Deleted? Then almost certainly wasn’t for fare evading.
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It’s either that or because it’s under investigation the police have asked for it to be taken down. Either way they would want it taken down regardless of what happened.
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Noticed that as well. Obviously 7 has learned some info beyond the Reddit post. Or someone realised they can’t just repost contextless videos as “news”.
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The first NSW R set train (CAF Civity model) was delivered from Dubbo to Sydney earlier this week. The R set will eventually replace all XPT, Endeavour and Xplorer trains in NSW Trainlink fleet.
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Melbourne Airport can be a hub for the high speed line, the delayed railway line between the airport and Southern Cross, and Suburban Rail Loop, if planned properly.
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Seems odd to have a stop just 20 kms into the trip. VFTs work best with as few stops as possible.
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If it’s a valuable connection it’s not unusual. In the UK, HS1 and HS2 have their first stops at Stratford and Old Oak Common under 10km out from the city.
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Also, the Melbourne Airport station should be a pick up station only for high speed trains leaving Southern Cross for Sydney, and a drop off station only for high speed trains arriving from Sydney.
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It would be a pick up point southbound for Melbourne CBD travellers.
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The idea would be you have a station that is along the route of the Suburban Rail Loop, to maximise the connectivity - so that you don’t need to take the HSR all the way into the CBD and then back out on slower trains.
Right now you’d assume that would be at Broadmeadows, as that’s the current linking point for the standard gauge line on the SRL route, but there’s less dense development directly around the airport area so that costs to build the line out of there might be cheaper than likely needing extensive tunnelling to leave the suburbs.
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Appropriate ticket pricing will possibly achieve this
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The most important bit from the notice is this:
The Route 58 tram will continue to run along Toorak Road West, providing a shorter and direct path to St Kilda Road and maintaining the same platform interchange for citybound passengers at the Anzac Station tram stop.
The tram route was diverted from Domain Road to Toorak Road West on July 1, 2017, to faciliate the construction of Anzac Station as part of Metro Tunnel project. Now it’s unlikely that trams will run on Domain Road again. That section on Domain Road and Park Street was part of the Brighton Road cable tram line, which opened on October 11, 1888.
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Interestingly, since trams and traffic were diverted from Domain Road, the local businesses have flourished with some street parking has been converted into al fresco seating.
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Flyers were dropped in letter boxes of several Heatherton residents last Friday, advising them of severe disruption in the areas from late October until late December as a result of Suburban Rail Loop works.
The notice says that no works impacting Kingston Road will occur during the Australian Open Golf period (November 28 to December 1).
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Just saw a train in Melbourne with the Metlink logo still on it.
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I can’t wait to ride on the trams when I’m down there next January 
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Which train? Didn’t realise they were still on the trains.
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Neither did I, was next to a door on the middle carriage of train 35M.
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(The Canberra Liberals agree to extending the light rail line south across the lake to Parliament House, but believe the stage further south to Woden is a waste of money and are pledging to dump the plan)
The Canberra Liberals’ official party position is to scrap the Woden light rail project, which it says will cost more than $5 billion. Leader Elizabeth Lee has argued more bus lanes and rapid routes will be better measures to improve transport to the southside.
They’re talking about this Elizabeth Lee, right? 
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