Flinders Street Station

플린더스 스트리트역

Flinders Street Station is a major railway station on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the busiest railway station in Victoria and serves the whole electrified suburban train network, as well as 15 tram routes. Its yellow Edwardian building, topped by a green dome, a tower and a row of clocks, is one of the city's most recognisable landmarks.

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At a glance

Country: Australia
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Built: 1909
Type: Infrastructure

Quick answers

Where is Flinders Street Station?

Flinders Street Station is in Melbourne, Australia.

When was Flinders Street Station built?

Flinders Street Station was built in 1909.

Melbourne's landmark railway station, known for its mustard facade, green dome and row of clocks.

The station opened in 1854, and it is the oldest station in Australia, though not in its current building. The present building was completed in 1909 and has been on the Victorian Heritage Register since 1982.

Meet me under the clocks

Above the main entrance is a row of indicator clocks showing the next departure for each train line. Melburnians say I'll meet you under the clocks, and some say I'll meet you on the steps, meaning the wide staircase just below them.

The station is also next to two of Melbourne's busiest pedestrian crossings. At one of them, at the junction with Elizabeth Street, pedestrians cross in every direction at once in what is called a scramble.

A busy history

Flinders Street was the end of the line for the first railway in Australia, the Port Melbourne line. In the 1920s it was reputedly the busiest passenger station in the world. Passenger numbers dropped after the Second World War, and the City Loop, opened in the 1980s, took some of the pressure off.

Today the main platform is Australia's second-longest and the eighteenth-longest in the world. The complex has 13 platforms stretching across more than two city blocks, and about 77,000 people passed through each day in 2017 and 2018.

Fun facts

'Meet me under the clocks' is a famous Melbourne saying about its entrance.
A popular myth says the plans were swapped by mistake with those of Mumbai's Victoria Terminus.
The station may have been the busiest passenger station in the world in the 1920s.
Its main platform is the eighteenth-longest in the world.