Premium station

A Premium station is a term used in the Melbourne train system for a station at which there are better things than the other stations. There are currently 72 stations like this. All five City Loop stations are Premium stations, as well as the following stations -

Ashburton Bayswater Belgrave Bentleigh Berwick Blackburn Boronia Box Hill Brighton Beach Broadmeadows Camberwell Carrum Caulfield Cheltenham Clayton Clifton Hill

Coburg Craigieburn Cranbourne Croydon Dandenong Darling East Malvern Elsternwick Eltham Epping Essendon Footscray Frankston Glenferrie Glenroy Glen Waverley

Gowrie Greensborough Heidelberg Ivanhoe Laverton Lilydale Macleod Moorabbin Mooroolbark Mordialloc Mount Waverley Narre Warren Newport North Melbourne Oakleigh Pakenham

Preston Reservoir Richmond Ringwood St Albans Sandringham South Yarra Springvale Sunshine Surrey Hills Thomastown Upper Ferntree Gully Watergardens Werribee Williamstown

Premium Station Media

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  Steam-hauled suburban train departing North Melbourne station for Sunshine, April 1913

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  The pre-1910 Flinders Street station building on Swanston Street

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  Connex train arriving at Camberwell station, June 2004

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  Train at Alamein station, March 2003

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  First set of Tait suburban passenger carriages hauled by steam locomotive Dde 750, c. 1913

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  Four-car Tait train at the Spring Vale Cemetery platform

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  A restored vintage electric "Tait" set (aka "Red Rattler") near Southern Cross station, July 2022

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  A Harris train the Newport Railway Museum, January 2007

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  Melbourne Central railway station in the underground City Loop, June 2004

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  Comeng train on the Werribee line, October 2007