Deer Park railway station


Deer Park railway station is located on the Serviceton line, in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of Deer Park.
The station will eventually become part of the metropolitan network under the Western Rail Plan, announced by the Andrews government in 2018.

History

The station opened as Kororoit on 2 April 1884, along with the Serviceton line, and was renamed Deer Park in 1899, by which time the station had a three road yard, passenger platform on the southern track, a goods platform on the northern track, and an interlocked signal box. Being on a single track railway, it served as a crossing loop for trains, which remained until 1913, when the signal box was abolished.
In 1928, a siding serving Nobel Chemical Finishes Pty Ltd was opened at the Up end of the station, running north to a loop siding and dead end. In 1929, alterations were made to the electric staff working of trains, to permit workers trains to operate to the Nobel factories at Ardeer and Deer Park. In 1943, the signal box was reopened, in conjunction with the opening of the new Ravenhall siding, at the Down end of the yard. The new siding ran south from the line to a loop siding, before terminating at a dead end.
The Nobel siding was closed in 1955, and in 1974, the line from Sunshine to Deer Park West Junction was duplicated, with the current island platform provided. The signal box was closed, and line was worked by Centralised Traffic Control from Sunshine. Crossovers between lines were provided at each end of the platform. The Ravenhall siding was abolished in 1978. Boom barriers were provided at the nearby Mount Derrimut Road level crossing in 1981.
In 1987, one of the loop sidings in the yard was removed, with the last siding removed in 1989, leaving only the main line and platform. In 2005, as part of the Regional Fast Rail project, control of the signalling was transferred to the Ballarat signal box.
In September 2009, an upgrade of Deer Park station commenced, including:
In June 2015, the junction of the Deer Park – West Werribee line, part of the Regional Rail Link project, opened three kilometres west of Deer Park station.

Platforms & services

Deer Park has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Ballarat and Geelong line trains, as well as 2 weekend trains from Warrnambool.
Platform 1:
Platform 2:
operates one route via Deer Park station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
Dysons operates one route via Deer Park station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
Sita Buslines operates three routes via Deer Park station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: