office in the morning peak. It has a shopping strip located adjacent to the citybound side, and is surrounded by factory outlets, hardware stores and the like along the Maroondah Highway.

Redevelopment proposal

It has been proposed lowering the railway and the station into a concrete cutting (similar to Boronia) in order to solve traffic congestion problems at the adjacent level crossing.