Continuing my catch up of old photo posts from ten years ago, here’s April 2016… okay plus a few from March 2016 – I’m discovering that my filing of photos back then was imperfect.
Comparing old and new e-Tag sizes for a blog post I never wrote.
Level crossing works had started in Bentleigh. This local shop wasn’t happy the disruption. After the project was finished, they moved. The whole chain was later bought by Dulux Paints.
Speaking of retail turmoil, the ABC Shop was closing down
Dick Smith was also closing down. It became an online brand of Kogan.
An ad for Sam Pang on Nova 100… some of us still occasionally call Southern Cross Station “Spencer Street”
At the opening of the New Preston tram depot, this E class tram under maintenance.
A rhino was on display.
Nicolas Gindt, then CEO of Yarra Trams at the depot opening. Note at the bottom right, Jacinta Allan, now the Premier; I assume she was checking her speech.
Me hamming it up while pretending to drive a tram
I also looked at the nearby tram overpass of the Mernda line – once the site of a scene in Malcolm
Lonsdale Street in the City; the former Age building at left, about to be replaced by high rise. This fare evasion campaign was prominent around this time, though the bus shelter is obviously older, featuring a Met Bus sticker.
Speaking of Met era, Box Hill Station still had 1980s style CRT screens. The Myki card readers have been swapped over twice in the last ten years.
Next to the City Square, this was early site investigation works for the Metro Tunnel, fully opened ten years later in 2026.
