Re: How did Flinders Street cope?

["Tom Zsolt" <tom.zsolt@employment.gov.au>]

Geoff Lambert <G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au> wrote in article
<693mem$b5g$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au>...
> keithm@commslab.gov.au (Keith Malcolm) wrote:
> 
> >In article <34B56FF8.37A0@coombs.anu.edu.au> J-P Wispelaere
<oink@coombs.anu.edu.au> writes:
> >>From: J-P Wispelaere <oink@coombs.anu.edu.au>
> >>Subject: How did Flinders Street cope?
> >>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 00:31:52 +0000

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> 
> Quite so.  There are two faulty assumptions in the original post:
> 
> * That Flinders St was the only central station.
> 
> * That the lines on the 1946 map had lots of (or any) passenger
> services that terminated in the city of Melbourne.
> 
> Spencer St station has always been there, at least from about 1860,
> and it formed the "central station" for all country services to the
> west, north and north east.  Only the east and south-east were served
> by Flinders St.
>
> Geoff Lambert
> 
I seem to remember that in the 70s, Flinders Street was described as Quote:
arguably the busiest station in the world; endquote.  I doubt whether this
could be said now.  How much truth would be in this statement for the
1970s?  This would obviously include suburban workings.

Tom Zsolt