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Rail transport in Victoria and Railways in Melbourne

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Difference between Rail transport in Victoria and Railways in Melbourne

Rail transport in Victoria vs. Railways in Melbourne

Rail transport in Victoria, Australia, is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The Melbourne rail network is a mixed-grade commuter and freight train system in the city of Melbourne, Victoria.

Similarities between Rail transport in Victoria and Railways in Melbourne

Rail transport in Victoria and Railways in Melbourne have 80 things in common (in Unionpedia): Albury railway station, Australia, Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Chief Investigator, Transport Safety, City Loop, Comeng (train), Connex Melbourne, Dandenong railway line triplication, Dandenong Ranges, Director of Public Transport, Director, Transport Safety, Echuca, Essendon railway station, Flinders Street railway station, Footscray railway station, Franchising, Freight railways in Melbourne, Geelong, Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company, Government of Victoria, Harris (train), Hawthorn railway station, Melbourne, Hurstbridge railway line, Interlocking, Jeff Kennett, Latrobe Valley, Level crossing, List of regional railway stations in Victoria, Lonie Report, M-Train, ..., Melbourne, Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company, Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company, Metlink, Metro Trains Melbourne, Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria), Mornington Railway, Narrow-gauge lines of the Victorian Railways, Newport railway station, Melbourne, Operation Phoenix (railway), Pakenham railway station, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Princes Bridge railway station, Privatization, Public Transport Corporation, Public Transport Victoria, Puffing Billy Railway, Rail Safety Act, Railway Construction Act 1884, Railway signalling, Regional Rail Link, Regulatory agency, Richmond railway station, Melbourne, Safety management systems, Sanctions (law), Seymour railway station, Signalling control, Single-track railway, Southern Cross railway station, St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company, Standard-gauge railway, The Age, Token (railway signalling), Tourist and Heritage Railways Act, Transport Integration Act 2010, V/Line, Victoria (Australia), Victorian gold rush, Victorian Railways, Victorian Railways E class (electric), Victorian Railways L class, VicTrack, Wodonga railway station, World War I, World War II, Yarra Junction railway station, Yarra Valley Railway, 4D Train, 5 ft 3 in gauge railways. Expand index (50 more) »

Albury railway station

The Albury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Place, Albury, City of Albury, New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with Victoria, in Australia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Transport Safety Bureau

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is Australia’s national transport safety investigator.

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Chief Investigator, Transport Safety

The Chief Investigator, Transport Safety (the Chief Investigator) is the independent Government agency responsible for investigation of safety-related trends and incidents in the rail, bus and marine industries in the State of Victoria, Australia.

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City Loop

The City Loop (originally called the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop or MURL) is a mostly-underground, partly surface-level and partly elevated subway and rail system around the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Comeng (train)

The Comeng train is a type of electric train that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. They first appeared on the network in VicRail teacup livery in 1981 to replace the last of the 60-year-old Tait trains. More were ordered after the failed refurbishment and subsequent withdrawal of the Harris trains. In total 570 carriages (380 motor cars and 190 trailer cars, a total of 95 six carriage sets) were built by Comeng, Dandenong.

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Connex Melbourne

Connex Melbourne was a train operator in Melbourne, Australia.

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Dandenong railway line triplication

The Dandenong railway line triplication project was an initiative of the state government of Victoria, Australia, to add sections of a third railway line from Caulfield to Dandenong to expand the capacity of and relieve congestion on the Pakenham and Cranbourne railway lines, part of the Melbourne suburban rail network.

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Dandenong Ranges

The Dandenong Ranges (commonly just The Dandenongs) are a set of low mountain ranges, rising to 633 metres at Mount Dandenong, approximately east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Director of Public Transport

The Director of Public Transport (the Director or the DPT) was the head of the Public Transport Division (PTD) of the Victorian Department of Transport.

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Director, Transport Safety

The Director, Transport Safety (the Director) is the independent Government agency responsible for rail, bus and marine safety in the State of Victoria, Australia.

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Echuca

Echuca is a town located on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia.

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Essendon railway station

Essendon railway station is located on the Craigieburn line, in Victoria, Australia.

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Flinders Street railway station

Flinders Street railway station is a railway station on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Footscray railway station

Footscray railway station is located on the Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines, in Victoria, Australia.

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Franchising

Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organisation as a strategy for business expansion.

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Freight railways in Melbourne

The city of Melbourne, Australia, has an extensive network of railway lines and yards to serve freight traffic.

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Geelong

Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company

The Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia.

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Government of Victoria

The Government of Victoria is the executive administrative authority of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Harris (train)

The Harris trains were the first steel-bodied Electric Multiple Unit train to operate on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Hawthorn railway station, Melbourne

Hawthorn railway station is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein lines in Victoria, Australia.

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Hurstbridge railway line

The Hurstbridge railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia.

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Interlocking

In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings.

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Jeff Kennett

Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948) is a former Australian politician who was the 43rd Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999 and a current media commentator.

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Latrobe Valley

The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical district and urban area of the Gippsland region in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.

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List of regional railway stations in Victoria

This is a list of the operating Victorian regional railway stations serviced by V/Line operated trains.

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Lonie Report

The Victorian Transport Study, better known as the Lonie Report, was an extensive study of freight and passenger transport within the state of Victoria, in Australia.

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M-Train

M>Train was a train operator in Melbourne, Australia, and operated some of the city's suburban rail operations.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company

The Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company built a railway line from North Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia to Essendon in 1860.

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Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company

The Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia.

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Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company

The Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia.

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Metlink

Metlink was the marketing body and umbrella brand for public train, tram and bus transport operators in Melbourne, Australia.

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Metro Trains Melbourne

Metro Trains Melbourne, known colloquially as simply Metro, is the franchised operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia.

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Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria)

The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) was a Government of Victoria owned corporate body that operated suburban passenger trains, trams and buses in Victoria, Australia.

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Mornington Railway

The Mornington Railway is a heritage railway near Mornington, a town on the Mornington Peninsula, near Melbourne, Victoria.

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Narrow-gauge lines of the Victorian Railways

The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental narrow-gauge lines around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Newport railway station, Melbourne

Newport railway station is the junction station for the Werribee and Williamstown lines in Victoria, Australia.

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Operation Phoenix (railway)

Operation Phoenix was a post-World War II rehabilitation program carried out by the Victorian Railways (VR) in Australia.

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Pakenham railway station

Pakenham railway station is located on the Gippsland line in Victoria, Australia.

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Port Melbourne, Victoria

Port Melbourne is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 5 km south-west from Melbourne's Melbourne central business district.

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Princes Bridge railway station

Princes Bridge was a Melbourne railway station built in 1859 and was the terminus for all Epping line and Hurstbridge line trains.

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Privatization

Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.

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Public Transport Corporation

The Public Transport Corporation (PTC) was a Government of Victoria owned statutory authority formed under the Transport Act 1983 which operated passenger and freight trains, trams and bus services.

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Public Transport Victoria

Public Transport Victoria (stylised as PT&gt) is the trading name of the statutory authority responsible for providing, coordinating and promoting public transport in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Puffing Billy Railway

The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia.

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Rail Safety Act

The Rail Safety Act 2006 (the Act) is a law enacted by the Parliament of the State of Victoria, Australia and is the prime statute regulating the safety of rail operations in the State.

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Railway Construction Act 1884

The Victorian Government's Act No.

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Railway signalling

Railway signalling is a system used to direct railway traffic and keep trains clear of each other at all times.

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Regional Rail Link

The Regional Rail Link (RRL) was a project to build a 47.5 kilometre length of railway through the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, the main aim of which was to separate regional V/Line Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong services from the electrified Melbourne suburban services, thereby increasing rail capacity and reliability.

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Regulatory agency

A regulatory agency (also regulatory authority, regulatory body or regulator) is a public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.

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Richmond railway station, Melbourne

Richmond railway station is located on the Alamein, Belgrave, Cranbourne, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Lilydale, Pakenham and Sandringham lines in Victoria, Australia.

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Safety management systems

Safety management system (SMS) is a comprehensive management system designed to manage safety elements in the workplace.

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Sanctions (law)

Sanctions, in law and legal definition, are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or with rules and regulations.

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Seymour railway station

Seymour railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia, and serves the town of Seymour.

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Signalling control

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

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Single-track railway

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.

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Southern Cross railway station

Southern Cross railway station (formerly and still colloquially known as Spencer Street station) is a major railway station in Docklands, Melbourne.

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St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company

The St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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Token (railway signalling)

In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track.

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Tourist and Heritage Railways Act

The Tourist and Heritage Railways Act 2010 (the THR Act) is a law enacted by the Parliament of the State of Victoria, Australia and is the prime statute regulating the activities of tourist and heritage rail operators in the State.

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Transport Integration Act 2010

The Transport Integration Act 2010 (the Act) is a law enacted by the Parliament of the State of Victoria, Australia.

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V/Line

V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian gold rush

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s.

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Victorian Railways

The Victorian Railways operated in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983.

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Victorian Railways E class (electric)

The Victorian Railways E class was a class of electric locomotive that ran on the Victorian Railways from 1923 until 1984.

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Victorian Railways L class

The Victorian Railways L class was a class of mainline electric locomotive that ran on Australia's Victorian Railways and its successor V/Line from 1953 until 1987.

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VicTrack

VicTrack is the trading name of Victorian Rail Track Corporation, a Victorian Government state-owned enterprise which owns all railway and tram lines, associated rail lands and other related rail-related infrastructure in the state of Victoria, Australia, with the exception of the heritage Puffing Billy Railway that is owned by the Emerald Tourist Railway Board.

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Wodonga railway station

Wodonga railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yarra Junction railway station

Yarra Junction was a railway station on the Warburton east of Melbourne, Australia.

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Yarra Valley Railway

The Yarra Valley Railway is a Heritage railway operating on a section of the former Healesville railway which operated between Lilydale and Healesville in the Yarra Valley area northeast of Melbourne, Australia.

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4D Train

The 4D was a prototype double deck electric multiple unit built for the Public Transport Corporation, Victoria, Australia, for operation on the Melbourne railway system.

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5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Rail transport in Victoria and Railways in Melbourne Comparison

Rail transport in Victoria has 295 relations, while Railways in Melbourne has 282. As they have in common 80, the Jaccard index is 13.86% = 80 / (295 + 282).

References

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