Strange Ideas for Websites
Number One (in a neverending series)
The Broadmeadows Railways Line Fansite
Some people like a train or two, fair enough. Some people even like trains quite a lot, no problems with that. Some people though just take it too far and make themselves look a bit silly.
There is somebody with a fetish for the Broadmeadows line. Somebody who has done the research and knows that Platform One of Essendon station is rarely used. You have to admire their dedication to the cause, but at the same time wonder just how much time some people have on their hands.
Did you know, for instance, that Moonee Ponds station had boom gates installed at Puckle Street on the 25th of May, 1969? Of course you didn't. You do now. Even better that the small ticket machine at Newmarket is serial numbered MVM 1-017-1113. How can people live without this information?
What this site lacks is the news that everybody really wants to know. How many stabbings have taken place between North Melbourne and Kensington? Has any new, and entertaining, graffiti about John Howard turned up at Oak Park station? Do any of the ticket machines still work?
In reality we want to know what gangs rumbled at Moonee Ponds in 1969, and which drugs are sold at Newmarket. Sadly these stats are absent.
Maybe there's some sense to all this?
Probably not.
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