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23 Oct, 18 tweets, 8 min read
Good Morning Flinders Street Station!
The first station on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets was the Melbourne Terminus, terminus of the Sandridge (Port Melbourne) line, opened in 1854.

Flinders Street Station c. 1854
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The first terminus had a single platform 30 m long and was located beside Fish Market building on the SW corner of Swanston & Flinders Streets.
Additional platform in 1877, along with 2 overhead bridges to provide passenger access.

FSS 1886
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Passenger carriages at Flinders Street Station c. 1870-80s
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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, Victoria, 1898
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Loco is E class 2-4-2T
FLINDERS STREET STATION IN 1886 LOOKING WEST - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
It was clear that a major station was needed. A second design competition was held in 1900.
1900 design by Fawcett & Ashworth
Work began 1900 on rearrangement of the station tracks, Work on the central pedestrian subway started in 1901, with the foundations of the main building completed by 1903.
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Construction of the new FFS continued slowly with official opening 1910.

FSS during construction, c. 1908
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Flinders Street track layout 1910
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FLINDERS STREET STATION CONSTABLE SCANLON - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
c. 1880/90s
Street scene outside Flinders Street Station, which has been decorated with flags, Melbourne, ca. 1935
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Flinders Street station 1974
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Flinders Street Up Goods R 724
Weston Langford 17 November 1962
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Flinders Street Down ARE Special A2 986
Weston Langford 21 July 1963
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Flinders Street Down Tait Suburban Up ARE Special from Yea A2 986
Weston Langford 24 November 1963
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Flinders Street Port Melbourne Suburban R 766
Weston Langford 21 March 1964
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Video 2016:
Flinders Street Station: a Melbourne icon
Film: Made by National Film Board 1953.
On Time

More than a million train passengers a day go through the gates at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne.
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25 Oct
Good Morning North Melbourne!
Open 1859 2 platforms. Six platform station opened 1886. Between Spencer St and North Melb. was located the Melb. Yard and the North Melb. locomotive depot was located near the station.

Inner & Western Melbourne 1930
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The North Melbourne locomotive deport was described in VR circles as ' the hub of the universe '.

Melbourne goods yard 1914.
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The North Melb. loco depot is top right. It replaced the Spencer Street loco depot in the 1880s. Three turntables were provided. Image
North Melbourne Station layout 1923
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24 Oct
Good Morning Murrumbeena!
When in Melbourne this is my home station.
Opened May 1879 single line, duplicated 1883.
Sparked 1922.
A signal box was at the northern end of platform 1 removed in 1979. Two sidings were located southern end of platform 2.
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Line profile (part) South Yarra - Noble Park
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Murrumbeena Railway Station Estate c. 1880 viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1550… via @Library_Vic Image
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23 Oct
Princes Bridge Station
Opened as the isolated city terminus of the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Co. line to Punt Road (Richmond) in 1859. Extended to Prahran in 1859 and Chapel Street (Windsor) in 1860.
The station was connected to Flinders St in 1865.
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Isometrical plan of Melbourne and suburbs in 1866
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Princes Bridge Station, Swanston St, Flinders St Station.
Second Princes Bridge spanning the Yarra river.
Princes Bridge station was closed in 1865 but reopened in 1879 for terminating Gippsland trains.
Princes Bridge 1886
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Engine shed, coal stage and turntable in the yard.
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22 Oct
Spencer Street station established 1859, 5 years after the Melbourne Elizabeth Street (later Flinders Street) station 1854. Princes Bridge 1859. Direct connection between Flinders Street - Spencer Street 1875. Princes Bridge - Flinders Street 1865.
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1866 Isometrical plan of Melbourne & suburbs
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Princes Bridge station left. Melbourne (FSS) across Swanston Street. Round the corner Spencer Street station and yard can be seen. Early Sandridge railway bridge can be noted.
SPENCER STREET STATION CIRCA 1872 B CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No.64 LOOKING SOUTH TOWARDS LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Single main platform with a dock platform at the north end.
B 2-4-0 passenger built Beyer Peacock 1862.
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21 Oct
Good Morning Ballarat!
Ballarat station (as Ballarat West) opened April 1862 when railway from Geelong was completed. The train hall and north station buildings date from 1862 and the south building with its clock tower was added in 1889.

Looking SE
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Ballarat station 1875.
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Initial structures, added to 1889.
Ballarat Railway Station circa 1890
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The direct line to Melbourne opened 1889.
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20 Oct
Good Morning Bendigo!
Opened on 21 October 1862 as Sandhurst, name was changed in 1891 when city renamed Bendigo.
Railway workshops opened by VR at Bendigo in 1917.
Bendigo was a major railway centre.

Victorian railway map 1870
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Victorian railway map 1947
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Bendigo is at the centre of this section of the map.
Bendigo diagram 1928
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