News & Discussion: Adelaide Metro Trains

[Patrick_27]

Keswick works from today:

I never realized there was a walkway underneath the intersection!

[bm7500]

I drove past here on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. On one of those days i saw someone wearing a cap standing on the walkway taking pictures. I thought, that is probably someone from S-A.

And here we are. Nice pics Scooter

[claybro]

Keswick works from today:

I never realized there was a walkway underneath the intersection!

And therin lies part of the problem with out train system. In other states there are well signposted directions to trains/stations etc. Here we almost try to hide how to get to a station...around a corner or 2, through a hedge, behind a fence, and you might stumble across it... Out of sight out of mind as they say.

[AG]

The first of the new trains has arrived at the Bombardier Dandenong plant in Melbourne for fitout.

[Tonsley213]

Where they not being built there.

[crawf]

The new Wayville train station. I love the twisting bridge, the platforms are err okay

[[Shuz]]

If it looks as good at night as it does in the render, it will be brilliant.

[PeFe]

This "industrial-mesh-outer prison fence" look seems very popular with the DPTI for all the new/rebuilt railway stations. I suppose this is the reality of building open air train stations in suburban Adelaide. It is just a pity that we can't have something more "aesthetic" (which of course would also have to be "vandal resistant" or easily cleaned/repainted)

[claybro]

As with most of these new train/tram stations, they dont seem to get that Adelaide in winter can be very windy and cold. There does not seem to be enough protection from wind/driving rain.

[SRW]

As with most of these new train/tram stations, they dont seem to get that Adelaide in winter can be very windy and cold. There does not seem to be enough protection from wind/driving rain.

I noticed a number of wind shield panels along the platforms and the entire length is roofed. Short of fully enclosing it, there's not much more that they can do. By way of comparison, the main tram/train interchange in the area I lived in Stockholm had a fairly similar level of shelter in a place with obviously far worse winters. So my advice would be to dress warmer or suck it up.

[BillD]

Easter 2013 - the Emerson Crossing is closed to allow the installation of new rails. Here are a couple of pictures taken at 9pm on Friday night.
On the up (left-hand) track, a group of workers are putting in place some robust reinforcing where the line crosses an underground pipe.
Bill.

[[Shuz]]

Emerson really should have been grade seperated.

[Aidan]

Emerson really should have been grade seperated.

The main traffic flow is already grade separated. Is the flow capacity on Cross Road at Emerson really worse than at Cumberland Park where Goodwood Road traffic dominates the cycle time?

Of all the grade separations that Adelaide would benefit from, I wouldn't rank it in the top twenty. In fact considering what needs to be done on South Road, make that the top forty... or probably top fifty.

Admittedly I wouldn't rank Goodwood Junction in the top fifty either. The disruption it causes greatly outweighs the benefits, and the same would be true of grade separating Cross Road.

[BillD]

Early evening 30/3/2013 - all is ready for the concrete to arrive from 5am tomorrow morning.

[bay transit]

Great photo-thanks for posting Bill.