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 Thread: Premier won't rule out airport rail link |
ZoomRail
Replies: 18
Views: 671
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 Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:45 pm Subject: Premier won't rule out airport rail link |
| Not a priority but would be great for the future. Not only for the above mentioned benefits to pax, we could haul freight from the airport instead of trucking everything. It is known that trains are m ... |
| Thread: Cleaner trains, more staff, new seat covers and MORE! |
ZoomRail
Replies: 34
Views: 1626
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:09 pm Subject: Cleaner trains, more staff, new seat covers and MORE! |
WARNING: PROFANITY AHEAD
OMFG, I am sick of these bastards always complaining about not getting seats and having to stand, etc. GROW SOME BALLS AND STAND! IT'S NOT THAT HARD. JOIN THE MILITARY AND ... |
| Thread: Double Deck trains |
ZoomRail
Replies: 57
Views: 3464
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:18 pm Subject: Double Deck trains |
Ideas...
- Double Deckers trains will probably increase dwell times and are probably not worth it.
- Longer trains won't fit in platform
- Removal of some seats and potentially using sideways sea ... |
| Thread: Connex Silent Over Station PA Announcement Claims |
ZoomRail
Replies: 29
Views: 1585
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:52 pm Subject: Re: Connex Silent Over Station PA Announcement Claims |
| Isn't it possible to feed an amplified audio signal directly into the megaphones, if you connect your signal to the audio cables for the megaphones? |
| Thread: Broad, dirty tracks |
ZoomRail
Replies: 9
Views: 620
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:18 pm Subject: Broad, dirty tracks |
| Same material... you know... steel? |
| Thread: PA Test |
ZoomRail
Replies: 3
Views: 417
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:26 am Subject: PA Test |
| Also happened at Ormond station. The Ormond PRIDE announcements are operated from Bentleigh aren't they? That might be why. |
| Thread: PA Test |
ZoomRail
Replies: 3
Views: 417
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:46 pm Subject: PA Test |
| Today at Bentleigh, Mr. Pride started doing a PA Test. "Public Address Test. Testing 1,2,3,....,58,59. That concludes the test." or something along those lines. Any reason for this? Saw a guy in a saf ... |
| Thread: A $1 Billion balls up and a really bad joke called 'Myki' |
ZoomRail
Replies: 274
Views: 11980
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:40 pm Subject: A $1 Billion balls up and a really bad joke called 'Myki' |
| Well at least we know that myki is actually progressing by looking around. No idiot is going to put up stands like those at North Melbourne (I think) and Mentone and leave them to rot for eight years. ... |
| Thread: Interesting visitor to Mordialloc Yard |
ZoomRail
Replies: 47
Views: 2874
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:57 pm Subject: Interesting visitor to Mordialloc Yard |
| Dammit who do I believe? |
| Thread: EARWIGG OH AGAIN! |
ZoomRail
Replies: 29
Views: 1405
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:47 pm Subject: EARWIGG OH AGAIN! |
| Connex are only responsible for train maintainance, track maintainance, and driving the trains around. The Government makes it look like Connex's fault. Connex don't bother shouting back, because then ... |
| Thread: Incident at Oak Park - buses between Essendon/Broadmeadows |
ZoomRail
Replies: 16
Views: 1424
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:41 am Subject: Incident at Oak Park - buses between Essendon/Broadmeadows |
| Don't the bus companies have a contract, where they get a yearly rate, and when there's an unplanned incident, Connex ring up and say "Hey, XYZ Bus Lines, we need buses from Hopville to Newstown" and ... |
| Thread: X traps in M train lines |
ZoomRail
Replies: 38
Views: 2530
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:34 am Subject: X traps in M train lines |
| The drivers sit in the middle of the cab in X'Trapolis trains, because they are off-the-shelf trains designed for pure one-person-operations. When Connex found out about the signal sighting problems, ... |
| Thread: Mum lashes out at "horror trip" on Lilydale line |
ZoomRail
Replies: 33
Views: 2774
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:13 am Subject: Mum lashes out at "horror trip" on Lilydale line |
after her young daughter was exposed to drug taking, graffiti gangs and verbal abuse during her first ever train trip.
Sorry, mate, the article says that it's her daughter's first trip. |
| Thread: Interesting visitor to Mordialloc Yard |
ZoomRail
Replies: 47
Views: 2874
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:08 pm Subject: Interesting visitor to Mordialloc Yard |
| From what I have heard, and this may not be entirely correct, most Southern Cross V/Line drivers are qualified on the Frankston line, incase they need to run the Stony Point transfer in absense of a C ... |
| Thread: More copper theft. |
ZoomRail
Replies: 17
Views: 959
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Forum: Melbourne suburban Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:01 pm Subject: More copper theft. |
| If only we had 25kVAC. Don't think anyone would survive that. |
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