Moreland railway station

Moreland railway station is located on the Upfield line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the northern Melbourne suburb of Coburg, and it opened on 9 September 1884.

History
Moreland station opened when the railway line from North Melbourne was extended to Coburg.

The name Moreland has been associated with the local area since 1839 when land speculator Farquhar McCrae acquired 638 acres of land between the Moonee Ponds Creek and Sydney Road. McCrae named this land Moreland after the Jamaican slave plantation that was run by his father and grandfather. The landholdings were increased in 1841 to encompass a total of 908 acres, which was subdivided in 1858 including the establishment of Moreland Road.

On 2 May 1975, the former ground-level station was damaged by fire.

In 1983, a number of sidings at the station were dismantled. In 1986, manually controlled boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the former Moreland Road level crossing, which was at the up end of the station. In August 1988, former sidings "A", "B" and "C" and associated point work were abolished. Also abolished were the up and down end crossovers, and a number of disc signals.

On 7 May 2019, the Level Crossing Removal Project announced that the Moreland Road and Reynard Street level crossings would be grade separated. On 14 December 2020, a new elevated station opened after the completion of those works, replacing the previous ground-level station, which closed on 27 July 2020.

There was a footbridge at the down end of the former ground-level station, and there is a disused signal box below the up end of the elevated Platform 2.

Platforms and services
Moreland has two side platforms. It is served by Upfield line trains.

Platform 1:
 * all stations services to Flinders Street

Platform 2:
 * all stations services to Upfield

Transport links
Kinetic Melbourne operates one route via Moreland station:
 * : Essendon station – Ivanhoe station

Yarra Trams operates two routes via Moreland station:
 * Melbourne tram route 6 icon.svg: to Glen Iris
 * Melbourne tram route 19 icon.svg: North Coburg – Flinders Street station (Elizabeth Street CBD)