It's Rail Safety Week. It's a good reminder of what we can all do to stay safe around trains and trams. I was wondering if ...

There is another big Metro tunnel test next weekend, August 16-17. Like last time, trains will run between Sunbury and ...

Very busy at the moment, so I just wanted to highlight a couple of things via some recently published videos that are worth a look. This one on the Clifton Hill derailment is quite good at explaining ...

Yes, I still have a car, the same one I bought in 2018, used for trips not convenient by PT, including about half-a-dozen trips each year into regional areas. It’s annual service and insurance and ...

We’ve all been wondering what the Metro tunnel timetable would look like. On Saturday 21st June they’ll be testing the tunnel, running trains through between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, using a ...

These Craigieburn and Upfield line changes are important because they vastly improve the wait times in the evenings and on Sunday mornings from every 30 to 40 minutes down to every 20 minutes.

Why do five Melbourne trams have a bee logo? Because back in 2008 during a patronage surge, the government leased 5 surplus trams from Mulhouse in France. They were shipped over and put into service ...

I’ve been pretty busy and missed my usual posting of ten year old photos from January, so here’s two months in one hit. January 2015, two months after Labor got into power pledging they would remove ...

A sign that the Metro tunnel project is nearing completion – On Wednesday they partially reopened the Degraves Street subway. You can now use it again to interchange between platforms at Flinders ...

I took a quick look around Parkdale station on Saturday morning. It opened on Friday after works to remove two nearby level crossings. From the previous stop, Mentone, the line rises fairly quickly, ...

You might have spotted this in The Age or on the government’s web site: the preferred route and station locations for Metro 2 through Fishermans Bend have been announced. Rewind a moment: What is ...

Free public transport has come up yet again recently, in an ABC online article (with a weirdly incorrect infographic), a segment on 3AW, and another on The Project. And this morning the Queensland ...