Maidstone East railway station to platform 1 shows the alignment of a former bay platform. A third track runs as a passing track through the station between the up and down lines. A pedestrian walkway on the railway bridge provides a route to the Medway Valley Line's Maidstone Barracks station on the west of the river. Maidstone's third station, Maidstone West, is south of Maidstone Barracks. There have been plans to redevelop the station for a number of years. In 2005 Network Rail announced that they were in talks with the John Lewis Partnership who intended to build a large Waitrose supermarket on the
Maidstone, Victoria trains are more frequent). A number of different bus routes pass through Maidstone. The Maribyrnong River Trail connects cyclists to the Footscray Road off-road path and into Docklands and the Melbourne CBD. Many native species exist along the Maribyrnong River. Some species thrive in the area and often journey up and down river from Brimbank Park (5 km up river from Maidstone). The most abundant are; Maidstone, Victoria Maidstone is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km north-west from Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the , Maidstone had a population