History
The original station opened on 1 March 1859 as Keilor Road. It was renamed Sydenham in 1887. Interlock gates and wickets were provided at Melton Highway in 1926, and were replaced with boom barriers in 1987.
The station was relocated in the up direction, and was renamed Watergardens in 2002, as part of the Sydenham line electrification project. V/Line services to Sunbury and Bendigo continue past Sydenham. Prior to the electrification, metropolitan electric services terminated at St Albans. The station was built as a replacement for the former Sydenham station, and was to be named Sydenham, which name was built into the brickwork of the station building. However, naming rights were sold to the adjacent shopping centre, so the station is known as Watergardens. Operationally, the railway line is referred to as either Sydenham or Watergardens or occasionally Sydenham/Watergardens.
Since the completion of the Sunbury line project, however, the name Sydenham appears to have been dropped from the station designation. Services terminating at Watergardens are now designated as "Watergardens" services, and the 3 letter station code has changed from SDM to WGS.
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