Since 1854, Flinders Street Station has been the heart of Melbourne and has gone on to become one of the most iconic buildings in the city. It was the first railway station built in any Australian city. Melbourne Terminus, as it was called then was a collection of weatherboard sheds. By 1926, Finders Street Station became the busiest passenger station in the world, surpassing Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris, Grand Central Station in New York and Liverpool Street Station in London.