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Railmaps @railmaps.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Melbourne #metrotunnel is special to me.
And with yesterday’s announcement, I want to now tell you why, in a thread.

I love rail maps. Inspired by Beck’s London Underground diagram since a youngster, I've long thought every big city needs a map and an UndergrounD just like London
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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

First bus that I've seen fitted with the new myki readers. Kinetic bus 388009.

They do take up a bit more space than the older ones and are liable to be bumped into on account of the card reader jutting out - especially as they are near the doors - but they do […]

[Original post on aus.social]

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Obligatory photo at the myki gates in the brand new State Library Station just before heading down to the platforms

#MelbourneTrains #melbourne #publictransport #transit

Photo of me standing in front of myki gates under a sign that reads "State Library Station"

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@railmaps I think that's an error, everything else mentions West Footscray

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Railmaps @railmaps.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Here's a link to an svg version of my updated Melbourne train and tram map following December's soft opening of the Metro Tunnel.

https://railmaps.com.au/melbourne_draft.htm

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Lots of new Metro Tunnel announcements from the Premier and Minister for Public Transport at today's media launch!

Partial launch in early December (pending rail safety regulator signoff) with full service starting 10 February 2026. This includes changes to train […]

[Original post on aus.social]

Photo of press release titled "the metro tunnel will open in December - one year early".

Photo of information sheet called "The Metro Tunnel is opening in early December"

Photo of Summer Start timetable for the Metro Tunnel

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Help make 2025 the Year of the Tawny Frogmouth! We were robbed last year in second place...

Vote here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

#birds #aussiebirdoftheyear #australia #teamtawny

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

www.theguardian.com

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Hoddle Street is one of the major inner arterial roads in inner Melbourne. It is 10 lanes at its widest point but narrows at its southern and northern ends. This is because it wasn't always like this.

Hoddle Street used to be a fairly standard shopping street […]

[Original post on aus.social]

Photo of Darling Gardens with a footpath next to Hoddle Street and a big gap in between

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Transport Camp 2025 kicking off in Melbourne

#transport #melbourne

Photo of people standing in front of a sign saying "Transport Camp"

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"Minor" disruption at the moment across the entire Melbourne metropolitan rail network. All passenger information displays, apps and website are not showing train departures.

#MelbourneTrains #melbourne #publictransport #transit #showmeasign

Screenshot of trains leaving Flinders Street showing only Saturday services

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

MNNININD THE GAPP

#MelbourneTrains #transit #publictransport #trains

Photo of several painted "MIND THE GAP" signs on the edge of a station platform overlapping each other

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Rejoice! The down escalator appears to be fixed (for now) and is working as of today. Nearly a week of it being broken.

So far it has been broken for nearly a third of the year (30% of 2025).

#melbournebuses #transit #publictransport

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

I have updated the counter accordingly: https://philam.github.io/days-since-box-hill-escalator/

Box Hill Bus Station Escalator Status

How many days since the Box Hill Bus Station escalator broke?

philam.github.io

Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Unfortunately it looks like we're set for a repeat of the 2024-2025 saga when the down escalator at the Box Hill Bus Station was broken for over four months.

It has now been broken again for at least five days straight. No signage or assistance for people to […]

[Original post on aus.social]

Photo of the top of the broken down escalator at Box Hill Central

Photo of people walking down the up escalator which has also stopped

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Railmaps @railmaps.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 39 years ago today, T358 and another T haul a broad gauge goods #train across the gated level crossing at Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Vic, September 25 1986.

Ballarat is a provincial city in Victoria 120km west of […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]

A pair of Victorian Railways blue and gold liveried T class hood style diesel locomotives at the head of a goods train approach us on a three tracked section of broad gauge railway on a left hand curve as they cross a gated level crossing in a provincial city setting.

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@aj Good question! It certainly looks original

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

The down escalator at Box Hill is broken yet again! Only 194 days since it was fixed.

Hopefully it doesn't take over four months to repair again...

https://philam.github.io/days-since-box-hill-escalator/

#melbournebuses #publictransport #melbourne #transit

Photo of a static escalator in Box Hill Central Shopping Centre

Photo of a sign and yellow safety fence at top of broken down escalator at Box Hill Central

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

The upgrades to City Loop stations are all well and good, but what's the point of live departure screens if you can't see them?

Blocked from view at most points on the platform by the new signs placed directly in front of them

#MelbourneTrains #melbourne […]

[Original post on aus.social]

Photo of two emergency exit signs blocking live train departure screen at Melbourne Central Station

Photo of a hearing loop sign blocking live train departure screen at Melbourne Central Station

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

New video out today about the two times that Victoria nearly got a nuclear power station!

This has been one of my personal favourites to make. It involved a lot of original research and I learned a lot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQqP7pxZqQk

#melbourne #nuclear #nuclearpower #australia […]

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

This particularly annoys me – when the ad wrap covers the tram windows with a block colour, meaning it could've just been left uncovered. Ad wrap should be banned over tram windows.

Tram with several windows covered by blue ad wrap.

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Happy Melbourne Day! 30 August 2025 marks 190 years since the ship 'Enterprize' landed on the banks of the Yarra River.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Day

#melbourne #melbourneday #history

Melbourne Day - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

80s nostalgia AI slop: A niche like any other, reverse engineered by 20-something digital nomads in Bali to boomerfy the masses as they astral project to a fake past in service of making fractions of a cent per view on Zuckerberg's cultish algorithmic slop machine […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 23

Microsoft betrays the naive developers who trusted its word:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/githubs-fall-microsofts-ai-takeover-developer-betrayal-dion-wiggins-oyetc

GitHub’s Fall: Microsoft’s AI Takeover, Developer Betrayal, and the Next Fight for Digital Sovereignty

Microsoft’s Assimilation of GitHub Is Another Step in the Death of Platform Trust, the Rise of AI Extraction, and the Global Struggle to Reclaim Digital Sovereignty TL;DR: Microsoft’s full-scale takeover of GitHub is the final blow to developer trust, turning the world’s open source backbone into pr

www.linkedin.com

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 22

Did you know Parramatta Lake was the first dam built in Australia? Completed in 1856, it provided water to the second British settlement in Australia (Parramatta).

#history #engineering #structure #dam #australia #nsw #parramatta

The large, mostly sandstone, single-arch dam wall.

A view of the dam wall from the top, with tall native grasses in the foreground and eucalyptus trees on the far shore.

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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦 @philip.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 18

This is the heritage-listed Singapore Cottage on Sackville Street in Collingwood.

A rare surviving example of a very early prefabricated building brought over from Singapore in the 1850s.

#melbourne #melbournehistory #history #australia #Australianhistory #singapore

Photo of the exterior of the Singapore Cottage, made of wooden planks, next to a bluestone lane.

Photo of a blue plaque from Heritage Victoria explaining the history of Singapore Cottage Number N4, as described in the toot.

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