Normally you’ll just see parked cars in a Melbourne railway station car park, but if you’re there at the right time of day, you’ll find the Metro Trains Melbourne “Parking Inspectors Unit”. On the hunt for cars illegally parked outside of the lines. Across the dirt. In no standing zones. Or being absolute twunts and […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is August 2013. Regional Rail Link Work on the Regional Rail Link project was continuing, with the new track connections to the North Melbourne flyover taking shape to separate V/Line and suburban trains. The launching truss was also in place at […]
Melbourne is a city that has grown to depend on private motor vehicles, with a woeful bus network that fails to connect to the railway lines that do exist. So it isn’t a real surprise to see that ‘park and ride’ car parks have been seen as the solution to the problem. The early years […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is October 2010. Down in Docklands We start down in the windswept streets of Docklands. Where I had a look over the last remaining part of Melbourne Yard – the heritage listed No. 2 Goods Shed completed in 1889. And looked […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is July 2009. Remember Connex and Metcards? Here we see the ticket gates at Glenferrie station. Down at North Melbourne station the new concourse at the city end was almost complete. This massive steel deck was required to protect the gas […]
