Parliament railway station, Melbourne

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Parliament
Station information

Code	PAR
Distance from Flinders St	1.2 km
Lines	All lines
# Platforms	4
# Tracks	4
Status	Premium station
Metlink profile	Link
Melway map	Link
Google map	Link
Metcard Zone	1

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

Despite its low usage outside peak time, Parliament railway station is heavily used by commuters during peak hour.

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 three underground levels. It has a concourse level and four platforms on the two levels underneath. Each platform serves a separate group of rail lines that leave the Loop and radiate out into the city's suburbs. The station opened on January 22, 1983.

Parliament has two separate concourses. They each have a ticket office, toilets and ticket operated gates. The northern one has three escalators and a lift going down to the platforms. It has a lift and steps leading to the exit at the junction of Spring, Lonsdale and Nicholson Streets. The southern concourse has four escalators going to the platforms. It has three exits via steps. One set leads to MacArthur Street, the other two exits are in Spring Street. One is on the corner of Bourke Street and the other, near Collins Street.

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 interchange with tram routes 86, 95 and 96 along Bourke Street; 31, 109, and 112 on Collins Street; and the free City Circle tram.

The lower platforms are 42 metres below street level - the lowest point in the City Loop, thus making platforms 3 and 4 the deepest of any underground stations in Australia. When it opened seven of its thirteen escalators were (and may still be) the longest in the southern hemisphere.

Station Navigation
"City Loop"
Melbourne Central	Anti - Clockwise	\|	Clockwise	Flinders Street
Alamein, Belgrave, Cranbourne, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Lilydale, Pakenham & Sandringham lines
Previous Station	Refer to City Loop	\|	Richmond	Next Station
Epping & Hurstbridge lines
Previous Station	Refer to City Loop	\|	Jolimont	Next Station
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