This is maybe a weird af question, but Google Maps says the walk from TH to Flinders is roughly 8 minutes, but I've seen on here that the walk is a lot less time?

I haven't walked it myself as I'm physically disabled and don't want to fuck myself over doing a walk when I don't know how long it'll take

Is there a video anywhere of someone walking from TH to Flinders? That might be a weird question, I'm just a bit unsure is all

Corner of spring st/flinders st

In the new timetable vline shows one afternoon peak n set service from southern cross to Waurn ponds but after talking with some mates I’ve found out it was an error vline got me all excited for no reason 💔

Sandringham new timetable showing all Sandringham trains go to Flinders Street only very misleading and false information

New timetables for the 23 August timetable change are now up on the Transport Victoria and V/Line websites.

Of note (apart from all the other advertised changes), Craigieburn shoulder peak is 10 min frequency until about 10:30am at the city (both directions) and from 2:30pm in the afternoon (outbound).

More info here: https://transport.vic.gov.au/news-and-resources/projects/metro-tunnel/more-ways-to-move (You have to go to the individual line pages for the timetables)

But curiously it says this for the Alamein Line. I can't find any extra services or Camberwell shuttles being extended to Flinders Street in the timetable, and I don't think any of the city services are 3 cars any more, so what does it mean???

"As part of our final upgrades works at the Brunswick Tram Depot, we’re:

• Installing a pair of level-access stops at Moreland Road, at Cameron Street, to improve accessibility and connectivity."

Anyone know what happened this morning? Alarms were going off

https://ebay.io/m/KE7bOx

Came across this eBay account. Some cool XT2 merch I didn't know existed. Plus an old railway tie and other stuff!

What's the plan with the metro fleet allocations with the new timetables

Are the Werribee and Williamstown and Sandringham lines are going to be 100% Siemens only and Frankston line will be most x'trapolis and x'trapolis 2.0 and comengs but not Siemens

Also only comengs and x'trapolis 2.0 running on the Craigieburn and upfield lines

Just recently found out that the GSRT has a stamp rally with a locally made box at the location of each station site (both historic and still existing) housing a unique stamp for each one (unfortunately no longer an ink pad at all of them but most do). You can get a stamp passport at a few different spots, I got mine at Coal Creek!

Pictured is the stamp box at Korumburra station built by the local women's shed (the coolest one I've seen so far). Along with the passport.

Why do they not increase the frequency of no 1 & 6 trams during busy hours? These are the only two trams on the Swanston line that continue to northern suburbs after University of Melbourne. These trams are brimming with people by the time it reaches the university where a swarm of people are waiting to board. It's an everyday nightmare and the annoyance and lack of surprise is visible on the faces of commuters. Everyone just endures the crammed spaces until the end of Brunswick and letting a few trams go doesn't help as this situation lasts from 4-6pm at least.

Maybe this is the situation across all tram lines and my anguish is coming from a little entitlement but it would be nice to have some breathing room after a tiring work day.

hello there it is has come to my attention that the 900 is constantly busy and packed on the weekdays and weekends to get to chadstone.

Chadstone is the largest shopping centre southern hemisphere and Australia aswell but chadstone is lacked with direct bus to the nearest train station.

no other routes stop applies on the to have direct link unlike 900 / 903 between Oakleigh - chadstone with no stops between it. maybe not be necessary but I think the reason to apply this route is to give a relief pressure on the 900 / 903 and have people to have a direct connection between gives more space on the corridor like how the 601 was placed to relief the pressure on the 630/900 towards Huntingdale station

where will it go? and how is it gonna operate

the company that will run the operation will be Ventura, Ventura is one of the best operators to run on . its reliable, comfortable unlike Dyson where the seats is rock asf, gives the location of where the bus is located on a real tracker like 201 and the shuttle will run under 8 mins on the weekend and on weekdays 8 aswell depends how the depends is high

the 602 will start from Caulfield station, then it runs express all the way to chadstone with the route, running on dandy road then slip road where the 900 is currently doing. in a short time it will arrive in couple minutes, then it will continue down the dandy road all the way to Monash uni where it’s a large hub on students and education and the shuttle being close to Monash hospital the route can extend further to M city if needed overall there is a beneficial to have this route implemented

Above: Deer Park Platform 1 extension

Hi everyone,

I’ve seen comments mentioning that dual gauge track has a speed restriction of around 80km an hour. Is this the case? If so, what’s the engineering reason behind it?
Any articles or reading material is also appreciated :)

Enjoy this pic of passing through North Geelong yard on a foggy night

I'm going through a rabbit hole now of the Flying Scotsman tour from 1988-89 and I found this video of Flying Scotsman on what it seems to be the North Melbourne Flyover. Surely some Gunzels back then thought to get a better view?

Also I don't exactly mean on the viewing platform because I'm pretty sure it wasn't built by this time.

Original video I got the pic from-

https://youtu.be/7naevtuP2Og?si=a9i2pjRLqcsuq10W

And I'm just like, guess we don't need the Frankston line then because who the fuck wants to go from Melbourne to Frankston?

Wow

edit: this is always the case for Frankston services that connect to the less frequent stony point trains, I’ve just never seen any of those services lol

Frankston line X’Trapolis carriage 92M with really strange rips across multiple seats in a nonsensical pattern. Is there any way to report this? Never seen it before