It may be useless but that was surprisingly interesting Another mostly useless fact: there is a single boat on the PTV network, the Westgate Punt. It doesn’t take myki or show up on all journey planners but it is PTV branded
OMG. Bookmarking this. You have peaked. My AuADHD brain needs to absorb all of this over several views - apparently your "useless" is my "fascinating". Thank yo so much for sharing this. You have a fantastic voice, so I hope you have a lot more "useless" info in the pipleine
Great Video! There's a reason the platform numbering at Diamond Creek is quirky. It's because Platform 2 was only built in 1994, and prior to the duplication in 2023, was only used during peak times to allow trains to cross. Clearly they decided to keep the original platform as Platform 1, whilst the new, lesser-used platform became Platform 2.
Even worse - I remember they used to display huge signs "Avoid High Street" on EastLink. Apparently referring to some substances use. Confusing drivers not to take High Street exit :lol:
They put in some really bad replacement lights, but they also break frequently and even when they are working, they create a checkerboard pattern of light since they're way too low to the ground and clearly not fit for purpose.
I also take platform 14 if I feel like taking a train home. Platform 14 looks dingier than other platforms. I don't like it. I used to live in North Melbourne and had avoided the Werribee/Williamstown line despite being the direct line to it because of the lights. I'd take Upfield, Sunbury or Craigieburn instead.
Never knew the 86 and 96 were at one point run by double-decker buses! Very grateful they're trams now because I would NOT cope trying to get to work in the city by bus! I love this video so much, thanks for making it!
Great video. Got a few more for you. The only Station in Toorak is Heyington. Hawksburn is in South Yarra and Toorak is in Armadale. Morradoo is the least used station in Melbourne. The Route 78 and the Route 82 are the only two tram routes that don't go into the city. You can see Flagstaff Station from the western end of platform 4 at Melbourne Central. It's possible to get off the train at Willison on the Alamein line and run to Riversdale and get on the same train you got off.
i think ringwood east is called that so if metro ever want to build a new station in richmond they could call it “East Richmond” so it won’t be too similar to ringwood east
9:35 Fun fact Williamstown pier used to be one of the main ports of Melbourne, and is where alot of the first generation of Victorian steam locomotives where delivered and later assembled in Williamstown workshops (predecessor to Newport). The workshops where located in the open grassland where the line once was. Which means without that nub of the line Victoria wouldn't have had railways, and this video wouldn't have existed.
Brings back memories of the Connex lady voice... "Now arriving at Upper Ferntree Gully. This train will terminate at Upper Ferntree Gully" when your train was supposed to go all the way to Belgrave
The two longest tram routes in Melbourne are the 75 Vermont South and 86 East Bundoora, however it has been speculated that these could be further extended to Knox Shopping centre for the 75, and Hawkstowe railway station for the 86 (via the newer housing estates deviating west of Mill Park and terminating perpendicular to Plenty Road)
Looking at a map I can see the logical route for the 86 would be the "Plenty linear reserve" (where Plenty road turns east) and continue in a northerly direction to terminate at the Eastern end of the Plenty Valley Shopping Centre (and South Morang Station).
The Stony Point line used to have a line from Baxter to Mornington. Some services ran as two DERMs which were divided at Baxter. The Mornington line ran in a big curve which took 30 minutes to run but the more direct bus service only took ten minutes.
Diamond creek platform 1 is the down bound platform due to that being the original side of platform 1 (The only Platform Pre-Duplication) Also, the tunnel under footscray is not only for freight but also for Albury and Sydney bound passenger trains
The reason Diamond Creek is numbered the way it is since platform 2 was built on 7 Jun 1994. After it was built, the majority of trains would only use the existing platform 1 in both directions, however when trains crossed the platforms would differ depending on the time of day and direction. On 30 Apr 2023 after the completion of the Hurstbridge line upgrade, the crossing loop was extended, meaning up trains from Hurstbridge could only travel through platform 2 at Diamond Creek.
9:18 This tunnel is not limited to freight, it is also used for the V/Line Albury service, the Sydney XPT service, and the Overland Adelaide service. It is the only standard gauge heavy rail entrance/exit from the docks and city area.
I like random facts, and I'll add an extra detail - Fairfield Station in Brisbane now looks completely different as it was fully rebuilt and was finished in 2023. It used to be my home station.
The problem with Diamond Creek is it got two platforms before it got two tracks. Originally all City trains and most Hurstbridge trains would depart from platform one, while only some Hurstbridge trains would depart platform two in peak times. Now that they have upgraded to double track they had to switch city departures to platform two has it is on the left hand side. What is really frustrating about the ‘upgrade’ is that 1. the newly renovated platform 2 still only has an entry and exit right smack bang into an unfriendly pedestrian carpark when they could have easily connected it to the ‘station shopping’ shopping centre. The centre walkways are under a metre from the platform and 2. After all the upgrades and double track Diamond Creekians still have to wait an hour for trains most of the day which for most make it unviable as a transport option.
I think the main reason the shopping centre doesn't have a direct connection is because trolleys would end up on the tracks. At least the hour waits are night time only and its mostly 20s and 40s during the day
as someone who often caught trains from diamond creek station, my confusion has finally been confirmed real, i was not in fact crazy as my friends said for insisting that sometimes the city train goes on platform 2.
Box Hill Station has a completely abandoned train platform (platform 1) that somehow still has billboards to sell you stuff. Of course. It also still has signage for Metropolitan Transit in the bus depot! This is a fact from my lived experience, but in order to entice people to switch to Myki, they made Metcards progressively more expensive.
I used to take the city-loop counter-clockwise every now and then, ages ago, and recently since I haven't in a long time I just thought "I guess I never get on that service anymore" lol.
I reckon the middle escalator on Platform 9 at Southern Cross also broke ten years ago. Fun fact: Collingwood Station is not in Collingwood. Neither are the nearby Collingwood Town Hall or home ground of Collingwood FC.
North Melbourne station is in West Melbourne and it has often been talked about renaming it to West Melbourne. I have a Melways that has it labelled as “West Melbourne”
Hi Qazzy, ever thought about doing videos about old lines in regional Victoria that have closed but could still be accessible in some areas, including obscure ones such as the Newtown-Colac, East Natimuk-Carpolac etc etc. I live in Ballarat so we have many abandoned lines in this regional city alone and my grandmother lives in a town along the East Natimuk-Carpolac line.😊
The tram on Nicholson st, between St Vinnies hospital and Exhibition Gardens, USED to not be powered by overhead electric, but was pulled by a cable, dug into the street. I think they changed it to electric just before WW2, but the cable is still under the street. The indoor depot on the corner of Nicholson and Gertrude still has some of the controls int there. I think that was where the motors that pulled the cable used to be.
Dennis also is a place that doesn't exist. Its located in Northcote and there's no road, park or interesting point named this way. Dennis was an influent family that lived in that area. Also it's probably the most useless station at Hursbridge line (I know there's Wattle Glen but it's outside the urban area)
Dennis Station is specifically named after William Dennis, who was a long-serving Northcote councillor. I will admit, Dennis is pretty unremarkable, though there are some shops nearby on Victoria Road...
Richmond 3121 to South Kensington 3003 is about 29 minutes on the Werribee Line Richmond TW9 2NA to South Kensington SW7 2ND is about 29 minutes on the District Line Richmond 3121 to South Kensington SW7 2ND is about 22 hours 20 minutes on Qantas
As someone living in paris who has never been to the southern hemisphere this will most definitely serve no purpose. But melbourne has cool trains so thank you
I'd like to submit that the 'last name' pronunciation of Batman is hilarious, and instead of pronouncing stuff named after John Batman like the DC superhero, we should instead just pronounce all the '-man' superheroes like they're last names. Spiderm'n. Superm'n. Aquam'n.
the tram hump over the railway used to be single track and was a more pronounced hump. There used to be a tram that only went over the hump, the route 9 tram.
0:43 I was momentarily confounded by a different but very similar dead end section of tram track also in Docklands. I spent far too long attempting to board a tram that wasn't in service, only to be told that the stop was actually one block down.
as a point cook resident, i fell like Williams landing is so close it might as well just be considered point cook station. and half of the bus routes from there go through point cook, but they all suck.
Diamond Creek has the wrong Platform numbers, as Platform 1 was built first and was the one which was used the most before the Hurstbridge line Duplication. So when the new platform started carrying all up trains, nobody decided to change the platform number's
I never thought of Upper Ferntree Gully as a long name, probably as I grew up going there as that’s where my dad grew up and grandparents lived. A lovely quiet place - way back when I was a kid. I only thought of it as a lovely name for a place.
Frankston, one of the first residents there was a 'Frank Stone', add some blurring over the years...... Another person said it was "Frank's Station"....... Nothing official of course - at least it's not a name stolen from overseas, as so many others are.
Fun fact 101: Those travelling towards the northern end are always given the old trains while the newer trains are provided to the other lines despite everyone paying the same fare...
Sunbury line with the HCMT would like a word with you, in addition to the X'trampolines 2.0 set to roll out by 2025 for testing. (Besides the comeng, which also regularly operate on the cross city line, the trains are roughly the same age in comparison to the other lines. Seimens and x'traps when both were initially ordered/began service, occurred at a similar time)
I think Ringwood East is named after an actual direction while the others are just the position in relative to the central of the suburb. Also Yarra Trams could just that stadium Docklands Stadium, which is the alternative non-commercial name. Also the Bunbury Street tunnel is not freight only.
It's funny hearing all these English place names in reference to somewhere actually sunny. The Burnley and Doncaster over here are very much the opposite and spend most of their time grey and rain drenched lol.
here's another factoid for us: Melbourne has the only 4-way turning tram intersection in the world. Caulfield Junction - Hawthorn & Balaclava roads intersection
My mind blew realising Ringwood East was the only station that had the direction after the name. I knew it was different but thought there had to be another one like it.
alamein *is* a real place... in egypt. the line is named after the first and second battles of el alamein, two battles during the north african campaign of the second world war. australian and kiwi soldiers were a major part of the allied force in these battles, which is why it was commemorated with the station name. the battle was actually at the site of a railway halt, imo this makes it appropriate specifically to be remembered by a railway station name. (ignore if you ended up correcting this btw)
Why did every fact piss me off
It may be useless but that was surprisingly interesting
Another mostly useless fact: there is a single boat on the PTV network, the Westgate Punt. It doesn’t take myki or show up on all journey planners but it is PTV branded
What about the Point Cook ferry, or is that run by another operator?
The one that connects to the Stony Point trains.
I rode this ferry in my "Every Form of Public Transport in Melbourne" video!
@@j_y_ Westernport Ferries do the Stony Point - Tankerton - Cowes route.
@@RT_today Ahh that makes sense!
westernport ferry does have PTV branding on it
OMG. Bookmarking this. You have peaked. My AuADHD brain needs to absorb all of this over several views - apparently your "useless" is my "fascinating". Thank yo so much for sharing this. You have a fantastic voice, so I hope you have a lot more "useless" info in the pipleine
FWIW, just joined on the back of this one :)
Thank you so much!!
Same. Became a subscriber in 60 seconds, no need to finish the video
Fun fact...the Preston Tram Depot Bridge was used as the final scene (in Australia) of the movie Malcolm
Great Video!
There's a reason the platform numbering at Diamond Creek is quirky. It's because Platform 2 was only built in 1994, and prior to the duplication in 2023, was only used during peak times to allow trains to cross. Clearly they decided to keep the original platform as Platform 1, whilst the new, lesser-used platform became Platform 2.
speaking of high st, there's also a street called high st rd. You know, just to confuse people even further
bruh i live near that road so damn confusing
Is it a road or a street though🤔
Or is it a StreetRoad?
its the same street just more east
Even worse - I remember they used to display huge signs "Avoid High Street" on EastLink. Apparently referring to some substances use. Confusing drivers not to take High Street exit :lol:
@@alexkucherov5711 Took me roughly 538391964325 seconds to figure that one out
What is this East Richmond station you speak of?
😂😂😂
I love your channrl
Is it the same as Sth Kensington?
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If your train does stop at East Richmond station never ever get off the train, you can check out but never leave (The Eagles, Hotel California)😁
As someone that used Southern Cross Platform 14 for 5 days a week for nearly 10 years... I never noticed the lights were broken lol
They put in some really bad replacement lights, but they also break frequently and even when they are working, they create a checkerboard pattern of light since they're way too low to the ground and clearly not fit for purpose.
I also take platform 14 if I feel like taking a train home. Platform 14 looks dingier than other platforms. I don't like it. I used to live in North Melbourne and had avoided the Werribee/Williamstown line despite being the direct line to it because of the lights. I'd take Upfield, Sunbury or Craigieburn instead.
Never knew the 86 and 96 were at one point run by double-decker buses! Very grateful they're trams now because I would NOT cope trying to get to work in the city by bus! I love this video so much, thanks for making it!
Also, I never knew of the Preston Depot bridge and I am a little jealous that you got to travel over it!
@@thepiratequeen89For a shorts time a tram route number 9 went over the tram bridge.
"Burwood Station is nowhere near Burwood"
As someone that grew up in Burwood, it always annoyed me that Box Hill Station was closer.
The 901 bus runs so frequently and travels so far that it should be accepted as a major public transport infrastructure, but is just a bus
Great video. Got a few more for you.
The only Station in Toorak is Heyington. Hawksburn is in South Yarra and Toorak is in Armadale.
Morradoo is the least used station in Melbourne.
The Route 78 and the Route 82 are the only two tram routes that don't go into the city.
You can see Flagstaff Station from the western end of platform 4 at Melbourne Central.
It's possible to get off the train at Willison on the Alamein line and run to Riversdale and get on the same train you got off.
i think ringwood east is called that so if metro ever want to build a new station in richmond they could call it “East Richmond” so it won’t be too similar to ringwood east
9:35 Fun fact Williamstown pier used to be one of the main ports of Melbourne, and is where alot of the first generation of Victorian steam locomotives where delivered and later assembled in Williamstown workshops (predecessor to Newport). The workshops where located in the open grassland where the line once was. Which means without that nub of the line Victoria wouldn't have had railways, and this video wouldn't have existed.
East richmond station only appears at 5:13 pm on tuesdays every 3 years
Brings back memories of the Connex lady voice... "Now arriving at Upper Ferntree Gully. This train will terminate at Upper Ferntree Gully" when your train was supposed to go all the way to Belgrave
"the Connex lady voice"
Now there's a key memory I thought I had successfully suppressed.
Spoken like a true Belgrave commuter.
And Upper Gully is one of the coldest stations in the city on a cold winter's evening with a westerly blowing
The two longest tram routes in Melbourne are the 75 Vermont South and 86 East Bundoora, however it has been speculated that these could be further extended to Knox Shopping centre for the 75, and Hawkstowe railway station for the 86 (via the newer housing estates deviating west of Mill Park and terminating perpendicular to Plenty Road)
Looking at a map I can see the logical route for the 86 would be the "Plenty linear reserve" (where Plenty road turns east) and continue in a northerly direction to terminate at the Eastern end of the Plenty Valley Shopping Centre (and South Morang Station).
do we need to extend the 75 tho, isnt it already the longest intra city tramline in the world?
The Stony Point line used to have a line from Baxter to Mornington. Some services ran as two DERMs which were divided at Baxter. The Mornington line ran in a big curve which took 30 minutes to run but the more direct bus service only took ten minutes.
Dude, this was awsome. Many facts I kindv knew, many where "ha, there you go"
Awsome mate!
Dont know if you said this, but fun fact, when the peninsula link was built, provisions to allow the closed Mornington line to be reopened were made.
The only provisions is that there is a decent bridge space over the disused section of rail, allowing for double track.
They are working on it
I love this video! Well done! Oh, and I live in Upper Ferntree Gully :D
This is such a cool video. I learned some interesting information. Maybe you should do a part 2.
6:13 the much better route into highpoint is to walk along aquatic drive to the southern entrance, which is half as long.
even as a non-australian i could listen to this all day
Diamond creek platform 1 is the down bound platform due to that being the original side of platform 1 (The only Platform Pre-Duplication) Also, the tunnel under footscray is not only for freight but also for Albury and Sydney bound passenger trains
The reason Diamond Creek is numbered the way it is since platform 2 was built on 7 Jun 1994. After it was built, the majority of trains would only use the existing platform 1 in both directions, however when trains crossed the platforms would differ depending on the time of day and direction. On 30 Apr 2023 after the completion of the Hurstbridge line upgrade, the crossing loop was extended, meaning up trains from Hurstbridge could only travel through platform 2 at Diamond Creek.
9:18 This tunnel is not limited to freight, it is also used for the V/Line Albury service, the Sydney XPT service, and the Overland Adelaide service. It is the only standard gauge heavy rail entrance/exit from the docks and city area.
I like random facts, and I'll add an extra detail - Fairfield Station in Brisbane now looks completely different as it was fully rebuilt and was finished in 2023. It used to be my home station.
The problem with Diamond Creek is it got two platforms before it got two tracks. Originally all City trains and most Hurstbridge trains would depart from platform one, while only some Hurstbridge trains would depart platform two in peak times. Now that they have upgraded to double track they had to switch city departures to platform two has it is on the left hand side. What is really frustrating about the ‘upgrade’ is that 1. the newly renovated platform 2 still only has an entry and exit right smack bang into an unfriendly pedestrian carpark when they could have easily connected it to the ‘station shopping’ shopping centre. The centre walkways are under a metre from the platform and 2. After all the upgrades and double track Diamond Creekians still have to wait an hour for trains most of the day which for most make it unviable as a transport option.
I think the main reason the shopping centre doesn't have a direct connection is because trolleys would end up on the tracks. At least the hour waits are night time only and its mostly 20s and 40s during the day
the old gordon station at gordon is still there , I used look after it
as someone who often caught trains from diamond creek station, my confusion has finally been confirmed real, i was not in fact crazy as my friends said for insisting that sometimes the city train goes on platform 2.
To my knowledge 86 is the only Melbourne tram route to have a whole album written about it. Maybe the only tram route in the world.
album you say?
You can enter Highpoint shopping centre from Aquatic dve which is about 250m from the tram stop.
Box Hill Station has a completely abandoned train platform (platform 1) that somehow still has billboards to sell you stuff. Of course. It also still has signage for Metropolitan Transit in the bus depot!
This is a fact from my lived experience, but in order to entice people to switch to Myki, they made Metcards progressively more expensive.
2:17 yep, as a Monash Clayton student I can attest that this fact makes parking on campus all the more painful
I used to take the city-loop counter-clockwise every now and then, ages ago, and recently since I haven't in a long time I just thought "I guess I never get on that service anymore" lol.
I reckon the middle escalator on Platform 9 at Southern Cross also broke ten years ago.
Fun fact: Collingwood Station is not in Collingwood. Neither are the nearby Collingwood Town Hall or home ground of Collingwood FC.
Box Hill station does not have a platform 1, all up trains (Flinders St bound) depart platform 2 and 3 (depending on time of day).
Yes it does. It’s just closed.
Does that count? Pretty sure it's never had a train stop there.@@jd0192
North Melbourne station is in West Melbourne and it has often been talked about renaming it to West Melbourne. I have a Melways that has it labelled as “West Melbourne”
I was not expecting the Mernda-Husrtbridge Line to be on here
That was awesome dude, interesting and funny
Transport information is never useless
You know someone didn't grow up in the country when waiting an hour for a bus is considered unreasonable xD
Hi Qazzy, ever thought about doing videos about old lines in regional Victoria that have closed but could still be accessible in some areas, including obscure ones such as the Newtown-Colac, East Natimuk-Carpolac etc etc. I live in Ballarat so we have many abandoned lines in this regional city alone and my grandmother lives in a town along the East Natimuk-Carpolac line.😊
Would love to, however a lot of these lines are quite hard to access by public transport and I don't own a car
@@QazzyTransport fair enough. Maybe one day. The history of these lost lines has always been fascinating.
@@QazzyTransport fair enough. Maybe one day. The stories of these lost lines is always fascinating.
Fun fact. All metro tracks in Melbourne used by metropolitan services have overhead wiring.
Stony Point Line: am I a joke to you?
Apparently the stony point line doesn't exist
Guys what's this Stony Point line?
Is it a new one?
The tram on Nicholson st, between St Vinnies hospital and Exhibition Gardens, USED to not be powered by overhead electric, but was pulled by a cable, dug into the street.
I think they changed it to electric just before WW2, but the cable is still under the street.
The indoor depot on the corner of Nicholson and Gertrude still has some of the controls int there. I think that was where the motors that pulled the cable used to be.
@@bxdxggxdxb2775 Nice bit of knowledge there!
Tourists still extensively use the city circle line - as a local i have never in my life taken it 😂 and amused at how packed it can get
I just want to say I enjoyed the hell out of this video.
These facts were genuinely entertaining, awesome video!
Dennis also is a place that doesn't exist. Its located in Northcote and there's no road, park or interesting point named this way.
Dennis was an influent family that lived in that area.
Also it's probably the most useless station at Hursbridge line (I know there's Wattle Glen but it's outside the urban area)
Dennis Station is specifically named after William Dennis, who was a long-serving Northcote councillor. I will admit, Dennis is pretty unremarkable, though there are some shops nearby on Victoria Road...
Richmond 3121 to South Kensington 3003 is about 29 minutes on the Werribee Line
Richmond TW9 2NA to South Kensington SW7 2ND is about 29 minutes on the District Line
Richmond 3121 to South Kensington SW7 2ND is about 22 hours 20 minutes on Qantas
Gordon used to have a station, it had a curved roof, like a Quonsett hut. The track was re-routed bypassing Gordon.
As someone living in paris who has never been to the southern hemisphere this will most definitely serve no purpose. But melbourne has cool trains so thank you
In 2026, Sydney and Melbourne will be two cities, with two airport trains.
Not quite, Sydney will have 2 airports and 2 airport trains. Melbourne 1 airport, 0 trains.
Actually Melbourne would be 2 airports and 0 trains... (Avalon)
1:29 Don't worry mate, us Ringwood Eastians are here to piss everyone off 😁
I love East Ringwood.
I'd like to submit that the 'last name' pronunciation of Batman is hilarious, and instead of pronouncing stuff named after John Batman like the DC superhero, we should instead just pronounce all the '-man' superheroes like they're last names.
Spiderm'n. Superm'n. Aquam'n.
The freight only tunnel also has interstate standard gauge passengers too. XPT and i think the Overland, maybe even the old Westcoast rail..
it for sure does! vline albury line counts as interstate standard gauge i guess
Most transport nerds don’t actually know much about the rail network - and so they get most of that sort of thing wrong.
the tram hump over the railway used to be single track and was a more pronounced hump. There used to be a tram that only went over the hump, the route 9 tram.
This video was full of very useful information, thank you very much.
0:43 I was momentarily confounded by a different but very similar dead end section of tram track also in Docklands. I spent far too long attempting to board a tram that wasn't in service, only to be told that the stop was actually one block down.
as a point cook resident, i fell like Williams landing is so close it might as well just be considered point cook station. and half of the bus routes from there go through point cook, but they all suck.
Fun fact: Melbourne's trains have been existing longer than Sydney's public transport
Thank you for the Melbourne tram information Ralsei
6:32 Don’t forget Westona! Another station with this outlying layout!
The diamond creek station being back to front personally victimised me many times in highschool
What an amazing font of knowledge, even for this Sydneysider!
1:30 Ringwood east isn’t the only one, there is also Murchison East, but personally I like when the direction comes after the name, it sounds better.
And Kilmore east
First time I tried to catch a train from diamond creek I missed it because I was on the wrong platform, glad I can blame something else now
Diamond Creek has the wrong Platform numbers, as Platform 1 was built first and was the one which was used the most before the Hurstbridge line Duplication. So when the new platform started carrying all up trains, nobody decided to change the platform number's
I never thought of Upper Ferntree Gully as a long name, probably as I grew up going there as that’s where my dad grew up and grandparents lived. A lovely quiet place - way back when I was a kid. I only thought of it as a lovely name for a place.
They couldn’t be bothered sending route 67 to actual Carnegie station. Instead, they make it end 1km south of it.
Burwood USED to be in/near burwood, they changed the boundaries of the suburb sometime in the 2000s (my address changed from burwood to glen iris)
Frankston, one of the first residents there was a 'Frank Stone', add some blurring over the years......
Another person said it was "Frank's Station".......
Nothing official of course - at least it's not a name stolen from overseas, as so many others are.
Fun fact 101: Those travelling towards the northern end are always given the old trains while the newer trains are provided to the other lines despite everyone paying the same fare...
Sunbury line with the HCMT would like a word with you, in addition to the X'trampolines 2.0 set to roll out by 2025 for testing.
(Besides the comeng, which also regularly operate on the cross city line, the trains are roughly the same age in comparison to the other lines. Seimens and x'traps when both were initially ordered/began service, occurred at a similar time)
At least the bus stop at 5:30 has a shelter and a bench! Here in the U.S, there are bus stops with nothing more than a sign, even inside the city.
Omg I never realised they got rid of the Royal Park stop near the hospital/grass circle!
I think Ringwood East is named after an actual direction while the others are just the position in relative to the central of the suburb. Also Yarra Trams could just that stadium Docklands Stadium, which is the alternative non-commercial name.
Also the Bunbury Street tunnel is not freight only.
He sarcastically asks, "Which platforms at Brighton Beach do up & down trains go through?"
You could make a trivia quiz out of this to make it more fun
It's funny hearing all these English place names in reference to somewhere actually sunny. The Burnley and Doncaster over here are very much the opposite and spend most of their time grey and rain drenched lol.
Fun fact: All but one train lines are named after the station they terminate at
North Melbourne Station is actually in West Melbourne. Cool fact
Fun fact: The bridge structure of North Melbourne's old entrance was also the old alignment of Dynon Road.
@@cswvna I didn't know that. Impressive :)
The Entrance to Highpoint is only around 250m away, you can enter at aquatic drive
7:47 most useful fact, for my school project I have to research facts and study them, so I guess my topic is Moreland opening on a Tuesday and why!
I've lived near Upfield most of my life & also thought it wasn't a place but it actually is. It's the shortened version of Upper Campbellfield
The Monash uni no Clayton heavy rail service fact pisses me off to no end lol
5:28 literally every bus line ever, especially outside the city
loved the amount of Alamein line representation here :D
There's now an East Pakenham line so there's now two stations that start with the direction
9:16 also route 96 doesn’t end at St Kilda beach as well, it only goes to Acland st
but South Melbourne Beach is patrolled by the South Melbourne and Port Melbourne life saving club so I guess South Melbourne beach does exist.
As a former resident of Melbourne, this was informative ❤
here's another factoid for us: Melbourne has the only 4-way turning tram intersection in the world. Caulfield Junction - Hawthorn & Balaclava roads intersection
I LOVE MELBOURNE PUBLIC TRANSPORT 😻😻😻
My mind blew realising Ringwood East was the only station that had the direction after the name. I knew it was different but thought there had to be another one like it.
We need a branch line from Pakenham to Pakenham Upper to to give Ringwood East some competition. And to have the station with the funniest name.
Amazingly useless facts to drive my colleagues insane in the next teams chat. Melbourne transport FTW!
Fun fact i once saw a person take a crap on the Werribee line
wicked facts thanks so much bestie!!!!! :)
Correction on the freight only tunnel in Footscray it's used by the Overland and Sydney-XPT which are very much NOT freight services.
not enough, i think we're gonna need another 10 Minutes of Useless Melbourne Transport Information
You forgot to add the fact that Route 78 is the only tram line on the network that could have a full-size interstate train on it's tracks
I absolutely love this fact but I decided not to mention it as I've mentioned it before in previous videos
alamein *is* a real place... in egypt. the line is named after the first and second battles of el alamein, two battles during the north african campaign of the second world war. australian and kiwi soldiers were a major part of the allied force in these battles, which is why it was commemorated with the station name. the battle was actually at the site of a railway halt, imo this makes it appropriate specifically to be remembered by a railway station name.
(ignore if you ended up correcting this btw)