Cars & Transportation The Train Station Thread.

[bradrowe#32]

It's still like this at the Buckley St crossing in Essendon. The State Government has no current plans to fix the problem.

I try to avoid the crossing as much as possible, because traffic backs up, plus the traffic lights don't help.

Yeah remember that one from when I lived out there. Wasn't the government going to fix all of those? There must be heaps like that across Melbourne.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Flinders Street should keep the clock and olde time brick walls but clear everything else and start again. Cramped platforms, support beams everywhere, shitty narrow escalators and stairs, crap entry and exit points. Some people defend the status quo which means they only use it once a fortnight to go to the football or get drunk or buy junk in Bourke St.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

BUMP!

Fair to say the crossings are a lot less level than when I created this thread.

Boronia Station is still jam packed with yahoos.

 

[revo333]

BUMP!

Fair to say the crossings are a lot less level than when I created this thread.

Boronia Station is still jam packed with yahoos.

It's boring, every station is starting to look the same.

 

[74561347]

BUMP!

Fair to say the crossings are a lot less level than when I created this thread.

Boronia Station is still jam packed with yahoos.

When my mates and I couldn't decide what to eat we would draw a restaurant name out of a hat and whatever came out we had to eat/get food from there

The death prize was whatever we could get out of a vending machine at boronia train station

Never came out fortunately

 

[emuboy]

Werribee Station is a scary place even in daylight hours. I've never been there at night - and have no intention of ever doing so.

 

[Scotland]

Perth gets a new spur line and 5 new stations this weekend.

 

[flamethrower]

It's still like this at the Buckley St crossing in Essendon. The State Government has no current plans to fix the problem.

I try to avoid the crossing as much as possible, because traffic backs up, plus the traffic lights don't help.

Macaulay Road in Kensington can be a nightmare heading towards the city in the morning peak. Two rail lines about 500 metres apart - sometimes the boom gates are down for 20 minutes on the Craigieburn line alone while suburban and country trains pass.

And neither crossing is earmarked for removal.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Macaulay Road in Kensington can be a nightmare heading towards the city in the morning peak. Two rail lines about 500 metres apart - sometimes the boom gates are down for 20 minutes on the Craigieburn line alone while suburban and country trains pass.

And neither crossing is earmarked for removal.

Even worse Kensington has the grain mill so every so often a grain train needs to cross and reverse into the grain sidings.

 

[Mofra]

Macaulay Road in Kensington can be a nightmare heading towards the city in the morning peak. Two rail lines about 500 metres apart - sometimes the boom gates are down for 20 minutes on the Craigieburn line alone while suburban and country trains pass.

And neither crossing is earmarked for removal.

Too hard to remove because of the proximity of the station to Macauley Road too.
It's much worse around show/Spring racing carnival time as the showgrounds trains run extra services.

And now about once per month some idiot in a truck pulls down the tram lines under Newmarket Bridge who seems to have taken over Montague St Bridge's mantle of the most hit in Victoria.

 

[Mofra]

We do have a few pretty old abandoned rail stations along gravel tracks across Victoria. A legacy of the NSW/Vic rivalry that manifested itself in different rail gauges for decades.

 

[errant bounce]

One thing I cannot stand is how narrow and how few stairs/escalators there are at the major stations. peak hour at Southern Cross/Flinders are uncomfortable but when you get non-daily commuters using them for concerts and football it is slow, stodgy chaos.

I get escalators are expensive but why can't you have nice, broad stairs in between them for people to use?