Who's Bill Tilley and why would anyone care?

Quick glance at the timetables for 26/8. Not a huge difference in peak on the Mernda line - however a fair few additional shoulder peak services. Poor weekend (esp 40 mins Sunday morning) and off-peak frequencies remain, which is not great given how Sydney has managed to take steps in the right dir...

So, given the first section of Skyrail's been open for a while, where are all the doomsayers now?

It's whinging, plain and simple - expecting trains or services to be overserviced just to satisfy armchair transport experts untested anecdotal evidence regardless of the reality that exists that a train in a siding can't just magic into a service, nor should it. There are greater, far greater issue...

To counter the whinging: Unless you suddenly magic a bunch of drivers out of nowhere and I'd like to think the armchair experts up above would see the inherent problems with underskilled drivers or fatigued staff, you're not going to get frequencies less than the 3-4 minutes at 9pm on a Sunday to ca...

Was that the buses were never delivered in the first place.

Bus related: Over 30/11 to 4/12, Burnley signalbox was closed and newer signals were installed. To do this, there was a five day shutdown from Parliament-Camberwell and Darling. On the Friday 30/11 morning, there was a significant shortage of buses - reports indicated 50+ buses less than required. T...

Aside from the houses at the rear of the elevated rail section from the up side of Victoria Park to the down side of North Richmond. Which has been there for how long now?

Trains aren't held at Burnley for connections between Glen Waverley and Camberwell except in very rare circumstances.

Man, I love clueless foamers who whine petulantly about things that don't actually occur. Camberwell does use all three platforms off-peak. Alamein shuttles arrive on platform 2 on the up. The only time they don't is after 20:30 - and they rarely "get in the way" as much as the perpetually...

It isn't accurate. There are standby crews employed by Metro.

Addressing the whinges of 'Roderick Smith' Yes, failures did occur frequently. Fault-finding takes time, fitters can't be everywhere at once. My actual experience is that Metrol get the word out as soon as it happens, so don't know where you're pulling that from. Takes a while to organise safely ret...

Is there some sort of intellectual defect that prevents bunzels from just going inside the McChucks to order, like fully functioning members of society have figured out?

Buses are numbered 616 and 621.

Wait till that arrogant official tries to buy a burger at a fast-food joint which has gone cashless: 'No, we can't sell you a burger; you should have topped up your burger card online before leaving home'. I find the propensity of Melbourne burger joints to refuse to sell a burger to a person who s...

Interesting given high-capacity signalling gets trialled between Epping and South Morang first. If it happens.

Tunnel height isn't the issue on the Clifton Hill lines. The two tight curves are.

The 4D was a technical failure, and has zero bearing on the on the fanatical zealotry that seems to exist amongst some armchair enthusiasts about whether double deckers are good or bad.

I look forward to seeing maxy54 and Roderick Smith's winning entries in 2018, seeing as both clearly know better.

V/Line trains will be held for Metro trains. Rare to see MTM blaming V/Line, normally it's the other way around.

Biggest problem is MTM are rent-seekers and this shows in the poor state of the infrastructure, as everything is geared to maxmise profit out of franchise payments with minimum spend.

Not sure why my username's in quotations either. Anyway...

Surprised that the fire alarm at Flagstaff didn't rate a mention.

Some corrections. 1) Rule 1 Section 3 does not now require a driver to actually speak to a person. The driver leaves their details & train's details on a message bank after a prerecorded message. 2) Not all Home signals need a caution order (the paperwork you reference) and caution orders can be...

Spotted today was a D1 tram running in service along Melville Road on a route 58 to Toorak, followed closely behind by an out of service Z3 unit. Unfortunately I didn't catch fleet numbers. Are low-floors starting to make their way onto the 58 now that more and more E-class sets are entering servic...

Alamein and Hurstbridge are terminating stations as well, they were never given premium status. (more petulant whining snipped) Hurstbridge is, however, staffed first to last; theoretically Upwey, Victoria Park, Westona, Diamond Creek, Aircraft, Lynbrook, Keon Park, East Camberwell and Riversdale c...

Heihachi_73 wrote:... (snipped whinge)how on earth did Blackburn receive Premium Station status? (more whinging snipped)

The fact it's a terminating station and until January was a safeworking location has a lot to do with it.

Where there is poster room, yes.