Princes Pier

In addition to a pier, there was a gatehouse and barriers, terminal building, amenities rooms, goods lockers, ablution blocks, railway sidings and passenger gangways.

[4] A passenger rail service was provided to the pier after 30 May 1921 operated by suburban electric trains.

[5] The overhead wiring was removed on 17 August 1953, and the line singled and worked as a siding from 21 March 1961.

[5] With the containerisation boom the pier became unused, being closed to public access in the early 1990s due to the poor timber condition.

[1] A refurbishment, estimated to cost $14 million, was announced by the State Government in April 2006, with the first 196 metres of the pier to be fully restored.

Northern side of Princes Pier in 2008
Remains of the original wooden pillars forming the pier