Trams were back today. 
The new stop 11 Melbourne Museum (at Nicholson/Gertrude, formerly stop 12) also replaces stop 11 Victoria Pde. The platform is 66m double sided island, with exits & traffic lights at both ends. This is a huge improvement on the 32m long safety zone, which was often badly congested with right turning 86 trams, interchanging passengers, and museum/exhibition building passengers.There was an abundance of orange safety mesh at the stops during construction, with yellow signs reading NO EXIT (you can make one out above the van windscreen in the photo). Presumably this was only for construction workers (to discourage pole-vaulting?) and has been removed (I didn't visit today).

The second new stop, designated stop 12 Moor St, replaces stop 13 Hanover St & stop 14 Murchison St (or Bell St for inbound). It keeps Hanover St's tramTracker id. The platform is 33m long double sided island, with a traffic light exit only at the north end. The exit has a rather long ramp, given it is on a downhill.

The final new stop is 2 33m islands on either side of Johnston St. The outbound platform is on the north side of the intersection, replacing the outbound safety zone on that side.

As part of the works, the existing crossover north of Gertrude St, and the one IN Gertrude St, were both removed, replaced with a new one beginning ~5-10m south of the new platform stop.The Nicholson St crossover was used regularly for lunchtime shorts city - museum (do these still run?). You can see where the Gertrude St crossover was by the yellow shunt marks, which were still on the roadway when I took this photo yesterday.
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Bramley