Richmond railway station, Melbourne

Richmond
PTV commuter and regional rail station
Richmond station.
General information
Location	Punt Road, Richmond, Victoria 3121 City of Melbourne City of Yarra Australia
Coordinates	37°49′25″S 144°59′20″E
Owned by	VicTrack
Operated by	Metro Trains
Line(s)	Lilydale Belgrave Alamein Glen Waverley Frankston Sandringham
Distance	3.80 kilometres from Southern Cross
Platforms	10 (5 island)
Tracks	10
Connections	Bus Tram
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Status	Operational, premium station
Station code	RMD
Fare zone	Myki Zone 1
Website	Public Transport Victoria
History
Opened	8 February 1859 (1859-02-08)
Rebuilt	December 1859 Mid 1880s Late 1950s
Electrified	May 1919 (1500 V DC overhead)
Previous names	Punt Road (1859) Swan Street (1859–1866)
Passengers
Passengers (2018–2019)	4,227,000
Passengers (2019–2020)	2,965,500  29.84%
Passengers (2020–2021)	1,292,650  56.41%
Passengers (2021–2022)	1,966,800  52.15%
Passengers (2022–2023)	3,105,850  57.91%
Passengers (2023–2024)	3,722,400  19.85%
Passengers (2024–2025)	3,712,750  0.26%
Services

Richmond station is a railway station in Richmond, Australia. Richmond is an inner suburb of Melbourne. The station is built on a bridge over Punt Road. All of Melbourne's eastern and south eastern railway lines meet here. These include the Frankston, Sandringham, Belgrave, Lilydale, Alamein and Glen Waverley lines.

Richmond station is 2.4 km (1 mi) from Flinders Street station which is Melbourne's central railway station. Because Richmond station is close to the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Punt Road Oval and Melbourne Park, it is very busy during sporting and other special events.

History

Richmond station has been moved and rebuilt four times. The first station was called Punt Road. It was at ground level and opened on 8 February, 1859. It closed the same year on 12 December, 1859, where on the same day a second station opened named Swan Street. The station was named again to Richmond in 1867.

In 1885, a new third station just north of Swan Street was opened. The new station was raised up and was not at ground level. It had six platforms.

By the 1940s the third station had begun to fall apart. It was so bad that the council said it should be pulled down. A new station was not built for another 20 years. On 26 March, 1960 the current station was opened west of the old one. The bridges at each end of the station across Punt Road and Swan Street were also rebuilt to fit the ten tracks. For some time, both the old and new stations were used, before the old station was pulled down.

The opening scene of the movie Romper Stomper was filmed in Richmond station. In the movie it was called Footscray station.

On 4 December 1996, Richmond station was upgraded to a Premium station.

Platforms

Richmond has ten platforms joined by three subways. There are only ramps to the station, no elevators.

Platform 5 and 6 station screens showing East Pakenham and Flinders Street trains. This was before the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines ran through the Metro Tunnel, also called the "Big Switch". The tv screen displayed on the right is no longer possible today.

Richmond platform arrangement
Platform	Line	Where to?	Using	Stopping Pattern
1	Sandringham line	Flinders Street, Williamstown, Laverton, Werribee	Flinders Street	All stations and express (skip-stop) trains stop here. Trains to Laverton and Williamstown only run from Monday to Friday.
2	Sandringham line	Sandringham		All stations trains stop here.
3	Frankston line	Flinders Street	City Loop	All trains. Trains run to Flinders Street via the City Loop except at night where the City Loop is closed.
4	Frankston line	Cheltenham, Mordialloc, Carrum, Frankston		All stations and express trains. Train to Cheltenham, Mordialloc and Carrum stations only run on Monday to Friday rush hour.
5	<span style="background-color:#; border:0.1em solid #;"> Gippsland line	Southern Cross	Flinders Street	Passengers from stations before Pakenham can get off here, but passengers cannot get on board here. Also, people staying on the V/Line train will go to Flinders Street then Southern Cross.
6	<span style="background-color:#; border:0.1em solid #;"> Gippsland line	Traralgon, Bairnsdale		You can only get on if you are going to V/Line stations outside Pakenham.
7	Alamein line  (Monday to Friday rush hour only)  Glen Waverley Line   Lilydale line	Flinders Street		All stations. The trains run straight to Flinders Street.
8	Alamein line  (Monday to Friday rush hour only)  Belgrave Line   Lilydale line	Flinders Street	City Loop	All stations. The trains normally go anti-clockwise, but sometimes clockwise during busy hours.
9	Alamein line  (Monday to Friday rush hour only)  Belgrave Line   Glen Waverley Line   Lilydale line	Alamein, Blackburn, Ringwood, Mooroolbark, Lilydale, Upper Ferntree Gully, Belgrave, Glen Waverley		All stations trains and express trains.
10	Alamein line  (Monday to Friday rush hour only)  Glen Waverley Line   Lilydale line	Glen Waverley, Alamein, Blackburn, Ringwood, Lilydale		All stations trains and express trains.

Nearby Transport

Tram route 70, from Waterfront City Docklands to Wattle Park, goes past Richmond Station along Swan Street. Punt Road is under the station with a major interchange with Swan Street and Brunton Avenue.

Bus route 246 from Elsternwick railway station to Clifton Hill station stops here too.