[4] Initially opened as Greville Street, the station was given its current name of Prahran on 1 January 1867.

[4] Prahran station opened on 22 December 1860, when the railway line from South Yarra was extended to Windsor.

[4] Like the suburb itself, the station was named from the Indigenous word ‘purraran’, believed to mean ‘almost surrounded by water’.

[5][6] In 1962, boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Greville Street level crossing, located at the up end of the station.

[8] On 4 May 2010, as part of the 2010/2011 State Budget, $83.7 million was allocated to upgrade Prahran to a premium station, along with nineteen others.