Sandown Park railway station, Melbourne


Sandown Park railway station is a railway station on the Gippsland line in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the boundary of the south-eastern suburbs of Springvale and Noble Park, opening in 1889 as Oakleigh Racecourse. It was renamed to Sandown Park in 1892.
The station was built to service Sandown Racecourse. In addition to the two main lines, there was a signal box and booking office, and two sidings each over 600 metres long on the eastern side of the tracks, for the stabling of special race trains. The station had no platform on the up track, instead having an island platform on the down track, the other face serving one of the sidings on the eastern side.
The station was only used for racecourse traffic and closed in May 1955. In June 1965 it reopened for general passenger traffic as an island platform. The station once had a second exit and subway at the up end of the platform but that has since been closed and filled in. Nearby towards Noble Park, the Corrigan Road's level crossing removal in 2018 was part of the Victorian Government's Level Crossing Removal Project.

Platforms & services

Sandown Park has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Pakenham and Cranbourne line services.
Platform 1:
Platform 2:
It is planned to connect the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines to the Sunbury line through the new Metro Tunnel in late 2025.