Prahran railway station (/pɛ'ræn) is a commuter railway station on the Sandringham line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Prahran, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Prahran station is a ground level unstaffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 22 December 1860.[4]
Initially opened as Greville Street, the station was given its current name of Prahran on 1 January 1867.[4]
History
Prahran station opened on 22 December 1860, when the railway line from South Yarra was extended to Windsor.[4] Like the suburb itself, the station was named from the Indigenousword ‘purraran’, believed to mean ‘almost surrounded by water’.[5][6]
In October 1979, automatic semaphore signals were replaced with light signals between Prahran and Windsor.[8]
On 4 May 2010, as part of the 2010/2011 State Budget, $83.7 million was allocated to upgrade Prahran to a premium station, along with nineteen others.[9][10] However, in March 2011, this was scrapped by the Baillieu Government.[11]