Jordanville railway station
railway station in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jordanville station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Glen Waverley line, which is part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Mount Waverley, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Jordanville station is a ground level unstaffed station, featuring an island platform, connected by a pedestrian subway to Windsor Avenue and Huntingdale Road. It opened on 5 May 1930, with the current station provided in 1964.
The station was provisionally named as Kabbareng. However, during construction, it was renamed to Jordanville.
Additionally, it is served by bus route 767. The station is approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) or around a 28-minute train ride away from Flinders Street.
Description
Jordanville railway station is located in the suburb of Mount Waverley. On the south side of the station is Winsor Avenue and Huntingdale Road is to the west.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jordanville railway station” as railway station in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6277377. Authority coordinates are -37.874, 145.112. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1930 and 1964.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Jordanville railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Jordanville railway station primary sources, Jordanville railway station archive and Jordanville research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jordanville railway station”?
- Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Jordanville railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.