Parliament railway station, Melbourne

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Parliament
Station information

Code	PAR
Distance from Flinders St	1.2 km
Line	All lines
Number of platforms	4
Number of tracks	4
Station status	Premium Station
Station facilities, connecting transport and timetables	Link
Melway map of station	Link
Google map of station	Link
Zone location	1

The stair entrance to Parliament Station, on the corner of Spring and Bourke Streets.

Parliament is an underground railway station in the suburban train 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.

Parliament, like the other two underground Loop stations (Flagstaff and Melbourne Central) has four platforms on two levels, each one serving a separate group of rail lines that leave the Loop and radiate out into the city's suburbs. The station opened on January 22, 1982.

The station services Melbourne's government district, and is underneath the Parliament House of Victoria and the intersection of busy Bourke Street with Spring Street, at the eastern end of the CBD. Passengers can easily interchange with tram routes 86, 95 and 96 along Bourke Street; 11, 12, 31, 42, 109, and 112 on Collins Street; and the free City Circle tram.

On the platforms there are signs on the electrical cupboards warning of the possibility of getting cancer from asbestos fibres inside the cupboards. There are also signs stating that photography is banned on the platforms.

The escalators are reportedly the longest in the Southern Hemisphere.

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