[Photo walk] Transport, part 3
Here’s a bunch of transport-related photos I’ve taken over the last few days.
Elevated train along Flinders Street in Melbourne
Photo looking up at a blue-and-silver electric train going along a set of elevated train tracks.
Tram going up Spencer Street in Melbourne
Photo of a green-and-yellow tram travelling on tracks laid down on an inclined road in a city centre. A motorcyclist is also proceeding up this road, to the left of the tram.
Passenger carriages waiting for their locomotive
Photo taken between the horizontal slats of a white fence. Through the slats you can see the Southern Cross Rail Yard, which is next to Southern Cross Station in Melbourne. In the centre of the photo are several purple-and-yellow train passenger carriages without an accompanying locomotive. These are parked at a two-sided train platform. A little behind this platform you can see a tall, narrow building, which is called the Yardmasters Building.
Passenger carriages at Southern Cross Rail Yard
Photo taken between the horizontal slats of a white fence. Through the slats you can see the Southern Cross Rail Yard. In the centre of the photo are several purple-and-yellow train passenger carriages without an accompanying locomotive. These are parked at a two-sided train platform.
Platforms 2A and 3A at Southern Cross Station
Photo of two purple-and-yellow V/Line trains parked at platforms 2A and 3A in a large, high-roof train station – which is Southern Cross Station in Melbourne, Australia. The rear and side walls of this station are all-glass, so through them you can see the city centre in which this train station is located.
Waiting for instructions on Platform 2A
Photo of a V/Line train service employee waiting on an empty train platform. The man is wearing a purple high-visibility vest and is holding both a clip board and a handheld radio. A sign above the man tells us we are on platform 2A and that the train to Ararat will depart from here in 31 minutes.
Heading into Southern Cross Station on its way to Flinders Street
Photo looking down at a rail yard that a train is driving through. The front of the train is painted yellow and blue, and the digital sign above the front windscreen reads ‘Flinders Street’.
Metro train waiting to depart
Photo of a blue-and-yellow train taken from outside a suburban train station, with a shrub and wire fence in the foreground. The train has a large ‘METRO’ logo painted on its side.
Travelling past Fawkner Memorial Park
Photo taken from inside a train that is travelling along a large park, which you can see through the large train window. The park has lots of different types of trees in it, and also a road with some street signs. Inside the train are two empty sets of seats, with blue-and-black and orange-and-black seat covers.
Oblong bird graffiti at Southern Cross Station
Photo of a grey, oblong-shaped, cartoonish bird drawn on the wall along the train tracks inside a large train station. In the background a technician stands waist-deep inside the mechanism at the bottom of a set of escalators. A yellow safety fence has been placed around the area where this technician is working.
Waiting for a train at North Melbourne Station
Photo of a wide, red-brick pedestrian overpass built over a pair of train tracks. The photo is taken on a sunny day and the tracks under the overpass are in shade, making this look like a short tunnel.