👀 Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne, Australia According to the official history, the building was completed in 1909. The first electric train is said to have run from Flinders Street to Essendon in 1919, and by 1923, with 2,300 trains and 300,000 passengers daily, it was considered the busiest passenger railway station in the world. In my opinion, this beautiful building—as well as the entire transport system—originated in the Old World.