Zillmere railway station
railway station in Queensland, Australia
Zillmere is a railway station operated by Queensland Rail on the Redcliffe Peninsula line. It opened in 1888 serves the Brisbane suburb of Zillmere. It is a ground level station, featuring one island platforms with two faces each and one side platform.
Services
Zillmere is served by all Citytrain network services from Kippa-Ring to Central, many continuing to Springfield Central.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zillmere railway station” is railway station in Queensland, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zillmere, railway and station, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14935604. Authority coordinates are -27.359, 153.037. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1888.
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This entry incorporates text from “Zillmere 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.