{"id":332310,"date":"2025-12-28T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332310"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:30:10","slug":"melbourne-yard-hump-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332310","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Yard Hump &#8211; An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Folks, today I will begin a series of posts about the (Now defunct) Melbourne Hump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will explain on each photo, how the Hump operations worked, how Drivers handled it and some detail about the whole thing. I drove this thing many, many times and knew it intimately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the images are by a photographer named Rosco and some from an unknown photographer (Presumably V.R. official), but in the public domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first image depicts a ZL Guards van heading for a Balloon and is looking toward North Melbourne station, with Spencer Street at the photographers back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indicator light above the Hump cabin is showing Hump Mode. I will explain more about the lights and their meanings in posts to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/638600199492685\/user\/100041412426453\/?__cft__[0]=AZYYERcXtHAUcMQY2KPS_GwoIN8He_Fhzbgihb4_TvtlVHBM_rVY0a5uAJ9Vrj-Z-BAJ63VlyMySj8DzEFeseW4yMWD6s4ZXqoCFgGAC62IGkS2j3hFCS8DQirpHyeNSG49imeYcqH4n4cl9cNEb2g6G&amp;__tn__=-UC*F\">Cclas Loco<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melbourne Yard Hump &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=332313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Construction Period<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indicator light above the Hump cabin is showing Hump Mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":332311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[993,19045,19046,8],"class_list":["post-332310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-hump","tag-melbourne-yard","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341208,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332310\/revisions\/341208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}