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Kensington

railway station in Kensington, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place railway_station Q6391519
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Summary

Kensington is a railway station[1]. Kensington ranks in the top 0.96% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month, #178 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kensington[3]
  • Country: Australia[4]
  • Transport network: Melbourne rail network[5]
  • Instance of: station located on surface[6]
  • Connecting line: Tocumwal railway line[7]
  • Owned by: VicTrack[8]
  • Operator: Metro Trains Melbourne[9]
  • Named after: Kensington[10]
  • Adjacent station: Newmarket[11], North Melbourne[12], Arden[13]
  • Station code: KEN[14]
  • Commons category: Kensington railway station, Melbourne[15]
  • Coordinate location: -37.7939, 144.9307[16]
  • Official website: http://ptv.vic.gov.au/stop/view/20041[17]
  • Place served by transport hub: Kensington[18]
  • Connecting service: Craigieburn[19]
  • Date of official opening: November 1, 1860[20]
  • Fare zone: zone 1[21]
  • Date of official closure: July 1, 1864[22]
  • State of use: in use[23]

Why It Matters

Kensington is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 21w ago · Brookschofield · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/034kf1
    Imported from → —
    Place served by transport hub → Kensington
    State of use → in use
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Official website: http://ptv.vic.gov.au/stop/view/20041, Add Australian English to official website ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/4e2cc155aab|details]])"
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