Visitor Count
since October 2001
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Graham: This is the sign greeting potential passengers on the route 109 Port Melbourne line between Southbank Depot and the Beacon Cove terminus.
1600 x 809 pixels; 257k |
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Southbank Depot, looking inbound: The tracks have been cut on the down side of Southbank depot near the "rear exit". It looks as though the facing points with their 10km/h limit and tendency to be site site for derailments are not going to be renewed/replaced.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 584k |
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Southbank Depot, looking outbound: All the track, sleepers and ballast have been removed from the bridges; workers are sweeping the bridge clean.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 469k |
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Montague, (down platform) looking inbound: The track and roadbed have been removed.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 508k |
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Montague (up platform), looking inbound: The old ballast is loaded onto trucks and removed from the site.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 514k |
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Montague, looking outbound: The crossover at the down end of Montague remains in place, covered in ballast to allow access for the trucks removing the old ballast.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 766k |
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North of Ingles Street, looking outbound: Two new pairs of stanchions have been erected. The old 2-track stanchion will be gone within 24 hours.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 589k |
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Southbank Depot Compound: SW5 845 and eight class members, D2 5006 and A 243 await their next calls to duty
1600 x 1000 pixels; 378k |
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Evans Street, Port Melbourne: Two non-tram 109 stand-ins.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 275k |
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Ingles Street: Breaking up the concrete crossing.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 600k |
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Ingles Street: Note the large pile of fresh ballast and the stockpile of concrete sleepers sitting in Ingles Street.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 515k |
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North Port, looking outbound: Almost a rural view, the track has been removed , fishplates and dogspikes removed. The sleeperes will soon be gone.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 343k |
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North Port: Sleepers are (not so) gently scooped up for recycling.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 343k |
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Bridge Street Level Crossing, looking inbound
1600 x 1000 pixels; 343k |
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Bridge Street Level Crossing, looking outbound: The tracks have been removed all the way to Beacon Cove and are being progressively dragged up towards North Port.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 343k |
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Graham Street stop, looking inbound
1600 x 1000 pixels; 343k |
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Graham Street: A signal box once stood near here: the pit for the signal wires and point rodding is all that remains. It's survived the renewal so far.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 787k |
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Swallow Street Level Crossing, looking outbound: The tracks in the crossing have been renewed. The rail is being progressively dragged up from Beacon Cove.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 642k |
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Swallow Street Level Crossing, looking inbound: towards Graham: rail remains from the original track......
1600 x 1000 pixels; 607k |
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Swallow Street Level Crossing, looking inbound: towards Graham: the rail has been picked up by the digger and is being dragged towards Bridge Street.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 490k |
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Swallow Street Level Crossing, looking outbound: The tracks in the crossing have been renewed. The rail is being progressively dragged up from Beacon Cove.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 585k |
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Beacon Cove: Some things still require manual labour: here a team of workers pick up fishplates and dogspikes and throw them into the scoop of ther front-end loader. These will then be dumped into a large recycling bin near Ingles Street.
1600 x 1000 pixels; 639k |