Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne’
Photos from ten years ago: December 2014
December 31st, 2024
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Cooked next train displays at Southern Cross Station
December 24th, 2024
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It’s a hot summer day and you just want to get home, so you walk into Southern Cross Station to catch a train – only to be greeted by a failing wall of next train displays. Yep, it’s cooked Three out of the seven displays are barely visible – leaving the next seven V/Line departures […]
Bolt down bike hoops are useless
December 17th, 2024
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When you go to lock up your bike, one thing to keep an eye out for is bolt down bike hoops. As all a bike thief needs is a shifter to unbolt it from the ground. And ride away with the bike that was locked to it. It’s the reason why they say put your […]
Then and now along the West Gate Freeway
December 10th, 2024
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Today we’re taking a ‘then and now’ tour over the West Gate Bridge. PROV image via West Gate Tunnel Project Approaching the Lower Yarra Freeway We start on the Prices Highway way back in 1969, one mile away from the junction with what was then called the ‘Lower Yarra Freeway’. VicRoads photo, via West Gate […]
The saga of lifts at Watergardens station
December 3rd, 2024
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For something that was built from scratch 20 years ago, the accessibility issues at Watergardens railway station on the Sunbury line stand out – this is the story of the lifts that didn’t work, and the effort that went into fixing them. In the beginning For years Sydenham station was a wayside stop on the […]
