Amazingly enough, I don't just catch trams...I catch trains too! Most of the time this is an okay thing except for when the Epping line stops on platform 14 at Flinders St station. Platform 14 is the nasty continuation of platform 1. It's dark, dank and orange lit, almost like Amsterdam's sex district but without the sex or red lighting.
When the train pulls up to this platform, you can almost hear the audible groan as passengers push their way out of the carriages and power walk up the platform to the light of day. What commences is a surreal wave of people floating but at the same time bobbing jerkily like they are on a conveyor belt at an airport or running a 10km fun run. Everybody wants to be the first person off the platform and up the stairs to civilisation. People scoot between pillars and find whatever rabbit warren available to push their way to the front. It almost reminds me of the invisible platform in the Harry Potter films that the muggles don't know about.
Platform 14 sux...
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"fun run" now there's a contradiction in terms :-)
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