Cremorne railway station

Cremorne railway station was an early inner suburban station in Melbourne, Australia. It was located in the suburb of Richmond, on the then Windsor line (now the Sandringham railway line), between Richmond and South Yarra stations, on the Melbourne side of the Yarra River bridge and just north of Balmain Street.^[1][2]

The station was used by crowds visiting the Cremorne Gardens, a 19th-century amusement park on the banks of the Yarra. Cremorne opened on 12 December 1859 and closed barely over a year later, on 22 December 1860. According to the local historian J. B. Cooper, the gardens had "dancing, entertainments and open-air shows" and "were frequented by fast men and women having money to burn".^[3]

References

1. ^ "Cremorne Gardens plan". Picture Victoria. State Library of Victoria. http://www.pictures.libraries.vic.gov.au/site/yarra_melbourne/Richmond/8357.html. Retrieved 16 June 2010. 
2. ^ Map of Melbourne and Suburban Company Lines, 1857–1862, http://museumvictoria.com.au/railways/image.aspx?PID=4796 
3. ^ Cooper, John Butler (1924). The History of Prahran: From Its First Settlement to a City. Melbourne: Modern Printing Co. p. 181. http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Chapter_12.pdf. Retrieved 16 June 2010. 

Coordinates: 37°49′48″S 144°59′38″E / 37.830°S 144.994°E / -37.830; 144.994