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Parliament is an underground railway station in the suburban train network of Melbourne, Australia. It is one of five stations (and one of three underground) that comprises the City Loop, which encircles the central business district.

Parliament, like the other two underground City Loop stations (Flagstaff and Melbourne Central) has four platforms over two levels, each one serving a separate group of rail lines that leave the Loop and radiate out into the city's suburbs. The station was opened for public use on January 22, 1982.

The station services Melbourne's government district, and is located underneath the Parliament House of Victoria and the intersection of busy Bourke Street with Spring Street at the eastern end of the CBD. Passengers can easily interchange between the station and the numbers 86, 95, and 96 tram routes along Bourke Street, the numbers 11, 12, 31, 42, 109, and 112 routes on Collins Street, and the free City Circle tram.

Curiously, on the platforms at Parliament Station, there are signs on the electrical cupboards warning of presence of asbestos inside the cupboard, and warning of the possibility of getting cancer from asbestos fibres located inside the cupboards. There are also signs stating that photography is banned on the platforms at Parliament station.

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