In this video we visit South Yarra, a major station in Melbourne's inner south east that serves as the junction of the Sandringham line from the Cranbourne/Frankston/Pakenham lines. The area around South Yarra has become increasingly dense in recent years with a lot of new apartment and office buildings in the immediate vicinity around the station.

Here we see various trains around the station, including Metro Comeng, Siemens and X'trapolis EMU's, and some V/Line Vlocities. We then head outside of the station where we see some trams on route 58, and see some more trains at trackside spots around the station, including the Maryvale Paper Train.

South Yarra opened in December 1860 as 'Gardiner Creek Road' as one of the original stations on the Sandringham line. Over time the station was expanded, with the current station constructed likely constructed in the 1910's when the line from South Yarra to Caulfield was quadruplicated. Just south of the station work is underway to construct the southern portal of the Metro Rail Tunnel which is due to open in 2025. This has seen the entire alignment for the Cranbourne/Frankston/Pakenham lines rebuilt to make way for the tunnel portal.

Controversially the Metro Rail Tunnel which will be served by the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines will bypass South Yarra station. Some argue that a South Yarra station on the Metro Rail Tunnel should be built to provide connectivity with other rail lines and serve the busy precinct, but this has been dismissed as being too costly and requiring a lot of land acquisition.

Date: November & December 2017.

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