Flinders Street

This guide to Flinders Street Station in Melbourne starts with the clock changer who spent eight-hour shifts up a ladder behind the facade, turning the famous row of dials by hand to match every departing train. It traces those clocks back to the original 1854 terminus, Australia's first city railway station, then to the design competition that gave the current building its dome and colonnade, won by railway employees James Fawcett and H. P. C. Ashworth under the entry name Green Light. Stand beneath the dome and look up at the clocks as you listen.