Flinders Street Station occupies a prominent corner site in central Melbourne, Australia, its current building the winning design of an 1899 architectural competition submitted by James Fawcett and Henry Ashworth under the entry name Green Light. Construction began in 1905 and the building was substantially complete by 1910, replacing an earlier station on the same site that had opened in 1854 as one of the first railway stations built in Australia. Built in a Federation-era Baroque style of sandstone, bluestone and granite beneath a copper roof, the building is anchored by a prominent domed corner tower and a row of clocks above its main entrance showing the departure times of each rail line, which gave rise to the enduring Melbourne meeting phrase to meet under the clocks. It remains one of the city's most photographed landmarks and one of the busiest suburban railway stations in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Building TypeRailway station terminus 1 LocationCorner of Flinders and Swanston streets, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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In Style
Source Flinders Street railway station, Wikipedia
Source Flinders Street railway station, Wikipedia
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Source Flinders Street railway station, Wikipedia
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1. Flinders Street railway station, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
Railway station terminus
Infobox, Location
on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
History section
The current station building was completed in 1909.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Flinders Street station is a major railway station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Located near Federation Square and St Paul's Cathedral, it is the busiest railway station in Victoria, serving the entire electrified metropolitan rail network (except the Metro Tunnel lines), 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, and V/Line services to Gippsland.
Opened in 1854 by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, the station, but n
In Style: Art Nouveau, Wikipedia categories
Category:Art Nouveau architecture in Melbourne
In Style: Romanesque Revival Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Romanesque Revival architecture in Australia
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
The building was originally to have been faced in stone, but that was considered too costly, so red brick, with cement render details, was used for the main building instead.
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