Funding will be made available to restore Melbourne’s 160-year-old Flinders Street station, Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews has announced.
The Victorian government has said $100 million will be committed to repairing the station’s “crumbling” exterior.
Restoration work will begin this year.
Flinders Street station joins the Melbourne Metro rail tunnel and Murray Basin Rail Project as the latest high-profile rail scheme in the region to be assured of funding by the new Labour Government.
In 2013, the previous government looked at a major redevelopment of the station and ran a competition to select the public’s favourite design.
In a statement, the Victorian government described it as “an indulgent colouring-in competition while the station fell apart, producing space-age designs but no works, no funding and no improvement”.
