Repair work on southern cross station s roof is due to begin at the end of april and last 12 to 14 weeks.
Southern cross station roof collapse.
Rail and hail ripped large holes in the roof of southern cross station leading to its evacuation and forcing metropolitan and country trains to bypass the station.
Spencer street station is the only one of the five stations on melbourne s city loop to serve both regional and interstate rail as well as bus connections and is as such melbourne s central station.
The company was set up in 1996 by a businessman named john.
The transformed station now named southern cross station improves intermodal transfers between the rail bus tram and taxi services.
It is 23m at its highest point.
Station chief executive phil walker said the station would try to minimise disruption.
The roof was specially designed to allow the diesel fumes hot air and exhaust gases to move upwards and be dispelled through louvres using the force of the existing winds.
It just missed me.
Southern cross station roof collapse on top of me on the saturday of the storm.
The station is owned operated and maintained by.
Local reports say that no one was injure.
Southern cross the troubled care home operator stands on the brink of collapse this week just fifteen years after it was created.
Southern cross station has a roof area of 34 000m which gives this excellent potential for storm water recycling.
The roof s form plays a crucial role as part of the environmental envelope ensuring that it is symbol of sustainable architecture developed in response to the hot external climate and the internal need for diesel extraction and ambient cooling via natural ventilation.
Transport mural comes home in april 2007 a 36m long and 7m high mural illustrating significant stages of victoria s transport history from 1835 to 1935 was returned to its home at southern cross station.
The design focus of southern cross station is the dune like roof that covers an entire city block.
Southern cross station is popular for its undulated trapezoidal roof system covering an entire city block of about 60 000 square metres.