I don’t know that area well - but from google maps it looks like most of these people live next to an industrial area and a bunch of golf courses?
Shut down a golf course or two and turn that into public space and you should be fine.
It’s one of those weird things - there’s lots of nice ‘rail trails’ around the state - but there’s lots of places I bet wish it was still a serviced rail line than a nicer walk.
The community should be fighting for a stop on the line, not to stop the railyard.
Oooooooh…don’t say that! 
Marrickville’s having the same issue.
The proposed depot is located in a large disused space on Kingston Road, between Nicholas Grove and Dingley Bypass. A section of Old Dandenong Road will also be permanently closed to make way for the depot.
Unfortunately Heatherton is the only large open space available in this section of Suburban Rail Loop to build a train storage.
Anyone in Perth who uses the Fremantle Line should take notice that there will be disruptions to the Fremantle Line between 5th February and 5th April to facilitate installation of track infrastructure for the new Airport Line opening which is set to start operations later this year.
The works will enable an increase in the frequency of Fremantle Line services from Claremont to the CBD during peak times. They will also allow for direct access to the new Airport Line from Claremont Station, which will be refurbished in the process.
Based on what the Claremont Station Project website says, the Airport Line will through-run at Perth and terminate at Claremont; the main “new infrastructure” being a turnback among other station facility upgrades.
It will be interesting to see how services are adjusted when the Ellenbrook line opens in a few years time. It branches from the Midland line at Bayswater just the same as the Airport line and will presumably through-run onto the Fremantle line somehow.
As an Adeladian I can’t help but be jealous of all the new train and tram projects interstate. Meanwhile only one of our rail lines is electrified (soon to be two before the end of the year), there’s been nothing more than talk of our own Metro Tunnel to connect our main north and south lines since the late 60s, and the last major changes to the rail map were the Flinders Link extension this year and the Seaford extension in 2014. Before that, 1978. Meanwhile Perth, a city that was smaller than us once upon a time, has gone from only three passenger lines to building three brand new ones and two more on the way (Ellensbrook and Thornlie-Cockburn).
And while people are bickering over whether or not to keep extending our trams from one single line and a partially-built city loop, cities half our size like the Gold Coast or Canberra are on their way to surpassing our network.
I was in Melbourne CBD today and noticed there were large stickers on the floor of the platforms at Melbourne Central station, just behind the yellow line, reminding passengers of train timetable change from this Sunday (January 31) and how to connect to other lines. For some reason, Alamein line passengers have been advised to change trains at Camberwell instead of Richmond. Some Alamein trains travel through the City Loop in the afternoon before 4pm on weekdays as well.
If they spread out transfers to different stations it’ll ease capacity at the inner transfer stations. Also makes social distancing easier.
With the launch of Victoria’s new train timetables today, the state government has followed NSW by unveiling a new capacity indicator called RideSpace, which gives commuters information on how busy their train or platform was in a bid to encourage travellers to be COVID-safe. It’s available online and via the Public Transport Victoria app.
you mean victorias new train timetable, not just Melbourne . and ride space is predicted to be available victoria ride in the next 12 months
And it truly is a Victoria wide change.
Was originally rumoured for December 2020 but pushed back due to the late-running Ballarat Line Upgrade, which would’ve cascaded any delays from new infrastructure not being commissioned onto the Bendigo line, which would subsequently delay the Sunbury line, then the rest of the Northern Group…
How does the Victorian capacity tech work? I know NSW’s works based on weight sensors in the trains
As of a few days ago (January 29), the rail transport division of Bombardier was officially acquired by Alstom. Bombardier rolling stock has a presence in almost every state capital: Perth B-series trains, Adelaide A-City trains and Flexity Classic trams, Melbourne E-type trams and V/Line V/Locity trains, Brisbane New Generation trains and Gold Coast Flexity 2 trams.
I can only speak for Adelaide but we haven’t had any technical problems with their trains, they’re functional, reliable, well lit, and a pleasant ride. A similar story with the Flexity trams.
Bombardier is currently building the second order of electrified trains for Adelaide to enter service late this year on the soon-to-be electrified Gawler Line. Will be unfortunate if we don’t get any more if/when more electrification happens.
I went for a ride on the light rail in Canberra when I was there last November .It wasnt there on my previous visit there in 2013 .Hopped on at Dickson(near where I was staying ) and got off in the city.(Alinga Street)
That’s an interesting choice of route through the CBD. It looks like they want to transform Commonwealth Avenue into a more urban, pedestrian friendly zone than retaining the quasi-expressway that exists there now. The recent extensions of Constitution and Edinburgh Avenue kind of show the beginnings of this. It should have been a relatively easy task to keep the status quo - they would have made the conscious choice to raise Vernon Circle to meet Commonwealth Avenue rather than retaining the current underpass and slipping the light rail through the median.
I think Yarra Glen is more like the quasi-expressway (due to its interchanges) rather than Commonwealth Avenue. It will be interesting to see how the light rail will travel through the circuitous roads at Parliament House.
The Victorian Government announced this week that the Pakenham line in Melbourne’s south east will be extended by 2km to a new station at Pakenham East, to serve the new housing estates in the area. There will be dedicated tracks for Metro and V/Line services, with the former to be linked to the nearby high capacity train maintenance depot.
Was announced in December. The location of the station was announced this week.
The nine homes at Jannali are earmarked for demolition to make way for the car park, which will accommodate 200 cars for a nearby railway station.
The department expects it to be under construction next year.
Very much the same situation that happened for Stage 2 of the Gold Coast Light Rail System.
The Gold Coast City Council bought out all the houses in the old Faldo Court to build the Parkwood East Station.
