{"id":126124,"date":"2024-09-13T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=126124"},"modified":"2024-09-13T22:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:38:47","slug":"happy-170th-birthday-to-flinders-street-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=126124","title":{"rendered":"Happy 170th birthday to Flinders Street Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy 170th birthday to Flinders Street Station, first opened 12th September 1854, shown here in 1926.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Flinders Street Station<\/strong>\u00a0is the central\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Train_station\">railway station<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_Loop,_Melbourne\">rail network<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>. It is on the corner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Flinders_Street,_Melbourne&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Flinders<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Swanston_Street,_Melbourne&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Swanston<\/a>\u00a0Streets next to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yarra_River\">Yarra River<\/a>\u00a0in the middle of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Queen_Street,_Melbourne&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Queen Street<\/a>\u00a0and covering two\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_block\">city blocks<\/a>. Each weekday, about 105,000\u00a0people and 1,500\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Railway\">trains<\/a>\u00a0use the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is serviced by Metro&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Melbourne_railway_stations\">suburban and city loop services<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simple.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V\/Line\">V\/Line<\/a>&#8216;s regional services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Govt funding for more train services more often at times when people want to travel will help ensure Flinders St&#8217;s importance to Melbourne for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image from the State Library of Victoria Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First opened 12th September 1854, shown here in 1926.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":126125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12242,6822,47],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-126124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flinders-street-railway-station","category-melbourne-events","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126126,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126124\/revisions\/126126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}