One of the two things I liked about the Comeng was their socially acceptable unique horn sound. Now it's only the comfy seats I like about the Comeng.

I think many people will still call it the Pakenham line even with the open of the extension. Many people just call the Geelong line that instead of Waurn Ponds.

Looks like 2024 is set to be a massive year for Melbourne's rail network. Great video explaining all the different projects. Well done.

Parkdale station is scheduled to open in August

Technically the Pakenham extension is an electrification RESTORATION. The entire line to Traralgon used to be electrified…

Can't wait to see the SSR X'trap 2.0 transfer trains from here in Ballarat to Melbourne 🙂

I hope the Metro Tunnel opens ahead of schedule for 2024 🤞

Nice one, mate. I was at Seaford Station today to film next to one of the level crossings due for removal. Good info about Parkdale, I'll be heading up there next week then. Have a great weekend! 🚂🚂🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 + new sub 👍

Metro Tunnel is opening next year but excited for it! Can't wait to start running from Melbourne Central to State Library to make trains lol

The best station to change from the east for the Metro Tunnel is Caulfield. Passengers from the Frankston line can change here for Pakenham, Cranbourne and Metro Tunnel. Cut out the stops at Malvern for Tunnel trains to maximise the express potential capability.

I looked it up on Vicsig, apparently it’s to lessen confusion, and the extension is only happening to remove the need for a sky rail crossover

I'm looking forward to the new Keon Park station! Nearly life-long Epping/South Morang/Mernda line person here (some time spent living along the Hurstbridge line). I love seeing more views along the skyrail sections in Reservoir and Preston!

Mate I’m glad you covered this thanks for all the updates.

5:58 Wasn't the 2018 Mernda extension the most recent, not Sunbury?

very much looking forward to the xtrap 2.0, and will ride them daily next year (as im based on the craigieburn line)

Awesome video mate can’t wait for new Keon park station open in spring this year 😊👍🚉🚉🎉

The Indigenous livery xtraps actually look sick

Brimbank-Sunshine community is distressed by the apparent go-slow on the Airport Line project. haven't we waited long enough?

the system where destination defines the line name is unusual and confusing. More confusing when trains do not reach the final destination. eg to tell a tourist to get to mitcham, the train could be lilydale, belgrave, ringwood, upper ferntree gully etc. Much easier to say catch any green or blue line train. Line names are used everywhere else I know of including melbourne trams (rout 75 etc).

If Sandringham passengers want to go to the metro tunnel they'd change at Flinders-Townhall, or get a 58 from south yarra to go towards Anzac and St Kilda Rd. Ill be surprised if they stop them at Hawksburn Mernda was extended after Sunbury Pakenham will likely stay the line name. It's still going to Pakenham (the suburb). No need to change the line name imo.

Great video. Thanks for the updates. 👍

Narre Warren is already looking close to finished, went past it on the train last week

Its great these projects are being built but will the improved metro train reliability as the Sandringham and Frankston lines suffer regularly from delays between Richmond and Flinders Street as well as at Caulfield and Moorabbin/highett for the Frankston Line. These delays often add anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes to trips to the city. So far all work between Moorabbin and Caulfield has not delivered any reduction in disruptions and delays which is why I rarely use metro today or visit inner Melbourne now.

Great video ..thank you for update...👍👍

The trains are being built in ballarat and they have only started production just before Christmas last year

Pakenham East meets the Victorian place names code where direction comes after place, except for Melbourne, West Footscray, South Yarra, South Morang.

Any idea of plans for Kooyong Station? As well as the adjacent Glenferrie Road level crossing?

I am so sorry for the long essay of a comment but I do have a question about the Metro Tunnel and the suburban loop. When the metro tunnel opens, does that mean Pakenham and Cranbourne trains do not go to South Yarra anymore or do some services just go directly to flinders street and some use the metro tunnel? And one more about the suburban loop, so when the rail loop is opened in 2030, will there be another tunnel built at sunshine station for the airport rail and a new green train running services in it? I really wanna know also I had a cool idea. I was thinking, metro could treat us with a special of how the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines would have looked like with Comeng, Siemens, HCMT and even Xtrapolis trains running timetables services from Pakenham/Cranbourne to the city and back?!

I caught that 8:14 direct to Frankston from West Footscray. Wondered what the hell was going on lol.

Will these new X-Trap 2s and any new Melbourne suburban trains have the doors at the same spots as the new HCMTs, to ensure they match up with the new Metro platform doors?

The rich in parkdale didn't get thier way which is nice. Croydon station Skyrail will be nice.

Awesome video!😁

yay one of my friends caught the x trap 2.0 project at alstom Ballarat

i just want the new screens the siemens got but i the xtrapolis and also they need to completely standardise the seat fabrics because it’s a bit of a mess, so either the blue ptv livery or whatever they did on the hcmt seats

Siemens set 787m-788M has received blue seat patterns like the comengs have and more space for wheelchair and mobility scooters and extra handrails as well

did you mean the mernda extension in 2018?

I hope that you can do a video on Melbourne’s airport link! 😊

Ground not suited for trench in Parkdale too sandy obviously. I remember seeing the geology map somewhere.

Do you think the metro tunnel stations personally could actually finish construction this year?

I ❤ 🚂🚃 trains 🚄 🚅 trams 🚈🚞 take a ride, I have a folder on ''transportation'' (folder 4) I think you will love them too :)

Does anybody know anything about a cycling track being built Pakenham to Hallam (or Dandenong)? I'm personally interested in a path between Hallam to Narre Warren

SAVE THE COMENG HORN (and get rid of the terrible xtrampoline's horn) seriously the amount of times i've been jumpscared by an xtrapolis honking is absurd

Any idea of plans for Tooronga Station? As well as the adjacent Rooronga Road level crossing?

Pity that Laburnum being the first did not get anywhere the facilities that the newer stations got. Concrete cracking rust on station edge. Did not get a raised platform at drivers end to help disabled. Others such as Union received drink fountain. Come from Melbourne and live on south side. Must walk 2.5 times station length. Hard for disabled on hot days and in rain. Rain shelter very poor.

AKA Melbourne’s never ending Rail Projects To Be Completed In 2024? PROJECT Waterman is documenting Suburban Rail Loop, focusing mainly on SRL East - Box Hill. This Metro Tunnel Life has previously won recognition for coverage of Blackburn Level Crossing Removal. Currently in post-production for Mont Albert Level Crossing Removal and Surrey Hills Level Crossing Removal

4:24 i highly doubt this would happen but since the hcmt's would more or less takeover from the siemens and comeng trains on the sunbury line like they did on the pakenham/cranbourne lines, i hope this means some comengs would be able to return to service on the hillside lines

Keon Park station will open in September or October

I highly doubt that the Metro Tunnel will open this year in September, considering the fact that the CBD underground stations aren't even close to completion from what I've heard, but who knows? At least Arden station is finished and hopefully more workers will be allocated to the Town Hall and State Library, though it would be ideal if Metro Tunnel does open this year but I would rather if they stick to it's planned 2025 date in order to perform more safety and reliability testing. Also looking forward to X-Traps 2.0 on the Craigieburn and Upfield lines, it's about time that both those lines receive newer rollingstock.

Twelve car trains ,? Who are you kidding? What stations are you going to double in length.

Between the comeng and siemens which do you prefer?

How does one get the ball rolling in applying for a metro train driver/trainee position? I keep seeing how these sweeping changes to the network will mean more trains and more often, which I would assume means the necessity for more drivers, but I can never seem to find any information on it online.

The trains are set to enter service between 2024 and 2026.

That Yarraville level crossing badly needs to go or Anderson St closed to traffic entirely

Melbourne rail project complete in 2024

Ti love 9000 train look cool

Can someone tell me why Parkdale residents don’t like the Skyrail idea because that’s confusing the hell out of me

The Metro tunnel is a big waste of money. The ONLY extra capacity it will provide is by taking the Sunbury line out of the Northern loop. The Caulfield, Sandy and Newport groups of lines already have their own dedicated tracks that they don't share with other lines - the tunnel just means they will use different lines but it won't increase capacity. The Burnley and Clifton Hill group won't be affected at all. And most people who work in St Kilda Rd or up at the uni will keep using the trams because they will be faster, more frequent, and a lot more convenient. The sad thing is there was a better way - by altering the portals to the existing city loop they could have redirected trains to run from Richmond to North Melbourne via Parliament and Flagstaff and acheived MORE extra capacity, and it would have cost a lot less and been finished years ago. The level crossing removal project is of very little benefit to trains - it is for improving roads. There is no limit to how many trains you can run through a level crossing, it just means the booms stay down longer. Not saying they shouldn't remove them, but it should not be painted as a 'green' public transport improvement, it should be called what it is, a roads project, and be paid for out of the road budget and not the public transport budget.

Fixing Monash Freeway is still urgently needed

Too bad Siemens didn't get a 2.0 train, I like the Xtrap 2.0 but given that how Xtrap 1.0 performed (I'm on the Mernda line) this train is terrible.) Though time will tell what happens (I love the Comeng and Siemens trains the most)

7:40 why was that a 3-car train?

Now we will have to listen to a terrible horn for the last years of the comeng😭

... Why they gotta make the horn louder? It's already so annoying.

Straya Trains 2.0

Mentone is Bentone

The Commeng horn is a downgrade, they sound awful, very loud and jarring like the X’Trap horns sound. The old tri-tone was so much more pleasant.

Are any of these trains driverless?

Three door exit I never liked. Should of been two, it waste space. But then again it does get people in and out quicker

im still pretty annoyed with the level crossing like i mean they are just ripping down old stations that looks pretty cool and replacing them i would rather they keep it the same because most level crossings really arent that dangerouse its just the people who are the problem and not to mention the comeng melbourne trainspotting and riding them will feel completely diffrent with all new stations and trains its sad everythings gone

There is no value at all for Sandy line passengers on all this.

Alas, most of them aren't worth the budget spent on propaganda. The misnamed tunnel isn't a metro, and is undersignalled, and bizarrely doesn't have a station at South Yarra. The new trains are in no sense useful, and simply repeat the badly-designed misnamed 'high capacity' trains. The new stations as part of level-crossing removals are bleak and harsh: grey steel and concrete. LXRP hates greenery, and that shows in its lack of landscaping, left to die as the budget runs out. What we never get is 'turn up and go' services, or convenient interchanges. PTV hasn't learned anything from the 1850s break of gauge disaster: a new lot of incompatibility.

low horn - what a joke

What the fix level crossing removals that were botched? Politics will prevent any fixes for sure.

So when is the Labour Government going to see fit to spend money on level crossing removals on the Glen Waverley line. All our tax money is being spent on level crossings out in the sticks (e.g. Pakenham and Cranbourne lines) and stuff all on the Glen Waverley line. It’s way past time services for Glen Waverley commuters was improved….. but then there are stuff all votes for Labour in this part of the world.

Low capacity metro 🚇 trains!!!!!

are you sure there was a lot of community support for parkdale trenchrail? i ask because there were complaints about skyrailing the line around murrumbeena. they even had a yt channel. unfortunately, they had only had 8 views when i went to the channel and i'm a skyrail fan. there were complainers about a skyrail near the mordialloc creek. it is possible but incredibly difficult to do trenchrail through a creek. you cant plant native trees in the trench. native trees bring native wildlife. losers!

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I thought Melbourne was broke? Dont you need money to finish these projects or is the state debt just going to become even more astronomical

"No views"

And the rest! Metro tunnel not until 2026 easy!

skysails are simply terrible. Either keep the road at grade or the rail and one should go under. Building these monstrosities blocking out the sun from their neighbours is a complete and utter joke. The Government putting up pretty pictures of parks (cough) under these monstrosities to save money is a joke. Gee, I wonder why Surry Hills/Mont Albert wasn't simply built as a sky bridge? Because people with money would never stand for it! Look at the difference between the Box Hill to Canterbury rail corridor to the, well let's just say the whole line out to Dandenong from Caulfield. Ok I live in the inner East so I'm happy but those in the South East surly are appalled given the infrastructure that was built on the Eastern line - hell even Bayswater went under! Simply terrible and we'll have to put up with it for at least another 100 years. Enjoy my Great Grand children!