I didn’t get around to posting this last month: old photos from ten years ago, January 2013 edition. Myki had just taken over from Metcard, and while it would take a while for all the old equipment to be removed, temporary signage was placed over the old ticket machines on trams. Myki has that unexplained ... [More]
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Dandenong line debacle
After almost a month of major works, including bus replacements for trains between the City and Dandenong and Moorabbin, trains returned to the Frankston and Dandenong (Cranbourne/Pakenham) lines on Saturday 28th January. The works included rationalisation of the junction at Caulfield, points installed near the Metro tunnel eastern portal in South Yarra, and a lot ... [More]
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30 years on
Once upon a time, this blog wasn’t all transport content; it also marked personal milestones. This is one of those posts. 26th January wasn’t always Australia Day. In Victoria, prior to the Public Holidays Act of 1993, the public holiday was always on the Monday on or after the 26th. In 1993, as people on ... [More]
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Check your old Myki cards
It’s worth checking your old cards for any left over Myki Money, and requesting a refund or balance transfer.
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Off the beaten track
Lead photo: the Snowy River After some time on Friday (6th January) spent exploring the National Gallery and some of Canberra’s public transport, we walked to Kingston Foreshore for dinner. It’s like a medium-density Docklands, but further from the CBD, and with enough of interest that it actually gets people from other areas visiting. Also ... [More]
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Exploring Canberra’s PT
On our trip to Canberra, I got to spend a few hours exploring a little bit of the public transport system. It’s mostly buses, but one light rail (tram) line opened in 2019, and I was keen to see it. There’s also a railway station in Kingston in Canberra’s south, with regional trains to Sydney ... [More]
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Canberra: Heading north
(Not much transport content here – check the next post for that!) I’ve just come back from a road trip to Canberra. Why Canberra? My partner M wanted to see the Cressida Campbell exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. And I was keen to see the new(ish) light rail line. Why by road? Mostly ... [More]
It’s January, and while lots of people have heard about the City Loop closure, less well-publicised are the shutdowns on the Hurstbridge, Alamein, Cranbourne/Pakenham and Frankston lines… plus more lines in the evenings. Anyway, here’s something related – an expansion of a comment answer I left on a recent post. The question was about how ... [More]
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Farewell to 2022
Can it be the end of the year already? I know there have been a few tumultuous events this year – the passing of Elizabeth II, the awful war in Ukraine, and both Federal and State elections. But for me it’s felt like a bit of a nothing year. A holding pattern. COVID retreated a ... [More]
Here’s the last of the ten year old photo posts for this year, covering December 2012. Today is the tenth anniversary of the day that Metcard was finally switched off across the tram network, and Myki became the only ticket available for travel on Melbourne’s public transport. (The Herald Sun has an article on this ... [More]