Following a previous successful blog post analysing the latest update of the national Infrastructure Priority List I thought it might be interesting to look at other strategy documents and comment on them from a rail signalling perspective. Queensland has just issued the 2019 update of its State Infrastructure Plan (SIP), and it looks truly impressive […]
Metro Features #3 – Level Crossings
The title of this post is slightly misleading. It should rather be “Lack of Level Crossings”. Metro Railways and Level Crossings are not necessarily “natural enemies” – they just don’t fit together very well. It’s a bit like wanting to have a pedestrian crossing on a freeway. Two things happen, or maybe three: It is […]
Metro Features #2 – Timetable
In this second post of the mini-series about what features make a metro railway, let’s see how timetable planning can improve metro-style operations. Turn up and go The transition of a historically evolved suburban railway system to a metro-style operation is a major step change which may require a close look (and potential slaughter) of […]
Metro Features #1 – High Capacity Trains
This will be a new mini-series within this blog, discussing various aspects of a high performance railway, often called Metro, in simple-to-understand terms. Hope you enjoy. The main purpose of a Metro is the efficient transport of passengers on trains. Only logical then to look at requirements for trains first, what they need to feature […]
Why Metro is a Bargain in Perth
All major Australian cities work on some kind of Metro, in acknowledgement of Metros being a hallmark of world-class cities. Sydney Metro In Sydney it is an entirely new transport mode, cleanly separated from the existing Sydney Trains network. Sydney Metro will see its first line section from Cudgegong Road in the north west to […]
