I honestly don't have stong options about Southern Cross Station, but I know this sub does.
Noticed these popping up around the station, at a google they appear to be air quality monitoring devices.
The lable has 'DOT' in it which makes me feel like they are installed by the State. Probably to validate Infranexus' position on air quality.
I think some people may find the information about closures split between Metro Planned Works and Transport Victoria to be a confusing way to approach so many closures.
This map only shows Sat-Sun day, not night-only works such as Geelong and Ballarat.
No doubt I missed something though, with so many. Point them out if I did.
(repost, had the wrong revision uploaded last time)
- Dandenong lines are terminating at South Yarra
- Burnley & Clifton Hill Group lines are not going into the City Loop
- Entire Sunbury line has bus replacements.
Only the Frankston line will be running via the City Loop. This is going to cause a lot of chaos especially at Richmond Station for the peak periods and the footy fans.
In regards to the Sunbury line shutdown, are they going to be removing the tracks near South Kensington? Why is the entire line going into bus replacement.
Enjoy the weekend everyone!!
Just got turned away from entering town hall, the staff said they need to evacuate, and the announcement said there was a technical fault? I rode up to state library and trains were alright there.
As someone that grew up locally, I can hands down say they really did some great design choices, especially with the glass weather protection which will look stunning once landscaping has been done. Tons of workers still out today working, including on the area around the old station. I particularly like the cream coloured lamp posts on the station and the entrances on both sides.
Got on train, driver said we were skipping Town Hall, but never said anything about Anzac. Announcement came that we were arriving at Anzac, people got ready to get out and it went straight past.
Based on the other commenter, looks like Town Hall is being evacuated, but why Anzac? Particularly with no notice?
Edit: Metro notify didn't say anything except about the operational incident at TH, and Anzac was fine when I finally did get back 30 mins later, so I think the driver just made a mistake.
A pox on you!
She is aiming to make the entire metro fleet out of beads and stick them with magnets to our fridge
Before (image 1) and after (image 2): some very small changes I made to the local area map for Richmond Station for Richmond Tonight
Added:
Fixed:
Only some of these would be relevant as improvements to the main map. A number are just to serve the purpose of showing all live events in this corner of East Melbourne and Richmond (eg Corner Hotel).
I don't know enough about the sponsorship arrangements for AAMI Park and Kia Arena to know if it would be impossible to list them alongside their generic names on the official map – but if practical, I would. No visitor knows that Rectangular Stadium is AAMI Park. Even if it is called that on ABC and this map.
Hi guys,
I was picking the brains of some V/Line people about the upcoming Geelong disruptions and why they don’t run services through or terminate at Werribee. I was told that there aren’t enough qualified drivers for that route. The other interesting point was that Metro and V/Line receive a fine for every delayed service. This bakes in a financial incentive for the two to not cooperate on shared tracks. Understandably, Metro doesn’t want the extra traffic causing any delays to their own services.
This got me wondering, what was cooperation like between country, freight and suburban services in the VR? What kind of interdepartmental rifts existed or was there even any major rifts at all?
Been a while since i caught a train. Clipping fingernails and leaving them for the clean up team a thing now?
It was taken in November 1992 by Ian Green
i think it was upscaled into 4k or something
Last night at around 12am I saw one of the new trams that are replacing the z3 on 82, they were test driving it, does anyone know when it will be in service? I'm gonna miss that old z3 lol but the new one looks awesome and it's stealthy quiet too
Inspection run to Flemington Racecourse and Ringwood
Been seeing multiple posts of photos and threads about Comengs, Xtraps and Siemens trains being taken to Westall Sidings lately. Xtrap and Comeng photos at Clayton over the last few days come to mind. Thought I would clarify as people seem confused.
Whilst these trains will occasionally go out to the maintenance shed at Westall, this isnt the reasoning for the influx over the last couple of weeks.
With all the works at Mordialloc, Frankston Sidings (6 Trains), Kananook Sidings (21 Trains) and Mordialloc Sidings (4 Trains) have been emptied as these trains are still needed throughout the day.
So, these extra trains have to be stabled elsewhere. Melbourne Yard Wash, Craigieburn Wash, Westall are just some of the places that I can think of off the top of my head that are being utilised to accommodate the extra 31 trains.
I hope this information is useful and warranted. Have a good day 🙂
I've been working on this for the past few months. I did post an earlier version of this before, but now you can click and drag the map and most of the stations are in the right place geographically. I still haven't positioned every station properly though, and some of the state network data isn't filled in yet. (I'm working on it though)
Parkdale station is for some reason showing up as Connex station on Google maps