Strange building. Is it an electric substation?
Around the other side its purpose became clear. It was for selling tickets. Ah. Suddenly everything meshed. It is the old Fitzroy football ground, home of the Fitzroy Football Club that went on to become the Brisbane Bears? Lions? Whatever, it was a shameful piece of football history. Now if you have a footy ground, people have to get there and that was a pretty good reason for the Inner Circle railway line to terminate at Fitzroy Station in the middle of park, right next to the ground.
Our State Government wants to build a road tunnel in the inner north of the city. While a tunnel sounds innocuous enough, getting cars into and out of tunnel will have a dreadful impact on inner northern suburbs and parkland. It might not be so bad if it was a clearly needed tunnel, but it is not and seems to be mainly to be to benefit freight companies with big trucks.
The fabulous old Fitzroy Post Office. I think it houses a bar now. I try really hard to be positive about modern architecture.
Somehow I missed the remains of North Carlton Station. Here is a photo
from someone who had walked the same walk as I had, but without with commentary.
Photo by Oliver Gigacz. I see peppercorns. Was that the peppercorn row in my last post and I missed the station remains?
New infrastructure by the mob who look after railway lines in our state in a place where there is a closed and nearly disappeared old railway line. There must be some important power cables for trains below the covers. There was an electric substation as I neared the operating railway line. Is this the one a power company want to upgrade but locals are protesting against?
Here we go. This is where the diversion from the Inner Circle line met with the mainline to the once Whittlesea line but now only South Morang. I don't trust Collie looking dogs much. They have a slightly wild look in their eyes. But I have not had problems with Collies. It is just their eyes that spook me a bit. Local community garden to the right, and of course railway power staunchions without a train line below them.
Tra la la la. I'm on a road to nowhere....
The connection heading south was closed down before 1910 and I don't think any of that piece exists now.
As I do, I just missed a train back to town at Rushall Station. You can see that at times the Merri Creek runs a banker. A good bit of rubbish was to be seen.
It looks a bit nicer upstream. I played a bit with my phone while surreptitiously checking out some of the local talent who had joined me on the Rushall Station platform. Actually, they were pretty plain, but it passed the time.
Well, that is a tick for the Inner Circle railway line. I enjoyed the wee project a lot. It is nothing like walking the Thames from the barriers to its rising, but it was very enjoyable. What shall I do next? Outer Circle railway line or perhaps Merri Creek?