Flinders Street Station
Flinders Street Station is among Melbourne's most recognisable landmarks. It is the best-known railway station in Australia.
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Station redevelopment
After more than 95 years of serving the community, any building would be in need of a revamp. Therefore, Flinders Street Station is undergoing a $10 million upgrade to ensure the building remains a structure of which all Victorians can be proud. The upgrade involves a two-year capital works program to improve the station's facilities, make it more accessible and enhance its visual appeal.
Completed works to date include:
- refurbishing platforms 10, 12 and 13 including resurfacing
- installing new escalators to provide better access to platforms 10, 12 and 13
- an additional lift for Platform 10 (giving a total of two lifts for platforms 10, 12 and 13)
- the existing V/Line booking office has been relocated to the main ticket office, providing a 'one stop shop' for railway information and ticketing
- the exterior façade of the station building has been cleaned
- a new public address system for the station concourse area has been installed
- a new commercial area has been developed at the site of the existing V/Line booking office. New tenancies have been constructed on the station concourse adjoining Swanston Street.
- white lighting
Other works at the station will include:
- the amenity of the underpasses from Elizabeth Street to Southbank and Degraves Street to Flinders Street will be improved
- the building's roof will be waterproofed. Waterproofing of the roof around the dome at the Swanston Street end of the station is complete.
Concourse rehabilitation
The Government has also spent more than $13 million on strengthening the deck of the station concourse.
Portions of the concourse deck structure were originally built in 1906. The works have addressed the deterioration of steel work and concrete arch slabs below deck level which form the concourse floor system. This will ensure the longevity of the concourse structure well into the future.
Works commenced in January 2005 and were completed on all platforms in December 2005.
Accessibility improvements
The latest works complement previous measures which began in the 1990s to improve the accessibility of the station.
This included installing lifts and escalators to link the main concourse to platforms and placing tactile tiles on platforms and the concourse to help direct people with a vision impairment to lifts and exits.
Security at the station was also improved with the installation of closed circuit television monitoring and better lighting.
Facts and figures
Each week, more than 10,300 passenger-carrying suburban train services operate to and from Flinders Street Station.
On an average weekday, more than 110,000 people pass through the station and its ten platforms.
At 708 metres long, platform 1 is the fourth longest railway platform in the world.
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station facilities is available from the Metlink website.