The other week I saw a bus advertising Kittens strip club driving down St Kilda Road. Complete with pictures of scantly clad women on the sides. But my question was – who used to own the bus? Well, I plugged the registration plate XW08RS into the VicRoads website – and got back vehicle identification number […]
I wrote about heritage listed Kensington Glue Works last week and how the Metro Tunnel project demolishing it, so now I’ll cover the rest of history of the site (which I cut out because the previous piece was already too long) The story starts The story starts way back in the 1870s, when the Kensington […]
I’ve written before about newly built diesel locomotive for the Kowloon-Canton Railway undertaking test runs in Australia, but today things are the other way around – new locomotives for Australia undertaking test runs in China. Video by 出站信号好 on Douyin […] Continue reading →
I’ve written about a few odd track layouts on European tram networks before, but this is something difference – a quadruple track tramway in the Czech city of Brno. Photo by , via Wikimedia Commons The section of quadruple track […] Continue reading →
Last week I wrote about how the Metro Tunnel project was demolishing descoped elements near Springvale, but today we have the opposite – added scope leading to the project rebuilding – of all things – an abandoned glue factory! The story starts For decades the ‘Kensington Glue Works’ sat beside the Sunbury line tracks at […]
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In the Germany city of Stuttgart their trams have an interesting feature – bicycle trailers! Photo by , via Wikimedia Commons The bicycle trailers are found on the Stuttgart Rack Railway, a 2.2-kilometre electrified railway opened in 1884 to connect […] Continue reading →
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is February 2016. Building things We start the month at the incomplete Caroline Springs station. Designed as a single platform station beside a single track railway, just before opening the station was expanded to include a second platform, as part of […]
A few years ago I wrote about the brand new Deer Park station and the platforms too short to fit a nine car train, which then got a run in the media August 2024. Well fast forward to today, and the problem is almost solved – they’ve made the platforms longer. The backstory Years ago […]