Parliament railway station

Parliament station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Burnley, Caulfield, Clifton Hill and Northern group lines, which are part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves Melbourne city centre and the suburb of East Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Parliament is an underground premium station, featuring four platforms, two island platforms on two floors connected to street level via two underground concourses. It opened on 22 January 1983.

Parliament is one of the three underground stations on the City Loop. As of 2023-24 it carries 5.863 million passengers per year, making it the fourth-busiest station on the metropolitan network, approximately half of its usage prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parliament is served by eleven lines organised into four groups. The station is also served by two tram routes on Bourke Street, four tram routes on Macarthur Street, and three tram routes on Spring Street.

Parliament station opened in 1983, and it was named after the Parliament House, which is located just east of the station. During the station's construction, the platforms of the station were built through tunneling. When the station opened, it had the longest escalator in the Southern Hemisphere but were surpassed, in 2022 and 2024, by the escalators at Airport Central station in Perth and Central Station in Sydney.