History
Spotswood station opened on 1 December 1878 as Edom. It was renamed Bayswater in 1881, then renamed Spottiswoode in October of the same year, before being renamed Spotswood in 1905. On opening there were a number of sidings provided in the area, in 1914 a line was opened from the Newport end of the station to the Newport Power Station, in addition to a number of other sidings serving oil terminals in the area. A siding at the Melbourne end of the station served the AGM glass factory, with the last sand train from Koala Siding (near Nyora on the South Gippsland line) to Spotswood running on 15 January 1998. The interlocked crossing gates at Hudson Road were replaced by boom barriers in 1989.
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