Thanks for that Marcus. Being a newbie on here I have just read the thread on the PSO Cubbies, cost and use thereof.
My comment was, of course, tongue-in-cheek, but my general concern is that whilst we are apparently upgrading the “network” we no longer seem to keep in mind who we are doing it for – the travelling public. It beggars belief that a new station does not provide adequate lighting, all-weather protection, seating, and (open) clean functioning toilets for passengers. Maybe even buying a ticket but perhaps that’s too much…. If all we are providing is a platform where passengers get on and off trains, then we could do that at a fraction of the present cost by reverting to continental-Europe style low platforms. We also might get projects finished without enduring several years of interrupted “services.”
On that subject maybe in the near future you could look at the project just south of South Yarra station which for several years interrupted the Sandringham Line and now the Frankston Line from Moorabbin to the city has become totally unreliable…

And here it is:

The working name for the station was Ravenhall, with the Myki equipment still calling it ‘Ravenhall’ for a number of months after opening.

https://twitter.com/danielbowen/status/844843322866724866

Each station does have a ‘holding cell’ on site.

https://wongm.com/2014/08/what-is-inside-pso-office-melbourne/

To be honest they look pretty normal to me.

There is actually a long list of stations named for suburbs they aren’t actually located in.

https://www.domain.com.au/news/melbourne-train-stations-that-arent-quite-where-they-say-they-are-20160920-grk54a/

However most of them would be due to suburb boundaries not being explicitly defined until the 1990s.

https://wongm.com/2022/06/melbournes-suburb-boundary-defined-1998/

To me it sounds like the government coming up with an explanation to suit what decision they’d already made.

I believe the Bunnings benches at Union were only at street level, not on the platforms.

To be honest the only things in Ravenhall is a few industrial estates, and three prisons – Caroline Springs is a more useful name.