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[True Believers @TrueBelievers15]

Melbourne peaked in suburban trains in 2024. I created this graph using data from vicsig and estimation for fleet roll out and retirement. A single train criteria under this definition is 2 sets of 3 carriages. So everything is 6 carriage config, except HCMT which has 7 per train

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@AusRailHistory @AussieWirraway That one's possibly even better - with both train being in contrast against the sky.

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So Australia's neo-Nazis are being bankrolled by trucking money.

https://t.co/ocGdQyx066

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@AussieWirraway After a while out in the sun they can go pink. (So can the flags 😁)

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@AussieWirraway At first glance I thought it was based on the cooker flag.

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@aussiewongm That's more inner 'grumpy old man'. Those skills will become increasingly important as the years pass.

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Australian new car sales figures for the month of May are here. Cars are not my area of expertise, but from a pure statistics angle, the YoY change in sales volume figures are remarkable. This looks like an industry experiencing severe turbulence.
https://t.co/n4DzXmwW6K

[The Sydney Morning Herald @smh]

New electric buses forced into storage due to delays upgrading Sydney depots https://t.co/EylVgL0eaj

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@suburban_melb That place is well known for having lots of dried-out, crusty meatbags.

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@hthieblot The San Jose Mercury-News.
It was the first website I ever browsed to. It seems strange now, but it took me quite a while to get over the fact that what I was looking at on my computer screen was coming to me live from the other side of the world.

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@ma261065 @bswagspeare I remember them bringing one out and my hosts thinking "he'll love this". I just thought it was funny.

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@freight_gate @vicrailnews @evmulholland @metrotrains I agree railways need spare capacity, turnbacks and diversion routes so they can recover when something goes pear-shaped. But if that capacity is used for scheduled trips, the contingency is lost. Better to address the apparent reluctance to change trains. Let's make that easier.

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@freight_gate @vicrailnews @evmulholland @metrotrains Best practice is to eliminate problems and complexity rather than compensate. Keeping lines separate from one another reduces the knockon effects of disruptions and delays.

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@LachlanB_ My original trip through Sweden was an overnight train from Oslo to Copenhagen, so not much seen - though it was a Scandi late Spring night so not totally dark.

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@freight_gate @vicrailnews @evmulholland @metrotrains All the more reason to make it more resilient. Confounding operations with variation in routes is the problem rather than the solution.

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@freight_gate @vicrailnews @evmulholland Keep operations simple and resilient.
Make interchanges easy.
Run trains frequently so that interchanging is a non issue.

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At least we're now getting 'driver crashed a car' from the media rather than 'a car collided with'. Next, let's use that language when the driver is a middle-aged bloke and not just when it's an 'irresponsible yooth' as here.

[7NEWS Sydney @7NewsSydney]

A 17-year-old unsupervised learner driver crashed an Audi into a family home in Bardia after fleeing from police who attempted to stop the vehicle.

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@freight_gate @vicrailnews @evmulholland No