Hallam | |
Type: | PTV commuter rail station |
Style: | Melbourne |
Address: | Hallam Road, Hallam, Victoria 3803 |
Borough: | City of Casey |
Country: | Australia |
Owned: | VicTrack |
Operator: | Metro Trains |
Distance: | 37.45 kilometres from Southern Cross |
Platforms: | 2 side |
Tracks: | 2 |
Connections: | Bus |
Structure: | Elevated |
Parking: | 590 spaces |
Bicycle: | Available |
Accessible: | Yes — step free access |
Electrified: | July 1954 (1500 V DC overhead) |
Status: | Operational, unstaffed |
Code: | HLM |
Zone: | Myki Zone 2 |
Rebuilt: | 2 May 2022 (LXRP) |
Former: | Hallam's Road (1880-1904) |
Other Services Header: | Former service |
Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
Map State: | expanded |
Hallam railway station is a commuter railway station on the Pakenham line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Hallam, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Hallam station is an elevated structure premium station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 1 December 1880, with the current station provided in 2022.[1]
Initially opened as Hallam's Road, the station was given its current name of Hallam on 2 May 1904.[2]
Disused station General Motors is located between Hallam and Dandenong.
Hallam station opened on 1 December 1880 as a single platform, just over three years after the railway line from Dandenong was extended to Pakenham.[1] The station gets its name from Hallam's Road, itself named after William Hallam, who settled in the area in 1856 and operated a general store and hotel on the present day corner of the Princes Highway and Hallam Road.[3] [4]
In 1954, a goods siding at the station was closed.[1] Between 1955 and 1956, the former ground level platforms were provided, when the line between Dandenong and Narre Warren was duplicated.[1]
In 1959, flashing light signals replaced hand gates at the former Hallam South Road level crossing, which was located at the down end of the station,[1] with boom barriers provided in 1985.[5] On 16 July 1990, the station officially operated for passenger business only.[6]
Sometime during or after 1995, the former ground level station shelters were provided.[7]
On 4 May 2010, as part of the 2010/2011 State Budget, $83.7 million was allocated to upgrade Hallam to a premium station, along with nineteen others.[8] [9] However, in March 2011, this was scrapped by the Baillieu Government.[10]
On 2 April 2022, the Hallam South Road level crossing was abolished as part of the Level Crossing Removal Project,[11] and was replaced with a rail bridge over the road, which included a new, rebuilt elevated station.[12] On 2 May of that year, the rebuilt station opened.[13]
Hallam has two side platforms. It is serviced by Metro Trains' Pakenham line services.[14]
Platform 1:
Platform 2:
By June 2025, it is planned that trains on the Pakenham line will be through-routed with those on the Sunbury line, via the new Metro Tunnel.
Cranbourne Transit operates three bus routes via Hallam station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
Ventura Bus Lines operates two routes via Hallam station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria: