Drizzle, and a crowded train couldn’t prevent an enjoyable quick trip to Ballarat
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V/Line falling short
Category: transport
All forms of transport, including gunzelly
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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
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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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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]
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?
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New lifts at Flinders St
Just a quick post to note that the new lifts at Flinders Street station have recently been unveiled. They’re obviously a little way off commissioning, but this is a part of the Metro tunnel project becoming visible. The lifts will provide an accessible connection from the platforms at Flinders Street to the centre subway, part ... [More]
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The saga of Deer Park’s platforms
The rebuild didn’t cater for the 9-car trains already running
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…