Spring Street has forewarned the travelling public to expect delays over March and April as major shutdowns occur on key parts of the city’s transport network. From the 16th of March to the 29th of April, the Hurstbridge line will be shut down with buses replacing trains between Clifton Hill and Macleod/Greensborough. The Hurstbridge line…
Hot on the heels of the new Noble Park station opening, Clayton is rapidly approaching its open date as well. The Level Crossing Removal Authority (LXRA) noted on its facebook(link is external) page(link is external) that the first part of the catenary is now in place, as well as the first pieces of track as well…
Construction is set to commence on the Genton-designed refreshed Frankston station this month which is set to include new public plazas and walkways. McGregor Coxall have worked with Genton during the design phase, accounting for the station’s new landscape architecture features. Genton Architecture was announced as the winner of the design competition in March 2017 and Spring…
Last week Public Transport Victoria unleashed a torrent of data concerning punctuality and cancellation figures for Melbourne’s train network with the Frankston line bestowed with the unfortunate title of train line with the most cancellations. I understand the public interest value of this data – it’s a way of holding operators (and the government) to…
The first of the new elevated stations on the Caulfield-Dandenong corridor has opened to passengers with the Premier, Public Transport Minister and local members on hand to officially re-open Noble Park station. A new era dawned at #NoblePark(link is external) this morning! Thanks for your patience during these @levelcrossings(link is external) works. There will be…
Originally launched in September 2016 by Tim Fischer, the Rail Futures Institute(link is external)‘s InterCity proposal presents a decades-long proposal to increase connectivity to Melbourne for Victoria’s regions through an investment program that would see new or altered routes as well as service improvements on the regional Victorian Rail network. Regular readers might be familiar with…
In September VicRoads proposed to make Hoddle Street & Punt Road a permanent clearway from the Eastern Freeway to the Yarra River as part of a larger project to alter intersections along the route. Also during the Christmas season, Spring Street unveiled its decision on which corridor to select for the North East Link and at the same…
It was one of SBS’s most highly rated programmes. If you missed it, you missed a pretty schmick production with an Australian broadcaster’s first foray into the ‘slow TV’ genre when SBS broadcast The Ghan: Australia’s greatest train journey(link is external) in primetime without ads on Sunday night. But what you might know is that there…