Re: Franklin Street Signal Box (VIC)

[Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Steven Hurst wrote:

>             I Passed the Franklin Street signal box yesterday and noticed
> that all of the VR characteristic "Signal box Ivy" had been pulled off the
> outside of the box.  Is it to be demolished?  It does not seem to be in the
> road of anything, although it is out in the middle of nowhere and is
> possibly an eysore rather than a landmark to some.


Are you talking about the abandoned tramway signal box near Victoria
Street (junction of Swanston and Franklin) ?  Wasn't that being turned
into a restaurant or something? Or is there some railway box with the
same name?

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand