Comments on: First day at the new Deer Park station https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: A history of nine car long V/Line trains - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-948669 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:32:36 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-948669 […] level crossing removal works at Deer Park station regularly closing the Geelong and Ballarat lines, V/Line took the opportunity to finally extend the […]

]]> By: The saga of Deer Park’s platforms – Daniel Bowen https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-946735 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:20:14 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-946735 […] it’s still a mystery why, as first noticed by Marcus Wong, at the brand new Deer Park station, they were built to 215m, not the shorter standard of 160-180m, […]

]]> By: Nine car trains and the short platform at Deer Park - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-946732 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:32:06 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-946732 […] the weekend a year blog post of mine got a mention in the Herald Sun – the subject being the new railway station at Deer Park and the platforms not quite long enough to fit a nine car V/Line […]

]]> By: Sprinter trains and V/Line platform heights - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-911746 Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:50:12 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-911746 […] incomplete station opened to passengers in April […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-876010 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:17:39 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-876010 In reply to Monty D.

It’s due to V/Line’s set down / pick up restrictions – from here:

https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/assets/default-site/footer/legal-and-policies/victorian-fares-and-ticketing-manual/ed1999063c/PTV_Victorian-Fares-and-Ticketing-Manual_Update2019.pdf

A customer may only board a V/Line train at a metropolitan railway station if the V/Line train service ends at a railway station that is not a metropolitan railway station.

A customer may only alight from a V/Line train at a metropolitan railway station if the V/Line train service ends at a railway station that is a metropolitan railway station or with the permission of an authorised person.

If a customer boards, or alights from, a V/Line train at a metropolitan railway station in contravention of either of the two immediately preceding paragraphs, any ticket held by the customer is not, or ceases to be, valid for the customer’s journey that consists of, or includes, the customer’s travel in that V/Line train or for any entry to a compulsory ticket area associated with that journey.

The restrictions were on the books back when V/Line only accepted paper tickets, but with the rollout of Myki that made suburban and country tickets the same, they added this specific rule to make otherwise valid tickets invalid if you used “wrong” stop, so they could fine you for doing it.

]]> By: Monty D https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-876007 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:39:09 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-876007 Why is it illegal to get off at Sunshine?

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-874073 Wed, 31 May 2023 01:41:54 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-874073 In reply to M.

The High Capacity Metro Trains have this capability as a safety fallback.

https://wongm.com/2021/01/tracking-high-capacity-metro-train-rollout/

But I don’t believe the VLocity trains have it.

]]> By: M https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-874002 Tue, 30 May 2023 11:31:25 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-874002 In reply to Marcus Wong.

Do Vlocity trains have selective door opening capacity? That would enable a 9 car train to stop here with (say) the first or last door remaining closed.

]]> By: Railway station seats - are they really that difficult? - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-873327 Mon, 22 May 2023 21:32:10 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-873327 […] station at Deer Park opened as part of the Mt Derrimut Road level crossing removal project, but it wasn’t quite quite done – Myki ticketing equipment and accessible access skipped in the rush to get the station […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2023/05/first-day-at-the-new-deer-park-station/#comment-872109 Thu, 11 May 2023 11:45:57 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21059#comment-872109 In reply to Ben.

Inadequate shelter has been an issue for virtually every station built in the past 15 years.

https://wongm.com/2015/08/useless-shelters-at-melbourne-railway-stations/

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