Over the weekend a year blog post of mine got a mention in the Herald Sun – the subject being the new railway station at Deer Park and the platforms not quite long enough to fit a nine car V/Line train. The story starts Opposition transport spokesman and part time gunzel Matthew Guy kicked off […]
Next time you turn up to a Melbourne railway station, only to discover that buses are replacing trains for level crossing removal works, and the bus stop is an epic walk away, just remember that it doesn’t have to be that way – once upon a time public transport operators actually used to put some […]
The state government might be in the middle of spending billions of dollars removing level crossings around Melbourne, but this recent project at the Port of Melbourne has slipped under the radar – the creation of the first brand new level crossing in 30 years. 🎉 This new level crossing is located on ‘Intermodal Way‘ […]
This is the story of how the Level Crossing Removal Authority contractors tried and failed to deliver a prefabricated station building to the new Union station, part of the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Working within a constrained railway corridor, there as no space to build a new station clear of […]
You’d think providing seating for waiting passengers at a railway station wouldn’t be difficult to arrange. But over at the Level Crossing Removal Authority they seem to have a lot of trouble achieving it, as this trio of projects goes to show. North Williamstown Station – too high A new low-level railway station at North […]
