Flinders Street Station Upgrade

The $100 million upgrade of Flinders Street Station continues with improvements to the Elizabeth Street Subway underway.

The subway toilets will be fully refurbished, with all original heritage features maintained. The current location of the male and female toilets’ will be swapped to best service the users of each facility.

Unisex accessible and parent room facilities will be included in the refurbishment.

Access within the station will also be improved with reopening of an original internal staircase connecting the subway and Platform 1.

A new entry from the western end of Platform 10 will also be constructed, allowing passengers to directly access Platforms 10, 12 and 13.

This new entrance will feature myki barriers, ticketing facilities, weather protection and lighting. Metro customer service staff will also man this new entrance.

Both the subway and Platform 10 will remain open throughout works and alternative toilet facilities are available on the main concourse.

Works are expected to be complete by the end of 2017.

Passengers can now catch a glimpse of Flinders Street Station's original 1910 colour with the first repainted section now complete.

Scaffolding has been installed on Flinders Street at the western end of the Administration Building, to enable extensive restoration works.

These works will include repairs to the façade of the iconic building and repainting it to its original 1910 colours.

The scaffolding has been placed above the station awning, supported by ground-level towers running along the building’s northern façade.

For the safety of the public and workers, a construction zone is fenced off underneath the scaffolding, which reaches just over a metre from the building.

Shops along the Flinders Street side of the Administration Building will be open throughout the works, and pedestrians can still use the footpath, although it is now narrower.

Scaffolding had already been installed on the Platform 1 side of the Administration Building to allow roof replacement, waterproofing and painting works to be carried out.

The scaffolding on both sides of the Administration Building will remain in place until 2018.

Minister for Major Project and Public Transport Jacinta Allan announced today that Flinders Street Station will be restored to its original 1910 colours.

The current mustard colour will become a lighter, stone colour, while the maroon sections and green trimmings will be darkened, to reflect the station’s appearance when it first opened more than 100 years ago.

Flinders Street has been repainted five times since the early 1900s. Determining the original colours involved detailed forensic analysis by the University of Melbourne, to peel back the layers and find the original paint.

Repainting will happen in sections, and is expected to be complete by the end of next year.

As well as repairing and restoring Flinders Street Station’s façade, the $100 million upgrade will fix the leaky roof, upgrade the entrances and make the busy station more functional for passengers.

Work is already well underway. The toilets on the main concourse have been refurbished, better lighting has been installed on the platforms and repairs have begun on the administrative building.

The project is expected to be complete in 2018.

Public Transport Victoria (PTV) thanks passengers for holding on as the main concourse toilets at Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station received a complete refurbishment as part of the $100 million Flinders Street Station Upgrade Project.

The facilities were previously amongst the most complained about on the network and have been upgraded in response to passenger feedback submitted to PTV.

The new facilities are cleaner and more accessible than ever before and have been reopened on Friday in time for this weekend’s AFL matches and Open House Melbourne events.

The $100 million upgrade project has seen access to the station with faster Next Generation myki gates as well as upgrades to toilets.

Going forward PTV will be refurbishing the facilities on the Elizabeth Street end of the station as well as revitalising the iconic station with a series of improvements and building refurbishments to make the station easier to access and use.

Capacity in both the Male and Female toilets has also been increased to reduce waiting time during busier hours as well as improved access to the DDA compliant bathroom.

The entire project will be complete by the end of 2018 to ensure the iconic station is in ideal condition to serve the 200,000 passengers that pass through each day.

Works will commence on June 6 2016 to completely refurbish the men’s, women’s and accessible toilets and baby change facility in the station’s main concourse.

The refurbishment includes increasing the number of cubicles, relocated and new accessible toilet facilities for passengers with disabilities, new baby change facilities, new fittings, retiling, repainting and providing better ventilation.

All amenities on the main concourse will be closed for eight weeks while these essential upgrade works are completed.

Alternative nearby facilities nearby for passengers and staff are located at:

-Elizabeth Street subway facilities will remain open with extended hours

-twelve portable toilets will be available between Platforms 1 and 14 beneath the main concourse

-Travellers Aid within the main concourse will provide accessible bathroom and baby change facilities

-Federation Square which will remain open from 7am to midnight.

The station’s Elizabeth Street subway toilets will be upgraded later in 2016, with design works already underway.