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Perth railway station in 2007. Platforms 1 (right) and 2. The station has seven active platforms, but they are split into two distinct sections: [9] Platforms 1 and 2 sit on the eastern side (the old Dundee & Perth Railway part of the station) and are the busiest in the station as they handle the Glasgow to Dundee and Aberdeen trains.
In 2017, 13 new six-car sets were ordered at a cost of $410 million but, in a 2019 announcement, the order was expanded to 41 six-car sets, at a cost of $1.3 billion. [27] In March 2024, it was announced that the C-series trains wold enter service on 8 April 2024. [28] [29]
The Eastern Railway was the first railway to be constructed in the Perth metropolitan area. It travelled from Fremantle to Guildford via Perth and opened in 1881. [9] It was first proposed in 1871 following the success of railways in Sydney and Melbourne. [10]
Later, the train mock-up was seen in the 2023 Perth Royal Show. On 7 June 2021 (Western Australia Day), the Railcar Manufacturing and Assembly Facility was officially opened at the Bellevue Railcar Depot, and handed over to Alstom to commence manufacturing the trains.
Metro Area Express (MAX) was a proposed light rail network for Perth, Western Australia, as part of Colin Barnett's 2010 announcement of a decade of light rail for Perth. It was scheduled to open in 2018, then postponed until 2022, then replaced by concepts for rapid buses and heavy rail, until it was abandoned in 2016.
Perth railway station is the largest station on the Transperth network, serving the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It serves as an interchange between the Airport , Armadale , Ellenbrook, Fremantle , Midland , and Thornlie lines as well as Transwa 's Australind service.
Lakelands railway station is a railway station along the Mandurah line on the Transperth network in Western Australia. The station is in the Mandurah suburb of Lakelands, 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) north of Mandurah station and 64.5 kilometres (40.1 mi) south of Perth Underground station. Construction started in 2021 and it opened on 11 June 2023.
Perth railway station is the largest station on the Transperth network, serving the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It functions as a key interchange between the Airport, Armadale, Fremantle, Midland, and Thornlie train lines, as well as hosting Transwa's regional Australind service.