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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a long, but lovely day on the iron road celebrating the opening of Auckland's City Rail Link! what a fantastic addition to a fantastic city, extremely glad I could make it across the ditch for this please enjoy this little thread of some of my highlights from today

an Auckland EMU arriving into Parnell station at 5:30am this morning, one of the first trains into the City Rail Link. The sun has not even risen yet

the main station building for Te Waihorotiu, with a beautiful blue/grey tiled top and a brick bottom, looking very fitting on this prominent street corner

a group of people walking through a cross passage at Karanga-a-Hape Station, with the classic London Crossrail/Sydney Metro design language, a very round passage with sandstone walls and white fins on the roof. Very space age

a large group of people waiting to board a South - City train bound for Pukekohe at The Waihorotiu station

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

gunzeldom is truly a universal language, it's beautiful

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

getting evacuated from Karanga-a-Hape was not on my bingo card but first time for everything I guess

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

a very good morning from Parnell station, in just a few short moments our train will head under beautiful Tamaki Makaurau

A small group of people waiting on the fairly bare platforms at Parnell Station

A person pointing at the train as it arrives

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

new apartments going up next to a train station: you bloody love to see it would be nice if there wasn't a motorway inbetween them and the station but it's a start

an Auckland EMU pulling away from Greenlane station, with an under construction apartment complex visible through a gap in the lineside trees

the more completed half of the apartments, with a fairly nice, inoffensive brick finish and normal sized windows. not a glass reflective tower or a white and black box, big win

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just 14 short hours until the gates come down and the very first underground train stations in all of Aotearoa open. can't wait to ride the CRL first thing tomorrow morning 🥰

the northern entrance to Karanga-a-Hape station, with staff performing some last minute cleaning of the windows

the main entrance to Karanga-a-Hape station, with the roller door down and not a soul in sight

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kia Ora Auckland. I hear you have a train tunnel opening this weekend

a photo of the sun setting behind some clouds next to the entrance to Maungawhau station, one of the stations to be massively upgraded with the CRL

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midgie @midgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i can hear a train going hoothonk from across the dark miles

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

very pleased to have spotted Balls Pyramid's bigger, greener friend on the way back: Lord Howe Island obscure outlying Australian islands >>>>>>

a photo taken from a plane window of Lord Howe Island, a skinny crescent shaped island with a large mountain called Mount Gower at the southern end. the southern third of the island is covered in cloud

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

one thing I really didn't take advantage of last time? Norfolk Island's beautifully dark skies. being separated from the nearest large city by 1000km helps a lot, and so does barely having any street lighting and getting lucky with no moonlight. nice to see our beautiful galaxy again 🥰🥰

an electricity pole gently illuminated by a distant car under the beautiful night sky, filled with stars and with our galactic arm clearly visible

a clearer photo of the night sky and milky way

another shot of the night sky and milky way, with a satellite trail very clearly visible at the left of the image

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

once again delighted to confirm that norfolk island is bloody lovely. and I'm assured there is no risk to the supply of Norfolk Island pine trees for Australia's urban foreshores for years to come

a photo looking down onto Anson Bay, showing a green headland jutting out into the Tasman Sea with multiple norfolk island pine trees in the foreground

looking down the coast at Anson Bay, with dense norfolk island pine trees leading right up to rough cliff faces that drop into the sea

a photo of the pier and other facilities at Cascade Bay, with a truck coming down from the quarry/rockfall site nearby. this is the main cargo (and only passenger) landing point for the whole island

a little cluster of Norfolk island pines growing together in a grassy field under a blue sky

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Florian Ellebrecht @floellebrecht.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sydney Metro Inspiro, gebaut von Siemens in Wien Betrieben werden sollen sie für "Transport for NSW" auf der West Sydney Airport Line durch RATP Dev als Teil des automatisierten Metro-Systems. Hier am Bremer Hbf, vermutlich nach Bremerhaven zur Verschiffung.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

where would you rather live, on the archipelago of shadows formed by the clouds, or on Balls Pyramid? vote now on your phones

a photo looking down onto the Tasman sea from 34,000 feet. broken cloud cover is casting broken shadows on the still ocean, and it makes it look like a chain of broken islands

Balls Pyramid, a volcanic stack which bursts out of the Tasman sea. the very definition of evil supervillain lair, a craggy spire with the nearest land dozens of kilometres away and the nearest major city a 2 hour flight away

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

they don't want you to know this, but if you're really good and ask really nicely they let you do a drag race with another plane on the final approach to Sydney airport

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tinyobscurae @tinyobscurae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i will no longer be giving any other answer to “how have you been?”

“two gentlemen, how have you been these days?”
“just maintaining my idleness,” said the Mountain Lord

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This aerial embroidery mixed media landscape is the last piece currently still available on my site! The natural elements were done in embroidery, the man-made ones in card. Each cargo container is only a mm wide! You can see it with full details here: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/work/cargo-c...

An oval shaped embroidery hoop containing an aerial view of a city dock. The natural elements are sewn in thread, the man-made ones cut out in paper and card.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

well well well looks like I'm going to have to take a trip to Auckland in a few weeks

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

alright so who else will I be seeing on August 30 in Auckland?

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

straight up bumbling it. and by it haha. I mean my bee

A Melbourne C2 class tram, affectionately known as "bumblebees" for the livery they first wore and the cute little bee mascot on their side. originally a batch of surplus trams for a french city which Melbourne snapped up

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

only took nearly a year but indeed we are getting closer to abolishing some of Melbourne's most laughably bad frequencies. the combination of a fuel crisis and an election year can be a powerful motivator. 10 minute all day frequencies and bus reform next to seal the deal? 👀👀 nah, just kidding... 👀

The Budget invests $77.5 million to deliver:

Shepparton line:
nine return services every weekday – almost double the number of current services
Belgrave and Lilydale lines:
trains every 20 mins to the end of the line on weekday evenings – up from every 30 mins
trains every 10 mins on the Ringwood corridor on weekday evenings – up from every 15 mins
Glen Waverley and Alamein lines:
trains every 20 mins on weekday evenings – up from every 30 mins
Mernda and Hurstbridge lines:
trains every 20 mins to Mernda and Eltham all weekend – up from every 30 mins in the evening and every 40 mins on Sunday morning
services every 10 mins between the city and Clifton Hill – up from every 15 mins on weekend evenings and every 20 mins on Sunday mornings into the city
These new services meet growing demand for evening and weekend services. Time ranges listed are averages.

Thanks to our investments, even more additional services are ready to hit the network in the coming months:

Werribee line: two additional trains per hour in the mornings and afternoons
Sandringham line: trains every 10 minutes between peak periods
Craigieburn line: trains at least every 20 minutes on the line, including late at night and on weekends
Upfield line: trains at least every 20 minutes on the line, including late at night and on weekends
Seymour line: trains every hour between 8:00am and 9:00pm on weekends
Shepparton line: five return services on Saturday and Sunday
This is on top of more services now running on the Gippsland Line – with trains now running every 40 minutes.

We’re also slashing the cost of public transport, with free travel now and half-price fares from June 1.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Manukau station being built directly into a university building is pretty incredible stuff. you love to see it

the entrance to Manukau train station, passing directly through the atrium space of a large mixed use university building

the large mixed use Manukau Institute of Technology building that the station is built into

direct bus access for the most frequent routes right at the front door of the station, with a large bus station on the other side of the road

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I don't often get the chance to climb up a 600 year-young volcano, but Rangitoto being only a 30 minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland makes it possible

Rangitoto island viewed from the ferry, it's a very heavily forested island gradually rising up to a volcanic cone in the centre

rocky basalt lava fields slowly being taken over by native vegetation after decades of concerted pest control efforts

the Auckland CBD, north shore and harbour bridge viewed from Rangitoto Summit

looking out over the bare green hills of Motutapu Island, Rangitoto's neighbour separated by a tiny channel and a causeway

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

rode the lovely Glenbrook Vintage Railway on Sunday, which would be a fairly stock standard branch line heritage railway, except it included a photo stop where the train reversed so we could get some good pics. almost impossible to do back home!

A DBR class diesel locomotive hauling a consist of an open passenger car and 3 normal passenger cars past a crowd of people on the grassy mound that is the Shakespeare Road stop. The train reversed back around the curve to let us get our shots

the train approaching from around a curve, framed by huge trees making an arch over the railway line, and long grass in the foreground

the train approaching, with the bright yellow front end standing out brilliantly against the greens and blues in the background

the rear of the train passing through the stop and under the road bridge before reversing back. there's a lovely scene of some kids and an adult watching with excitement from the bridge

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

the beep of the PB/5 pedestrian crossing button has been officially recognised by the National Film and Sound Archive as part of their Sounds of Australia collection for this year. you love to see it

Screenshot from the NFSA website which reads:

PB/5 pedestrian crossing button
Because it set the rhythm of Australian streets, one crossing at a time.

Introduced in 1984, the PB/5 pedestrian crossing button reshaped how Australians move through cities and suburbs. Designed by David Wood, Louis Challis and Frank Hulscher, it was created to support pedestrians who are blind or have low vision through sound and touch.

The locator ‘tick’, vibrating arrow and steady crossing tone are functional, but also instantly recognisable. Produced mechanically and in real time, the sound is direct, rhythmic and hard to ignore. Over decades, it has settled into daily life — a small but constant presence at intersections, train stations and busy streets.

Its reach extends beyond infrastructure. The crossing tick was later sampled in Billie Eilish’s ‘Bad Guy’, carrying a piece of Australian street sound into global pop.

The recording captures how thoughtful sound design can shape behaviour, attention and safety — and how an everyday utility can become a shared cultural reference point.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

plenty of Australian Education Union staff out for their first major strike in 12 years in Melbourne. government needs to pay teachers properly!

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

40 year old victorian locomotive still serving their regional rail passengers the old fashioned way

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midgie @midgie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

looks like lots of people are friendly and grateful to bus drivers it’s good we should respect them and give them space to do their thing. buses are the whales of the road

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

happy first day of full time metro tunnel services to all who celebrate

an East Pakenham bound HCMT train arriving at the rather dreary Albion station, set to be rebuilt in the next few years

A Sunbury bound HCMT train arriving at Albion with one of the glorious red brick 1920s substations in the background that powered the electrification of Melbourne's railways

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

23°C, sunny, no wind, cruising through North Melbourne in a Z class tram with the windows down. the world can be a beautiful place when you're in the best city in da world

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

new year means a new tram of the year. say hello to this year's TOTY

Melbourne B2 class tram number 2026 on route 64 on Swanston Street at the Town Hall stop

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G:Link enjoyer @b10mse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s real. (from Facebook)

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

getting home after 3 weeks overseas and Melbourne's beautiful tap water still one of the top 3 things about coming home

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

prompt: repost with your home river Brisbane River (Ipswich / Brisbane) ➡️ Maribyrnong River /Yarra River (Melbourne)

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

god I love the Vancouver SkyTrain. just missed a train to waterfront but the off-peak frequencies are better than most peak frequencies in Melbourne

an older passenger information display at yaletown station which shows the next trains to waterfront station are in 3 minutes, 7 minutes and 11 minutes while it is currently 10:57am, well and truly offpeak

a newer passenger I formation display at waterfront station for the expo line showing the next trains are in 1 minute, 4 minutes and 7 minutes while it's currently 11:08am

a SkyTrain sitting at waterfront station, waiting to form an expo line service to king george

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

some lovely zero emission vehicles plying the streets of Vancouver

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

this morning I arrived in Vancouver, marking the end of a 6,296km rail journey from the shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax, NS to the shore the Pacific here in Vancouver, BC. I suppose now that I've done the Atlantic-Pacific I should get around to doing the Indian-Pacific back home

the VIA rail locomotive 6457 at the head of 2 other locomotives and a 13 carriage consist on train #1 from Toronto to Vancouver, having just arrived at Pacific Central station in Vancouver after 4,400km from Toronto

the classic 1950s/1960s Budd cars that form the backbone of VIA Rail's long distance fleet stretching off into the distance at Vancouver's Pacific Central station

the front view of the rather grand Pacific Central station in Vancouver, showing the "Pacific" half of the large illuminated red sign that says "Pacific Central" on the roof

the calm waters at sunset beach at the mouth of false creek opening up into the burrard inlet, and eventually the Pacific Ocean past the web of islands along the British Columbia coast

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

delighted to report the Canadian Rockies are still one of the most beautiful places on earth. the perfect scenery for my final full day of my transcontinental rail journey

one of the dome cars on the train at Jasper station under very, very early morning pre-dawn light. everything is very blue (and was IRL)

a partially frozen lake reflecting the soft, full orange morning sky with mountains towering to one side

mount Robson, the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rockies, looming over the rear of the train, the summit is nearly 4km high and is not visible due to clouds

a CN freight train rolling towards our train under a very dark sky, while some mountains off in the distance are still illuminated by the sun

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

some more photos from the prairie today. extremely relaxing to watch it slip by

a small greenhouse/hut thing stands alone on a snowcapped landscape of rolling hills that have crops poking through the snow. there is a very squiggly road following the contour lines of the hills off into the distance

tire tracks left in the snow disappearing off behind rolling hills

a dense flock of birds soars above the prairie in early morning low sun, giving everything a golden hue

a snow covered road disappearing into the fog, it's impossible to clearly tell where the horizon is and where the earth ends and the sky begins

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