Melba's Train Trip to Perth (part1)

Our first rain trip on the new Perth-to-Mandurah line from Wellard to Perth on 06 February 2008

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[fletcherhf73]

Those trains look a lot like the new brisbane IMUs only with a different colour scheme

[hondekop3]

Actually, it is based on the Transperth EMU, not the other way around. The Transperth EMY B-class was the example for your Brisbane ones - for once WA leads the way!!!!!

God bless

Jack

[bristwenty]

actually Queensland rail where the ones that had these trains running on our lines before they where sent to perth..... they are the next up grade and newer model of our SMU's whe have here...

[hondekop3]

weel,they wereprobably testing them - to my knowledge the Transperth ones were the originals and not hand-me-downs.................­.. show me different if you can.

[magicaviation]

how is it in perth? are you paying the ticket on the train or before you getting up on the platform?

[hondekop3]

if we pay on the train then weasnapped-up by the train guards and most likely pay an extra fine. normally we buy it at the ticket office or at the ticket machines. this is on the Mandurah-Clarkson run (south to north of Perth) and on the Fremantle-Perth lines.

God bless

Melba & Jack

[trackmaster1999]

my mother had been to perth by train in this station

[amnickable]

@hondekop3 The Transperth version of the "Bombardier EMU" was placed into service in March 09. QR had its first (of around 200 new IMU 160s) added into service in 2004-2011 . QR is also recieving its SMU 260 stock. IMUs differ in the ways of a toilet in the aft car of the three car unit. Neither the Trans Perth trains or Queensland Rail trains are "hand-me-downs", they are different if you look close eough. Take the marker lights on the front of each cab for example.

[farang82]

next station bogansville

[1philz]

why does perth have a good transport system and sydney doesn't? some injustice there

[Mechknight73]

@whiteb89 Ironic that Transperth spent $1.65 billion building a rail line from Perth to Mandurah, tunnelling under the CBD, fits it with about 10 stations, and it all works fine. The Vic government wastes $1.3 billion on a ticketing system similar to Smartrider THAT DOESN'T @#&*ING WORK! Then they waste even more money importing their new railcars from Europe, and they don't work either!

[scottwa2468]

the trains are made by the same company in Brisbane

[fletcherhf73]

the door buttons are different, but I remember they used to be on the old SMU's and IMU's