STONY POINT RAILWAY LINE, MELBOURNE


A70 locomotive changing direction at Stony Point station

The 'Stony Point line' is a greater-metropolitan railway line in Melbourne, Australia. It opened in December 1889 and has a used to have lines that branched off it running to Mornington and Red Hill. Services are run using an A-class locomotive, and up to 4 MTH carriages. It is the only greater-metropolitan railway line operated by Connex Melbourne, which operates the suburban electric network. No stations are manned, nor do they have Metcard machines or validators, which are instead installed on board the carriages.
The line is run as a shuttle service between Frankston and Stony Point, with passengers required to change to the electrified service at Frankston station.
Goods trains serving the Long Island steel mills use the line as far as the junction of the Long Island line between Tyabb and Hastings. Steel trains run twice daily except Sundays. Trains from Long Island to Melbourne run approximately 4am and mid afternoon, while trains from Melbourne to Long Island run approximately midnight and noon. The line fron Long Ilsand Junction to Stony Point was closed from 22 June 1981 to 27 September 1984

Contents
List of stations
Line Guide
External links, maps, and timetables

List of stations


'Bold' stations are terminuses, ''italic'' stations are staffed. Some unstaffed stations may be occasionally staffed for safeworking purposes.
Continues from the Frankston suburban line. All stations are in Metcard ticketing 'Zone 2'.
Line Guide


External links, maps, and timetables



Timetables

Official line map (includes Frankston line)

Statistics and detailed schematic map at the vicsig enthusiast website

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