Hope Island is on the network map but the individual map isn’t there for both Pimpama or Hope Island
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What’s the reason for such a contrast? Surely the underlying design elements are very similar? Materials/finishes etc?
A completely different consortium was responsible for the design and construction of Hope Island Station than the other CRR-related rebuilds. The job was given to the same consortium building the Coomera Connector, so both could be built in tandem.
Train stations don’t have the same level of architectural consistency as the much more stringently controlled design of busway stations.
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I honestly couldn’t be bothered to willingly go to any station south of the Brisbane River unless I absolutely have to. Guess that’s just me being a northsider.
Haha - the Northside does have the snob factor…
You’ve never seen the the masterpiece of birkdale station then #oneplatformwonder 
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Ormiston is even better…
Does birkdale have two buses that serve it and be a fairly busy station in peak but still have one platform because QR gonna QR 
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I used to live in Ascot, I’ve gotten enough experience with ‘one platform wonders’.
I have been on the Cleveland line though but last time I rode it was 2019.
I have been to my fare share of single platform stations. Including Howard on the Tilt Train
Congratulations to all involved on the delivery of Hope Island Station.
I would point out, adding more stations to the BNE/GC corridor turns it into less of a “faster rail link” and more of a “stopping all stations suburban like” service. I suppose it’s a question of balance…but is the BNE/GC corridor able to be quad-tracked…one day?? People have suggested adding more GC “local stations”…well that would really slow things up, but is not unreasonable, as a city approaches ONE MILLION people in the years to come!
It’s one of the things that will also need to considered, when they take the light-rail south toward the border…and they will, it’s all politics, maybe a new service and not run [typically] through trams, due to length of tram service time.
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Work has already started on quad tracking a fair portion of this corridor - the Logan Gold Coast Fast Rail project is quadding the line from Kuraby, through Logan to Beenleigh and straightening it out in places (removing the Trinder Park curve for example). This should really help increase the frequencies achieveable for Beenleigh and Gold Coast services, while the straighter line should allow for higher speeds to make the trip a bit faster (together with Cross River Rail which will make it a bit faster still).
I don’t think the line south of Beenleigh needs to be quadded - for as long as they continue to run a single stopping pattern, it can be run perfectly well on a dual track corridor. The issues north of Beenleigh are the result of running two separate stopping patterns across a large section of dual track corridor.
I would argue that in counterpeak trains should be running every 15 minutes NOW, which can be achieved by shuffling the Beenleigh stoppers a little bit.
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