Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Drone footage of Spotswood metro railway station and surrounding precinct. Filmed 26 November 2025.
This station is scheduled will be completely rebuilt as part of the Hudsons Road crossing removal which will be commencing within the next 12 months and scheduled for completion in 2028. It is proposed to introduce sky-rail.
Spotswood station is a Metro Trains Melbourne railway station on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, which are part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the western suburb of Spotswood, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 1 December 1878.
Initially opened as Edom, the station has been renamed three times: to Bayswater on 1 September 1881, Spottiswoode on 1 October of that year, and Spotswood on 1 August 1905.
As with the suburb it serves, the station was named after John Stewart Spottiswoode, who purchased land in the area in 1841.
Over the years, a number of sidings were provided for businesses in the area. In 1914, a branch line was opened at the down end of the station to the Newport Power Station, in addition to a number of other sidings serving oil terminals in the area. A siding at the up end of the station served the Australian Glass Manufacturers factory, and was used to receive sand trains from Koala Siding (near Nyora on the South Gippsland line). The last sand train operated on 15 January 1998.
In 1972, both platforms were extended. In 1988, a number of points and dwarf signals at the station were abolished. In 1989, boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Hudson Road level crossing, located at the up end of the station.
In 1994, a number of alterations occurred at the station, including the removal of a crossover at the down end, as well as the overhead wire for siding "K", the connections for siding "K" and the oil sidings, and a number of points and signals.
There is a disused signal box at the up end of Platform 1, which was decommissioned on 12 August 2001, along with the removal of the crossover at the up end, a number of dwarf signals, and a siding. In 2007, the remains of some sidings that ran along public roads in the area were removed by Hobsons Bay Council.
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Chapters
0:00 Railway heading south
0:26 Railway heading north
1:17 Hudsons Road
2:11 Trains
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visualjourneydrone@gmail.com
Drone footage of Spotswood metro railway station and surrounding precinct. Filmed 26 November 2025.
This station is scheduled will be completely rebuilt as part of the Hudsons Road crossing removal which will be commencing within the next 12 months and scheduled for completion in 2028. It is proposed to introduce sky-rail.
Spotswood station is a Metro Trains Melbourne railway station on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, which are part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the western suburb of Spotswood, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 1 December 1878.
Initially opened as Edom, the station has been renamed three times: to Bayswater on 1 September 1881, Spottiswoode on 1 October of that year, and Spotswood on 1 August 1905.
As with the suburb it serves, the station was named after John Stewart Spottiswoode, who purchased land in the area in 1841.
Over the years, a number of sidings were provided for businesses in the area. In 1914, a branch line was opened at the down end of the station to the Newport Power Station, in addition to a number of other sidings serving oil terminals in the area. A siding at the up end of the station served the Australian Glass Manufacturers factory, and was used to receive sand trains from Koala Siding (near Nyora on the South Gippsland line). The last sand train operated on 15 January 1998.
In 1972, both platforms were extended. In 1988, a number of points and dwarf signals at the station were abolished. In 1989, boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Hudson Road level crossing, located at the up end of the station.
In 1994, a number of alterations occurred at the station, including the removal of a crossover at the down end, as well as the overhead wire for siding "K", the connections for siding "K" and the oil sidings, and a number of points and signals.
There is a disused signal box at the up end of Platform 1, which was decommissioned on 12 August 2001, along with the removal of the crossover at the up end, a number of dwarf signals, and a siding. In 2007, the remains of some sidings that ran along public roads in the area were removed by Hobsons Bay Council.
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Chapters
0:00 Railway heading south
0:26 Railway heading north
1:17 Hudsons Road
2:11 Trains
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visualjourneydrone@gmail.com
