Drizzle, and a crowded train couldn’t prevent an enjoyable quick trip to Ballarat
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V/Line falling short
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Myki and 3G
You might have read The Age’s story a couple of days ago: Myki meltdown: Trams, buses hit by glitches linked to end of 3G (Paywall) The government commented, but didn’t confirm or deny that 3G was to blame. I’ve got good info that it was due to 3G, but perhaps not in the way you’d ... [More]
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WGT city exits
Pretty strange looking tunnel
Here’s another of my monthly posts of photos from ten years ago – this time it’s October 2014, fast approaching the November state election. This was some unconventional advertising for the election – the “Southern Express” spruiking the Coalition government’s upgrades on the Frankston line. The unions meanwhile were lying in wait outside the station. ... [More]
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V/Line patronage surging on weekends
The Monthly Average Patronage By Day Type And Mode data was updated to include up to June 2024, and I thought I’d look at how V/Line is doing, given the fare cap introduced on 31st March 2023. Here’s the chart, with weekends highlighted, as I’ll talk about them a bit more below. The overall pattern ... [More]
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More frequent? Faster?
Are trains faster since the Glen Huntly tram crossing was removed? Perhaps surprisingly, no.
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Council elections 2024
Council elections are happening this month. In a lot of areas there’s been a change. Here in Glen Eira we used to have 3 wards with 3 councillors each. Now we’ll have 9 wards with 1 councillor each. I’m not so sure this is a good idea. Unfortunately some elected councillors aren’t great. In the ... [More]
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Brunswick stations: 3 or 2?
The Age reported that the State Government is planning to reduce the three stations in Brunswick (Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey) to two during the project to remove 8 level crossings. Looking at the current distances between the stations (source: Vicsig) we can see they’re pretty close. Station km from Southern Cross km from previous stop ... [More]
Here’s another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from September 2014. We were now fast approaching the November 2014 state election, as you’ll see in some of these snaps. Flinders Street Station’s clocks – if you look closely you’ll note some line names were modified as late as the 1990s (Cranbourne) ... [More]
Planning a cross town trip just got slightly easier, but there are some quirks
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Misplaced PIDs
Information screens are good, but sometimes not placed in the best locations
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170 years since Melbourne’s first train
How frequent was our first train service?