Location: Melbourne, Australia
Images Revealed For A New Station At Cobblebank
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
kuldalai
Chief Commissioner
Cobblebank?Weird name the Government has come out of nowhere with.
Where did this come from?
Images Revealed For A New Station At Cobblebank
Up till now it was known as a new station announced for Toolern between Rockbank and Melton .
Ours not to reason why ??? Funny Government holds naming competitions for tunnel boring machines (NB: MUST be female names !!!) , but unilaterally comes up with names like Southern Cross and Cobblebank .
ngarner
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Seville
Gman_86 has posted on the 'Ballarat Lines upgrades underway' thread the origin of this suburb's name which apparently happened a number of years ago. Doesn't mean that anyone likes it but it apparently has been around for a while.
Neil
Neil
Carnot
Minister for Railways
All I'll say is that they seem to have ''cobbled' together a couple of words and boom -"Cobblebank" it is.
Crossover
Train Controller
Location: St. Albans Victoria
All I'll say is that they seem to have ''cobbled' together a couple of words and boom -"Cobblebank" it is.There is a locality not too far from Toolern known as "Cobbledick`s Ford . It is located on the Werribee River I think .. Is this anything to do with it .?
I do suspect that a station named Cobbledick would not "Get Up "so to speak .
tazzer96
Deputy Commissioner
maybe its because its rockbanks smaller cousin.
awsgc24
Minister for Railways
Location: Sydney
Images Revealed For A New Station At CobblebankWill the new station have one platform or two, and if the latter, an island platform or two side platforms?
potatoinmymouth
Chief Commissioner
Look in the other thread, please. It’s all there.
BrentonGolding
Chief Commissioner
Location: Maldon Junction
maybe its because its rockbanks smaller cousin.Smaller and more perfectly formed
BG
freightgate
Minister for Railways
Location: Albury, New South Wales
Track duplication is going right to Melton for now so I guess that would
Mean two platforms minimiun as cline second pair might come past one day.
Mean two platforms minimiun as cline second pair might come past one day.
n459L1150
Train Controller
Location: at sunbury on a V/line service into melbourne, waiting for thousands of impatient people to get on
does that mean a third new station in the area would be called gravelbank?maybe its because its rockbanks smaller cousin.Smaller and more perfectly formed
BG
The Vinelander
Minister for Railways
Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat RFR Line
All I'll say is that they seem to have ''cobbled' together a couple of words and boom -"Cobblebank" it is.There is a locality not too far from Toolern known as "Cobbledick`s Ford . It is located on the Werribee River I think .. Is this anything to do with it .?
I do suspect that a station named Cobbledick would not "Get Up "so to speak .
Cobbledicks ford, on the Werribee river is probably closest to Tarneit station.
mikesyd
Chief Commissioner
Location: Lurking
I guess that it will be called Cobblers by most.
Or in the cryptic sense, "A Load Of".
Or in the cryptic sense, "A Load Of".
ngarner
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Seville
So there's a change we could get a station called Plumpton near Calder Raceway (or is that not PC)?
And Caroline Springs really ought to be Ravenhall. I reckon we could get a lot more of Middle Earth into Victoria if they tried, since we have Middle Gorge already in existence. We could out do the Kiwis!
Neil
And Caroline Springs really ought to be Ravenhall. I reckon we could get a lot more of Middle Earth into Victoria if they tried, since we have Middle Gorge already in existence. We could out do the Kiwis!
Neil
lkernan
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
Makes you wonder why it's not just called Ferris.
There's plenty of precedent for naming a station after the nearest road.
There's plenty of precedent for naming a station after the nearest road.
oaksburyestate
Station Master
Location: Melbourne
The obvious name choice for a station located between Rockbank and Melton would appear to be Rock Melon ! 
kuldalai
Chief Commissioner
Track duplication is going right to Melton for now so I guess that wouldThe track duplication actually continues right through Melton and half way down the hill to the Weir. The new mainline points are already installed .
Mean two platforms minimiun as cline second pair might come past one day.
Gauntlet
Chief Commissioner
Location:
Construction of the new station has certainly begun.
Some of the up platform face has been installed and so has part of the overpass on the northern side.
There's not much to see on the other side.
Perhaps the best news of all is that they've removed the sharply curved track and sleepers at Troups Road in Rockbank.
https://youtu.be/8nwXwJfRktA
Some of the up platform face has been installed and so has part of the overpass on the northern side.
There's not much to see on the other side.
Perhaps the best news of all is that they've removed the sharply curved track and sleepers at Troups Road in Rockbank.
https://youtu.be/8nwXwJfRktA
ZH836301
Chief Commissioner
Location: BleakCity
Name has been around for some time - some posters need to do more research.
stooge spark
Chief Train Controller
Location: My House
It's named Cobblebank, because it's in a suburb named Cobblebank, which was created sometime last year, so the station name makes sense, no different then alot of other stations.
Now the suburbs name? I don't know, but I do feel like it's purely an estate name turned suburb, such as Botanic Ridge and Weir Views.
Now the suburbs name? I don't know, but I do feel like it's purely an estate name turned suburb, such as Botanic Ridge and Weir Views.
potatoinmymouth
Chief Commissioner
The main reason people are a bit confused is that the first time the new station name was mentioned was in the press release by the title of this thread. Up until this point the new station had been referred to as Toolern, and the press release doesn’t make it clear that they’ve chosen a new name, just tries to do a “we’ve always been at war with Eastasia”.
In any case, like so many things, it was posted and discussed in the Ballarat line thread, and then someone decided to ignore that and make a new thread anyway.
In any case, like so many things, it was posted and discussed in the Ballarat line thread, and then someone decided to ignore that and make a new thread anyway.
The Vinelander
Minister for Railways
Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat RFR Line
It's named Cobblebank, because it's in a suburb named Cobblebank, which was created sometime last year, so the station name makes sense, no different then alot of other stations.
Now the suburbs name? I don't know, but I do feel like it's purely an estate name turned suburb, such as Botanic Ridge and Weird Views.
LOL...
That's a classic...
Weird Views...Yeah, I'd love to live there. ..
Gauntlet
Chief Commissioner
Location:
Cobblebank station is opening tomorrow so they decided to hold a sneak-peek event today.
Here are some of the photos I took when I was there.
Note the space left for two future track next to the down platform in the panoramic shot.
The only access to platform 1 is via the overpass.
https://flic.kr/p/2hTdYkr
https://flic.kr/p/2hTguva
https://flic.kr/p/2hThxy8
https://flic.kr/p/2hTguFk
https://flic.kr/p/2hTdZ2B
https://flic.kr/p/2hTgv6i
Here are some of the photos I took when I was there.
Note the space left for two future track next to the down platform in the panoramic shot.
The only access to platform 1 is via the overpass.
https://flic.kr/p/2hTdYkr
https://flic.kr/p/2hTguva
https://flic.kr/p/2hThxy8
https://flic.kr/p/2hTguFk
https://flic.kr/p/2hTdZ2B
https://flic.kr/p/2hTgv6i
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