Each day thousands of Melbournians pass through the pedestrian subways beneath Richmond station while changing between different train lines. But how many of them have noticed that each of the ramps has their own wall tile colour?
With five ramps serving ten platforms at Richmond, I’ve found pink, green, blue and yellow coloured ones – so what colour is the last one?
The current Richmond station was opened in March 1960, having been constructed in stages during the 1950s to replace the previous six platform station, which was located a short distance to east towards Swan Street. Here is an artists impression from 1955 showing what was planned for the site.
In the end we got something a lot plainer looking.
The fifth colour?
The colours of each ramp so far are:
- Platform 1/2: Pink
- Platform 3/4: Green
- Platform 5/6: Yellow
- Platform 7/8: Blue
And the ramps to platform 9/10? Their walls are pink, the same as platform 1/2.