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On 21 December 2017, at 4:41 pm AEDT, a driver rammed pedestrians with his car at the corner of Flinders Street and Elizabeth Street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, killing one person and injuring seventeen others, including himself. The sole fatality, an elderly man, died eight days after the attack.
Flinders Street railway station is a major railway station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the busiest railway station in Victoria, serving the entire metropolitan rail network, 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, and V/Line services to Gippsland.
Flinders Street station Hawthorn station The former Port Melbourne station, now a shop adjacent to a light rail stop. In cases where the heritage listing does not cover the entire station complex, the elements subject to the heritage listing are given.
Flinders Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid.It is exactly 1 mi (1.6 km) in length [a] and one and a half chains (99 ft; 30 m) in width.
J.W. Fawcett and H.P.C. Ashworth were the winners of a competition held for the detailed design of Melbourne's Flinders Street station. Fawcett and Ashworth's French Renaissance style design, entitled "the Green Light", was one of seventeen entries, with a winning prize of £500 (which at the time was equivalent to a well-paid, two years' wages).
Flinders Street station was the terminal of the first railway in the city, running to Sandridge (now Port Melbourne). It was later joined by the independent Princes Bridge station on the eastern side of Swanston Street , which served as the terminal for lines towards Richmond, South Yarra and Hawthorn .
In December 2022, the developer Lendlease secured planning approval for the over-site development above the Flinders Street entrance to Town Hall. [28] The nine-story office and retail development will feature station entrances opening to Swanston Street, Flinders Street and rebuilt arcades connecting to Cocker Alley and Scott Alley. [29]
Ross House was originally built as the Sargood Warehouse in 1898–1900, for Melbourne softgood importer Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, whose company name at the time was Sargood, Butler, Nichol and Ewen. [2] Frederick Sargood was a wealthy man, and is known for building the extensive house and garden, the Rippon Lea Estate in Elsternwick.