Structural Problems - Armadale Station
Cracking, horizontal and vertical displacement of the brickwork for the outer platform shelter structures at Armadale station. The station is of one of four similarly designed ones between Caulfield and South Yarra built as part of a large scale project to lower the rail lines to remove numerous level crossings and expand the section of line from two to four tracks.
The stations at Malvern, Armadale, Toorak and Hawksburn were built to a common design by James W Hardy and were completed in 1914 with the quadruplication work coming into service in October 1915. The stations consist of a central island platform with outer side platforms all linked by a pair of enclosed footbridges. A similarly designed example is located at Camberwell on the Lilydale/Belgrave lines.
In recent years the shelters on the outer platforms have had cracking in the brickwork and significant horizontal movement, particularly near the arch structures over the platform entrances - which themselves have all been supported by a steel insert pinned at multiple locations into the brickwork. In many cases there have been survey markers placed to monitor the progression of movement.
In addition an elevated shop built at the top of the station platform facing Cheel Street also has major problems with differential settlement and has been held together with an enclosed steel frame at the top parapet of the structure with the three brick columns at the rear on the platform supported by steel props with temporary fencing around the platform side. The Armadale Village Deli which traded from the site was forced to 'temporarily' move owing to the unsafe condition of the structure.
Structural Problems - Armadale Station
Cracking, horizontal and vertical displacement of the brickwork for the outer platform shelter structures at Armadale station. The station is of one of four similarly designed ones between Caulfield and South Yarra built as part of a large scale project to lower the rail lines to remove numerous level crossings and expand the section of line from two to four tracks.
The stations at Malvern, Armadale, Toorak and Hawksburn were built to a common design by James W Hardy and were completed in 1914 with the quadruplication work coming into service in October 1915. The stations consist of a central island platform with outer side platforms all linked by a pair of enclosed footbridges. A similarly designed example is located at Camberwell on the Lilydale/Belgrave lines.
In recent years the shelters on the outer platforms have had cracking in the brickwork and significant horizontal movement, particularly near the arch structures over the platform entrances - which themselves have all been supported by a steel insert pinned at multiple locations into the brickwork. In many cases there have been survey markers placed to monitor the progression of movement.
In addition an elevated shop built at the top of the station platform facing Cheel Street also has major problems with differential settlement and has been held together with an enclosed steel frame at the top parapet of the structure with the three brick columns at the rear on the platform supported by steel props with temporary fencing around the platform side. The Armadale Village Deli which traded from the site was forced to 'temporarily' move owing to the unsafe condition of the structure.