#Melbourne trains

[beranibear]

👏Your👏 baby👏in👏that👏foldable👏pram👏does👏not👏belong👏in👏the👏reserved👏wheelchair👏spot👏on👏the👏train👏when👏the👏train👏is👏packed👏and 👏people👏in wheelchairs👏are👏forced👏to👏just👏park👏👏their👏wheelchair👏in👏the👏middle👏of👏👏a👏walkway👏

You can literally fold the pram and hold your child.

Those spots are there so we are safe and out of the way. So we are able to get emergency help if needed via the emergency assistance button. So we don’t slide down the middle of the train or slam into people if it comes to a sudden stop.

I can not just fold my chair and get out of it. I don’t have the privilege or ability to do that. It is not a pram parking spot, the symbol on the floor and walls is not of a pram, it’s of the universal symbol for people with disabilities.

Wild how people will still do this when there is literally a sign stating that you will be fined if you don’t give up the spot. If your baby has mobility, if you have mobility; your pram was literally made to be folded and compacted. Please DO IT when the train is full and people with mobility aids are forced into spots that aren’t safe.

Fuck you. I should not have to be unsafe so you don’t have to fold a pram and hold your child.

[tamgarat746]

[metrotrainsmelbourne]

Hello! This is just a quick first post featuring this pop up card of Flinders St Station by Colorpop cards.

This is one of my favourite buildings in Melbourne, and is the hub for the metro train network.

[teniks]

[earlgreybot]

A long Introduction to Metro Trains Melbourne

I've organised some of my favourite YouTube videos about Metro Trains Melbourne into a 3hr explainer series. This covers, roughly in order:

A description of the network, especially the City Loop

Why, where and how the new Metro Tunnel is being built

A general explanation of tunnel construction

What TBM operators do

TBM assembly, tours, function and disassembly (focusing on the Metro Tunnel)

The new State Library and Arden Stations

Road headers and their history in the Melbourne Train Network

Creating and testing the metro tunnel tracks and communications infrastructure

Platform Screen Doors

Fixed Block Train Signalling in Australia (focusing on Melbourne)

How CBTC signalling works and its introduction to Melbourne

[trainiacsdownunder]

✨️💚❤️💙 3x human public transport in Australia! 💙❤️💚✨️

We have the famous XPT that runs from Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney to Brisbane and so many more! We also have the Light Rail, those lil' red trams you'd see down in Sydney, and the oh-so iconic Melbourne Tram you'd see skiddlin' thru' the urban areas! ✨️

Which human Public Transport is your favourite? Feel free to tell us in the comments! ✨️🗣📣💬✨️

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

Trains 1h delayed.. FINALLY they’re coming tho! Sounds like there’s train after train backed up waiting at lower stations 😂 gee…

[inchidentally]

[fuckheadz]

[heavygyroscope]

Melbourne 2022

[snappingthewalls]

[beranibear]

This is my son Schlooboo

(He stole Cavs vest)

[tamgarat746]

This is probably my favourite video on all of YouTube goddamnit.. I know it's nerdy as fuck but I love taitset and I can't believe this video has >5k views aahhggggh

[metrotrainsmelbourne]

Art tram spotted in Melbourne!

[earlgreybot]

Mortuary Train Funeral Notices (1904)

Timeline

Feb 7, 1904: the Springvale Cemetery Line Opened.

Mar 16, 1904: the first mortuary train funeral notice was published.

Apr, 1904: Springvale Necropolis ran 5 ads for the mortuary train service in the funeral notice section of The Age. [1]

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In 1904:

There were 16 advertised funerals mentioning a suburban mortuary train. [2]

All Melbourne suburban mortuary trains were serving Springvale Necropolis.

They departed from Princes Bridge also called Mortuary Station (A station that no longer exists, that was between Flinders Street and Richmond) at 2:10pm.

Some funeral notices mentioned the departure time at Hawksburn Station (3 stops away), which was between 2:15pm and 2:20pm.

One funeral notice stated "stopping at all stations".

Two funeral notices were posted by freemasons.

75% of the funerals were for men [3].

Over 50% of the funerals were in November and December.

Footnotes:

[1] https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197241797 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197235324 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197228246 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197241969 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197234961

[2] The full list is included in my (work in progress) Mortuary Train Funeral Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rGmQ-1qvZMZXxk324_RPSzMHlTzH5tT3NpJzP-y0WzA/edit?usp=sharing

[3] based on the title (Mr. or Bro.), relationship information (son), and pronouns used in the notice (his)

[veerail]

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