Southern Cross station is a major railway station in Docklands, Melbourne. It is on Spencer Street, between Collins and La Trobe streets, at the western edge of the Melbourne central business district
Main entrance to the station on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets, August 2024
Lithograph of the busy station complex, looking west from the Hoddle Grid, 1889
Works on the station, November 2004
Works on the roof, January 2005
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The Overland is an Australian interstate passenger train service that travels 828 kilometres between Melbourne and Adelaide, the capital cities of Victoria and South Australia. Originally an overnight
Southern Cross railway station
…management services. Infranexus is also wholly owned by IFM. The station is the terminus of the state's regional railway network, operated by V/Line, The Overland rail service to Adelaide, and NSW TrainLink XPT services to Sydney. It is also served by metropolitan rail services, operated by Metro Trains, and…
The Overland outside Geelong, travelling westwards to Adelaide, in 2023
Heavy passenger cars, steep grades and sharp curves in the Adelaide Hills necessitated two locomotives in the early days of the Adelaide/Melbourne Express, before "Big Power" arrived
In 1951, "Big Power" steam locomotives would soon be superseded by diesel-electrics and wooden passenger cars of The Overland would be replaced by all-steel air-conditioned cars, one of which is in this train
Victorian and South Australian Railways "joint stock" sleeping car Baderloo circa 1910