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Footscray did have some tram routes in historic times, but apart from #82 they got closed down.

Ref - http://www.geocities.com/z_class/tramhistory.html

The Footscray Trust was building three ...

GeoffreyHansen I hope you are not having a go at me Smile

I like the Jumbos, too. They remind me of the dog-head Dutch locos from about the same vintage.

I never realised that a doppler radar could mistake a wind turbine for a low flying aricraft. Holographic radar sounds intruiging.

The government looks to NSW and says: "how can I sidestep the blame". As Mees says:

Things are so tangled that the public doesn't even know who to blame for the collapse of service: is it Connex, ...

If you look on the street directory, you will see by the curve of the road and the linear park (now a cycle way) where the line went. Ironic, isn't it, that the Vic Roads building is on the site of t ...

Compulsory super contributions will head for the 'safe haven' of infrastructure investment and the PPPs will see the freeways and road tunnels built even if there is no federal money coming to build t ...

Yesterday at about 10:50 hrs, I saw a long low floor tram #5010 heading North on Elizabeth Street at Queensberry Street, with its destination board showing "Showgrounds 58". This is a new one on me. ...

Pestrian crossings are mostly alongside roads, where I'd expect to hear two advance warnings, or at the end of railway platforms, where I'd expect to hear one advance warning. I haven't observed train ...

I saw my first 5-car Vlocity today about 12:45 on the Up near Caulfield. A two car set led the triple. I did not catch the numbers.

I have seen ungated pedestrian crossings on mainlines in the suburbs where drivers do not always sound their horn, not even do it from 400 metres away. There seems to be quite a variance here.

On ...

This article was in the Moreland Leader 27 Oct 2008, page 7. It is a bit of a beat up and shows how we need to change community attitudes. I wonder if the people would have been so lax walking their ...

The statement that nobody "in their right mind" would use public transport to get to or from the airport is quite strong.

I never said that nobody would use public transport, just that nobody would ...

I suspect that there will be a bigger market for bus manufacture in Australia in the near future (especially in Victoria) than for trams and trains. If you want to outsource some aspect of train/tram ...

Let's see them come up with a common specification for the trains across multiple jurisdictions.

Noted A+cement wagons+A up through Malvern at around 14.30 today. No dmu car in the consist though. The trailing A was offline.

I saw them on the Down at 12:06 at Malvern. I inadvertently started ...