Strange Melbourne Man

And now we return to the names of Melbourne's train stations. For this part, the Upfield Line will be covered! Now let us cover the thirteen open and one closed station on this line! Macaulay  Macaulay is named after nearby Macaulay Road, which runs just south of the station. Flemington Bridge An odd name, Flemington Bridge is named after the bridge that carries Mount Alexander Road over the Moonee Ponds Creek . The name of Flemington is something that I have already covered in an earlier blog post, which you can find here .  Flemington Bridge's name has nothing to do with this bridge over Flemington Road Flemington Bridge originally opened as juat 'Flemington'. Royal Park Royal Park Station is smack bang in the middle of Royal Park. The name seems to have been inspired by the Royal Parks of London , which are named as such due to being owned by members of the Royal Family. Jewell This station is named after James Jewell, an MP serving the Brunswick Electorate from 191...

I was bumming around Railpage when I found this old thread from 2006 . This thread outlines five proposed lines featured in the 1954 MMBW Report . The proposed line that I found the most interesting in this report was the line that would have seen a direct connection between Frankston and Mornington. The Original Mornington Line Alignment If you are a fan of Melbourne's railways, then you will probably know about the Mornington Line. The original line operated between 1889 and 1981, and split off from the Stony Point Line at Baxter (originally known as Mornington Junction). Stations included Moorrooduc, Tanti Park, Narrambi Road and, of course, Mornington Station. Mornington Junction Station is renamed to Baxter , 1918. Baxter is the station where the Mornington Line splits off from the Stony Point Line.   If you could not tell, the line to Mornington was not exactly the most direct line, and never served the suburb of Mount Eliza in its entire existence. This seems to be where the...

 Strange Melbourne Man has decided for this week he will be Strange Australian Man. I have spent the past week compiling lists of level crossings in Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, and Brisbane, including pedestrian only level crossings. I already did Melbourne's level crossings last week, and you can find that info in my blog from last week . I just thought it would be somewhat interesting to see how many level crossings there were in every city, and see some of the differences between the railway networks of our cities. This Metronet fact sheet lists every railway crossing in Perth... except for pedestrian crossings because who cares about those?   Anyways, here's the documents for the level crossings: The Crossing Documents Adelaide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AXmuKIBPCOpKnWRUqyJAFbqGAcW3Bl1kNnWdOLymMtE/edit?usp=sharing Sydney: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4TEyxkYW8TY_hLpLasQcg70eCIvrpq7fftRgUByzZg/edit?usp=sharing Perth:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/...

 I have just finished making a document detailing all the level crossings served by Metro Trains in Melbourne (except for the crossings on the level crossing removal list by the government). This includes pedestrian crossings. Here is a link to the document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRQdPsJ6ItxhSHh4pF5kpiSi5vharyf5x3QW9RClAhc/edit?usp=sharing If you find any issues with this document, let me know ASAP, so I can fix it of course. Also, make sure to share this document (and this blog too!) because it might be interesting to some people.  

 Have you looked at a the route number for a bus route in Melbourne and didn't really understand why it was given that number? Well, there is a reason for it! It has to do with either location, or if the bus route was government owned . Government owned bus routes are typically numbered as 2xx or 3xx, bus routes in the west are typically numbered 4xx and so on and so forth. Well, ok, but you probably already knew about that, depending on if you already read the BCSV's website, or checked out Daniel Bowen's blog post on the matter . But what if I told it gets deeper than that? The second number of a bus route also helps show where that route runs, include what significant areas are served. Here is a list I compiled of what the middle digit of a bus route means. It should be noted that numbers 1 - 149 are used by Tram Routes. 150 - 199 - Wyndham Bus Routes 150 - 159 - Bus routes serving Williams Landing Station 160 - 169 - Routes serving Hoppers Crossing Station 170 - 179 - O...