Strange Melbourne Man

A quick and messy blog post for this week, I have a lot of assignments due these next couple of weeks. Anyway, here is a link to Western Australian LGAs and the number of stations they have: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17VR3K_Dodpl3Wy-PqxKvPVkBfTZduwi0PdZtc9-bZGE/edit?usp=sharing Some notes: - Gosnells and Joondalup tie for most stations for an LGA, with both having a mere six, pretty low in comparison to other states. - Belmont City, East Fremantle Town, Kalamunda City, Mandurang Shire and Pepperment Grove Shire all do not have stations in them, the only ones in the Perth metropolitan area not to have any. - This list will definitely change once Metronet and associated projects are finished. With Belmont and Kalamunda appearing to gain stations (they currently do not have any). Conclusion Again, a short blog that I wanted to rush out so this page is not neglected. Thanks for reading as always!

I do not really have much planned now that this particular series is over, with the exception of possibly more level crossing lists, so here is a generic top ten list about train station names! Stations are ranked based on their origin stories and how fun they are to say. This was a rather difficult list to make, I am not all that confident with this list even as of posting, so expect an updated list sometime in the future. Before we begin the list, here are a few honourable mentions: Honourable Mentions Middle Gorge Middle Gorge did not feel right on the list because the place it is named after is over two kilometres away from it, but a relatively cool name and a controversy that saw people compare its name to the Lord of the Rings forces me to put it on here in some form.  Croydon Croydon does not make the list because its name is not anything interesting. What is interesting is the name that the station prior to landing on its current one. Its original name appears to have bee...

We are at the home stretch, the last line in Melbourne that I have to figure out the names for, the Sandringham line. Known for its three stations called Brighton, read on further if you want to know where names like Windsor and Hampton come from (you might be surprised the reason why Hampton was adopted, or you probably won't if we are being honest). Prahran Prahran's name is quite the interesting case. It appears to come from an Aboriginal word, although there appears to be some conflict about what the specific word was. Vic Places says it came from the Woi-wurrung word 'purraran', a word meaning 'almost surrounded by water', while an ABC article states that the word originated from 'paarran', which was an alternate term for the Yarra river.    1861 letter to the editor in the Herald calling from an upgrade to Greville Street (now Prahran) railway station.   The previous names for Prahran, according to Vicsig , are 'Greville Street' and ...

No intro, let us just push forward. Leawarra Leawarra seems to have been most likely named after Leawarra House , an event venue located a fair ways north of the station. Leawarra is definitely of aboriginal origin, although its unclear what it means.  Langwarrin (closed) Langwarrin can trace its back to a pastoral run from the 1840s known as 'Lang Waring' The station closed in 1981 along with the rest of the Stony Point line, but did not re-open with the rest of the line. Baxter Baxter is named after Benjamin Baxter , a man who was Melbourne's first postmaster, and possibly the first white man to settle in the Mornington Peninsula. He owned a pastoral run called 'Carrup Carrup'. Prior to 1918, the station was known as 'Mornington Junction' , referring to the fact that the line to Mornington splits off from the line to Stony Point here. Somerville Not much is known about Somerville's name origin, although considering the origins of the names of Cranbo...