South Yarra is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Frankston, Pakenham, Cranbourne, and Sandringham railway lines, at Toorak Road and Yarra Street in the suburb of South Yarra. It is 4.2 kilemetres from Flinders Street Station, the centre of the city's suburban railway network, and in Metlink ticketing.
Station overview
Facilities
South Yarra has six platforms, with platforms 2&3 and 4&5 in island format and platforms 1 and 6 in side format. All platforms are linked by an overpass at the down end of the station. Inside the overpass are myki ticket vending machines, ticket facilities, and toilets, but no waiting room. The overpass leads out to Toorak Road and Yarra Street which is heavily congested during weekday peak hours.
History
South Yarra opened in 1860 as Gardiner's Creek Road and served the Brighton line on what was called the "Prahran Branch" of the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company. Cooper advises that when the South Yarra to Oakleigh line was first laid a set of points connected the line to the existing Brighton line. In practice it was found that a high embankment obscured vision from approaching trains on both lines. To avert a disaster, it was decided that the Oakleigh line should have its own tracks into Melbourne, and soon after a second bridge spanning the Yarra River was built to facilitate this. . The construction of the South Yarra to Oakleigh line hastened the demise of the Outer Circle railway line.
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