Passenger rail service in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Frankston line
Recently rebuilt Bonbeach station on the Frankston line
Overview
Service type
Commuter rail
System
Melbourne railway network
Status
Operational
Locale
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Predecessor
Mordialloc (1881–1882)
First service
19 December 1881; 142 years ago (1881-12-19)
Current operator(s)
Metro Trains
Former operator(s)
Victorian Railways (VR) (1881–1974)
VR as VicRail (1974–1983)
MTA (The Met) (1983–1989)
PTC (The Met) (1989–1998)
Bayside Trains (1998–2000)
M>Train (2000–2004)
Connex Melbourne (2004–2009)
Route
Termini
Flinders Street (from Werribee or Williamstown) Frankston
Stops
28
Distance travelled
43.23 km (26.86 mi)
Average journey time
1 hour 7 minutes
Service frequency
5–10 minutes weekdays peak
10 minutes weekdays off-peak and weekend afternoons
20 minutes at nights and weekend mornings
60 minutes early weekend mornings
Certain trains continue or start from Werribee/Williamstown
Line(s) used
Frankston
Technical
Rolling stock
Comeng, Siemens, X'Trapolis 100
Track gauge
1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Electrification
1500 V DC overhead
Track owner(s)
VicTrack
Route map
Legend
h:mm
km
zone
continues as
Werribee / Williamstown lines
to Newport
1.2
Southern Cross
●●●●●●●
1
0:00
0.0
Flinders Street
●●●●
0:04
2.6
Richmond
●●●●●●■
0:07
4.2
South Yarra
●■
0:09
5.4
Hawksburn
0:11
6.7
Toorak
■
0:12
7.4
Armadale
■
0:15
8.9
Malvern
■■■
0:18
10.6
Caulfield
●●●●■
0:21
12.2
Glen Huntly
■
1
0:23
13.8
Ormond
1/2
0:25
14.6
McKinnon
0:27
15.2
Bentleigh
1/2
0:29
16.2
Patterson
2
0:31
17.2
Moorabbin
0:34
18.8
Highett
0:36
20.1
Southland
0:37
21.2
Cheltenham
0:40
23.1
Mentone
0:42
24.7
Parkdale
0:45
26.5
Mordialloc
0:48
29.1
Aspendale
0:50
30.4
Edithvale
0:52
32.1
Chelsea
0:54
33.4
Bonbeach
0:57
34.9
Carrum
1:00
38.1
Seaford
1:03
40.2
Kananook
1:07
42.7
Frankston
●
2
Stony Point line
to Stony Point
h:mm
km
zone
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The Frankston line is a commuter railway line in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[1] Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, it is the city's third-longest metropolitan railway line, at 42.7 kilometres (26.5 mi). The line runs from Flinders Street station in central Melbourne to Frankston station in the south-east, serving 28 stations via South Yarra, Caulfield, Moorabbin, and Mordialloc.[2] The line continues to Stony Point on the non-electrified Stony Point line. The line operates for approximately 20 hours a day (from approximately 4:00 am to around 11:30 pm) with 24 hour service available on Friday and Saturday nights. During peak hour, headways of up to 5 to 10 minutes are operated with services every 10–20 minutes during off-peak hours.[3] Trains on the Frankston line run with a two three-car formations of Comeng, Siemens Nexas, and X'Trapolis 100 trainsets.[4]
Sections of the Frankston line opened as early as 1881, with the line fully extended to Frankston in 1882. A limited number of stations were first opened, with infill stations progressively opened between 1881 and 2017.[5] The line was built to connect Melbourne with the rural towns of Caulfield, Moorabbin, and Frankston, amongst others. Significant growth has occurred since opening, with a plan to extend the Frankston line along part of the Stony Point line to Baxter.[6]
Since the 2010s, due to the heavily utilised infrastructure of the Frankston line, significant improvements and upgrades have been made. Different packages of works have upgraded the corridor to replace sleepers, upgrading signalling technology, the introduction of new rolling stock, and the removal of all level crossings.[7]
^"Frankston Line". Public Transport Victoria. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
^"Metro's paper timetables mess". Daniel Bowen. 3 September 2017. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
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