A 47-year-old Carnegie man has been charged with attempted murder, intentionally causing serious injury, affray and making threats to kill over the incident at Glenhuntly train station on Sunday.
Police say five women were injured, including four women pushed off the platform and on to the tracks in the attack.
Three elderly victims of a knife-wielding man's frenzied Melbourne train station attack are recovering in hospital.
Police say it was lucky no one was killed in the bizarre daylight ambush at Glenhuntly train station about 11am on Sunday.
Four women, including one in her 80s, were pushed off the platform onto the tracks after a 45-year-old man initially stabbed a woman's handbag and his knife broke in half.
Witness Annabelle Jiles told the Seven Network the woman in her 80s was standing on her platform with a trolley.
"And he just walked down and hit her in the face," she said.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said in a statement the women were pushed off the platform onto the tracks and all sustained non-life threatening injuries.
"Very lucky that no one was more seriously injured or killed. It was a very serious incident and could have resulted in the death of these ladies," Sergeant Jason Venturoni told reporters at the scene.
The woman in her 80s suffered head and leg injuries while another woman in her 60s suffered facial injuries, an Ambulance Victoria spokesman told AAP.
The women were taken to The Alfred Hospital where three remain in a stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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