Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is January 2014. Regional Rail Link Work on the Regional Rail Link project is an ongoing theme, and this month is no different. Over the Christmas and New Years break, rail access to the country platforms at Southern Cross Station was […]
Archive for January, 2024
How to calibrate a speed and red light camera
A few years ago I spotted something of note while out driving – a forest of traffic cones set up around the combined speed and red light camera system at the intersection of Mount Alexander Road and Maribyrnong Road in the Melbourne suburb of Ascot Vale. I pulled over to take a closer look, and […]
Photographing every railway station in Melbourne – revisited
There are over two hundred railway stations across Melbourne, so for someone who has spent 15 years of photographing trains, and with over 100,000 photographs catalogued online, taking a photo at each station should have happened long ago. And I have – with some caveats! The back story I first looked into how many railway […]
Farewell to Melbourne’s first electric bus
This is the story of Melbourne’s first electric bus, which doesn’t even operate in Victoria any more. The story starts in 2019, when Melbourne-based bus body builder Volgren was building a prototype electric bus on an imported BYD K9 chassis. In July 2019 Volgren completed the prototype of its first ever pure-electric bus, a product […]
The train that flew from Melbourne to India
The Alstom factory at Dandenong has a long history of building trams and trains for the Melbourne public transport system, through predecessors Bombardier, Adtranz, ABB and Commonwealth Engineering. However they have also built rollingstock for the overseas market, such as these two Indian Railways WAP5 electric locomotives that left Australia onboard an Antonov An-124 heavy […]