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Melbourne’s City Loop in Technicolor
Have you ever noticed the different colours of the next train displays at Melbourne’s City Loop railway stations? Here they are at the Swanston Street end of Melbourne Central Station (née Museum),...
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Flinders Street Station: 30 years of change
Back in the early 1980s the following scene would have greeted you on entering Flinders Street Station. Thirty years later the view is similar except the CRT displays have been replaced with larger and...
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Melbourne’s trains in ‘the good old days’?
Welcome to Melbourne’s railway network. Do you sometimes think that your trip home used to be better in ‘the good old days’? That pushing your way through crowded platforms is something new? It’s been...
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Educating the cattle: Myki touch on and off
I’ve posted about the issues with Myki a few times over the past month: first I wrote about congestion at City Loop stations in peak hour, and yesterday I mentioned the lack of account information the...
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Above the concourse at Flagstaff station
Thousands of people pass through Melbourne’s Flagstaff railway station each day, but I doubt any of them notice the little used walkway tucked way on the upper level. Once upon a time even I didn’t...
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Security in the City Loop (or lack thereof)
Welcome to Melbourne Central Station, where on Wednesday night the first of Ted Baillieu’s Protective Services Officers started duty, protecting passengers from the hoards of evildoers who descend on...
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And that’s why you don’t privatise railway stations
Why does one visit a railway station? For most people it is to catch a train, but unfortunately for some commuters in Melbourne that is easier said than done, since the powers that be decided to flog...
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Myki gates: weren’t they supposed to be better?
Myki: a few months ago the queues to exit Melbourne’s railway stations each morning grew to colossal lengths because of the exceeding slow ‘Frankbarriers’ that commuters needed to pass through. The...
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How fast are Melbourne’s ticket gates?
How many passengers per minute can a bank of Myki ticket gates process at a Melbourne railway station in morning peak? In the case of Flagstaff Station it doesn’t seem to be enough, and the reason...
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Melbourne Metro rail tunnel: how about some actual detail?
Over the weekend an article titled Tunnel under city or face rail chaos appeared in Melbourne newspaper The Age, with the lead image being a pretty artists impression of a new underground railway...
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