Comments on: Expanding Melbourne’s suburban train fleet https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Photos from ten years ago: July 2012 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-843886 Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:33:00 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-843886 […] a visit to the Port of Melbourne, I found six X’Trapolis carriages sitting on the wharf, fresh off the boat at Appleton […]

]]> By: End of the line for Melbourne's Comeng trains - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-815661 Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:32:09 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-815661 […] privatisation of the network in the 2000s the Hitachi trains were retired, replaced by Siemens and X’Trapolis trains, and the Comeng fleet were split between M>Train and Connex, and received mid-life refurbishments […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: June 2011 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-761152 Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:32:09 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-761152 […] new X’Trapolis trains were still being built – and I found some of the body shells waiting on the wharf at Appleton Dock after being […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: May 2011 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-755821 Tue, 25 May 2021 01:09:25 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-755821 […] And finally we end on something positive – X’Trapolis trains rolling out of the factory at Alstom Ballarat. […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: April 2011 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-752371 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:32:14 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-752371 […] Today there are 210 X’Trapolis trains on the Melbourne network, the bulk of them delivered since 2009 to cope with surging patronage. […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: March 2011 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-747833 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:32:16 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-747833 […] Ballarat was churning out new X’Trapolis trains for the Melbourne suburban […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: October 2010 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-709089 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:42:34 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-709089 […] of more X’Trapolis trains was starting to ramp up during 2010, the imported body shells waiting outside the Alstom plant in […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: June 2010 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-648399 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:10:33 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-648399 […] saw new trains finally arriving on the Melbourne rail network to address peak time crowding, but there was nowhere to park them at […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: May 2010 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-635317 Mon, 04 May 2020 21:32:53 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-635317 […] New X’Trapolis trains were arriving into Melbourne, and I found one on the wharf at Webb Dock. […]

]]> By: Perils of design when rebranding a train - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/04/melbourne-suburban-train-fleet-growth/#comment-575225 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:32:13 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=4603#comment-575225 […] in 2009 X’Trapolis trains were the newest in the Melbourne suburban fleet, following a hurried order for 20 new trains to cater for an explosion in […]

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