Cremorne railway station was an early inner suburban station in Melbourne, Australia. It was located in the suburb of Richmond (now Cremorne), a short extension from the recently opened Richmond Railway Station, now the Sandringham Line, on the Melbourne side of the Yarra River bridge and slightly north of Balmain Street.
Cremorne Railway Station opened in 1859 to encourage visitors to Melbourne's Cremorne (Pleasure) Gardens. G.S. Coppin, at the time proprietor of those pleasure gardens, lobbied and then entered a financial arrangement with the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company to build the 1/4 mile, 4 minute extension from Richmond Railway Station.
The line was finished on December 9, 1859 and opened for passengers the following week. Often the price of admission to the gardens included free return rail passage from the city to Cremorne Station. Trains continued on the line after the Cremorne/South Yarra railway bridge was built. (South Yarra and Prahran stations opened the following year.) The gardens shut in early 1863, and the last known train to stop at Cremorne Station was on November 23, 1863, the day of the auction to dispose of the goods that remained in the gardens. In 1890, Richmond residents lobbied the Railways Commission to reopen the station, but their request was refused as the station was deemed 'unnecessary'. There are no remains from the station. Subsequent track duplications now cover the area where the station once stood.
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