Normally you’ll just see parked cars in a Melbourne railway station car park, but if you’re there at the right time of day, you’ll find the Metro Trains Melbourne “Parking Inspectors Unit”. On the hunt for cars illegally parked outside of the lines. Across the dirt. In no standing zones. Or being absolute twunts and […]
That’s not my Box Hill railway station… the backdrop is too green. That’s not my Seddon railway station… the building is too wooden. And that’s not my Spotswood railway station… there isn’t a station there at all! So were are they? Melbourne’s Box Hill railway station has three platforms located beneath a shopping centre in […]
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 […]
A few weeks ago I went on a road trip across the Pleurisy Plains of Western Victoria, following the main Melbourne-Adelaide railway along the back roads from Geelong to Ararat. Trains It isn’t a road trip if I wasn’t trying to photograph trains! We’d been driving for a few hours before we passed out first […]
You’d think that in this day and age restoring a heritage station building wouldn’t be that difficult – but in 2010 contractors managed to screw up a job at Clunes station, sending it straight to the tip. The contract for Clunes station was dated 25 September 1874 and the polychrome brickwork station building was completed […]
