Archive for July, 2018

Photos from ten years ago: July 2008

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is July 2008. At North Melbourne station work was continuing on the new concourse, with a massive steel and timber crash deck at the city end of the platforms allowing construction to continue while trains continued running below. While in the […]

Planning upgrades to the Cranbourne line – or lack thereof

At this moment the Cranbourne railway line is a bustling place, with construction underway on two grade separation projects, a short section of track duplication, and construction of a road bridge soon to start. But who is coordinating all of these works? The answer – nobody. Work kicks off In November 2015 the Andrews Labor […]

V/Line trains and antimacassars

The word for today is ‘antimacassar‘ – a piece of cloth placed on the back of a chair to protect the seat fabric from dirt. A decade ago they were a common sight onboard V/Line trains. They were fitted to the seats onboard the Sprinter trains. Photo by Jb17kx, via Wikimedia Commons As well as […]

Metro Tunnel to deliver almost nothing to Melbourne’s west?

Turns out the service plan I used as the basis of this post isn’t actually a service plan – the government phoned up transport blogger Daniel Bowen to tell him it’s actually just a “base case”. So where is the real service plan? ‘More trains more often’ is one of the line being used by […]

Photos from ten years ago: June 2008

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is June 2008, and I’m running a little behind schedule!

Ramp from the footbridge down to the Irving / Leeds Street intersection