Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Footscray Station / Bunbury St Railway Tunnel Australia

Описание: Footscray railway station and Bunbury Street railway tunnel are both located in the suburb of Footscray Victoria Australia and both only 8km (4.9mi) from the State capital Melbourne.

Footscray railway Station is the junction for the Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of Footscray, and it opened on 17 January 1859.
The station is also serviced by V/Line Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong services.
A disused signal box is located on the island platform at the up (Flinders Street) end of Platform 5, while a pair of dual gauge tracks form the mainly freight only South Kensington–West Footscray line under the station, running in a cutting before entering the Bunbury Street tunnel, providing a rail link to the Port of Melbourne and other freight terminals, as well as access to Southern Cross for the NSW TrainLink XPT, The Overland, and V/Line Albury services.
From 2012 to 2014, Footscray station underwent major upgrade and conservation works as part of the Regional Rail Link project.
An additional two platforms were built to the north of the existing platforms, to separate Metro Trains' Sunbury services from V/Line services to Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong.
On 20 January 2014, coinciding with the opening of the new platforms and a new ticket office and waiting area adjacent to Platform 1 on Irving Street, Platforms 1 to 4 were renumbered 3 to 6, with the new platforms commissioned as Platforms 1 and 2. At the same time, Platforms 3 and 4 were closed to be rebuilt as dedicated platforms for V/Line services, reopening along with the commissioning of new Regional Rail Link tracks between Sunshine and Southern Cross on 16 July 2014. A new waiting area and toilet facility for regional services was also opened between Platforms 4 and 5.

The Bunbury Street Railway tunnel accommodates the South Kensington–West Footscray railway line. The line was opened on 21 October 1928 to allow freight trains to avoid suburban passenger train congestion at Footscray station which, at that time, was connected to Melbourne by a single pair of tracks. Initially consisting of two broad gauge tracks, in 1962 the tracks were converted to dual gauge as part of the Melbourne to Sydney gauge standardisation project. Today the line is controlled by the Australian Rail Track Corporation as part of the North East standard gauge line.

Credits and References:
State Library – Victoria https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Photographers:
Pratt, Charles Daniel (1892 - 1968)
Smith Alan Eldridge (1945 - ____)
Chapman, Wilfred Disney
Victorian Railways
Museums Victoria – Collection https://collections.museumsvictoria.c...
Facebook   / railwaysmelbournecountryvictoria  
Keith Lambert (contributor)
Footscray Station – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footscr...
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