Comments on: Ten years since Connex left Melbourne

By: Photos from ten years ago: March 2010 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: March 2010 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:32:41 +0000

[…] transition from Connex to Metro Trains as the operator of Melbourne trains was still ongoing, with trains slowly receiving the new […]

By: Photos from ten years ago: December 2009 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: December 2009 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:32:16 +0000

[…] Trains Melbourne had just taken over from Connex, so a rebranding effort was underway, like this train at West […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 11:11:48 +0000

In reply to Andrew. Reliability is apparently been in decline for the past six years, but not as bad as the 2008 - 2011 depths:

It's declining (back to about 2005 levels) but hasn't yet fallen to the 2008 - 2011 depths. And today's performance doesn't have the wild swings to very low levels that got people angry back then. pic.twitter.com/YB9Ox5V6e2
— MelbourneOnTransit (@MelbOnTransit) November 27, 2019

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:06:43 +0000

In my opinion train operation has improved in the last five years, but that is purely based on anecdotal evidence, not statistics.

Trains with failed air conditioning is bad, but give a thought to those guys out in the hot sun and heat, “Connex repair teams, armed with hoses, sledgehammers and crowbars, worked for more than an hour to bash the rails back into shape.”