[4] Jolimont is one of two stations that are close to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the other being Richmond.

[5] Jolimont station opened on 21 October 1901, when a direct railway line was provided between Princes Bridge and Collingwood.

[4] Like the locality itself, the station was named after the French words 'joli mont',[6][7] which translates to 'pretty mount' in English.

The name was believed to have been given by the French-Swiss wife of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria's first Governor.

In the late 1920s, it was sold and re-erected in Canberra, on the site of the present Jolimont Centre.