Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is June 2013. Regional Rail Link works Quite the coincidence given the works currently underway in Melbourne’s west – June 2013 was a two week long shut down of the railway lines to Sunbury, Ballarat and Bendigo for work on the […]
Over the years there have been occasions where travelling on Melbourne’s trains have been made free – here is a short list. Christmas Day and New Years Eve Travel on trains, trams and buses has been free in Victoria on Christmas Day and New Years Eve for many years. The first reference I can find […]
With narrow platforms squeezed between passing trains, accessed by a dark and dank subway, South Kensington station is one of Melbourne’s least inviting railway stations. But despite being located in an increasingly densifying area, little has been done to improve the station, even with works for the Metro Tunnel project occurring right on it’s doorstep. […]
This is the story of how the Level Crossing Removal Authority contractors tried and failed to deliver a prefabricated station building to the new Union station, part of the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Working within a constrained railway corridor, there as no space to build a new station clear of […]
