In 2016-17 there there 887,566 boardings at Tarneit compared with 541,400 at Wyndham Vale, which is the latest data available.

https://philipmallis.com/blog/2019/02/14/station-patronage-in-victoria-2013-2018/

Roughly speaking that would be about 5000 weekday boardings between them; even if all 5000 are in the peak 2 hours, if it's spread across 12 trains in that time we've still got oodles of room.

Any infill stations will probably draw most of their patronage away from the existing two when they get built.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/regions-unite-on-fast-train-strategy-20190608-p51vsd.html

What a surprise: they looked at all sorts of fancy options and decided sharing the airport tunnel and running along the existing alignment was the best strategy. Wonder how much that cost the councils.

edit: and, of course, all the usual hallmarks of a John Hearsch report: no cost-benefit analysis and outrageously lowball costings.

All other times reflect informed assumptions by technical expertise in this field including the work and advice of senior members of the Rail Futures Institute. Transit times above Rail Futures Institute estimates as provided in its 2016 Intercity report are explained by Intercity assuming 130- 160km/h speeds, not 200km/h.

Does anyone know why they've put up two sections of overhead wiring at the Wyndham Vale stabling?


https://youtu.be/GSrgOSKSSZ8

Does anyone know why they've put up two sections of overhead wiring at the Wyndham Vale stabling?

The fishermans bend option is the best option in my eyes. If it is built with quadruplication between newport and werribee that small bit of track could add quite a decent chunk of capacity to the network.

Does anyone know why they've put up two sections of overhead wiring at the Wyndham Vale stabling?

I assume it's for lighting, you can see similar structures at North Geelong and North Melbourne sidings.

The fishermans bend option is the best option in my eyes. If it is built with quadruplication between newport and werribee that small bit of track could add quite a decent chunk of capacity to the network.

Quadruplication between Newport and Werribee Is a lot easier said than done, due to the presence of petroleum pipelines beside the existing railway tracks (one reason why the RRL bypassed the whole lot)

Similar to the lighting set up at Calder Park. Obviously someone thought it would be either cost effective to do it that way, or they've found it works better than having the lights mounted other places.

I’m a big fan of fast to geelong, but I’m staggered that the preferred route is via Lara and doesn’t go direct via Avalon to allow for future growth.   This is a once in a generation opportunity to get it right an I fear we will miss out.  Imagine being able to go airport to airport with only a change at Sunbury.   That would be game changing! Link a new station at Avalon with Lara via light rail in the future, busses for now.  The list of benefits far outweigh the current proposal in my eyes.

I’m a big fan of fast to geelong, but I’m staggered that the preferred route is via Lara and doesn’t go direct via Avalon to allow for future growth.   This is a once in a generation opportunity to get it right an I fear we will miss out.  Imagine being able to go airport to airport with only a change at Sunbury.   That would be game changing! Link a new station at Avalon with Lara via light rail in the future, busses for now.  The list of benefits far outweigh the current proposal in my eyes.

I’m a big fan of fast to geelong, but I’m staggered that the preferred route is via Lara and doesn’t go direct via Avalon to allow for future growth.   This is a once in a generation opportunity to get it right an I fear we will miss out.  Imagine being able to go airport to airport with only a change at Sunbury.   That would be game changing! Link a new station at Avalon with Lara via light rail in the future, busses for now.  The list of benefits far outweigh the current proposal in my eyes.

For someone called Engineering Logic you seem to lack some of it.

Why would a train go via an Airport which sees 5 flights to Sydney (10*200 = 2k people) and 2 to KL (4*400 = 1.6k people) per day (total 3.6k eligble pax), when it currently goes via a town with a pop of ~20k and growing rapidly.