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Comprehensive map of every high speed railway in Australia, complete with stations and service frequencies. Map also shows coastline.
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London's new Elizabeth Line is stunningly successful. It now carries 1 in 6 of ALL rail journeys in the UK. It's almost at capacity and it's running 22 trains per hour in peak hours. There are plans to increase to 24 trains per hour in May.
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I’d like to thank everyone who helped me compile the data that went into preparation of this map.
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Here’s a diagram of sleeping car train services that ran in Australia in 1974.
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I grew up on these Streets
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@Capetown_Eagle
@realDonaldTrump
@foxandfriends
I just watched Joe Biden on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The contrast between Trump and the articulate, intelligent, considerate, statesmanlike Biden could not have been more stark. It was a reminder of just how disgraceful Trump is.
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@brooklynmarie
@seanhannity
@realDonaldTrump
“Quiet,” the president scolded Acosta.
An elected official telling the Press to “be quiet” is quite sane, normal and no cause for alarm....... in some countries.
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@StephenKing
Trump isn't actually the problem. He's a pitiful human. The real problems are those who surround him and use and abuse him to achieve their own ends. It's genuinely gruesome to watch.
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My current view.
Windows are for seeing through.
Ad wrap is not transparent.
Stop blocking travellers’ view.
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Tap On/Tap Off, Touch On/Touch Off, Tag On/Tag Off or Validate? Here's a map of what we call it when we board public transport with our Smartcards across Australia.
They also have a Top Up feature, and to 'top it off', Translink also has a 'Tap Into Smart Ticketing' webpage!
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It's a salutary lesson in the value of high capacity transport, and the folly of dismissing demand based on pre-construction travel patterns.
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@the_transit_guy
The person who lives in that one yellow house in the suburb of pink houses is a real troublemaker.
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@jayforeman
Something similar here with a horizontally flipped map of Australia. We interpret the regular view of the map as more or less balanced, almost symmetrical. But when you mirror it, it's almost alarmingly asymmetrical. When I first saw this in a mirror I found it hard to believe.
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@JamesPMorrison
@DanRather
He has taught me something about myself. I have always been able to empathise with and see some merit in the views and actions of everyone I’ve met or read about.
Until now.
I now know that my ability to rationalise has limits.
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@ScottBentonMP
@LancsPolice
Three points for you to think about:
1. Seatbelts are a matter of life and death.
2. Leadership matters.
3. People really hate hypocrisy, and spot it very quickly
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Topic of the day: Australian State Border curiosities
No 1. Victoria and Tasmania have a land border
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Sydney-Melbourne is the second busiest air route in the world. But right now, there are more trains travelling between those two cities than there are aircraft.
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@IGobeFree
@PeterAlexander
Trump's fuel is ignorance which he exploits to breed fear. He seeks to increase ignorance by attacking knowledge as 'fake news'.
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@realDonaldTrump
Mate, it’s 20 minutes before 11 o’clock in France. The centenary of the Armistice. Don’t you have something you should be doing??!
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One of the pleasures of rail travel is when your train travels parallel to a freeway and leaves road traffic in its wake. It’s not so common in Australia, but doing 160km/h in a VLine VLocity between Moe and Warragul in eastern Victoria is one of the best places to experience it.
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@mrmsutton
Of the eight Australian States and Territories, Texas would rank only sixth in land area size.
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@philritz1
@wb_thorne
You could argue that in communities designed on the assumption that all travel will be by car, car ownership is not voluntary if you wish to participate in life in any meaningful way.
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My new map of every passenger train and tram route and every passenger station and tram stop in Australia is now online
Yes, that's 118 train lines, 41 tram lines, 1179 railway stations & 973 tram stops on one diagram
pdf
Enjoy!
Can you name TWO things that each have:
118 passenger train routes,
1179 passenger railway stations,
41 tram routes,
973 tram stops,
5 different track gauges and
4 different electrification voltages
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@JRubinBlogger
I was not the first to observe it, but it's long been clear to me that Pence is worse than Trump. "Trump will be acquitted by History on the grounds of insanity. The apparently sane around him who did nothing to temper things will however be judged culpable".
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The dramatic moment an Australian media outlet completely misses the point.
The dramatic moment a road train swerves to miss an oncoming car causing its back trailer to flip has been captured on camera.
#9News
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The real point being that sending freight around the country in overly massive road vehicles travelling at high speeds on roads shared with all sorts of private cars is inherently dangerous- let alone when drivers under pressure of deadlines and cost do things like that.
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It’s impressive that complete rebuilding of such a complex tramway junction in a major city intersection is completed over just a weekend. Melbourne really has mastered tram infrastructure maintenance and renewal.
The intersection of Spencer and Collins streets is closed near Southern Cross Station until 5am Monday10 July, for tram track renewal works. Detours include King, Flinders and La Trobe streets and Wurundjeri Way. Please allow extra time. See
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Photo from earlier this week when I visited Bendigo. I mean, what a place.
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@the_transit_guy
TBH rather than adding more than a couple of new routes (on that scale map anyway), I’d focus more on increasing the frequency, speed and comfort of the medium distance routes and return affordable classes of travel to transcontinental trains.
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Some doubt Australia has the population to support High Speed Rail. Ten million seats are flown on the Sydney-Melbourne corridor each year, the word's fifth busiest air route. That's about 37 full Eurostar trains each day. Sydney-Brisbane and Sydney-Gold Coast aren't much less.
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@keithboykin
“.....there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis.”
The 25th Amendment isn’t a constitutional crisis, It IS the constitution.
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The once weekly Quiet Hour has just started here. They switch off half the lights, cut the audio and screen-based advertainment and limit announcements. It’s amazing how much less unpleasant it now is, even for people without sensory needs. Unless…. Wait a minute.
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@brooklynmarie
@seanhannity
@realDonaldTrump
And one arm of the media celebrating the refusal of a President to answer media questions isn’t at all perverse.
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@NewGopforUSA
Overwhelmingly sad.
I thought I knew the USA quite well. But I realise that I don’t understand it as well as I thought. It’s also probably more alien than I thought.
The world is a worse place because of the loss of the US as a role model.
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A ten-car "Overland" train today from Adelaide to Melbourne.
I'm starting to like Tay Tay.
Today's "The Overland" train from Adelaide to Melbourne, built up with extra carriages due to this weekend's Taylor Swift concerts at the MCG.
Seen passing Little River with NR57 up the front.
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Today's historic pic: British Rail HST set 253005 prepares to run the 16:05 to Bristol with HST sets 253044 and 253049 in the background at Paddington station, London, UK, 34 years ago today, May 1 1988. HSTs still run on English cross country and Scottish intercity routes today
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It’s quite remarkable that fully a century after completion of electrification of Melbourne’s suburban rail network in 1923, painted signs on the walls at Flinders Street station denoting the stopping locations for DDE class suburban steam locomotives are still clearly visible.
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It's maybe the smallest thing in the London Transport Museum, dwarfed by the preserved trains and trams, but, to me, the most significant exhibit is Harry Beck's original hand-drawn tube diagram.
This is almost a holy relic. Marvellous.
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Tram track renewal - love to see it.
Maintenance and renewal of assets is usually not a sexy subject, but Melbourne’s tramways do it in a high profile way that says, we matter to the city, we’re doing this job properly, and we’re here for the long term.
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The downside of blocking every advertiser on Twitter is that there aren't many left. And they've sent Jennifer after me, now she's only 1km away, and the poor girl has lost nearly all of her clothes.
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@Lauratobin1
@WMO
Thank you Laura.
High quality journalists with sound scientific qualifications standing up to the dinosaurs we somehow elected is exactly what we need right now.
I live in hope that your interview of Kelly might be a turning point.
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Online petition sponsored by the Rail, Tram and Bus Union asking the NSW Government to build new sleeping carriages so that sleeping berth accommodation can continue on Sydney-Melbourne and Sydney-North Coast-Brisbane trains.
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Three years ago, in the London Transport Museum, I saw the absolute holy relic of rail maps, Harry Beck's original hand-drawn prototype London Tube map. There are lots of wonderful things in that museum, but for me, this was the highlight.
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As mentioned in today's historic pic, it's 40 years ago this week that the great branchline passenger train massacre of November 1983 hit NSW's railways. It was a sad time in which nine or ten lines lost their passenger trains on the same day.
This deserves a thread. (1/21)
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When travelling by train, it’s compulsory to look out for every branch line, and to point out to your travelling companions the trackbed of every closed branch line along the way. I don’t make the rules.
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Right then, it’s time for a thread on Australian railway stations that are badly named. This is what you’ve all been been waiting for. (1/20)
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Holy crap. After 720 years of service, this ferry service in England is being killed today by 21st century neoliberalism.
FINAL DAY OF
@TilburyFerry
!!
After 720 years of service to the local community, the Tories have robbed local councils of their funding, killing the ferry.
RIP Tilbury Ferry (until new operator, if ever)
1304 - 2024
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@NicolleFlint
@ItaButtrose
@stoker_aj
@RitaPanahi
@jkalbrechtsen
@GemmaTognini
@CaroDiRusso
@GrayConnolly
Nicolle. This is an opinion piece in Meanjin - an independent journal, not the ABC. And it’s not an attack on Jenny Morrison, far from it in fact. It’s a critique of Scott Morrison’s practice of putting her in situations that many find demeaning and a bit weird frankly.
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This is sad news. Another of Australia's tourist railways has ceased operation.
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One hundred years ago today, on December 21 1923, Melbourne’s first W class tram, no 219, entered service. Over the following 33 years, a total of 752 trams were built to the W class design in several variants. A few still run today. Happy 100th birthday to this Melbourne icon.
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It’s about time we start running
#TheOverlandEveryDay
So good to see so many people boarding The Overland at Horsham Station today. Train is definitely very busy, couldn’t see many empty seats. First time seeing her with seven carriages.
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Integrated map of every Australian passenger train and tram service now online at
Map shows every station and tram stop, track gauge, electrification status, ticketing requirements and journey time for every public transport and tourist line nationally.
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@MrTimDunn
@sciencemuseum
This inspired me to make a similar map for overnight sleeper trains in Australia in 1974.
It's tragic how many we've lost.
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@ChrisLoesch
@SoonerBassooner
@Wraythe68
@NOAAComms
Trump’s inability to admit human error is pitiful, but perhaps even more disturbing is the sycophantic behaviour towards him from otherwise presumably sane people. Trump is flawed, but his apologists are malignant. This thread is as good an illustration of that as I’ve seen.
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@urbanthoughts11
We in Australia learned this lesson at Foopbaw Park and Arctic Park in Adelaide and Melbourne respectively. To our credit though, both are now consigned to history - their places taken by vastly better stadia well served by public transport.
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Farewell to The Australind train.
These diesel railcars have run the twice daily Perth-Bunbury passenger train service since 1987. The train has been replaced with buses until mid 2025 while the Armidale line is re-built. New railcars will take over the service when it resumes.
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@Khdtx25
@mrmsutton
On the other side of the ledger, Texas has slightly higher population than the whole of Australia.
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@EdKrassen
Here in Australia, universal health care is about as controversial as piped water; we can’t imagine life without it.
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@GabrielledeVie
To make amends, you must learn and answer these three questions:
1. What track gauge is Puffing Billy?
2. What were the terminal stations of the railway when at its maximum extent?
3. What is the class designation of locomotives most commonly used to haul Puffing Billy trains?
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The Spirit of Tasmania is about to depart from Port Melbourne for the last time. From tomorrow morning she berths at North Geelong.
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This is great. But why is it called Light Rail? Being driverless and fully segregated, isn’t it a Metro or maybe a Light Metro?
Is this a rare counter-example of
#NotAMetro
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#ActuallyAMetro
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@Colm12Colm
We know how fast trains can go, but tbh Perth to the east is just too far for HSR to be competitive. The distance where HSR can be better than driving or flying is more than 250km but less than 800km or so. And that puts neighbouring east coast state capitals near the sweet spot.
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To anyone with a functioning nose who has ever been there, this will come as no surprise at all.
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@urbanthoughts11
This is one area where Australia has learned from the mistakes of others (and reversed a couple of our own mis-steps) and done much better.
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@DanielAndrewsMP
The Overland is also a key link in Australia's interstate rail network. Without it, the option for inbound international tourists to explore Australia by rail would be badly hampered. As would the ability for Australian travellers to explore Australia by rail.
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@Linda_Hansen47
@ddale8
Linda, very many of us non-Americans discriminate very clearly between Trump and the US. We know that just 19.5% of Americans voted for him, an unprecedentedly small proportion. We still admire the US and Americans - even more so because of how you’re dealing with Trump.
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This has made my day!
What a turnaround from the days when this train's future was in such peril that it spawned the
#SaveTheOverland
campaign.
Maybe it's now time for
#IncreaseTheOverland
This train is booked out
The Friday Overland bound for Adelaide was completely sold out today, and with 7 carriages attached the train is regularly both longer and busier than it has been in years
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Melbourne train and tram map updated for 2024. I have finally submitted to showing separate colour lines for each tram route. It was misleading to do otherwise. Map now also shows Pakenham East under construction and lists 2024 myki fares.
Enjoy!
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Today’s historic pic: The Australian Urban Passenger Train mockup in the station yard at Canberra, ACT, thirty-five years ago today, March 30 1985. The AUPT was an ill-fated attempt in the early 1970s by the Whitlam government to invest in urban rail networks nationally.
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@_LeslieDay_
@waltshaub
Leslie. If it helps, many of us non-Americans distinguish very clearly between Trump and the USA. The US has long been, and remains today a role model for so many of us. We know that Americans are wonderful people and that Trump is in no way representative of your great nation.
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@marybl62
@Redistrict
@costareports
@CookPolitical
The polls in general weren’t wrong in 2016. The interpretation of what the polls meant was wrong. We need to understand uncertainty measures: commonly 95% confidence levels which means even the one time in 20 the result falls outside the confidence interval the poll’s not wrong.
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Today's historic pic: VLine's broad gauge Melbourne to Bairnsdale "Gippslander" train hauled by Dick Kerr built English Electric 1500V DC loco L1150 arrives at Traralgon, Vic, March 31, 1986. The last electric train to Traralgon ran in 1987 and all trains are now diesel powered.
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“For Profit” passenger rail is a rare beast, but Australia’s transcontinental trains are that. It seems like they’re forecasting growth too, and I wish them well. May I humbly suggest an additional travel class affordable by mere mortals might improve demand even more.
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@The_Trump_Train
@realDonaldTrump
Forget the media, Trump’s own ignorant and hateful tweets are sufficient to discredit the man, his Presidency and all who still support him. Open your eyes.
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The amount of freight moved by train across Australia has plummeted, with just 2% of goods now transported between Sydney and Melbourne by rail amid concern at the pollution and safety risks caused by the surging number of trucks on highways.
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@UpPhred
@TheRealPBarry
The interesting thing is, if you look at the fairly small area of the Australia that is a candidate for High Speed Rail (eg Bris-Newc-Syd-Canb-Mel-Adel) the city pair populations compare pretty well with Europe, and the distances between adjacent cities compare surprisingly well.
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@mindthedawes
That’s clever. But it’s worth noting that if grot on the walls is what people are concerned about, the project has been a success.
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Today’s historic pic: The Overland, bound for Adelaide, prepares to depart from platform 2, Spencer Street station, Melbourne, Vic, July 10 1986. Today, 132 years after it first ran, The Overland faces oblivion as its last government subsidy expires December 31
#SaveTheOverland
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In response to worsening road traffic congestion, the Qld State government says “but we’ve spent billions building new roads”, and criticises their opponents plans to build a new railway as “creating a budget black hole”.
The plot is profoundly lost.
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Today is the 50th Birthday of the Indian Pacific.
Here she is at East Perth Terminal, January 4 2015.
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Random train photo: Shortly after departing Melbourne Southern Cross station, the overnight Sydney-bound XPT traverses the dual-gauge North Melbourne flyover with the crane-laden skyline of Footscray on the horizon.
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It's 25 years today that the Australian Rail Maps website first appeared online. Those early maps were pretty rough and the web authoring primitive. But it's been a labour of love.
Read a bit about the last 25 years here:
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@PreetBharara
For Trump, tweeting is not about communicating the truth - it's about influencing perception.
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