History
Nunawading railway station was opened in 1888 and was originally named Tunstall station. It was renamed in 1945 when the area known as Tunstall was renamed Nunawading. It initially served the clay and brick producers in the area and used to have bus services operating between the station and the former VFL Park, but these services ceased following to the ground's closure.
At Nunawading the railway line runs parallel to and just south of the Maroondah Highway, originally crossing Springvale Road at a level crossing. Boom barriers replaced hand gates at the crossing in 1956. It was rated as Victoria's most dangerous level crossing with more than 125,000 cars crossing each day, and the RACV surveys in 2006 and 2008 named it as "the worst congestion point in the state". A number of grade separation proposals were made over many years, including one for a station similar to Boronia station. In September 2008 a contract was awarded to provide a grade separation. The final scheme included the building of a new station on the west side of Springvale Road with realigned tracks passing under Springvale Road. The old station closed on 18 December 2009, the new one opening on 11 January 2010. The works was slated to cost around $120 million.
The grade separation was completed for $142m in 7 months.
The former Nunawading railway station, now demolished, contained two platforms: platform one had a fibro station building resting on brick foundations, and platform two had a wooden building. A Telstra payphone was also located on platform two. There were three metcard ticket machines at the station, with two on the citybound side and one coin-only machine on the outbound platform. On the citybound side there was also a newspaper dispenser and a pair of vending machines. Outside of the citybound platform, there was also a self-maintaining public toilet. Semi-enclosed waiting facilities were provided on both platforms. Nunawading was one of few host stations that had an attended booking office in the morning peak period.
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