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2.4 million almost these days. Half the size of Sydney at 5 million.

Welcome to Perth, during the day train frequency is every 15 minutes and 8 minutes at peak time. This is governed by the current singling system, this is being upgraded to allow for timetables travel every 3 or so minutes once Implemented. Perth has fare caping so $5.60 is max price you will pay to travel the complete line on a single journey. So in theory you could travel the full 80km Mandurah line for that price rather than the old ticket zoning structure

If you're going to the domestic terminal, you need to get off at the station before the Airport stop, called "Redcliffe" (not "Airport domestic terminal") walk upstairs with your luggage and get a connecting bus to the terminal. If you have earphones in, you will miss this stop because there is NOTHING to tell you except an automated announcement. Absolutely shit design and planning and thoroughly expected from the totally inept Transperth.

Our Yanchep and Mandurah lines are peak efficiency and speed!

Sharath, this is Perth trains on a Sunday when a technical problem breaks down the service as presented by Mark:- th-cam.com/video/0fjSUUBZbiM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4p8uFXHmypxHxb8h

You could have transferred at Claisebrook or MacIver, but you would have waited longer for the train as, the non-peak times are normally 30 minutes. The Airport line was connected through to the Midland line as it was the most direct route with the least residential disruption. The other thing of note is you have a tariff for taxis or Ubers from the airport so the you probably would have spent $20-30 just to get to Burswood.

Well said! Both of you.

Those "ticket inspectors" are actually transport police. They can detain you. Perth has one of the most secure and safe public transport systems in Australia. You will often find them on busses also. They are sometimes dropped off at random bus stops to enable them to board the bus. Yes they will check you ticket and rightfully so. Not everywhere is like Sydney.

Yeah the trains on the airport line are shorter as the midland line has only 4 car platforms, but airport line stations are 6 cars, it’s just future proofed! Yeah with the ticket you just walk through, and on your way out you just walk through again (sometimes on the train or the gate there’s security checking tickets), they’re just security. yes it’s actually cheaper because the 2 zone fare is capped and you can travel anywhere and even use that same train ticket for the bus.

Fun fact: the escalators from the skybridge down to the concourse level were the longest in the southern hemisphere until your metro opened the other day and dethroned us 😂

Also the airport central station seem weirdly designed….. it’s like go from underground to an actual bridge, when they could go underground to the terminal lol

Haha, this video amused me, I arrived at a similar flight timing (but train didn’t exist back then and bus was scattered, so got a Uber lol). Then on the way back, departed on the 11:59pm flight from Perth and arrived in Sydney at 6am lol, slept even before the plane shut the door and flight attendant woke me up when it’s at the gate in Sydney haha… Both were run with excellent on virgin a330 which now don’t exist…

Don't complain. A lot of north American users would be dead impressed by a train to anywhere at 11pm on a Sunday night.

hey mate, love your work mate :) Keep doing what you doing. Quick bang for the buck projects in my view are 1) Tallawong to Schofield current Metro extension, 2) Carlingford to Epping current light rail extension, 3) Dulwich Hill to Strathfield current light Rail extension, 4) Leppington to Western Sydney airport current heavy rail extension, 4) Moore Park to Bondi Junction & Bondi Beach current light rail extension. Medium Term projects in my view 1) Western Sydney Airport to McCarthur/Picton (via Appin, Wilton, Narellan, Oran Park etc) Metro extension, 2) St Mary's to Tallawong/Schofield Metro Extension, 3) Bankstown to Western Sydney Airport Metro Extension via Liverpool, Hoxton Park, Austral using existing train lines from Bankstown to Liverpool. Long term Projects in my view 1) Parramatta to city Metro already committed 2) Schofield to Richmond Metro, 3) Fast train (bullet train) from Goulburn/Canberra to MacCarthur (Phase I), extending to Western Sydney Airport (Bradfield city) for Phase II and Parramatta for Phase III, 3) Newcastle to Epping Fast train (Bullet Train)

Hey there! Really cool video to watch first hand the experience of a new traveller in Perth. The Airport Line is really amazing, a lot of it is futureproofing including the station locations and platform sizes, as with most of the new rail lines being constructed. Most of the Armadale Line is currently closed for reconstruction to remove many of the level crossings. It's only open up to Victoria Park which is only one station from where you got off at at Burswood, indeed a very short line at the moment. Burswood is going to be such an outlier station once the line reopens with so many of the other stations elevated and built to a modern standard! Google Maps likely just told you to change at Perth because it's a much safer place to wait when you would have caught the same train getting off at Claisebrook anyway. An interesting point about our network is that there are actually no express patterns remaining anywhere at all, so you can always be assured your train will stop at every station! All the "ticket inspectors" you saw are actually transit officers there for your safety with similar powers to police, but also just do ticket checks. The actual ticket checkers are in blue uniform and much less abundant. I don't see anything wrong getting checked though, people need to be doing the right thing and it's good there are consequences for not. I'm kind of the "main" TH-cam guy for Perth as you were referring to the ones in other cities at Airport Cental. As I said enjoyable vlog to see your reaction and comparisons to Sydney! Hope you enjoyed your stay here and our network. (Bit of a shame you didn't get on the new C-series trains though they are amazing!!)

at 19:43 those are the platforms for the future Ellenbrook line.

You called Brisbane a very quiet system but now with these 50 cent fares it is anything but. I’m visiting Perth again end of this year, god we in Brisbane are so jealous of their train and bus frequencies.

Welcome….too the Greatest city on earth…”PERTH” My Wife & I moved from the Central Coast some 17 months ago and we can’t be Happier. NSW just didn’t fit anymore.

Welcome welcome good to have you here.

I randomly clicked on this video from my suggestions because I was testing our new modem and I just kept watching. not bad!

ffs Sharath set up ur pfp already

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Welcome to Perth!

Those "ticket inspectors" are actually our version of security guards. They're just checking tickets because they're bored. Haha.

Most of the suburban stations do t have any type of access gate, so it is tempting and easy to evade paying fares. Hence the frequency of ticket inspectors. Also they double as highly visible security guards.

You should have waited to go to perth in a year or two when the lines are open new and re open armadale

Talkin abt the beauty of the station when you cant really open up for ppl… cmon how fuked up is that

you think Perth trains are small, check out Adelaide

can we assign brandon’s oddessy the role of the perth guy

Perth Airport line already wins over Brisbane by having airport trains that still operate for the late arrivals.

The doors closing sounds like the Waratahs in Sydney

Welcome to Perth. It is worth noting that during normal hours, Perth's rail network punches well above its weight when it comes to per capita patronage, so much so that space is at a premium on peak services on the north-south corridor. Perth's network is also the best in the nation when it comes to accessibility as there are very few stations that don't feature level boarding from the platform to the vehicle. Other noteworthy features include complete integration of fares between nodes, a high level of connectivity between nodes with large bus-train interchanges, a high average operating speed with low dwell times and complete Automatic Train Protection signal coverage since electrification and Driver Only Operation. P.S. There's a maximum wait of 15 minutes on all lines 7 days a week during normal hours too.

Ticket inspectors where the blue uniform transit offices where they're orange vest and they have the power of arresting people

There was an information centre there where you can buy the smart rider

6:08 The station is positioned that way because in the future, the terminal is going to wrap around that area like a horseshoe, so the station is centred around the future plans. 19:33 That's actually platforms 2 and 3, which are going to be used by the Ellenbrook line when that opens later this year. Bayswater station does have a bus interchange, but its at ground level. I suspect a lot of the ticket inspectors you saw were actually security guards, transit officers or just customer service people (at stations). At night time, there is security on all trains, not all of them check tickets. I don't know why Google Maps told you to transfer at Perth. Transferring at Claisebrook would have been faster and easier (cross platform interchange), although there is no staff at Claisebrook and less people in general so it would have felt less welcoming. Transperth has a disproportionate lack of passengers at night because shops and restaurants typically close early compared to other cities. The trains are busy during the day.

I think that in this video you saw almost the entire range of Perth's current main rolling stock types for its passenger network! Since the electrification of the network only began in 1990, Perth's rolling stock is all very recent compared to the long trail of different electric sets you see on the other capital railway systems. The first train you rode was their B Series (built by Downer Rail from Bombardier designs, constructed 2004-2019) and the second was their A series (built by Walkers Ltd from ABB/Adtranz designs, constructed 1990-1999). The C Series train design entered service in early 2024, built by Alstom and part of the absolutely massive XTrapolis family, but at the moment there are only three C Series in operation so I suppose it's fair you didn't get a chance to see one.

Though we have 2m people we are not dense whatsoever since our metro area is the longest on the world, at 150km I would also recomend you check out Elizabeth quay and the south Perth foreshore, nothing compaired to darling harbour but it is something

Sharath needs to ease up with so many facts and so much common sense. Government can’t handle this.

About the metro extension opening date... On Sat 13 July metro stopped running between Chatswood & Tallawong, for unexplained reasons. Rail fire & rescue and FRNSW responded, evacuating people from carriages. Only 2 days prior, the FBEU issued a ‘code red’ instructing members not to participate in any metro-related exercises/drills. The union did this knowing it would delay the opening (this can be found on the FBEU website). After the ‘code red’ was lifted an evac exercise was conducted and a firie allegedly received an electric shock (this firie also happened to be a licenced electrician - what are the odds?). Think about it logically - do you think any government would commit billions to deliberately build something not up to standard when standards are known? This is all about union skulduggery. The FBEU is playing games to delay ONRSR sign-off and lead the public to think the project has been somehow mismanaged or is unsafe, both of which are untrue.

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Aren't St Peter's and Erskineville going to be on the T8 now?

Sharath there is a town called Wynyard in Tasmania.

Oh a new channel...724 subs at present...was 954 when I subscribed on your main 😉😉

Love Sharath’s channel - so worth keeping up with for all things Sydney transport and planning.

Behind the scenes politics...

Monument and Bank on the London Underground are 2 separate stations, joined by an escalator

Labor too busy to push it open so they can cut a ribbon for what the liberal party had the foresight to build

Victoria Cross is still under construction.... so there is that

wonder why the bus changes still happening when metro not open yet