Strange Melbourne Man

November 19th saw both Mooroolbark station and Lilydale station re-open for revenue service, after being closed down in order remove level crossings at Manchester Road and the Maroondah Highway. The removal of these level crossings included two new elevated stations at Mooroolbark and Lilydale. I decided that visiting these two stations would be a decent use of my time. Mooroolbark My first stop was the new Mooroolbark station, which I felt looked pretty decent despite not even being completed yet. The new station utilizes an island configuration (as opposed to the old station which utilized a side configuration) and features both stairs and lifts to get from the concourse to the platforms. There was plenty of shelter, plenty of places to sit, and plenty of places to see from the platform. As mentioned before, the station has not finished construction. You can currently only access the station from Brice Avenue, Bus stops are currently very far away, and one can see the construction of...

Coming up on nobody's favourite series, the name origins of stations on the Port Melbourne line! Short History Port Melbourne first opened as the Sandridge line in 1854 , the first of its kind in Australia. It became the Port Melbourne line in 1884 and was electrified in 1919 . The line was closed in 1987 as part of a measure to convert the line into Light Rail. The line now carries the 109 tram, which has run between Port Melbourne and Box Hill since 2003. Montague Montague is named after Montague Street, the road infamous for a bridge that no truck driver has ever passed. Montague is located to the west of that particular road. The station also seems to have been named after a locality to the south . This locality was originally residential, but appears to have been demolished and replaced with industry. North Port North Port takes its name from being located in the northern part of the suburb of Port Melbourne. This is shown through the prior names the station had. Originally...

A few months ago, the State Government announced that they would be upgrading stops along the Route 58 in order to accommodate the introduction of E-class trams. In my neck of the woods (Brunswick), the upgrades appear to have been limited to the removal of a couple stops, as well as another batch of stops being moved to different locations. I thought it would be interesting to check out the stops (possibly) being changed in the Moreland area. I should note that I'm not one hundred percent sure which stops will change, I'm just taking guesses given recent observations. Starting off with a trip to Grantham Street, the area near Union Square was resurfaced and continues to be resurfaced. I am not entirely sure what the purpose of this was but the area was listed as a principle activity centre, so that might have something to do with it. Heading one stop up takes us to Dawson Street, which features some more resurfacing. Foden Street is one of the stops being removed. This has to ...