Carnegie is a suburb in Melbourne

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, Victoria

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, Australia

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, 12 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district

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. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira

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. At the 2006 Census, Carnegie had a population of 15,084. Its postcode

Postal code

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 is 3163.

The suburb's main shopping precinct is on Koornang Road, between Dandenong Road and Neerim Road.

Originally called Rosstown, after William Murray Ross , a prominent property developer and entrepreneur, a name change came about due to Ross' failed speculative developments and in 1909 is was renamed Carnegie in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...

.

Toponomy

Originally called Rosstown, after developer William Murray Ross one of the early pioneers of the area. The original name lives on in the name of the local hotel, and Rosstown Road. Leila Road is named after Mr Ross's wife, and Grange Road is named after Ross's estate, The Grange, which has since been subdivided and is now suburban housing estates.

In 1909 Carnegie was chosen as a new name in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Establishment

In 1875 Ross began circulating a broadsheet proposal which detailed the Rosstown project, a large scale sugar beet processing mill, a railway line to serve it, and a residential estate, named after him on the edge of the metropolis between Melbourne and the town of Oakleigh. Although he began building the mill, it never began production, and the Rosstown Railway he constructed was never used.

However the estate sold well and gradually Rosstown had grown to a reasonable size aided by the opening of the railway to Melbourne in 1879.

Carnegie Post Office opened on 1 September 1911. Carnegie was originally part of the City of Caulfield

City of Caulfield

The City of Caulfield was a Local Government Area located about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.-History:...

 and by the 1920s it had a substantial commercial area.

The Carnegie theatre was a popular cinema in the 1930s.

Transport

The northern part of Carnegie and the Koornang Road shopping strip is served by Carnegie Station on the Cranbourne/Pakenham line. Carnegie is served by bus routes 623, 624, 626, 900 and NightRider 980. The terminus of the Carnegie tram route

Melbourne tram route 67

The Melbourne Tram Route 67 is an Australian tram route which runs back and forth from Carnegie to the University of Melbourne.The route starts at the Carnegie terminus, located in Trugininni Road at the corner of Koornang Road, and travels via Glen Huntly Road, Brighton Road, St Kilda Road and...

 is just south of the shopping centre and serves the southern part of Carnegie. The Public Transport Users Association

Public Transport Users Association

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 has instigated calls for its extension to the nearby Carnegie railway station which services the shopping centre, as a major mode interchange http://www.ptua.org.au/policy/network.

Trains

There are two train services that pass through Carnegie railway station. Both to Flinders Street station and to Pakenham or Cranbourne stations.

Destination	Destination	Via.
Flinders Street Flinders Street Station Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city...	Pakenham	Direct or the City Loop, Dandenong Station
Flinders Street Flinders Street Station Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city...	Cranbourne	Direct or the City Loop, Dandenong Station

Demographics

Carnegie has a diverse cultural cross-section, with many permanent settlers from across the globe, and transient international students studying at the nearby Monash University

Monash University

Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

(Caulfield campus).

Koornang Road

On Koornang Road alone there are restaurants and grocers offering Malaysian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Greek and Russian foods, as well as the Rosstown Hotel.

Princes Highway

Dandenong road is increasingly becoming a focus of Carnegie's development. Originally the Rosstown Hotel was the focus of this part of the commercial strip, however today there are numerous showrooms and homemaker stores including Officeworks.

Schools

The main primary school is Carnegie Primary School (No. 2897) (established in 1888 as Rosstown State School).

External links

• Australian Places: Carnegie