Both systems will fully launch account based ticketing by 2028.
Development of the new system will progress throughout 2026 before the first hardware installations starting in 2027 and completion expected in 2028.
NSW from that link, while Victoria’s change to account based ticketing is scheduled for late 2027 (page 17).
Perfection! Fingers crossed they’ve got a CountryLink livery train in the works 
It’ll be dirty before too long unless they keep on top of it. It’s on its way to Albury now and back into Sydney again tomorrow night.
A retired V/Line driver told me that when the cheapest equipment available is used on much of the network, you get what you see…
Albo is dropping $4 bill into Melbourne’s SRL. I see it as quite a transformative project, but one the criminal CFMEU should have absolutely nothing to do with.
I’m also of the view they should’ve run a rail line down the middle of Eastlink from Ringwood then across to Huntingdale along Wellington Rd past Monash Uni when it was built in 2007. Would’ve been far cheaper.
She whinging yet the Albury and Shepparton line are out for a month and can not take up the free transport on a “train”
some train services on some lines here in SEQ are operating with 3 carriage trains instead of 6 .This would be a nightmare in peak hours
Can confirm it has been, sardines in a tin 
thats why I didn’t get on a train this morning
What’s the reason for the three carriage train today?
Unions are doing low-level industrial action and there’s a backlog of maintennance on the older IMU/SMU fleet which is resulting in less trains available to run services. The only services able to run as 6-cars consistently is the NGR fleet as they are privately owned. Also the same reason this screw up show just got worse ahead of Magic Round with this…
I await an inevitable signal failure that screws over the network and there’s nothing Queensland Rail can do…
If she thinks its 3rd world when the shit hits the fan then she clearly hasn’t been to the UK when it hits the fan there.
One trespasser crippled the entire ECML for two days
Because maintenance workers are on strike so carriages aren’t being maintained or need repairs.
More people will be travelling on buses,though not everyone has access to reliable bus services
‘The fuel crisis is a heaven-sent opportunity for public transport’
Australia’s public transport sector needs to take advantage of the “heaven-sent opportunity” presented by the current fuel crisis to change the way the public thinks about mobility, says Jeroen Weimar, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning.
Speaking at the PTAANZ Public Transport Policy Symposium at Metropolis in Melbourne this week, Weimar said: “With people spending $200, $250 to fill up the tanks [of their cars], we can’t waste this crisis.
“Our colleagues at Monash University and every other research institution would give their right arm for an opportunity like this to see – what will this do to our system? How will travel patterns change?”
With Victoria offering free public transport across the months of April and May – which will be followed by half-price fares for the rest of the year – Weimar said the state has seen a 25 to 35 per cent uptick in demand across trains, trams and buses.
Weimar said the challenge for the industry is to “milk” this period of increased public transport patronage as much as possible.
So I’ve read that Myki tap on/offs aren’t being enforced during this free period - so I’m interested in how they’re going to judge some of these changes.
True, hard to measure without data. The 50c fares in Queensland were great in that sense as it still required tapping on/off, so a really good way to measure demand at different price points.
Transport Victoria posted a short clip on social media this morning, saying Melbourne’s new X’Trapolis 2.0 train is ready to enter service.
Barriers still count passengers when opened
But they use more than just myki data for patronage