Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is September 2012. New builds We start off down at Williams Landing, where work was progressing on the new railway station. It opened to passengers in April 2013. Meanwhile over at North Melbourne they were busy digging up the tracks to […]
Archive for September, 2022
Building the Bungaree deviation on the Ballarat line
September 13th, 2022
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Almost 20 years ago something interesting happened on the Ballarat line – a brand new stretch of railway line was built through open paddocks, cutting the travel time between Melbourne and Ballarat. This is the story of the Bungaree Deviation, which opened to trains in 2005. Some history I’ve written about the history of the […]
Selling furniture with a Melbourne tram
September 6th, 2022
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If there is one thing that’ll catch my eye, it’s anything public transport related – so it was no surprise I noticed this random advertisement for Melbourne made furniture recently. With ‘Prices so low, you could almost pay by myki‘ being the tagline, can you imagine a more Melbourne scene than a tram passing Flinders […]