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Sandringham Line

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​ Today , I’m visiting every station on the Sandringham Line! First, let’s restate some base rules - When I’m doing a whole line at once, I need to stay on the trains of that line where possible. So if I’m doing the Sunbury Line going from Flinders Street to North Melbourne, I have to take a Sunbury-bound train to get to North Melbourne. In order to mark a station as visited, I need to be there for at least a minute, so no getting off and immediately getting back on again. Understood? Let’s go. Planned route today is Sandringham - Richmond - Hampton - South Yarra - Brighton Beach - Prahran - Middle Brighton - Windsor - North Brighton - Balaclava - Gardenvale - Ripponlea - Elsternwick. Sandringham (9:28am) And we start off today at the line terminus of Sandringham! I don’t know offhand how old this station is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the building dates back at least a century — there’s a plaque there from the 1910s. Overall pretty nice, though the waiting area (which I forgot to