1911c Flinders Street Looking East P4 Benjamin R

Benjamin R

The new tug was built for the Melbourne Steamship Company Limited by Messrs

was refurbished

and the new surveyor-general (Robert Hoddle) accompanied him

1911c Flinders Street Looking East P4 Benjamin RA photo looking east along Flinders Street from near the intersection with King Street. There is a lot happening in this photo, as we see a steam train chugging along the Railway Viaduct (opened 1891) that connects Flinders Street Station with Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross Station). The area south of the viaduct was then occupied by a number of wharves that had been an essential part of Melbourne's history, but are now long gone. and we