Cranbourne East is a proposed railway station on the Cranbourne railway line in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East, Victoria, Australia. It would be the terminus of a short extension from the current Cranbourne terminus, with the station to be located west of Broad Oak Drive and north of the Blue Hills retirement village, and adjacent to near the Casey Fields sporting complex.[1] There is a proposed pedestrian underpass to be built along with the station.
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| Coordinates | 38°6′40″S 145°17′58″E / 38.11111°S 145.29944°E | ||||||||||
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| Status | Proposed | ||||||||||
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The station was promised by the Australian Labor Party during the 1999 and 2002 state election campaigns,[2] but was dumped in May 2006.[3] In November 2003, a "Trainlink" bus service was introduced as an alternative, meeting each train at Cranbourne station and running on a largely one-way loop through Cranbourne East.[4] The then state government's Victorian Transport Plan, released in December 2008, listed the station and associated rail extension as "medium term" project, which was estimated to cost $200 million.[5]
In January 2018, City of Casey advised it would need almost $3 Billion worth of rail and road infrastructure to extend the metropolitan train from Cranbourne to Clyde with duplication of the line between Dandenong and Cranbourne.
References edit
- ^ Melway, Publishing. "Melway". Melway Online 134 C5. Melway Publishing. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ^ LIZ BELL (27 October 2008). "Focus on public transport". Cranbourne Journal. cranbourne.yourguide.com.au. Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ Inga Peulich MLC. "Peulich Calls For Answers - Lynbrook and Cranbourne East Railway Stations". www.ingapeulich.org. Retrieved 4 November 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "NEW CRANBOURNE BUS SERVICES PUT THE TRAIN ON YOUR DOORSTEP". Media Release: OFFICE OF THE PREMIER. www.legislation.vic.gov.au. 7 November 2003. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
- ^ "Cranbourne East Extension". Victorian Transport Plan. www4.transport.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original on 11 July 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2012.