Broadmeadows Station (BMS)
A Premium Station
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18.1 km to Melb.
33min direct to FSS
151 spaces
connecting services - 
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Broadmeadows is the terminus for all electric suburban services. The line continues on to Albury in Broad Gauge, while the Standard Gauge heads for Sydney and beyond. The Standard Gauge line and Broad Gauge freight line rejoin the mainline at Jacana.All VLP country trains stop here to pick up and set down depending on direction. The electrified line will most probably be extended beyond here to terminate at Craigieburn or Somerton in the future, while the proposed Airport line may branch off just after BMS heading west.
WORKS
Works will be occuring between August 2000 and March 2001. For more information, goto the works page
1-2-1873 Station Opened 1-9-1899 Interlocked points/signals (First Signal Box) 4-9-1916 Hand gates at Camp Road 6-9-1921 Overhead live Essendon - Broadmeadows 5-6-1929 Albion Line points/signals 30-6-1929 Albion line opened for traffic. 10-7-1942 Defence siding connected. (Broadstore siding) 8-10-1960 Goods (Albion) line moved for construction of Standard Gauge. 7-12-1961 Boom gates at Camp Road (acc. Standard Gauge) Manual Control 15-11-1963 Three position signalling Essendon- Broadmeadows (See Glenroy
and Pascoe Vale)6-10-1966 Camp Road Boom Gates Automatic Operation. 26-8-1975 Riggal Street overpass. 10-6-1976 Camp Road level crossing moved 40 meters in up direction. 25-1-1978 Camp Road level crossing closed and removed, new overpass in use. 4-4-1989 Broadstore siding removed.
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Broadmeadows
(Platform 2)MVM 1 -
MVM 2 -
BOM -017 1227
018 1168
065 1104Craigieburn (Craigieburn Up) MVM 2 - 018 1152 Courtesy Rob O'Regan
Legend: MVM 1 = Small machine, MVM 2 = Large machine, BOM = Booking Office machine.
Link to Chris Gordon's website for this information...
Broadmeadows SignallingBroadmeadows Signal Box Hours - courtesy Chris Gordon
Monday - Saturday Continuously Sunday 0000-0045 and 0715-2400 (In other words - 24 hrs except 0045-0715 Sundays)
Inside of BMS Signal Box - courtesy Chris Gordon
Normally in signal boxes the levers are numbered from 1 to say 40, but Broadmeadows is a little different, it is numbered (from left to right) 31 to 40, A to E, 1 to 30. Broadmeadows Station - G543 + Apex Quarry Train - courtesy Chris Gordon
G543 and an Apex train 5/7/99 15:17pm. - It will run via Essendon. The siding on the left is "Siding A" and will hold one 6 car train. On the right is the s.g. and at the far end is the refuge siding on the left and siding B on the right. Sidings C run off the refuge siding (and are not wired for suburban trains).
