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Failing rail infrastructure of Melbourne

Melbourne's railway network is held together with bubblegum and duct tape - here are examples of the way that it is falling apart.

Patching up the crumbling platform face at East Malvern station

Monday 4 July 2016 12:45 PM
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X'Trapolis train heads for the workshops minus passengers following a pantograph failure

Monday 4 July 2016 12:39 PM
Viewed 693 times, 2 times this year)

Steel reinforcement for a crumbling concrete platform face at Darling station

Monday 4 July 2016 12:35 PM
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(1 time this week, 1 time this month, 1 time this year)

Steel reinforcement for a crumbling concrete platform face at Darling station

Monday 4 July 2016 12:30 PM
Viewed 632 times
(1 time this month, 1 time this year)

X'Trapolis train departs Kooyong station minus passengers following a pantograph failure

Monday 4 July 2016 12:10 PM
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(1 time this month, 3 times this year)

X'Trapolis train departs Kooyong station minus passengers following a pantograph failure

Monday 4 July 2016 12:08 PM
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(1 time this month, 2 times this year)

X'Trapolis departs Kooyong station minus passengers following a pantograph failure

The failure occurred after leaving Flinders Street, but it took the signaller at Kooyong to raise the alarm

Monday 4 July 2016 12:07 PM
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Broken off pieces of rubber platform facing at Heyington station

Monday 4 July 2016 12:01 PM
Viewed 761 times, 2 times this year)

Pair of fault lights illuminated onboard an X'Trapolis train after the pantograph failed

Monday 4 July 2016 11:53 AM
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Lights out onboard an X'Trapolis train after the pantograph failed

Monday 4 July 2016 11:52 AM
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(1 time this week, 2 times this month, 4 times this year)

Temporary pandrol clip fixed to a running rail at Flinders Street Station

Monday 4 July 2016 11:49 AM
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Temporary fishplate fixed to a running rail at Flinders Street Station

Monday 4 July 2016 11:48 AM
Viewed 562 times
(1 time this week, 1 time this month, 2 times this year)

Temporary fishplate fixed to a running rail at Flinders Street Station

Monday 4 July 2016 11:48 AM
Viewed 591 times, 1 time this year)

Temporary fishplate fixed to a running rail near Surrey Hills station

Friday 24 June 2016 8:07 AM
Viewed 814 times
(2 times this month, 2 times this year)

Signalling staff repair a failed trainstop at the city end of Box Hill station

Friday 24 June 2016 8:04 AM
Viewed 777 times
(8 times this month, 8 times this year)

One train has cleared the signal fault at Box Hill, as a second train closes in

Friday 24 June 2016 8:03 AM
Viewed 680 times
(2 times this week, 2 times this month, 2 times this year)

X'Trapolis train crawls into Box Hill station due to a signal fault

Friday 24 June 2016 8:02 AM
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Mud hole in the centre track at Camberwell station

Thursday 23 June 2016 8:44 AM
Viewed 656 times
(1 time this week, 1 time this month, 1 time this year)

Massive cracks, and plywood covered steel supports reinforcing the station building at Camberwell platform 3

Thursday 23 June 2016 8:42 AM
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(1 time this month, 2 times this year)

Plywood covered steel supports reinforcing the station building at Camberwell platform 3

Thursday 23 June 2016 8:42 AM
Viewed 1246 times
(1 time this month, 2 times this year)

Failed escalator under repair at Box Hill station

Thursday 23 June 2016 7:57 AM
Viewed 701 times
(2 times this month, 2 times this year)

Flooded trackside drains at East Richmond

Tuesday 21 June 2016 9:02 AM
Viewed 519 times
(2 times this month, 2 times this year)

'All trains running as normal' notice at Box Hill station following the failure of the next train displays

Tuesday 21 June 2016 8:44 AM
Viewed 578 times
(1 time this month, 1 time this year)

One of five temporary fisplates affixed to the running rails at the down end of Box Hill

Tuesday 21 June 2016 8:29 AM
Viewed 648 times
(2 times this month, 3 times this year)
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