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Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station: Flinders Street Railway Station (16331352554)
Flinders Street Station: Melbourne (AU), Flinders Street Railway Station -- 2019 -- 202623

Photo: National Library of Australia from Canberra, Australia · No restrictions · via Wikimedia Commons

Station · Melbourne, Australia

Flinders Street Station

On the globe
Dated
Current building 1905–10
Declared purpose
Railway station
Today
Survives, still a station
Build time
About 5 years
Region
Australia/NZ
Architect of record
Fawcett and Ashworth, architects: about when credited (1899, born ). Build time on record: about 5 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A domed station with a clock tower on the Yarra.

  1. A dome for trains

    A domed and clock-towered station like a palace.

  2. The world's busiest

    It was reputedly the world's busiest passenger station in the 1920s.

Questions worth asking

  • Why such a palace-like station for a city of its size in 1905?

Possible original uses

  • Station

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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