The cache is not at the listed coordinates.
There is, however, a rather large train station that happens to be a location in the Melbourne's City Loop Adventure Lab which, once completed, will reveal the necessary information to locate this cache.
About SideTracked Caches
This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breathtaking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too.
More Information can be found on the SideTracked Website.
To locate this bonus cache, you must first complete the City Loop Adventure Lab on Groundspeak's Adventure Lab app.
You can find it by:
- clicking this link OR
- scanning the QR code below OR
- looking for the City Loop pin on the Adventure Lab app (which is at the same coordinates as the pin for this mystery cache)
When a location is successfully answered, a journal entry will appear with a congratulations message alongside some platform number clues.
Completing all five locations will unlock all the clues you require for this bonus cache.
Once you have all of your platform numbers, consult the diagram below and substitute them into the appropriate stations.
If you need a larger version, then click on the image below or check the cache page's gallery.
Feel free to use the checker on the cache page to confirm your coordinates.
If you're just here for information on the bonus cache, then you needn't read any further than this - the following is just a bit of background on the City Loop as a whole for those who are interested and/or seeking something to read between train stops!
Contextual Ramblings
The idea of an underground rail network in Melbourne has existed in some form since the 1920s but it really took until significant increases in congestion at Flinders St Station in the 1970s to be properly considered in order to relieve the bottleneck and properly distribute commuters around the CBD.
The Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Act 1970 set the plan into motion, with construction overseen by the government-established Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority throughout the 70s before the first test train was sent around the MURL on the 4th of December, 1980, and an official ceremony was held to open the MURL on the 24th of January, 1981, by which point everyone agreed that MURL was a rubbish name and started calling it the City Loop instead.
The City Loop involves five stations and four single-track tunnels that each carry a group of suburban train lines.
What sounds like a simple concept has since become a long-running source of confusion for commuters because (and by no means is this an exhaustive list) while all suburban train lines are capable of running through the Loop, not all of them do; sometimes a few of the Loop groups switch directions depending on whether or not it's a weekday, whether it's the morning or afternoon (separated by the definitive boundary of "around 1pm"), whether or not it's convenient to do so, and (probably) sometimes just for fun; for a while, the whole thing just didn't run on Sundays at all; one station took weekends off until 2016; and, of course, all of this will change when the Metro Tunnel opens in 2025.
Fortunately, recent signage design upgrades in stations and widespread adoption of phone navigation technology have both helped to direct travellers to where they want to go despite the Loop's best efforts to send you counterclockwise on a Craigieburn train because you tried to get to Parliament after grabbing lunch on a Wednesday.
Even more fortunately, this Adventure Lab doesn't really have anything to do with the inner workings of the City Loop and instead explores the stations that are situated along it.
You will have to enter the stations to collect the answers, but specifically entering the ticketed areas isn't required - though it may be more convenient to do so in order to get a better view of some information and travel between locations if desired.
If you've scrolled down here looking to figure out the final coordinates then scroll back up - it's closer to the top (or in the gallery, if that's more your thing).