Find out what it’s like to travel on the last remaining diesel still operating on Melbourne’s suburban rail network. The Stony Point line is a shuttle service linking Frankston and Stony Point with many stops on the route down the Mornington Peninsula.
First we’ll need to catch an electric train from Flinders Street Station to Frankston and will make a brief stop to explore one of Melbourne’s few remaining intersections where train and tram lines cross – the Glenhuntly Tram Square. The tram square is being removed as part of Melbourne’s level crossing removal project.
Stony Point line timetable:
🚉 Train: Stony Point service
🚉 Operator: Metro Trains Melbourne
🚉 Locomotives: V/Line Sprinter (leased to Metro Trains)
🚉 Sprinter units: 7013 (Frankston end) and 7022 (Stony Point end)
🚉 Route: Southern Cross (Melbourne) – Frankston – Stony Point
🚉 Class: Economy
🚉 Travel date: 19 August 2022
EQUIPMENT:
🚉 Cameras: GoPro Hero 10, GoPro Hero 8, iPhone 12 Pro Max, Panasonic HC-VX1, DJI Mini 3 Pro
00:00 – Introduction
01:19 – Flinders Street Station
02:15 – Frankston line
03:05 – Glenhuntly tram square
04:33 – Frankston station
05:06 – Stony Point Sprinter
06:35 – Stony Point line stops and least used station
08:26 – Somerville to Tyabb
10:38 – The V/Line Sprinter
12:10 – Hastings to Bittern
13:55 – Moradoo
16:05 – Crib Point plus train fares
17:30 – Stony Point
19:41 – Finishing in Frankston
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Credits and sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Point_railway_line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V/Line_Sprinter
Population stats:
https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area
12 Things You Didn’t Know About Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
Railway station passenger stats:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/annual-metropolitan-train-station-patronage-station-entries
Photo attributions:
Train and tram icons by MPTG
https://melbournesptgallery.weebly.com/melbourne-train-and-tram-fronts.htm
Auckland Museum, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Botaurus_poiciloptilus_(AM_LB8847)_(cropped).jpg
Glenhuntly tram square video:
Stony Point station historic photo
By Steven Harris – Victorian Railways photo, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31228052
OpenRailwayMap:
https://www.openrailwaymap.org
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33 Comments
There is so much history on the line. Use to connect to red hill, Mornington and hmas Cerberus. Mornington railway is preserved from baxter to the 2nd last stop as Mornington station was demolished and the line built over although trains only run part of the line. Red hill line is all gone unfortunately and hmas cerberus line was close and is now gone. A good place to explore is the steel line and old paper train where the K class that runs on the Mornington heritage line was restored and where the group was original based
Thanks for sharing, Adam.
I caught this train almost everyday for a solid 5yrs… great train, terrible transport for a growing peninsula.. Those that travelled in the 90's and 00's would remember Whistling Pete.
Loved this video. As a child in the 1950s my parents took me from Caulfield to Stony Point on a "country train" operated with a steam engine. At Stony Point we caught a ferry the Eagle Star (or its sister ferry the Estelle Star – can't remember which) to Cowes on Phillip Island for our holiday. For me the train ride was the best part!
Great video mate
I remembered going on a train to Stony Point. I have to say it was a very peaceful ride 🙂
11:01 7022 happened to be the set I took from Frankston to Stony Point and back 🙂
Your production is exquisite
Great video! I did exactly this journey in July last year on a spare afternoon visiting Melbourne and really enjoyed it. If you are interested in railways, look out for the branch line to Mornington from Baxter station. It’s disused as far as Moorooduc but used for heritage trains from there. Also look out for the branch line to the steel works just north of Hastings where you may see a freight train waiting for the railcar to clear the section.
Very good visuals and commentary. I will make the journey myself one day soon.
I catch this line weekly and I can say it is very interesting at times…
A trip down memory lane for me, from my early days in the Royal Australian Navy. In the early 1960s on a Friday afternoon, there used to be a steam train service that ran from the spur line railway station at HMAS CERBERUS, the Navy base adjacent to the town of Crib Point, into Flinders St and Spencer St stations in Melbourne. If I remember correctly, it also stopped at Frankston and Moorabbin on the way into Melbourne. It did the early return trip back to the Navy base on Monday mornings. it was known as the Leave Train. The Navy base was a long distance from the city of Melbourne and few sailors could afford to own a car. So, it was a convenient way of getting into Melbourne. My Dad served in the Australian Navy in WW2, and he remembered catching the Leave Train on Friday afternoons.
the diesel train is purple so isn't it technically a regional train not metro?
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When I was younger I got to toot the horn on this train. Was the best thing ever to my younger self😂
I remember the almighty kerfuffle several years ago when it was proposed to remove the clocks from the front of Flinders Street
I thought the Steelworks at Hastings and related train movements may have been worth mentioning otherwise a nicely put together video.
hi, like the videos, but hoping it might be possible to cut down on the background music, for me at least it makes the dialog very difficult to follow and that royalty free youtube music can be a little intense after a while, much happier to listen to the background natural sounds
Really Adam when you reached Franga you could have popped in to say “ hi” and have a cuppa and a biscuit lol
Those "tram squares" are not actually squares, they are rectangles, formed by the Broad gauge railway intersecting the Standard Gauge tramlines. I didn't know though that the voltages are manually changed depending whether a tram or a train is using the crossing.
You say this is the last last suburban diesel service. This is not strictly true Melton is served by Vline Diesel service from Melbourne Southern Cross Station. Melton (City of Melton) is part of the Melbourne Metro Area. It is Zone 2 PTV list the trains as being Reginal Note that all Rail on the Melton – Bachas marsh – Ballarat -> are NOT electrified once it leaves Sunshine.
Take the damn masks off. The pandemic is old news.
morradoo was also once known as the shortest railway platform in victoria a little more then one carriage long
stony point used to be a full terminus station with runaround loop loco shed and turntable from back in the steam days with the runaround loop used right up until the introduction of the sprinters as the service used to be run with a diesel loco and 2-3 MTH carriages
I remember when the service was hauled by a single A class and two MTH cars… how much it has changed…
I enjoyed the trip, love the pop up for extra info. thank you. From the White Mt. NH
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing✌️👍
Great channel Adam.
Thanks Adam. I have watched many videos on railways in Victoria but non down to Stony Point. It was different.
I am amazed that Bloody Jeff did not shut the line…. thank god he did not.
Electrify stony point and geelong lines!
And melton! And gembrook!
Rebuild the healesville line!
Etc!
I'm surprised they know how many passengers actually use the stations as only Frankston has gates and is manned. You can get on and off at all the other stations without swiping on or off. Originally nearly all the stations had passing loops so trains could cross anywhere. But Metro "rationalised" the signalling meaning that only one train can now travel between Frankston and Stony Point at a time (with the exception of the steel train which turns off onto the Long Island branch between Tyabb and Hastings).
Why would you lock the toilet out of use if you were committed to customer service?
Hey mate, it's Caulfield, not Caufield