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    Flinders Street Station, Melbourne

    Mar 20, 2019 2 minutes

    THEN

    he first station to occupy the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne was the 1854 Melbourne Terminus, a group of weatherboard train sheds. Melbourne Terminus was the first city railway station in Australia, and the first train journey out of the station was to Sandridge (now Port Melbourne). A single 30-metre

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