| Lakeside | |
| Type: | Puffing Billy Railway station |
| Distance: | 55.12km (34.25miles) from Flinders Street |
| Line: | Gembrook |
| Opened: | 1944 |
| Closed: | 1954 |
| Rebuilt: | 1975 |
| Status: | Staffed |
| Platform: | 2 |
| Tracks: | 3 |
| Coordinates: | -37.9301°N 145.4594°W |
Lakeside railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Melbourne, Australia. It was opened in 1944 to serve Emerald Lake Park, a popular picnic and recreation reserve created during World War II. The station originally consisted of a short single-face platform on the up side of the line, approximately on the site of the current locomotive water tanks. It had a name board and a red flag for intending passengers to signal to the train crew, but no shelter.
Lakeside today is a staff station, with a passing loop, island platform and waiting shelters. A booking office and refreshment room is across the track on what was the post-reopening single-face platform. There is also a second loop siding beyond the former park access road for the single-face third platform which services the Visitor Centre. A short, dead-end spur extends past the down end of this loop siding.
Of interest is a working wig-wag level crossing warning signal, which operates at the former park access road between the platform and storage siding. It is believed to be the only regularly operating wig-wag signal in Victoria.
Australia's biggest model railway, the Emerald Lake Model Railway, is located near the station.[1]