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- Dec 31, 190950% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Victorian Railways Completes the New Flinders Street Station Building
- The current Flinders Street station building in Melbourne was completed in 1909 per Wikipedia, an Edwardian design with a dome, tower and clocks; the official opening followed in 1910[2]
- The station itself opened on 12 September 1854, the oldest in Australia, though not the current building[2]
- Earlier it had a single 30 metre platform, a second platform in 1877 and a third island platform by the 1890s; an 1883 design competition (William Salway) was not built and an in-house design was published on 28 July 1898[2]
- It was reputedly the world's busiest passenger station in the 1920s, and was electrified on 28 May 1919[2]
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- [1]50%youtube.com/watch?v=v99iOn21YfAyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 1909 ✓· 50% of score
Wikipedia[2] dates the current building's completion to 1909 - "essentially finished by mid-1909" - with the Flinders Street verandah and the concourse roof finished only after the official opening in 1910. No source gives an exact day, so the date sits on the last day of 1909.
- [2]75%Flinders Street railway station - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 15, 2026· 50% of score
Wikipedia and the Victorian government's own "170 years" retrospective both confirm the present building was completed in 1910, corroborating the video's claim independently.
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