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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, it will be interesting to see how crowded the new entrance gets.

(I remember the massive bank of 7 or so escalators that led from the original Swanston St entrance to Museum station directly to the concourse level.)

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 4h

Barnaby Joyce. Completing his penultimate steps on his journey from a rooster to a feather duster.

Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 8h

You clearly didn’t patronise the dunnies at State Library. The late seventies/early eighties orange vibe was overwhelming

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 12h

I'll see if my guess as to why you chose today to come to sunny Melbourne is correct in a couple of hours...

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 1d

There is a house in Rushey Green
They call The Rising Sun...

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I can see institutional response, although I'd say a focus of the NTSB is regulation by institutions.

That focus itself is a very institutional response. The core people cause of the deaths was that Rush didn't give a stuff about rules or norms. Would tighter rules have stopped him?

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 1d

Taking a leaf out of the Melbourne playbook (the argument was very successful). And congestion was, in fact, reduced.

It's curious how differently rail crossings and road intersections are treated. Road intersections would be closed for *hours* between 5am and 10am

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 1d

No; in some ways it reads more like a precis of the USCG report.

I felt the NTSB report focussed on the technical problems and changes to rules (as if Rush was paying attention to rules). The USCG report had way more detail on the people side of the failure. A reflection on institutional focus?

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 2d

The formal NTSB report into the Titan subsmersible has dropped

www.ntsb.gov/investigatio...

The much longer US Coast Guard report was released months ago

www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DC...

www.ntsb.gov

Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting back formation.

As far as we can tell PCR was 'Public Carriage Road', which came from UK legislation authorising enclosure of common land (i.e. a road usable by carriages that could be traversed by the general public). The use in subdividing Crown land is obvious.

Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody hell, look at that price. What's inside - gold? Chop chop?

If that's from Abbotsford, it's certainly gone up market since I lived there.

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The Underground Map @theundergroundmap.com · 4d

Rare photo of a mother wrench feeding her young. Breathtaking!

#ott #offtopictuesday

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 4d

www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2025/08/cool...

Cool response saved lives from in-flight fire

An exemplary response by a private pilot to an inflight emergency shows the value of flight planning and experience

www.flightsafetyaustralia.com

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 5d

With The Age building in the background - when it was a fountain of gold complete with printing plant and journalists. Sold. Replaced by a new building over the railway lines at Collins St for the journos and a swish hitech printing plant near Tullamarine. The later shut & sold now.

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Container shuttles in Sydney, but not in Melbourne. It's curious how different the two capitals are.

(Shuttles were originally set up in Sydney because White Bay didn't have space for a container marshalling yard or the stuffers/unstuffers.)

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Seniors week in Victoria, and this weekend Seniors can catch any public transport for free. It's especially great value if you love trying bus replacements.

All of the Burnley group is out. And important bits of the East Pakenham line. And Sunshine - Ballarat.

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

The Cheltenham train left first, nearly empty, because all the Dandenong line passengers were in the Frankston train. Presumably they were following the instructions "Catch any Frankston line train".

Perhaps Metro should have been a bit clearer?

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

'Inner' is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting here - electrification extends to the edge of Melbourne except west. And Melbourne spreads over a large area. And I wouldn't call VLine - in general - poorly scheduled nor unreliable.

Certainly not if you can remember the pre 1982 country rail service

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

A rational person would not have founded Sydney in Sydney. But the location was selected by naval officers who, correctly, considered it a great harbour. The land bit was only supposed to be a penal colony. Could go anywhere, really.

Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Main line electrifications post WWII were because the horrible topography extends beyond Sydney itself - especially to the north and south and super especially to the west...

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

The electrified lines would be cheaper to run and *much* *much* faster (Sydney geography is mostly horrible for all types of transport due to the harbour and eroded sandstone)...

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Sydney electrified because they decided to build a harbour bridge and connecting underground railways to *finally* have CBD stations that were actually central. This meant the suburban lines had to be electrified...

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

Melbourne electrified (intended from ~1916 but events happened) because the railway management saw that when the Melbourne tramway network was finally electrified after 1916 its steam suburban service seriously wouldn't be competitive.

They also noted (correctly) it would save money.

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure you intended to say "The town now gets an hourly passenger service *exactly the same as Castlemaine and Bendigo*"

(The 6 car mid afternoon Bendigo service I travelled on today was chockers on arrival at Southern Cross btw)

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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 8d

In an era when shitty news articles rule, this is a delight to read (particularly if you are Australian).

I loved the last paragraph...

www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-a...

She created an Australian icon. Then Bluey brought it to the world

You won’t know her name, but Agnes Lee is probably responsible for some of the best and worst moments in your family’s life.

www.theage.com.au