Strange Melbourne Man

You know what needs to be done Covering every station from the defunct Richmond Park to the busiest (and last) station on the line Richmond Park This station, which opened and closed in the year 1890, seems to be named after an area of land that could now be occupied by the Burnley Golf Club, Burnley Circus Park, and Burnley. This article from 1890 seems to provide evidence that there was a Richmond Park around the area at some point, and Victorian Places makes notes of how much land Richmond Park consumed. Not much else is known about the station. Heyington Named after nearby Heyington Place, located to the west of this railway station. Kooyong Kooyong is an Aboriginal word meaning 'resting place', and originated from an old name given to what is now known as Gardiners Creek.  North Malvern was the original name given to Kooyong , but this was changed early into the stations history. Toorak Road  A station that is mentioned in this Argus article , this station is clearly n...

Last week I made a post about a list of level crossings in Victoria I compiled , and long before that, I made a list of level crossings served by Metro Trains in Melbourne . Today, I have decided to use that info, to make a post finding out how many level crossings each Melbourne suburb has. I made a Google Sheet that details this information here . Some notes: - The list is not finished, crossings on the Sunshine-Newport corridor, and crossings on heritage railways. These will be added later, but I wanted this blog out by Friday. These lines should be covered within the next few days. - The suburb with the most level crossings is Northcote, which does not seem like a surprise considering how many stations the suburb has. The suburb has twelve level crossings within its boundaries. It is also the suburb with the most pedestrian crossings, at seven. - Brunswick is the suburb with the most road crossings, at eight, followed by Diamond Creek with six. - Crossings are more frequent in the ...

I have spent the past few days working on a document that details every single level crossing in Victoria. It only has level crossings that are served by either V/Line and/or the Overland for now, but I hope that we could change that. The link is here . If you can see any level crossings that are missing, put them in! And if you have any suggestions on how to improve this document (because it admittedly is not great or anything), let me know about that too! Anyways, that is all I have for this week, should have a proper blog up for next week!

Let us keep going with our journey in the east. This week, the Alamein line, featuring six stations that branch out from the Belgrave and Lilydale lines at Camberwell. Let us dive right in. Riversdale Named after Riversdale Road, located to the south of the station. Willison Named after A. J. Willison , a Councillor for the City of Camberwell. Prior to July 1936, the station was known as 'Golf Links' , being named after the Riversdale Golf Club, which is now located in Mount Waverley . Hartwell Hartwell's name seems to have apparently come from an advertisement for land in the area, although what that advertisement is and the motivation behind the name is unknown.  Before 1909, the station was known as 'Hartwell Hill' , with the name coming from various estates in the area . Burwood Named after the suburb of Burwood , which the station was located in until 2000. Burwood's name comes from the originally name of the Invergowrie house in Hawthorn , which is famous...