An Architectural Icon: Flinders Street Railway Station | Mega Stations | FD Engineering

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This episode follow life at Flinders Street, the oldest and busiest station in the Southern Hemisphere, with 28 million passengers a year. Will major revitalisation work to the station keep it up to speed with the spurt in passenger traffic?

With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the World's Busiest Stations, this series buys a unique first-class ticket to the secret life of the station. It follows station staff, train drivers, track maintenance crews and transport police as they battle through human drama, travel disruption and engineering challenges to keep trains on time and passengers on track.

Open 24 hours a day these amazing institutions are places of noise, colour and stunning architecture, but they are also symbols of their country - a window into the culture and history of their city and to the stories of those who live there and pass through.

Revealing the workings of the world's railways as never before, this series captures the daily dramas and challenges from stations around the world.
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