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	Broadmeadows railway line, Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Broadmeadows railway line is a suburban electric railway serving the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
		The line from North Melbourne to Essendon was opened by the Melbourne and Essendon Railway Co. in November 1860.
		The Victorian Railways reopened the Flemington Racecourse line (and therefore the Essendon line as far as Newmarket) in November 1867, and in January 1871 reopened the line to Essendon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadmeadows_railway_line,_Melbourne (500 words)

	History of Broadmeadows line
		These two lines are closest to the old brick wall at Kensington next to grass that formally was two goods lines which was ripped up in the early 80’s.
		Dormant for many years with the exception of the Royal Melbourne Show week and Races, the line sprang back into daily use in the late 90’s when Hillside (now Connex) began using the racecourse stations' large platforms and 4 tracks for off peak cleaning and servicing etc, but trains are not left stabled overnight.
		The Broadmeadows line connects with 2 tram lines and countless bus routes and is a vital link in the North West transport system.
	www.enet.org.au /historyonline/broadline/broadmeadowsline.html (1333 words)

	Melbourne travel guide - Wikitravel
		Melbourne [1] is the second-largest city in Australia and the capital of the state of Victoria.
		Melbourne is the unquestioned sporting capital of Australia with the largest arenas and two of the major sporting administrations basing their operation in Melbourne: Cricket Australia is a stone's throw from the MCG, and the Australian Football League is based at the Telstra Dome.
		Melbourne is more-or-less centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and manmade attractions close enough to easily visit in a day's return drive.
	wikitravel.org /en/Melbourne (8050 words)

	Runaway train almost caught passenger train - smh.com.au
		Melbourne train controllers had to take evasive action to prevent last night's unmanned runaway train, which reached speeds of up to 100kph, from catching up to another passenger train on the same line as it passed through 12 stations and seven level crossings before crashing, it was revealed today.
		The 11 injured passengers on the V-Line train, which had been destined for Bacchus Marsh west of Melbourne, were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
		A passenger on the V/Line train, Tanya Williams, 24, said the scene was chaotic.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/04/1044318598076.html (584 words)

	Train diversion failed: minister - smh.com.au
		Train controllers tried to divert a runaway train into an empty platform at Melbourne's Spencer Street Station before it ran into a stationary passenger train, injuring 11 people on Monday night.
		Victorian Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said the driverless train was tracked almost from the start of its journey in Broadmeadows, and controllers had taken evasive action to stop it catching up to another train on the line.
		He said it was estimated the train reached speeds of 70 to 100kph under its own momentum, sparking fears it would catch up and collide with another train ahead on the track.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/04/1044318601013.html (267 words)

	Driver chased runaway train: witness - theage.com.au
		The driver of a runaway train that travelled 15km before slamming into a stationary train at Melbourne's main railway station last night chased the train for several minutes after he saw it rolling away.
		Train operator M>Train has confirmed the empty train travelled more than 15km downhill from Broadmeadows in the city's north before ramming into the stationary train at Spencer Street Station about 9.30pm yesterday.
		Eleven of the 22 passengers on the V-Line train, bound for Bacchus Marsh west of Melbourne, were treated at the scene for minor injuries, with four people taken to hospital.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/04/1044122365256.html (393 words)

	Broadmeadows Primary School
		Broadmeadows Primary Schools seeks to: · Empower learners to take an active, creative and responsible role in a technologically changing society.
		Broadmeadows Primary School seeks to: · Enable staff to advance their own skills and to use those skills to develop new learning and teaching methodologies.
		Broadmeadows Primary School seeks to - · Convert staff paperwork to electronic means to simplify processes associated with reports student reporting and monitoring- KIDMAP, student report template Annual General Report on benchmark data - CASES school correspondence timetabling Use telephones, voice mail and faxes as appropriate.
	www.bps.vic.edu.au /parent.htm (811 words)

	Australia: Near disaster as runaway train crashes at major rail station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Train controllers, working desperately to avert a collision, attempted to divert the first train to an alternate line just two stops before Spencer Street, but failed because a freight train blocked the way.
		The leading train was eventually redirected onto a spare line at the next stop, allowing the unmanned train to speed past.
		Although the runaway train was monitored continuously on electronic maps and screens at Metrol, no warning of its approach was sent to Spencer Street to enable passengers and rail staff to evacuate trains, platforms and surrounding areas.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/feb2003/rail-f18.shtml (1197 words)

	The Broadmeadows Railway Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The line was sold to the government for $45,000 in 1867, at that stage it was in a serious state of disrepair beyond Newmarket.
		The Flemington Racecourse line was re-opened in time for the 1867 Melbourne Cup and after 7 years, in 1871, the line was finally re-opened to Essendon.
		The first trains along the Flemington Racecourse Line from Newmarket on October 6 1918, which was used for training purposes.
	www.railpage.org.au /bms/history.htm (492 words)

	Melbtrip- a community Melbourne public transport website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Trains run between 5am and Midnight between Monday and Thursday, 5am to 1am Friday and Saturday and 8am to 11pm Sunday.
		Melbourne’s suburban rail network has 15 electric train lines services and 5 diesel services stretching across the entire Melbourne area.
		The 15 electric train lines and Frankston to Stony Point Diesel service are operated by a company called Connex Melbourne.
	www.melbtrip.com /melbournetrains (288 words)

	Melbourne's Trams To The Millennium Part Two
		On the Port Melbourne line, every station was demolished and replaced by low platforms except Port Melbourne, which had its platform shortened at the City end, a low platform being installed.
		In December 1993, the Port Melbourne line was changed, being through routed with route 42 to become route 109 - Mont Albert to Port Melbourne, operated by Kew Depot using A class trams instead of B2 class trams.
		Southbank depot opened in 1997 and became responsible for the tram routes formerly operated by south Melbourne except route 16 which was moved to Malvern depot due to lack of space at the new depot and the extra running involved when route 16 trams were due to run in or out.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/9507/melbtram2.html (3903 words)

	Green Left - Rail line closure for freeway construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MELBOURNE -- Victoria's new transport minister, Robin Cooper, caused outrage in the northern suburbs on February 4, when he announced that the Upfield line, long a battleground between the authorities and residents, would close for six months to allow construction of the City Link freeway project.
		Under the government's plan, the line would be closed between Flemington Bridge and North Melbourne stations, with buses ferrying people to Newmarket station, on the Broadmeadows line.
		Community groups have expressed opposition to the plan, not least because other lines have remained open during similar works, including the nearby Broadmeadows line while a bridge was built over it for the Western Ring Road on Melbourne's outskirts.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/263/17640 (410 words)

	City to Melbourne Airport by Public Transport
		Use the times shown to determine if your most convenient bus to the airport is to/from Broadmeadows or Essendon station.
		Trains to the city run fairly frequently (the least frequent daytime service is every 20 minutes except Sunday morning 40 minutes).
		This runs more frequently than trains, though trip time is longer (and often less predictable, due to traffic).
	www.custard.net.au /melbtrans/airport.asp (662 words)

	Tullamarine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This train conveyed car parts from Ford's component plant at North Geelong to their assembly plant at Upfield.
		The loop line from Albion to Broadmeadows was opened as a double line in 1929 but the east track was converted to standard gauge as part of the 1962 Melbourne to Albury standard gauge project.
		The wagons on this train, BFWs, were specially built for this service and were the biggest boxvan type wagons the VR ever owned.
	www.victorianrailways.net /photogallery/suburb/gal04/pjvford.html (104 words)

	Revival Centres International - Convention Information
		It is suggested you alight from your train at Flagstaff (platform 3) and catch a train to Spencer Street departing Flagstaff on platform 4.
		Trains to Broadmeadows, Sydenham, Upfield and Werribee depart Flinders Street on platforms 4 and 5.
		Trains to Broadmeadows, Sydenham, Upfield and Werribee depart Flagstaff on platform 3.
	www.rci.org.au /convention/RailwayStn.htm (787 words)

	The Broadmeadows Railway Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, the Broadmeadows line is a busy Suburban line, but in the early days, when the line terminated at Essendon, freight services were provided to most of these current stations, as they were semi-rural farming locations, rather than suburbs like today.
		As the line became more and more busy, a Freight line linking Broadmeadows and Albion was constructed, to bypass the line, and to provide access to the Western rail yards, and later a standard gauge rail link to Sydney.
		With the lines configured as they are, this means that trains have to reverse to run via the BMS line, so it is far to difficult to do so.
	www.railpage.org.au /bms/freight.htm (255 words)

	Maria Vamvakinou, MP. Federal Member for Calwell - Defence Land Sale (25/03/03) - Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is an important part of our local and national military history and it is on sale to the highest bidder as part of the government's fire sale of defence land, increasingly evident in various parts of the country.
		With the outbreak of World War I, the land near the road between Sydney Road and the train station in Broadmeadows changed from grazing land for local graziers to military use.
		Today the site remains an active military camp with a focus on recruitment and training, particularly of the reserves, but recent downsizing means there is too much surplus land—and I guess therefore the government's desire or decision to sell it.
	www.mariavamvakinou.com /wmprint.php?ArtID=16 (835 words)

	Connex Melbourne
		Train services will be suspended for six weeks, from the start of January 2007, between Blackburn and Box Hill, Belgrave/Lilydale lines.
		Connex is running extra trains for fans going to the Australia v England test cricket at the MCG on Boxing Day, 26 December 2006....
		There will be major changes to train services on the Lilydale, Belgrave, Glen Waverley, Pakenham, Cranbourne, Frankston and Sandringham lines on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December.
	www.connexmelbourne.com.au (394 words)

	Slow Train Comin'
		The trains were packed tonight but it would have been helpful for the guard to tell people when they arrived at Eden park (for the cricket).
		They also raise questions about whether the train system is ready to cope with a new influx of passengers if the parking tax succeeds in prising commuters from their cars.
		The train was late because of a breakdown in the Brit tunnel.
	slowtraincomin.blogspot.com (1731 words)

	SunRRA - Fix the TRAINS
		While train services are regarded as bad right through Melbourne, the really sad part is that if you live in the West, you are forced to live with the worst train services in Melbourne.
		Broadmeadows was the other line that made up the 5 worst.
		If you regularly catch trains on this line, unfortunately you are part of the unlucky group of people who experience the worst train services in all of Melbourne.
	www.sunshine.asn.au /content/view/97/65 (1881 words)

	WHAT IS GOING ON HERE...... - TrainBoard.com
		MELBOURNE - A suspicious fire destroyed the unoccupied carriage of a passenger train in
		The train was running at track speed at the time of the collision.
		The investigation is still going on but the police certainly do know what caused the incident- she driver drove out in the path of the train and the rear of her vehicle failed to clear the crossing.
	www.trainboard.com /grapevine/showthread.php?t=70937 (2162 words)

	Maps and Transport - Melbourne (Bundoora) Campus
		The Melbourne (Bundoora) campus is situated in the north-eastern suburb of Bundoora, at the intersection of Plenty Road and Kingsbury Drive, 14 kms from the city centre (Melways ref: 19 G7 - view location map (PDF 116Kb), view campus map (PDF 1.5Mb).
		A leaflet detailing the Melbourne (Bundoora) self-guided campus tour (PDF 1Mb) is particularly helpful for new students and staff.
		Maps for people with disabilities are available which show the location of accessible pathways, lifts, suitable parking areas and building access points.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /bundoora/maps_transport.html (982 words)

	Jokes : Humour : Humor : Announcements - Public Transport
		The train approaching platform two is also not going to Frankston but to Pakenham.
		These trains are not going to Frankston despite what the signal men think.
		"Hello this is the captain of your train speaking, and we will be departing shortly, we will be cruising at an altitude of approximately zero feet, and our scheduled arrival time at Flinders St is 3:15pm.
	www.dizzystreet.com /fun/joke4.html (407 words)

	St Vincent Institute of Education
		This year, the entrance examination into Melbourne High and Mac Robertson Girls' High school has been set on Saturday 10th June 2006 at Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton Gardens.
		Students who currently study in Year 8 and Year 9 are eligible to register for Melbourne High entrance exam into Year 9 and Year 10 in 2007.
		The former is designed to assist struggling students with their homework based on CSFII syllabus; whereas the latter is to train gifted students with skills and technique, helping them to reach their full potential and do well in selective and schorship examinations.
	www.vieonline.com.au (615 words)

	UrbanRail.Net - MELBOURNE Metropolitan Trains (Bayside Trains and Connex Melbourne)
		UrbanRail.Net - MELBOURNE Metropolitan Trains (Bayside Trains and Connex Melbourne)
		The rapid rail system serving the Melbourne is actually not a metro or subway service in the classical sense but a frequent suburban train service which runs in a 4-track underground loop in the centre of Melbourne.
		Apart from the metropolitan trains, Melbourne has the largest tram network outside Europe with more than 100 km of urban and suburban lines.
	www.urbanrail.net /au/melbourne.htm (259 words)

	International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and their Applications
		Melbourne's extensive public transport network is a multi-modal system which consists of trains, trams and buses and you can travel on any form of transport on just one Metcard.
		The network operates across Melbourne and the outer suburbs as far as Sydenham and Werribee in the West, Broadmeadows and Epping in the North, Lilydale and Belgrave in the East and Frankston and Cranbourne in the South.
		To travel to and from the Conference venue from the CBD, a Zone 1 ticket is required, which can be purchased from any train station for $5.80.
	rgmia.vu.edu.au /conference/travel.html (273 words)

	PEGS - Transport to and from school
		Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School is located on three campuses - Raleigh Street Essendon (Kindergarten (Co-ed); Boys - Prep to Year 6), Park Street Moonee Ponds (Girls - Prep to Year 10) and Rachelle Road Keilor East (Boys - Years 7 to 10; Boys and girls - Years 11 and 12).
		Essendon railway station is the centre of the local public bus network and a tram line is adjacent to the station.
		Buses leave and return to Essendon railway station from the Keilor East campus at ten minute intervals both before and after school.
	www.pegs.vic.edu.au /campus/transport.htm (298 words)

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