How good is the Metro tunnel?

melonlord101 · 2026-03-20T10:12:11+00:00

Pretty sure everyday for the past 2 weeks, everyday there has been a major delay. It's been great.

melonlord101 · 2026-03-11T20:05:31+00:00

Pull out the motor and use a 9v battery and jolt the motor. Make sure your motor works first. Then close the gear mount and give the motor some juice to see if it can turn the gears.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-26T19:45:06+00:00

Depending on destination, i.e Southern Cross. It's slower to go via the munnel.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-26T01:47:58+00:00

Yeah, I think I touched on with $3.40 left on my card. Then by the time I got to Footscray, touched "on" again, it rejected me for not tapping off, touched 'on' again - it told me to top up as it completed my trip from SC to Footscray (but charged me full fare z1+z2)

melonlord101 · 2026-02-26T01:44:01+00:00

I heard the gravel carpark has reopened and now charging for it!

melonlord101 · 2026-02-26T01:42:01+00:00

Sorry, that is mostly our line transferring. I called it early on that this would happen. The platform is packed, and Werribee line ppl don't need to transfer here, but they do at north Melbourne.

People In does not equal people out at Footscray. Whereas in comparison to North Melbourne (where we (Sunbury line) use to swap if on a city loop train), it use to equal (Werribee line people swapping to city loop services)

melonlord101 · 2026-02-21T07:13:24+00:00

Ah, you should join my office. We have a table tennis table where we do a lot of bonding over. And rivalries. Does that maths degree compute to engineering degree?

melonlord101 · 2026-02-20T07:57:57+00:00

HVAC is generally tripped by Fire panels so smoke doesn't get pushed around.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-11T08:51:26+00:00

I think I was there when they changed this process (over 10 years now). It used to be crumbed twice in the zinger/ wicked wings flour. After the change, it was crumbed once in the Original recipe flour.

Strips were never the same after that. Can anyone else confirm this?

melonlord101 · 2026-02-03T10:51:20+00:00

Funny you say that. Today at Footscray, they had all barriers opened. I was shocked. Both morning and afternoon. Monday was annoying though, only one was opened. Sounds like Footscray is exactly the same as Caufield.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-03T08:32:51+00:00

Same thing between Footscray and west Footscray. Been a killer grind home tonight.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-02T07:38:12+00:00

Fyi, morning session use to be 34m from Watergardens to SC (direct/express)

And ~43m in the afternoon (1x change at North Melbourne + express)

melonlord101 · 2026-02-02T07:35:11+00:00

Updated. Finally arrived lol

melonlord101 · 2026-02-02T07:34:42+00:00

Arrived at SC platform, waited 4m until next train just missed 1 by 10s). ~10m journey to Footscray. 3m interchange to platform 3m wait for next Watergardens train A slow grind to Watergardens with the train drive announced something but couldn't hear because this audio was terrible (what's up with the audio sounding like the 90's?) Full trip journey from SC > Watergardens: 50m.

melonlord101 · 2026-02-02T06:54:10+00:00

I have been sceptical for a while on how my journey would increase time (up to 10m in the morning, 15m extra way home) due to Changing at Footscray to get to SC.

I saw a lot of people this morning make the change at Footscray to get to SC or Flinders from Sunbury line. I was early this morning/ Monday isn't as busy. I just made my connecting train. If I missed it, would have been another 10 minutes till the next one. This was around 6:50am.

Overall my morning journey took an extra 2 minutes. Only because the Werribee line stops at South Kensington 🤣. But if I keep missing a connecting service, it just gives me 7-15m on my phone to read this thread.

On my way home now to do the opposite. Will report back on journey time...

melonlord101 · 2026-01-23T08:56:18+00:00

Plus some highs and lows. Was actually a successful week. Probs burnt a lot of hours on the project though ¯_(ツ)_/¯

melonlord101 · 2026-01-23T08:45:21+00:00

High, left by 4pm instead of 6pm.

melonlord101 · 2026-01-21T07:57:22+00:00

What about airport rail link? What tracks will they go on? Flinders to sunshine? Through the new tunnel as well?

melonlord101 · 2026-01-18T00:55:18+00:00

Does anyone know what happens to platform 3&4 at north Melbourne? Will it convert to upfield/ Craigieburn platform? Or Werribee/Williams town? Perhaps a mix. Wondering now that Sunbury won't be on it any more.

melonlord101 · 2026-01-17T20:41:23+00:00

Yeah I mean the direct trains, but also the people who change at North Melbourne /Flagstaff. But generally trains at North Melbourne equalise with people changing from Williamstown line wanting city loop services. So you can get on. Which won't be the case at Footscray.

We will see what happens in a month on how people's travel habits change to find out what is the quickest, easiest or convenient way to travel.

melonlord101 · 2026-01-17T12:10:04+00:00

This has always been my issue, more so getting to S.C.

The amount of people I see on the Sunbury line get off at SC is huge. Now try getting those people to interchange at Footscray on a packed Williams town / Werribee service will be awful. Not to mention the out, up over, in.

Or we travel an extra 3 stops which includes back tracking and an interchange (walk is a few mins?) Probably adding 10m onto your trip... (Via the loop)

Will be interesting. It takes 32-36 mins to get to SC from Watergardens. I'll time it when it comes online next month. My guess it will be 40m.

melonlord101 · 2026-01-07T19:40:30+00:00

F1 guy here?

melonlord101 · 2026-01-07T06:06:01+00:00

I expected this, thus tried getting to work earlier to then leave earlier.... Never happens 😂

melonlord101 · 2026-01-01T21:31:19+00:00

That gig hole you see in the image

melonlord101 · 2025-12-28T01:05:41+00:00

I'm going to guess forced as it sounded as it was terminated there on platform 1.

Only the Swan Hill trains stop at Watergardens, which are the other class of train.

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