Kilmore railway station was a railway station servicing the town of

Kilmore, Victoria Kilmore () is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. Located north of Melbourne, it is the oldest inland town in Victoria by the combination of age and physical occupation, and because it had unique agricultural attributes to drive that e ...

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. It was located on Rutledge Street, Kilmore, to the east of Assumption College. It opened on 1 October 1888 along with the first section of the Heathcote branch line. The town had previously been served by a Kilmore station east of the town on the main

North East railway line The North East railway line is a railway line in Victoria, Australia. The line runs from Albury railway station in the border settlement of Albury–Wodonga to Southern Cross railway station on the western edge of the Melbourne central busines ...

, which was renamed

Kilmore East railway station Kilmore East railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Kilmore East, and opened on 18 April 1872 as Kilmore. It was renamed Kilmore East on 1 October 1888.Lancefield railway line The Lancefield railway line, or the Clarkefield and Lancefield Railway, was a former broad gauge railway in central Victoria, connecting Clarkefield railway station on the Bendigo line to Kilmore railway station on the Heathcote line, via ...

from 1892 to 1897, after which that line (which had been a through line to Clarkefield railway station) was truncated to a spur line from Clarkefield to Lancefield). In 1912, it was reported that there had been frequent complaints made about the station being undermanned. The refreshment rooms were destroyed by fire in 1918. There were delays in rebuilding the station due to the low passenger traffic on the branch line They were later rebuilt, though were the subject of complaints that the rebuilt rooms were inadequate. It was closed to passengers in August 1965. The line through Kilmore closed to all traffic in November 1968. In 2018, the local council voted to alter the planning scheme to allow for development on the vacant former station site.

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{{reflist Railway stations closed in 1941 Disused railway stations in Victoria (state) Railway stations in Australia closed in the 1940s