Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is May 2014. Regional Rail Link The Regional Rail Link project has been an ongoing theme in this series, and this month we see progress on the rebuidling Footscray platforms 3 and 4 for V/Line trains. With V/Line services still sharing […]
You’ve seen Melbourne public transport as Arnott’s Shapes, but how about as crew cab utes? You have Metro Trains Melbourne in blue. Yarra Trams in green. V/Line in purple. And buses in orange. I cheated on the last one because it’s a van, and it’s operated by outdoor advertising company oOh!Media, who have the contract […]
A few years ago I discovered that Google Image Search applies OCR to indexed images, enabling it to return results for text that have never appeared online, and I’ve found more examples over the years since. Well, now I’ve found yet another! Who’s that bus? Back in 2023 I photographed a Transit Systems coach, with […]
In recent years ‘Made in Melbourne for Melbourne’ signs have started appearing on buses operating around Melbourne, but in reality that claim is a little stretched – we build the bus bodies locally atop an imported bus chassis. The process starts with a bus chassis – a bare steel frame with diesel engine and mechanical […]
