On 30 October 2023 the first High Capacity Metro Train carried passengers on the Sunbury line, with two morning peak hour services running direct from Sunbury direct to Flinders Street and then through to Pakenham. I went out to ride it for myself. But first, some background The first High Capacity Metro Train carried passengers […]
Each morning at North Melbourne station passengers headed for the City Loop have a question – which train will be first to depart, and which one will be stuck in the platform? Trains for the City Loop depart from platform 1 and 3. But there is only one track towards Flagstaff station. So trains have […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is December 2009. We start overlooking Southern Cross Station, where the Docklands skyline was a lot emptier. As was that of Spencer Street. And the western edge of the CBD. Back in 2009 the explosion of (flammable!) apartment blocks was yet […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is November 2009. New infrastructure Work on the new platform at Laverton was well underway, with tracks laid but not connected. At Footscray station the new footbridge was starting to look real. But the rickety old timber bridge was still in […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is September 2009. Around Geelong We start down in the Geelong suburb of Waurn Ponds. Which a decade ago was the southern terminus of the Geelong Ring Road. But work was underway to extend the freeway over the Waurn Ponds Creek […]
