Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is March 2014. A few things new on the trams A decade ago route 57 was my local tram route, and one night I heard something different clattering down the road – a brand new E class tram on test. So […]
Posts Tagged ‘Collins Street’
Confusion abounds on route 48d to Kew
Every morning a handful of route 48d trams trundle through the Melbourne CBD – but keep your wits about you, if you think they are anything like a route 48 tram without the ‘d’. They might start at the Victoria Harbour terminus at Docklands. And run down Collins Street. But after Spring Street they don’t […]
Melbourne sunrise – from the south?
Watching the sun rise in the east, then set in the west – you’d think it is simple, but sometimes it isn’t.
Moving Telstra payphones for fun and profit
A few things have been happening to the payphones in the Melbourne CBD. The first is a change to their colours, but the second is a lot more sneaky.
Fixing a falling facade on Collins Street
I have previously written about the former National Mutual Plaza building located at 447 Collins Street in Melbourne, but on January 30 it scored a mention in the local news when a one metre by two metre sized marble panel fell from the northern facade to the plaza below. So how are they fixing it?