I’m falling behind in my posts of old photos from ten years ago. Here’s May and June 2015.
The Degraves Street Subway has been closed for so long for Metro tunnel works that you might have forgotten how it used to look. Here it is… note the very professional-looking “Myki top up” sign.
The Regional Rail Link was about to open, and V/Line opened the Wyndham Vale station ahead of the trains starting.
Looking along Lonsdale Street from the bridge between Myer (now Emporium) and Melbourne Central Shopping Centre.
Me and others speaking at an event for the PTV Tripathon, encouraging people to build apps on top of open data. (I think this photo was taken by PTV, swiped off their social media)
A snap of Docklands. The light seemed so perfect that this photo always reminds me of a computerised render.
Elsewhere in Docklands: who likes the Free Tram Zone? Car park owners.
Also Docklands, looking along La Trobe Street towards the water.
Ads on trains… for a car park?
The olden days, when buses used to get caught at the level crossing in my suburb.
PTV was running its “Model commuters” etiquette campaign.
Something familiar to us in 2025 is posters promoting new Myki readers. Also a thing back in 2015.
PTV was also celebrating 30 years of the City Loop. As is now rumoured for the Metro tunnel, the Loop opened in stages between 1981 and 1985. I really hope the Metro tunnel will be quicker than that!
The Sheriff’s office clamped this car… and someone wasn’t happy about it.
I think these days the Astor Theatre’s calendars are PDF only, but back in the day, you could drop past and pick up a printed copy.
PTV and V/Line were running a big campaign: “Next stop, country Victoria”…
…Perhaps what they didn’t count on was the amusing juxtaposition of old trains with the “Next stop, relics of yesteryear” slogan.
Looking along the river from the convention centre
In Collins Street, they were doing heavy renovation on Australia On Collins, completely revising the floor plan (my memory is that ground level at Collins St used to lead to the 1st floor at Little Collins Street). When the centre eventually reopened it became “St Collins Lane”, a name I was never fond of, though the ridiculous escalator operation was even worse. They’ve since closed up again.
More worthwhile renovation: extra shelter at Richmond station.
12th June 2015 marked the end of the free MX newspaper. Here’s me marking its passing with the finest ever article headline the PTUA helped on: “Commuters lost by map of crap” from 2011.
6 replies on “Old photos from May and June 2015”
There used to be escalators/stairs to get from Collins St level to Little Collins St in AoC. The St Collins Lane redevelopment changed it to a straight-through (uphill) path.
“A snap of Docklands.”
Funny that the purpose built, state-of-the-art NAB office building was abandoned by the bank years ago and they’ve moved back to the city.
Thanks for sharing your “old” photos.
You can certainly still pick up a physical Astor calendar, however they stopped producing the shiny professional looking ones during the beginning of Covid and never went back to them.
That PTV poster is gorgeous, any idea where they might be displayed or available to buy?
It’s weird seeing Richmond station look so naked, but I don’t really get around on trains too much then.
@jon, yeah, I’d being trying to remember if you went up or down a level going from Collins St to Little Collins St.
@roger, I got the impression that post-pandemic work practices prompted NAB’s change – they need far less office space than before.
@Nick, thanks!
@Lachie, do you mean the Loop poster? I doubt they’re still around unfortunately.