Comments on: V/Line ticket queues before Myki https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Photos from ten years ago: January 2014 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-910113 Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:32:40 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-910113 […] While at Southern Cross Station passengers encountered the usual Friday afternoon ticket queue, thanks to the inability to purchase tickets ahead of time. […]

]]> By: Why do V/Line and Metro Trains have their own ticket offices? - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-895075 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:32:23 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-895075 […] then in 2013 something resembling a unification of the two systems, when Myki was rolled out to the V/Line network, as “one system to rule them […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: February 2013 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-887158 Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:54:25 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-887158 […] While on Friday nights, the queues would be at the V/Line booking office, waiting to buy a paper ticket. […]

]]> By: Broken promises from Myki - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-879657 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 01:50:20 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-879657 […] end result – the retention of paper ticketing, and unused Myki reader stands at railway stations in country […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: December 2010 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-773451 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 02:56:32 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-773451 […] passed through Southern Cross Station where the Myki rollout to V/Line trains was ramping up, where signs informed passengers that ticket checking would now occur at the station […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: October 2009 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-605751 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:36:51 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-605751 […] took June 2013 (four more years!) until Myki was first accepted on V/Line commuter services, with paper tickets not killed off until February […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: February 2009 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-506697 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:32:10 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-506697 […] you remember the days when paper tickets were the only way to travel on V/Line trains? Every Monday morning passengers would forget their ticket had expired over the […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-352584 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 01:23:11 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-352584 In reply to V/Man.

I’ve got a feeling I might have once bought a V/Line ticket from Geelong with Met travel included – I’d have to check my ticket collection as well!

]]> By: V/Man https://wongm.com/2015/02/vline-ticket-queues-myki/#comment-351833 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 09:57:07 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5547#comment-351833 VNET did have the functionality to add ‘+ MET ZONE 1’ / ‘+ MET ZONE 2’ / ‘+ MET ZONE 3’ / ‘+MET ZONE 1/2’ + ‘+ MET ZONE 1/2/3’ or similar for an add on cost to paper tickets. Never was advertised and rarely seen used, though meant a Metcard wasn’t required.

VNET also had the functionality to have a range of suburban stations (actually all I think) to be entered as the destination location; for example GEELONG to BELGRAVE via MELBOURNE (Melbourne was used to define Spencer Street, Flinders Street, North Melbourne and Richmond).

I’ll try and find a sample ticket of it some time, if it hasn’t faded in the box I’ve got them in!

]]>