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Blog: CDC Melbourne; we’ve made a few…changes! https://wongm.com/2026/03/retired-cdc-melbourne-bus-kittens-strip-club/
CDC Melbourne; we've made a few…changes! - Waking up in Geelong

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 […]

Waking up in Geelong
Blog: A short history of the Kensington Glue Works https://wongm.com/2026/03/a-short-history-of-the-kensington-glue-works/
A short history of the Kensington Glue Works - Waking up in Geelong

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 […]

Waking up in Geelong
New Australian locomotives on test in China - Checkerboard Hill

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 →

Checkerboard Hill
New post: Quadruple track tramway in Brno, Czechia https://www.eurogunzel.com/2025/12/four-track-tramway-brno-czechia/
Quadruple track tramway in Brno, Czechia - Euro Gunzel

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 →

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Metro Tunnel scope creep at the Kensington Glue Works - Waking up in Geelong

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 […]

Waking up in Geelong
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Bicycle trailers on Stuttgart's trams - Euro Gunzel

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 →

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Blog: Photos from ten years ago: February 2016 https://wongm.com/2026/02/photos-from-ten-years-ago-february-2016/
Photos from ten years ago: February 2016 - Waking up in Geelong

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 […]

Waking up in Geelong
@wale And since then Wikipedia had to change the first one to "Department of Transport (Victoria, 2008–2013)" to make room for "Department of Transport (2019–2022)" and now "Department of Transport and Planning".