Glen Huntly railway station

Glen Huntly railway station is a commuter railway station on the Frankston line, serving the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Huntly in Victoria, Australia. Glen Huntly is a below ground host station, featuring three platforms, an island platform with two faces and one side platform accessible by a ground level concourse. It opened on 19 December 1881, with the current station provided in July 2023.

The station has had various forms of the name Glen Huntly, initially opened as Glen Huntly Road, the station was renamed Glen Huntly on 1 September 1882, renamed Glenhuntly on 20 April 1937, and finally named again as Glen Huntly on 13 April 2023 along with the opening of the new station and precinct as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project.

Prior to grade separation, the station was located next to a tram square, one of only three remaining level crossings in Melbourne at which tram and train tracks intersect at the time of closure. A small signal box is located at the Flinders Street end of the tram square, which historically controlled the tramway crossing.

History
Glen Huntly station opened on 19 December 1881, when the railway line from Caulfield was extended to Mordialloc. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after the ship Glen Huntly, which docked at Point Ormond (then known as Little Red Bluff) on 7 April 1840 with typhus fever onboard. A track leading to the Point and subsequent quarantine station was later named Glen Huntly Road.

During March/April 1975, the former briquette depot at the station was demolished. In 1977, the station was closed to goods traffic.

In 1986, a crossover that was located at the down end of the station was abolished.

In the mid 1980s, as part of works to add a third track on the Frankston line, the western platform was converted to an island platform. The original station building on this platform, built in the 1880s, was demolished. It was replaced with a brick building, which was opened on 1 July 1987 by the then Minister for Transport Tom Roper, and former Member for Glenhuntly Dr. Gerard Vaughan. It was also during this time that boom barriers were provided at the former Glen Huntly Road and the nearby Neerim Road level crossings, in 1986 and 1987 respectively. On 28 June 1987, the up face of the island platform was brought into use.

In November 2016, three women and one girl were attacked by a man with a knife at the station. A 45-year-old man from Carnegie was later arrested.

On 30 November 2018, the Level Crossing Removal Project announced that the Glen Huntly Road and Nerrim Road level crossings would be grade separated, with the project expected to be completed by 2024. On 21 June 2021, designs for the rebuilt station were revealed, showing that the level crossings will be removed by lowering the railway line into an approximate 1 km trench. The last train stopped at the ground level station on the evening of 31 March 2023 with the station demolished in the following days. The new station was opened to the public on 31 July 2023.

Platforms and services
Prior to closure for the Glen Huntly Road level crossing removal, Glen Huntly had one island platform with two faces, and one side platform. During the morning peak-hour period, Frankston-bound services used Platform 3 and Flinders Street services use Platform 1. Platform 2, during the morning peak-hour, is used for express services which mostly don't stop at Glen Huntly. In the evening peak-hour period, Frankston-bound services use Platform 2 whilst express services pass the station through Platform 3.

When the station was reconstructed and reopened in July 2023, the one island and one side platform configuration was retained with the same platform numbering. Flinders Street services resumed using platform 1 while Frankston-bound services began to use Platform 3 only. Platform 2 is not regularly used, with non-stopping express trains passing the platform in the peak hour. However, the platform is bi-directional and can be used by both Flinders Street and Frankston-bound services if required.

It is serviced by Metro Trains' Frankston line services.

Platform 1:
 * all stations services to Flinders Street, Werribee and Williamstown

Platform 2:
 * No services stop at this platform. Peak hour services run express through this station.

Platform 3:
 * all stations services to Frankston

Transport links
Yarra Trams operates one route via Glen Huntly station:
 * Melbourne tram route 67 icon.svg: Melbourne University – Carnegie