Aurora wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:54 pm I think they were referring to the Airport line, not the Metro line through the CBD.

Sorry, my mistake.

What was the maximum frequency intended after the upgrade compared to the line capacity now? Currently 4 min in peak (15 per hour) and 10 min off peak (6 per hour). Many of the initial boards outside stations under construction touted 3 minutes. I would very much like to see off peak increased to 7...

From this week's railsafe bulletin https://railsafe.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/94871/WN-19-2024.2.pdf CHATSWOOD (NORTH) – SYDENHAM METRO TRIAL RUNNING THIS ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN WN 18 IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Commencing at 0100 hours on Monday, 29 April 2024, and continuing until 06...

They have stated that 8700 out of 11000 hours of required testing is done, with the next stage being trial running. A typical weekday schedule is about 170 (one way) trips, and with the journey from Tallawong to Sydenham being about an hour, a complete day simulation would therefor represent about 3...

When opal cards were first issued in Dec 2012 the opal system was only operating as a very small trial on a couple of bus routes. It wasn’t till 2014 that it was at all Sydney suburban train stations. I wonder how many of these original opal cards were issued to genuine travellers on those initial r...

Anyone with a good memory know when the last pedestrian bridge at Redfern to Wilson Street was closed to commuters, and then eventually removed?

Entering the Chatswood Dive

Not credited to me, from /r/sydney reddit

https://streamable.com/fk3cis

“ Sydney Metro, the state agency responsible for the new line, has secretly slated April 21 for the start of “on-track dynamic train testing” between Chatswood in Sydney’s north and Sydenham in the south” Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-start-date-for-first-driverless-metro-trai...

The north shore down line is due for its shift west to go over the new dive structure for the metro at Chatswood this weekend.

I wonder how it will go with the Noah like rain predicted over the next couple of days?

HARBOUR BRIDGE CLOSURE There's still a lot of timber sleepers. Did they only 'concrete" the down track? There is a reddit discussion on the sleeper replacement program plus a few nice photos. The 10 day shut down did not replace the entire span or both lines, still more work to go in similar p...

XPT just derailed

https://twitter.com/andrew_lund/status/ ... 04256?s=20

Thanks to those who answered my earlier question re option of trying to reposition the stuck inter Urbans via the Parkes freight line. Full version of press conference with Howie Collins https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=yxKnPjePfKc Leura repairs likely to be “weeks”. Also interesti...

Trains west twitter reported there are 52 carriages stuck at Lithgow and Mt Victoria west of the Leura landlslip. Currently most BMT trains have to run as 4 cars only due to the lack of rolling stock. Is there any possibility a loco could haul those via the freight lines to Parkes, Cootamundra, Goul...

However, the photo shows no overhead wires?

SMH currently running a story about the flooded ECRL portion of metro, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/millions-of-litres-of-water-floods-sydney-s-metro-tunnels-20200211-p53zr8.html However, the photo shows no overhead wires? https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.181%2C$multiply_0.3541%2C$ratio_1...

Landslip at Pymble this afternoon. https://mobile.twitter.com/TrainsInfo/status/1226398327639429120 T1 was closed all weekend anyway. Doesn’t look that serious, but would be a challenge to be cleaned up for AM peak tomorrow. While they could also run a north shore trains starting from Gordon, the tr...

Landslip at Leura today.

Blue Mountains line likely to be closed for a while

https://mobile.twitter.com/TrainLinkWes ... 7984250885

The fact that already there is a preferred option hints that a decision has effectively already been made regardless of the nature of passenger feedback. The mere act of identifying a preferred outcome in the options paper also has the potential to bias the responses of the public in any case.

ATSB report on Richmond station buffer impact released.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/in ... -2018-004/

Only noticed today, but it may have occurred earlier, 4 min frequency service peak now appears to be starting 30 min earlier from Tallawong from just before 6.00 am, rather than just before 6.30 am. What I didn’t really notice, is that it jumps back to 10 min frequency quite early at 8.30 Tallawong...

Only noticed today, but it may have occurred earlier, 4 min frequency service peak now appears to be starting 30 min earlier from Tallawong from just before 6.00 am, rather than just before 6.30 am.

An "informed colleague" of mine provided this report to me of the bustitution due to temporary "human error" (to quote Constance) closure of Metro ******* Here was my experience travelling to Epping. 200 people on the footpath on Victoria Ave (facing the railway station) where th...

About 500 m of the up north shore line, south of Chatswood, between the station and the entrance to the metro dive, was slewed across to the east last weekend, as part of the re alignment works

Passenger apparently got stuck on a not in service train in the Tallawong yards.

See https://mobile.twitter.com/DrSarahJWhit ... 3771116544

Pretty poor article by everyone's favourite SMH Transport reporter Also, after desperately looking for anything and everything to criticise about the metro opening, the SMH have not even had a whisper about the challenges caused by the pennant Hills fatality today. Exactly the issue that was mentio...