Facilities
Footscray is located between Irving Street and Hyde Street, with station access from Irving Street, Hyde Street, and McNab Avenue.
The station consists of an island layout and two side platforms; Platform 1 has a semi-large red brick building, platform 2 & 3 has a large red brick building housing an enclosed waiting area, ticket facilities and toilets, while platform 4 has a red brick building similar to platform 1. A large Metcard ticket vending machine is located inside the waiting area and at the entrance to platform 1, which is able to dispense most ticketing options available and also accept notes and coins. Small coin-only Metcard ticket vending machines are located inside the waiting area and at the entrance to platform 4.
Tram route 82 terminates near the station, on Leeds Street. Car parking facilities are available along McNab Avenue and Hyde Street. A footbridge is situated at the Down end of the station.
A disused signal box is located on the island platform at the Flinders Street end of the station, and a pair of dual gauge tracks form the mainly goods only South Kensington - West Footscray line under the station, running in a cutting before entering the Bunbury Street tunnel (built in 1928), providing a rail link to the Port of Melbourne and other freight terminals, as well as access to Southern Cross Station for the CountryLink XPT and The Overland.
In 2010, as a part of the Victorian Brumby Labor Government's Footscray renewal program, a new $15 million rail footbridge opened at Footscray Station, within months the government announced that half of the bridge would need to be rebuilt to accommodate new platforms for the Regional Rail Link. As Ken Betts, a local Liberal candidate says, 'the railway station is a complete an utter mess', The canopies on the footbridge have designer holes which allows the rain fall through, leaving the steep steps and flat surface of the bridge covered in slippery water, which ex-Mayor of Maribyrnong, Janet Rice, calls unsafe.
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