Strange Melbourne Man

 Exactly as the title says, sorted by line I define going to a station as boarding a train or arriving from a train, not just walking up to it and then walking away. Stations I have been to more than once are bolded. Anyways, here is a list: City Loop: Flinders Street Southern Cross Flagstaff Melbourne Central Parliament  Upfield: North Melbourne Macauley Flemington Bridge Royal Park Jewell Brunswick Anstey Moreland Coburg Batman Merlynston Fawkner Gowrie Upfield Craigieburn: North Melbourne, as well as: Kensington Newmarket Ascot Vale Moonee Ponds Essendon Glenbervie Strathmore Pascoe Vale Oak Park Glenroy Jacana Broadmeadows Coolaroo Roxburgh Park Craigieburn Sunbury: North Melbourne, as well as: Footscray Middle Footscray West Footscray Tottenham Sunshine Albion Ginifer St. Albans Keilor Plains Watergardens Diggers Rest Sunbury Stations not been to: South Kensington  Werribee: Sunbury line as far as Footscray, then: Seddon Yarraville Spotswood Newport Seaholme Altona W...

Last week I did the Inner circle line, so this week I will do the Outer Circle line. The sections covered are between Fairfield and East Camberwell, and between Alamein and Oakleigh. The currently open section between Camberwell and Alamein was the topic of another blog post that you can find here. Brief History The Outer Circle line was opened in stages between March 1890 and March 1891, apparently as an alternative route for Gippsland traffic. This did not occur and the 1890s depression harmed the lines potential, leading to its closure. Fairfield to Riversdale was the first to close in April 1893, followed by Ashburton to Oakleigh in December 1895, and Camberwell to Ashburton in May 1897.  Camberwell to Ashburton re-opened in 1898 and East Camberwell to Deepdene re-opened in May 1900, although passenger traffic was removed in 1927 due to low patronage. The section of line to Deepdene also so goods traffic, with an extension to East Kew occuring in 1925. This section would fina...

Time to continue the station names series shall we? This article will cover the Inner Circle, which was a line that ran between Royal Park on the Upfield line and Rushall on the Mernda line. This article was also cover Fitzroy station, which was located on a branch line that came off the Inner Circle. This will be a short blog considering that the Inner Circle line is not exactly a long line. Later down the track I will cover the Outed Circle line as well. A brief run down of the line The line originally opened in May of 1888 . It was duplicated in stages until October 1889 and was electrified in July 1921. The passenger service ceased in 1948 leaving the line to become a freight line. The line was closed between North Fitzroy and Northcote junction in 1965 and was completely closed in 1981. It is currently used as a rail trail.  The Fitzroy branch line opened the same year as the Inner circle but was closed to passenger traffic in 1892, it also closed in 1981 and the line was repl...

Between 8:30PM on the 24th of June 2021 and 10PM on the 25th of June 2021, I walked from my home in the inner-suburbs in Melbourne and ended up at Ballarat railway station, a journey of 111km. I was originally going to write a blog post about the trip as a whole, describing all the roads I went down and stuff like that. Problem is, I am a terrible writer and I was never satisfied with what I wrote for that blog, so I am going to just make a post about some of the moments I had doing this long and ardous trip. The public toilet map lied to me There is a website known as the National Public Toilet Map that does exactly what it says on the tin, show you a map of toilets. While it has been useful to me on numerous occassions, this trip was not one of those times. The map informed me that there was a toilet at a BP in Caroline Springs that had a toilet avaliable at all times of day, however, upon asking if I could use the toilet, I was informed that the toilet was closed and would not open...