@@melbournerailwayvideosjust checked this morning earliest possible train looks like the Cranbourne line if I’m not wrong. 4:08am. That’s wild. I think in Adelaide earliest is 4:30, but my line earliest is like 5:20
aaah many memory's of my young teenage years catching a train at riddells creek.. maybe do a story on the man who Riddells creek is named after. and the home he built, its the blue stone one. lived there when i was a young teen with my parents.. its haunted, true fact. but only the 2 rooms
I usually find Malvern is skipped most regularly during the morning/afternoon peak of the Cranbourne/E.Parkenham trains...I've only stopped there during weekends or off peak periods. Having regularly travelled the cranbourne/E.Pakenham line 4 days a week during peak times I've never seen it stop at Malvern during the peak time.
Sees a kangaroo, Welcome to Mernda… MUUUURRRRNDA. For over half of the video, you took x’traps. Hope your legs still work! I reckon I wanna do this myself!
Nice work dude. I got a challenge for you. Take a selfy under the station name on every station on the Melbourne network and see how fast you can do it.
Thank you so much for putting Yarraman and Dandenong. Yes, Dandenong is a very unsafe station and needs an upgrade to the interior and the station's abandoned siding. When the siding was still there, it was neglected and overgrown. However, when they removed it, I thought it would be much nicer, but it is left abandoned. I support the idea of a fourth platform to take up the abandoned former siding area. The carpark needs resurfacing and new plants. I’m not too far away from Yarraman, but this station is by far-in my opinion-the worst station on the Dandenong line. The walking ramps are long and very tiring. I never liked it! I think the ramps should be taken down and replaced with pedestrian gates like at Laverton station-that would be much nicer. The platform needs to be levelled and resurfaced. Sandown Park is another station I recommend you add to the list. Sandown Parks car park on the platform on the two sides is also gravel, and the underpasses get flooded in rainy conditions. Sandown Park should also be a skipped station. On the Dandenong line, sometimes trains express skip Westall and Yarraman Station. Sandown Park should be included.
@@melbournerailwayvideos True! Sandown Park station is quite ordinary. It was only built in 1965 and is neglected in many ways. The only changes to the station I recommend would be the resurfacing and levelling of the platform, fresh paint, an upgraded underpass, and a new car park. Mate, check out Noble Park station on the Dandenong line. Everything looks great, but while the Level Crossing Removal Authority was constructing there, they abandoned a whole block of land that has been fenced off instead of making it a public open space-that is just absurd. Now, locals have come together and put up signs along the fence asking the Greater Dandenong City Council to utilise the space as an open space. It's about time! Keep up the excellent work, mate, and good luck with your future videos. Best regards!
You may make more videos to promote travelling in Regional VIC by public transport $10.6/day. This is on Stony Point Line, did you take the 3 way Western Port Ferries to French Island & Phillip Island?
When I was a kid in the 80's, Broadmeadows was the end of the line I think. I remember going down there Friday nights to watch the mayhem that would ensue, with the station being burned to the ground one night in 1983 I think. We saw earth moving machines stolen from work sites used to trash the station buildings and the cops used to just sit tight till the crowd got bored and went home. Growing up in the 80's huh
Malvern was taken off Cranbourne and pakenham lines in the big redesign of 2021. You can see in the older maps of hcmt didn't show Malvern. Although they added this when they updated it to include East Pakenham. Before this trains at the end of the day and start of the day used to stop at all stations between caufield and south Yarra to give it more frequency. For 2021 it was all express services until an election promise and change to the time table added 500 odd services to Malvern as it is by far the most used station of the 4 that were skipped. This is mainly during the day after the am peak and before the pm peak. Along with better interchanging it is heavily used for the main Malvern shopping road and multiple tram connections two things you didn't mention in the video. Malvern itself definitely needs upgrading, especially on the north side of the station with the lack of any fencing between the carpark at the tracks. Did you film last weekend? Cranbourne to Dandenong was replaced by buses so all Cranbourne terminated at Dandenong
Cran/Pak lines often skip Malvern as part of the Caulfield > South Yarra run (or vice versa), with no warning or announcements at all. These are often evening services in my experience. Trains were running to Dandenong on the weekend due to planned replacement buses on Cranbourne line. Malvern is an interesting station, it is essentially a clone of Toorak, Armadale, Hawskburn, all done in the same style. It is also an Authorised Officer "depot" where they congregate.
The mixed use over station (flinders quarters) development is an terrible eyesore. It is a depressing, mundane monolith that could found anywhere else in the world. An ode to all the dispiriting facets of modern life. What a disgrace. They should have made a classical revival building which could have also promoted the existing buildings. Any other traditional architectural design would have been lovely. Huge missed opportunity.
I don't agree that it's a depressing, mundane monolith, but I think you raise a good point about a missed opportunity to go with a piece with some more nods to heritage!
A couple of very expensive houses were demolished on William Street South Yarra to make way for the South Yarra portal works. You can clearly see them disappear on your map transition at 1:48
Last week I went to a primary school for work experience. And guess what I have seen on 5/6 Maths classes? Timetables, with application as "working out a route to reach every single train station in Melbourne in a day". Do not ask me how much pain it took to let kids understand how to minimise time...
Already laughing with them at the mention of the IT outage right at the start, absolutely nothing could go wrong. Lmfao the proof of stopping at East Richmond.
This is the true original South Morang Station, the current South Morang station should technically be called MillPark Station! There is technically no North, East, or West Morang and there is no such place as middle Gorge. There is a Gorge Road which got it's name from a deep Gorge leading down to the Plenty river a few kilometres away but is no where near the station, it might as well be in another State. Gorge Road is the continuation of McDonalds Road coming from High Street Epping which most of the Mernda line follows until you reach Preston. The true original South Morang station was a proper station/platform and the remains of the platform and some infrastructure were still standing (from 1889) leading up to the construction of Middle Gorge Station in 2018 on the foot print of the old South Morang station. The original Station Masters house is still there and lived in to this very day, it doesn't even have a sealed road leading up to it's driveway. Yan Yean Station Platform still remains and can be seen across the paddocks when travelling along Plenty Road heading North towards Whittlesea (Opened 1889, closed 1959). Unfortunately the Whittlesea station and the train turn table no long exists but if you know where to look you can find bits and pieces of what was.
The trains are also stored at Mernda with 4 lines terminating there. It's not unusual to see all of the 4 lines full with up to two complete sets of trains on each line, one behind the other (8 complete sets) The foot print on which those apartments sit was the old Keon Park Squash Courts which in the early 2000's were converted into a Gym. No sympathy for the people that bought one of those apartments because they knew about the rail project even before the apartments were completed.
Sometimes you would wait up to 10 minutes at the traffic lights if you were making a left or right hand turn off High street, I think it had one of the longest wait times in Melbourne. I remember back in the 1970's just North of the station all the train lines that used to shoot off the main line, sidings that use to go into different factories, one even crossing High street and going into either the old Bostik factory or the factory that is currently Storage King. There was also a siding at Thomastown station that used to service what what a massive shed fitted with bags on concrete, I always remember seeing wagons parked up on all these sidings beside these factories. To travel past those same spots today you would never know that these side lines existed unless you know where to look.
Thomastown Station, although it had a complete rebuild about 15 years ago (2011) to modernize it, one of the first on the Mernda line to undergo modernisation it already looks dated. It just looks like a handful of modules were stacked on top of each other by a child. Glass panels and windows the enclose the waiting rooms at platform level were keyed just after the rebuild, obviously before proper surveillance cameras were fitted and have never been replaced to this day making the station look run down and old. That station was the biggest waste of tax payers money. When you compare it to all the new elevated stations on the Mernda line it's now the ugly duckling. Even the old single platform pebble mix panelled station building that I grew up with in the 1970's 80's 90's, 20's always looked cleaner. It's a sad outcome for a station that has been on that site since 1889.
It’s hilarious u say this bc Cranbourne has the earliest train possible. Could it save time there? Obviously there’s the 30 min or so time loss from Frankston and the train/bus greensborough time loss. Would be an insane speedrun
Hi! As a Tasmanian who has done this very journey recently! Hopefully we are getting more videos for Tasmania! Stunning place, lower Landing is amazing! About it continuing around the harbour - it kind of did, but it was a different line that connected at Regatta Point, as the WCWR was a private railway owned by the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company The rest of the link was managed by the Tasmanian Government Railways
Love to know what happened to the preservation group who actually saved the railway after it's commercial closure... A lot of folks put in a huge effort but lost control of the line... 😢
First 🥇 (I've seen some people say that on videos so why not do it myself haha.) I was not expecting a Tassie video. I'm commenting on this video before I've actually watched it so, I look forward to watching it.
Got a huge jumpscare from seeing Roxburgh Park at 10. Was not expecting to see my local station but I do agree it is a bit of a shitter, I never even noticed the spot missing for an elevator, why would they do that haha.
The Gippsland line switches to right-hand running in the late afternoon/evening. I reckon you arrived on the last train before the switchover, so your train arrived on platform 2, but outbound trains after yours start to use platform 1.
