Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne’

Photos from ten years ago: November 2014

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is November 2014. A trip to Sydney I decided to make the trip up to Sydney this month, catching the XPT north from Melbourne. And being greeted by a light rail vehicle tram as soon as I arrived at Central Station. […]

Freeway spaghetti bowl at Keilor Park

If there is a most underrated freeway interchange in Melbourne, it would have to be that between the M80 Western Ring Road and the Calder Freeway at Keilor Park. Taking a tour From the air there is a tangle of freeway lanes, ramps and frontage roads. The interchange having a total of sixteen bridges. Including: […]

A history of smoking on Victorian trains

Fortunately I’m young enough to have never suffered through the days of when people were allowed to smoke onboard trains in Victoria, but can remember when people were allowed to smoke at railway stations. So here is a quick history of when smoking bans were introduced. Back in the bad old days Going back the […]

Photos from ten years ago: October 2014

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is October 2014. Trains I’ve been posting about progress on Regional Rail Link for a few years now, and finally it’s the big day – VLocity VL09 was the first “proper” test train to run along the new tracks from Deer […]

Similar but different – Melbourne’s Z and A class trams

Melbourne has a massive tram network, so also needs a massive fleet of trams to operate it – almost 500 in total, ranging in age from almost new E class low floors, to the decades old W class used on the City Circle tourist service. But there are two similar but different classes of tram […]