A 47-year-old man is facing attempted murder charges after a group of women were randomly attacked and pushed onto the tracks at a Melbourne train station on Sunday.

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Police at the scene of the attacks at Glenhuntly railway station. Credit:Seven News

The alleged rampage could have easily turned fatal, police said, after the man used a large kitchen knife to slice a woman's handbag during the mid-morning ordeal.

When the knife broke, police allege the man attacked train passengers who were waiting at Glenhuntly station, reportedly as a train was approaching, and began pushing them off the platform.