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Nunawading railway station is located on the Lilydale and Belgrave lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Nunawading and opened on 4 June 1888 as Tunstall. It was renamed Nunawading on 1 November 1945.

Description
Nunawading railway station is located in Nunawading, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is owned by the Victorian Rail Track Corporation (VicTrack), a Victorian state government agency, and makes up part of the PTV system. It is a fare Zone 2 train station, approximately a 32-37 minute train journey from Flinders Street. The next station to the east is Mitcham railway station, and the next station to the west is Blackburn railway station.

The station consists of two platform facings on a single island platform, with a length of 135 m. Nunawading station is a trench station built in a cutting perpendicular to the arterial Springvale Road, and parallel to Oval Way and Laughlin Avenue. A 60 metre long underpass connects the east side of Springvale Road and Station Street to the station, with stairs and an elevator connected to access the underpass. The west side of Springvale Road is connected to the station by another set of stairs and elevator. Both entrances are fully accessible, and the west entrance also contains a shelter, toilet, café and ticketing office, classifying it as a premium (fully staffed) station. On the east side there are two bus bays and a bus stand, as well as a set of carparks on Station Street, while the west side contains a parking area on the corner of Springvale Road and Laughlin Avenue, and a singular bus stand.

History
Nunawading station opened almost six years after the railway line from Camberwell was extended to Lilydale. Like the suburb itself, the name of the station is from an Indigenous word, numphawading, meaning ceremonial ground or battlefield. The settlement immediately adjacent to the station was originally named after Tunstall, England, famous for its potteries.

In 1956, boom barriers replaced hand gates at the former Springvale Road level crossing, which was located at the up end of the station.

In 1979, the station was one of three used as trial sites for new bike lockers under the Melbourne Bicycle Strategy, available either for occasional, monthly, or quarterly hire.

On 18 December 2009, the original ground-level station closed as part of a grade separation project to replace the Springvale Road level crossing. A new station, in a cutting west of Springvale Road, opened on 11 January 2010.

Platforms and services
Nunawading is served by Lilydale and Belgrave line trains and consists of an island platform with two faces located on the western side of Springvale Road, with concourses on both sides of the road.

The main concourse, on the western side, comprises a customer service counter, an enclosed waiting room, toilets and a café. The concourse on the eastern side is linked to the platforms via an underpass beneath Springvale Road. Both concourses have stairs and lifts that provide access to the platforms. Both concourses of the station have access to the Ringwood – Box Hill bike path. On the platforms, there are metal benches, vending machines, and passenger information displays. The station car park is on the corner of Laughlin Avenue and Springvale Road.

Platform 1:
 * all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street
 * all stations and limited express services to Flinders Street

Platform 2:
 * all stations services to Lilydale
 * all stations services to Belgrave

Transport links
Kinetic Melbourne operates two bus routes via Nunawading station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
 * : to The Pines Shopping Centre
 * SmartBus : Chelsea station – Westfield Airport West

Ventura Bus Lines operates one route to and from Nunawading station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
 * : to Box Hill station