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Glenferrie and Auburn station have those dark, hairpin ramps down from the platform to a tunnel below, evoking an early part of the 20th century circa The Sullivans when life was, apparently, more brown than it is today^*. Dad hops off a Red Rattler after work and pops into the local for a quick pint on the way home. Junior rides his bike around the streets after school, smiling in his shorts and a shirt and a sleeveless jumper. Nothing to do on Sunday but tag along to church with everybody else and wait for a nice roast dinner. Johnny O'Keefe is years away.

I'm just passing through this time - off to a bright red shop of sorts, dropping off some piece or other of broken technology - but I spent a couple of pleasant years in this area a decade previously. More on that later.

* (When did Melburnians move on from brown to black, anyway?)

A crowd gathered to defend our history, one day in Camberwell.

There was a guy from hollywood who entered our households via an insane pianist one day a few years. He is one of us, he shares our hopes and dreams, he doesn't catch the 6:32am stopping all stations to Lilydale but he defends his right to do so on the same platform is father once stood.

Several years later we stand in the rain, rush from platform 1 to 3 to make connecting trains, girls in black suits and nikes, guys in pants and colorful ties, school kids, mothers, the zone 2 and zone 3 dwellers.

Thanking god and hollywood for the unique pleasure that only a heritage can bring.