MELBOURNE CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION

'Melbourne Central' (formerly ''Museum'') is an underground station in the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. It is one of five stations (and one of three underground) on the City Loop, which encircles the central business district. The station is under La Trobe Street, between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, on the northern edge of the CBD.
Melbourne Central is not the city's main station - Flinders Street is the city's main suburban station. It is named after Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, built above and around the station concourse. The station was originally named ''Museum'', after the nearby Melbourne Museum in the State Library of Victoria complex on Swanston Street. When the Museum moved in 1995 to its current premises besides the Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens, the station's name was changed to suit the new shopping centre.
Melbourne Central, like the other two underground City Loop stations (Parliament and Flagstaff) has an underground concourse and four platforms on the two levels below it. Each platform serves a separate group of rail lines that leave the Loop and radiate out into the city's suburbs. It opened on Sat 24 January 1981 (before Parliament and Flagstaff) with services only on platforms 2 and 4. Trains started using platforms 1 and 3, on 1 November 1982 and 24 January 1984.
It is a premium station, meaning that it is staffed from first to last train and provides extra customer services.
The concourse has two sections.
The Elizabeth Street section has escalators and staircase access to the platforms and Elizabeth Street, a booking hall, ticket operated gates and toilets that have been closed for years!
The Swanston Street end is much harder navigate.
Inside the ticket operated gates it has working toilets, and two lifts and five escalators going to the platforms. Outside is a food court, a well hidden exit to La Trobe Street, a lift, four escalators joining the level above, and Level LG of Melb Central Shopping Center which passes under Little Lonsdale Street.
On the next level (Level G) the shops lead to Little Londale and LaTrobe Streets.
The exit to Swanston Street is on Level 1. Go up the one of the three escalators and turn left. Swanston Street is at the end of the narrow walkway...somewhere...
The Swanston Steet entrance to the station is the frustration of rush hour commuters who are forced to shoulder their way through dozens of shops and a bustling food court to get to their trains.

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