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West Footscray

railway station in West Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place railway_station Q7985169
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Summary

West Footscray is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.95% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (76 views/month, #177 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: West Footscray[3]
  • Country: Australia[4]
  • Transport network: Melbourne rail network[5]
  • Instance of: station located on surface[6]
  • Connecting line: Deniliquin railway line[7]
  • Owned by: VicTrack[8]
  • Operator: Metro Trains Melbourne[9]
  • Named after: West Footscray[10]
  • Adjacent station: Middle Footscray[11], Tottenham[12]
  • Station code: WFY[13]
  • Commons category: West Footscray railway station, Melbourne[14]
  • Coordinate location: -37.8018, 144.8853[15]
  • Official website: http://ptv.vic.gov.au/stop/view/20023[16]
  • Place served by transport hub: West Footscray[17], Footscray[18], Kingsville[19], Seddon[20]
  • Connecting service: Sunbury[21]
  • Date of official opening: October 1, 1888[22]
  • Fare zone: zone 1[23]
  • Date of official closure: November 2012[24]
  • State of use: in use[25]

Why It Matters

West Footscray is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . 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. 5w 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. 19w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Geonames id → 8015203
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Geonames id: 8015203, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/258789|batch #258789]]"
  3. 20w ago · Brookschofield · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/034k9m
    Imported from → —
    Place served by transport hub → West Footscray, Footscray, Kingsville +1
    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/20023, Add Australian English to official website ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/4e2cc155aab|details]])"
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