Bunyip is a railway station on the Bairnsdale V/Line rail service in Bunyip

Bunyip, Victoria

Bunyip is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 77 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia...

, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

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. The station is located on Longwarry Road and is 79 km from Southern Cross Station

Southern Cross Station

Southern Cross is a major railway station and transport hub in Melbourne Docklands, Victoria, Australia. It is located on Spencer Street between Collins and La Trobe Streets at the western edge of the central business district...

. The station is in an island format

Island platform

An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

 (1 side in use), and the remains of a former goods platform

Goods station

A goods station is, in the widest sense, a railway station which is exclusively or predominantly where goods of any description are loaded or unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.A station where goods are not specifically received or...

 and a crane

Crane (machine)

A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It uses one or more simple machines to create mechanical advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of...

 facility is opposite the single platform

Railway platform

A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams. Almost all stations for rail transport have some form of platforms, with larger stations having multiple platforms...

.

The track up to the Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 end of the station was duplicated

Double track

A double track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.- Overview :...

 in 1956, but the section from Bunyip to Longwarry

Longwarry, Victoria

Longwarry is a town in Victoria, Australia, situated south-east of Melbourne. It is bypassed by the Princes Freeway. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Baw Baw.-History:The Post Office opened on 20 June 1881 some time after the railway arrived in 1879...

 remains single track

Single track (rail)

A single track railway is where trains in both directions share the same track. Single track is normally used on lesser used rail lines, often branch lines, where the traffic density is not high enough to justify the cost of building double tracks....

 due to the bridge over the Bunyip River

Bunyip River

The Bunyip River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia to the east of Melbourne. It flows into Western Port. The river formerly flowed into the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp, the largest wetlands in Victoria, covering an area of 40,000 hectares, before flowing into Western Port.The Bunyip River starts...

. The line was electrified in 1954 but it was removed from Bunyip to Warragul in 1998, and from Pakenham to Bunyip in 2005 as part of the Regional Fast Rail Project

Regional Fast Rail project

The Regional Fast Rail project was a rail transport project of the State Government of Victoria, Australia undertaken between 2000 and 2006 aimed at improving the passenger services on the Victorian regional railway network , specifically to reduce travel times, enhance service frequency and...

. However a substation

Electrical substation

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 and short section of overhead have been maintained just outside the station.

From 2 June 2010 the station was closed to passengers to enable platform works to be carried out, with a shuttle bus service operating between Bunyip and Garfield. It was originally planned for the works to take three weeks, but the station was not reopened until July 15, three weeks late.

Bairnsdale-bound trains do not stop at Bunyip (running express from Garfield to Drouin), however a weekly Sunday service to Sale

Sale railway station, Victoria

Sale is a railway station on the Bairnsdale railway line in Sale, Victoria, Australia. The station is located on Pettit Drive and has a single platform, two loop sidings parallel to the platform, and a number of dead end sidings...

 does stop.

Platforms and services

Platform 1:

• Gippsland line - intercity and interurban services to Southern Cross
• Gippsland line - interurban services to Traralgon, and intercity services to Sale