[quote=Heihachi_73]Trench is a lot noisier, just go to the 109 tram stop at Box Hill for a good experience of the rail noise emanating from Box Hill station a few hundred metres away. Aside from minor ...
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The MURLA annual reports are a bit of an interesting read and the last page of the 1971 report, see here
https://www.parliam ...
[quote=Heihachi_73]Full-time Alamein and/or Blackburn trains would do wonders for the Burnley group, with more services for those in Zone 1 and faster trains (expresses) from Zone 2, provided there is ...
[quote]On this topic. The Clifton Hill loop direction became non changing as a mitigation due to having to cross the down track at the portal entrance near MCG. Seemingly this caused delays, so they f ...
[quote=davesvline]On this topic. The Clifton Hill loop direction became non changing as a mitigation due to having to cross the down track at the portal entrance near MCG. Seemingly this caused delays ...
[quote=7334]As for the STOP sign at Gwabegar, I recollect there being a similar sign on the stop block at the end of the dead end at Boree Creek some time ago but it was at the end of such a wonky pie ...
They're running to a regular roster, over to the observers to work it out.
[color=#333333][size=4][font=Roboto, wf_SegoeUI,] [url=https://www.railpage.com.au/user/11927]Daryl[i]Junior Train Controller[/i][/font][/size][/color]
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I went through the Loop very many years ago behind a GM on the way to (I think) Echuca, via Toolamba as part of a tour. More recently an N and N set were 'stranded' at North Melbourne platform 1 when ...
[quote=bevans]Thanks, this is the first I have seen on the network.
The deice sure looks like it can hold a lot of grease.
Where else on the network can you find these at the present stage?[/ ...
Not a sleeper train, a rail train.
Route 30. St Vincents Plaza to Docklands Stadium is as close to a shuttle as we get, a shuttle along Latrobe Street basically. It's Bourke and Collins Streets that would kill for shuttle services.
[quote=Lad_Porter][quote]This is a joke right? Have you been out to Ringwood and beyond? Have you been to Hurstbridge? If you had you cannot possibly believe that "a lot of the track has been renewed" ...
[quote=mejhammers1][quote]I have to disagree with you on that one. From my view as a passenger, I don't want bumpy, noisy X-Traps to replace comfortable, well sprung Comeng trains. I have no idea if X ...
[quote=L-1172]Thanks Rodo. Tinamba was just a guess as I have never been there when the station was still in operation. I will put up a photo in the next few days.
By the way Rodo, what was the dat ...
And Rodo, would that be Harris cars behind what I'm guessing is B 85, possibly taken during an ARE tour on 14/3/1970? 
Has the world ended and the sky fallen in?
It was a blanket removal of the 90klm maximum. If anyone's really keen you may experience 95 up or down the hill between Holmesglen and Jordanville.
Knowledge is power and thus the people on the ground / at the coal face are usually the last to know. Best bet is to take to twitter or tune into whatever it is that the young knowledgeable folk do.
[quote=Bogong]Perhaps there are two more reasons to be worried about rail trails:
[ul][li]Rail reservations (land adjoining former rail lines and the scrub and trees growing on the former track bed) ...
Myrtone.
So you're against standing room only trains, is that your sole point, or are you arguing the definition of Metro (or do you just love double deckers)? Whatever, higher frequency is the key ...
Of course they're playing politics, it's what you do when in opposition. When you get into power you then find it's not so easy to actually do things and then it becomes the oppositions turn to play p ...
Panto entanglement Platform 9 at Southern Cross is the whispers I'd heard. (Clifton Hill loop)
Are the roughly cut holes for water egress?
[quote=fzr560][quote="Bullucked"][quote][quote]According to listing of lx Phelps Road does not have any lx protection at this time. It certainly will after today.[/quote]
So, no stop sign?[/quote]S ...
