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The City Loop is a piece of underground metropolitan rail infrastructure in the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Platform at Melbourne Central station in the City Loop, February 2026
Construction of Museum station in July 1974, showing cut and cover excavation of La Trobe Street, with the State Library of Victoria in the background.
Construction of Museum station in July 1974 looking towards Coop's Shot Tower.
When it opened in 1985, Parliament station had the longest escalators in Australia.
Railways in Melbourne
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The Melbourne rail network is a metropolitan suburban and freight rail system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan rail network is centred around the Melbourne central
City Loop
…Southern Cross, and together with the Flinders Street Viaduct forms a ring of four individual tracks around the CBD. Eleven metropolitan lines of the Melbourne rail network run through the City Loop, organised into four separate groups, the Burnley, Caulfield, Clifton Hill/City Circle, and Northern groups. Each group has…
Flinders Street railway station, March 2021
Steam-hauled suburban train departing North Melbourne station for Sunshine, April 1913
The pre-1910 Flinders Street station building on Swanston Street
Connex train arriving at Camberwell station, June 2004