Elsternwick railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It opened on 19 December 1859, serving the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick. The station was originally part of the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay United Railway Company's network. The company and network was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878 to become part of Victorian Railways. As with the suburb Ripponlea, which had been named after the adjacent "Rippon Lea Estate" of Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick had been named after the largest property in the district, Charles Ebden's "Elster".