Fairfield railway station is a suburban railway station located on the Hurstbridge line in the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Fairfield in Victoria, Australia. It opened on 8 May 1888 as Fairfield Park and was renamed Fairfield on 14 November 1943.

Fairfield Industrial Dog Object (FIDO), a 6-metre-tall wooden sculpture of a dog, is located adjacent to the level crossing, at the eastern end of Platform 2.

History

The station opened along with the railway between Collingwood and Heidelberg. Fairfield station, like the suburb itself, was named after Fairfield Park, an estate that was subdivided on land that was purchased by land speculator Charles Henry James. The estate is believed to have been named after Fairfield in Derbyshire, England. He had previously built Melbourne's first tram in 1884, which ran from the station northwards to the Fairfield Park Estate. It closed shortly after the station opened in 1890.

From 1891 to 1893, Fairfield was the junction for the northern end of the former Outer Circle line, and was later the junction for the APM Siding which operated from 1919 to the 1990s and served the nearby Australian Paper Manufacturers paper mill.

The station was upgraded in the early 1910s with new timber station buildings constructed in 1911. That included replacing the former at-grade pedestrian crossing at Rathmines Street with a pedestrian footbridge, opened in March 1914.

In 1969, boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Station Street level crossing, at the down end of the station. In 1988, the goods siding at the station was abolished.

In 1999, the station building on Platform 1 underwent restoration.

Platforms and services

Fairfield has two side platforms, and is served by Hurstbridge line trains.

Platform 1:

•  Hurstbridge line  all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street

Platform 2:

•  Hurstbridge line  all stations and limited express services to Macleod, Greensborough, Eltham and Hurstbridge

Transport links

Dysons operates two bus routes via Fairfield station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:

•  567 : Northcote – Regent station
•  609 : Hawthorn Station – Fairfield

Gallery

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  Eastbound view of station buildings and platforms with an X'Trapolis train arriving at Platform 1 on a City-bound service, February 2008
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  Eastbound view of station platforms and buildings at dusk, November 2023