Jordanville railway station

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. The station is owned by VicTrack, a state government agency, and is operated by Metro Trains Melbourne. The station is approximately or around a 28-minute train ride away from Flinders Street. Jordanville station consists of an island platform which is connected to Winsor Avenue and Huntingdale Road via a pedestrian subway. The length of the platform is approximately , long enough for a Metro Trains 7-car HCMT. There is a single station building, which primarily functions as a waiting room. Although there are ramps, they do not fully comply with the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992 as the gradient of the ramps is steeper than the maximum of 1:14 allowed under the Act. ==History==

Jordanville station opened on 5 May 1930, when the railway line from East Malvern was extended to Glen Waverley. The station was initially to be named "Summer Hill", which was abandoned due to the existing station name in Sydney and its similarity with Somerville and Somerton. Victorian Railways then came up with Kabbareng, an Indigenous word meaning "upper". The name was controversial, as evidenced by a letter sent to the editor of The Argus, on 4 March 1930, using the pseudonym "Anti-Kabbareng". An article in The Age, on 21 March 1930, stated that: "At the last meeting of the Mulgrave Council indignation was expressed at the name of Kabbareng being selected for the railway station at Box Hill-road on the new Darling-Glen Waverley line. The council's recommendation was Jordan. It was decided to ask the district Parliamentary representatives to take up the matter in support of the name selected by the council." In the 1950s, the level crossing was removed at Jordanville by moving the railway above Huntingdale road. In 2014, Metro Trains Melbourne was forced to upgrade the track near Jordanville due to the poor maintenance of tracks. == Platforms and services ==

The station is currently served by the Glen Waverley line, which is operated by Metro Trains Melbourne. Services to Glen Waverley travel east. Services to the city head towards Burnley, joining the Belgrave, Lilydale, and Alamein lines before heading to Richmond and traveling through the City Loop in a clockwise direction. • == Transport links ==

Jordanville is served by bus route 767 which departs the station from the bus stop on Huntingdale Road. • : Westfield Southland – Box Hill station ==References==