Waking up in Geelong

I’ve written before about how rail projects in Melbourne have an almost obsessive insistence that car parking spaces cannot be lost, but a few years ago the Sunbury Line Upgrade project took it to the extreme, going to great extents to ensure that a total…

There’s something I’ve noticed every morning I’ve passed through the Collins Street end of Town Hall Station – there’s always a massive line to take the lift.

Now that the Melbourne Airport Rail project has restarted, there are tracks, bridges, and stations that need to be built.

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is September 2016.

It’s been almost a year since Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel opened, but outside Town Hall station on Swanston Street there is something still missing – the shelters for passengers waiting at the southbound tram stop.

You’ll find blue pallets branded ‘Chep’ everywhere.

When you look at the front and read destination boards on Melbourne’s High Capacity Metro Trains, you might think they are simple LED displays.

By now everyone has probably gotten to know the platforms and passageways that make up the stations of Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel – but what about the backrooms?

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is August 2016.

It’s only been six months since Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel opened full time for passengers, but if you take a look at the filth on the station platforms you might think they’re much older.

I was recently lucky enough to get a behind the scenes look at the new Maidstone tram depot in Melbourne’s west – so let’s take a wander around!

For over two decades Melbourne has slowly been replacing old fashioned kerbside tram stops with modern platform stops that protect tram passengers from being hit by speeding motorists – but the seems to have government has little interest in moving any fa…

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is July 2016.

If you keep your eyes open you can see all kinds of interesting things – and for me the most recent one was thanks to a sticker on a piece of scrapped machinery in an otherwise empty piece of land in Melbourne’s western suburbs.

A decade ago there was an abandoned ferry called ‘Queen of Melbourne’ anchored off Geelong.

Jens Lekman is best known as Swedish musician who sings melancholic love songs, so while listing to his 2012 album I Know What Love Isn’t a had a double take when I heard him mention about a “Melbourne summer” on the track Become Someone Else’s.