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St Kilda Junction ca 1970s

Additional Reading

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Christopher Cody By Christopher Cody
Christopher Cody
March 30, 2025
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1956 St Kilda Junction

The following is list of web links to additional resources and reading related to St Kilda Junction.

These links are not endorsed they are provided here only as an additional source of information.

  1. And you thought St Kilda Junction looked bad?, Walking Up in Geelong, 18 February 2018 (accessed 30 March 2025)
  2. 'Disastrous' St Kilda Junction tower approved by Aisha Dow, The Age, 24 August 2016 (accessed 30 March 2025)
  3. The History of St Kilda from its First Settlement to a City: 1840 -1930 by John Butler Cooper, St Kilda Historical Society (accessed 30 March 2025)
  4. The History of St Kilda: Volume 3 The Show Goes On: 1930 to July 1983 by Anne Longmire, St Kilda Historical Society (accessed 30 March 2025)
  5. Introduction to tram substations, Public Transport Victoria (accessed 31 March 2025)
  6. Plans underway to upgrade St Kilda Junction, David Loneragan, Rail Express, 1 November 2018 (accessed 30 March 2025)
  7. Proposed PTV substation on St Kilda Junction, JAAG website (accessed 31 March 2025)
  8. PTV/Yarra Trams substation at St Kilda Junction Summary of Events, JAAG website (accessed 31 March 2025)
  9. St Kilda Junction, Storey of Melbourne (accessed 30 March 2025)
  10. St Kilda Junction’s biggest development receives green light by Nicholas Rider, Architecture and Design, 27 August 2016 (accessed 30 March 2025)
  11. Junction Hotel, later Grand Junction Hotel 1853 – 1973, St Kilda Historical Society (accessed 30 March 2025)
  12. St Kilda Junction Masterplan Timeline 2017 – now, JAAG: St Kilda Junction Area Action Group (accessed 30 March 2025)
  13. St Kilda Junction signal box operation by A.R. Bailey, First published 1966, Melbourne Tram Museum (accessed 30 March 2025)
  14. St Kilda Junction subject to its biggest development yet, by Mark Baljak, urban.com.au, 28 January 2016 (accessed 30 March 2025)
  15. St. Kilda Junction substation in the works, Rail Express (accessed 31 March 2025)
  16. St Kilda Junction substation landscaping, Public Transport Victoria (accessed 30 March 2025)
  17. Yalukit Willam: the river people of Port Phillip by Meyer Eidelson, St Kilda Historical Society (accessed 31 March 2025)
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Christopher Cody
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This website and its contributors acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung of the Kulin Nation the traditional owners of the land on which St Kilda Junction is located stands and offers respects to the elders past and present. This website and its contributors recognise and respect the cultural heritage of this land.

This site is an unofficial urban history and resource archive related to St Kilda Junction, Melbourne, Australia.

It has no affiliations and is strictly not-for-profit.

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St Kilda Junction at dusk 4th September 2015

Why a history of St Kilda Junction

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Christopher Cody By Christopher Cody
Christopher Cody
March 23, 2025
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When I first came to live in Melbourne in the mid 1980s, St Kilda Junction was one of the first places I used to orientate myself around the city. At this time on the corner of St Kilda Road and Wellington Streets the Junction was dominated by a large 3D glass of Coca Cola, which was later, replaced by a similar size glass of Swan Beer. A reoccurring and current theme of St Kilda Junction was its role as host for advertising billboards and paraphernalia.1

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