Daniel Bowen
- A quick one, something I edited out of the recent post about the Melton line hybrid (bi-mode) train proposal: peak capacity on RRL. Currently the Ballarat and Geelong lines merge just west of Deer Park, where they run to Sunshine, joined there by trains from Bendigo (though these don’t actually stop at Sunshine station). From […]
- If you’re boarding the Sydney Metro (I’ll mostly use the line number M1 for short) for the first time from a CBD station, the first thing you see is the grand architecture. It’s impressive, but you also get a sense that they have designed it for scale to carry large numbers of people through the […]
- Good to see pledges for this long-neglected part of Melbourne
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Philip Mallis
- One marked improvement to Melbourne’s railway stations over the past few years has been the reintroduction of maps showing the surrounding area. These were once ubiquitous across the network and took many different forms. The most recent variant before the current one was simply a snippet of a Melway for the local area, like this […]
- UPDATE: Turns out these maps have been up for months and I just haven’t noticed. On the train yesterday I noticed something a little bit different posted on the wall. Specifically, the Victorian rail (not train) network map. The first thing that caught my eye was the September 2026 ‘effective date’. Given that it is […]
- As mentioned in my previous post there are many interesting things to see on Morocco’s rail network. One of my train trips in this wonderful country was from one of the most modern cities in the country, Casablanca, to one of its most historic, Fes. This route is about 320 kilometres long. It requires taking […]