Comments on: Photos from ten years ago: May 2014

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:54:55 +0000

In reply to Jordan. I suspect the problem is getting access to the ceiling - it is above active electrified railway lines, so would need an extended shutdown of trains get get up there, along with some very specialised elevated work platforms.

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:53:29 +0000

In reply to Arfman.

Southern Cross was quite a mice station when it was first completed, but it went downhill within a few years.

https://wongm.com/2011/09/the-bastardisation-of-southern-cross-station/

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:52:35 +0000

In reply to Graeme Hammond.

Back in 2011 I went for a walk along Buckley Street and photographed the boarded up houses.

https://wongm.com/2011/10/compulsorily-acquired-at-middle-footscray/

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:50:05 +0000

If (as suggested by you Marcus), someone may have hit the electricity connection whilst constructing the office towers above platforms 15/16, why couldn’t they just run a new wire connection to tap into the existing electrical infrastructure that’s already there?

By: Arfman

Arfman — Thu, 30 May 2024 10:58:47 +0000

They had lights at platform 15? It’s ridiculous it still hasn’t been fixed. It’s so dark at that part of the station.

By: Graeme Hammond

Graeme Hammond — Tue, 28 May 2024 10:46:46 +0000

For a couple of years I produced a double-page feature each week in the Sunday Herald Sun called Your Street, where I doorknocked a street in a Melbourne suburb or Victorian town and wrote about the people who loved there. In July 2011 I called on Buckley Street, Seddon and interviewed a handful of people who were still in the last of the homes that had been compulsorily acquired by the state government. They were sad stories — people who had bought their homes, expecting to stay there forever, and after a bungled government announcement (the media was told before they were) they learned they would have to leave and try to find a home somewhere else — invariably much further away and much smaller. They were surrounded by boarded up empty houses and pleaded with the government to demolish them once they were empty so the area didn’t look like a hellhole.