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Hartwell railway station

Hartwell
PTV commuter rail station
Station building and entrance, March 2019
General information
Location	Georgina Parade, Camberwell, Victoria 3124 City of Boroondara Australia
Coordinates	37°50′39″S 145°04′32″E / 37.8441°S 145.0756°E / -37.8441; 145.0756
Owned by	VicTrack
Operated by	Metro Trains
Line(s)	Alamein
Distance	13.30 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms	2 (1island)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	No—steep ramp
Other information
Status	Operational, unstaffed
Station code	HWL
Fare zone	Myki Zone 1
Website	Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened	7 May 1906; 118 years ago (1906-05-07)
Rebuilt	December 1938
Electrified	October 1924 (1500 V DC overhead)
Previous names	Hartwell Hill (1906–1909)
Passengers
2005–2006	166,044[1]
2006–2007	181,077[1]  9.05%
2007–2008	185,688[1]  2.54%
2008–2009	192,025[2]  3.41%
2009–2010	190,937[2]  0.56%
2010–2011	204,140[2]  6.91%
2011–2012	192,506[2]  5.69%
2012–2013	Not measured[2]
2013–2014	205,969[2]  6.99%
2014–2015	195,841[1]  4.91%
2015–2016	192,507[2]  1.7%
2016–2017	209,306[2]  8.72%
2017–2018	207,705[2]  0.76%
2018–2019	214,350[2]  3.19%
2019–2020	165,200[2]  22.93%
2020–2021	66,400[2]  59.8%
2021–2022	75,500[3]  13.7%
2022–2023	117,950[3]  56.22%
Services
Preceding station Metro Trains Following station Willison towards CamberwellorFlinders Street Alamein line Burwood towards Alamein
Track layout Legend toWillison 1 2 toBurwood

Hartwell railway station is a commuter railway station on the Alamein line, serving the eastern Melbourne suburb of CamberwellinVictoria, Australia. Hartwell is a ground-level unstaffed station, featuring an island platform with two faces. It opened on 7 May 1906, with the current station provided in 1938.^[4]

Initially opened as Hartwell Hill, the station was given its current name of Hartwell on 1 August 1909. It is the only station on the Alamein line to have an island platform.^[4]

History[edit]

When Hartwell station opened, it was served by a train consisting of a locomotive and one or two carriages, dubbed the Deepdene Dasher, which operated between Ashburton and Deepdene. After the line from Camberwell to Ashburton was electrified in 1924, Hartwell was served by electric trains on the Ashburton line, which was extended to Alamein in 1948.^[5]

Hartwell is named after one of the early estates in the area, Hartwell House, the residence of James Irwin who, in the mid-1850s, owned and operated Irwin's Hotel, which was on the corner of Norwood (now Toorak) and Wattle Valley Roads, and was demolished about the time the railway line was built.^[6][7] In the 1850s, Hartwell was a small hamlet named after the nearby Back Creek. Minutes of meetings from the Boroondara District Roads Board noted that "c/- Irwin Hotel, Back Creek" was used as a polling station.

The station building was originally at Walhalla, the terminus of the Walhalla line, but was moved to Hartwell in December 1938, six years before the Walhalla line closed in 1944.^[4] Until the Alamein line was converted from singletodouble track in 1954 (to Ashburton) and 1955 (toRiversdale),^[4] Hartwell was the only crossing loop on the line.

On 27 December 1948, an Alamein-bound train was derailed at the Flinders Street (up) end of the station, near a set of points. While the track was blocked, a shuttle service was provided between Hartwell and Alamein, but passengers going beyond Hartwell had to take trams.^[8]

Platforms and services[edit]

Hartwell has one island platform with two faces. It is served by Alamein line trains.^[9]

Platform 1:

•  Alamein line  weekday all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street; all stations shuttle services to Camberwell

Platform 2:

•  Alamein line  all stations services to Alamein

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Hartwell railway station, Melbourne at Wikimedia Commons
• Melway map at street-directory.com.au