St Kilda Station was opened on 13 May 1857 and was a former railway station and current tram stop, located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, Australia, and was the terminus of the St Kilda railway line of the Melbourne suburban rail system.
It is one of the oldest surviving railway station buildings in Victoria and older than the Flinders Street Station which was built in 1905. The building is currently used as retail premises, while the platform serves as stop 132 on tram route 96.
As the terminus of the first passenger railway constructed in Victoria, St Kilda Railway Station is the oldest surviving railway station in Victoria.
In fact, of the three station buildings surviving from this very early period of rail travel in Victoria, (South Yarra and Werribee are the others), it is the most complete. It also has a train hall, one of only three in Victoria (with Geelong and Ballarat). The rail link to the centre of Melbourne stimulated St Kilda’s status and development from the 1850s as a fashionable resort and wealthy suburb.
The railway line was electrified in 1919. In the 1920s it was the second busiest station in Victoria after Flinders Street. Over 1957-59, the Railways tram was closed due to competition from motor traffic (68% increase between 1947-51), leading to the decline of the station and of St Kilda itself.
Gradually the station facilities closed: the refreshment rooms (1969), the post office (1972), the booking hall and ladies waiting room (1976), and in 1981 services on the line were reduced. Sunday trains ended. In January 1983, the St Kilda line was converted to a tram route, initially known as ‘light rail’. In 1989, several fires damaged the timber station building and by December, the roof had been destroyed.
The Station has been in the media / entertainment spotlight with the Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors filmed the 1982 video clip for the song "Talking to a Stranger".
A large portion of the station building was used in the 2004 reality television series My Restaurant Rules, as the site of the Melbourne restaurant, Seven Stones.
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