Officer is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Officer, on the Pakenham railway line. Officer is unmanned, and is in Metlink Zone 2.
In 2009 it was the least used metropolitan railway station in Melbourne, with an average of 80 passenger boardings per day.
Famous quotes containing the words officer, railway and/or station:
“Oh he’s doing fine, Michael. Nevertheless, he’s an officer and a gentleman, and that’s no job for a gentleman.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)