Train Station Accessibility Upgrades

[SurfRail]

^ Few reasons:

• Facilities are going to be substantially better than anything that can be done with Eagle Junction - 2 concourses, straight and wide platforms.
• Wooloowin and Albion passengers don’t have to backtrack to reach CRR stations.
• Albion has and will have more density and activity happening around it than Eagle Junction

I think there’s even an argument to not stop Sector 1 trains at Eagle Junction (at the cost of needing to backtrack slightly or do a double transfer to get to the Airport or Doomben).

[OzGamer]

I guess the physical layout of the stations is a good reason, but I don’t think the network connections are any better. I would not like to see Eagle Junction skipped as the best connections to minimise total journey length should always be preferred. It would be a bad outcome for people from the north to have to go all the way to Albion just to get on a train that backtracked all the way back up to the Airport line.

[Windy]

How about all 3 gets upgrades at same time, taking turns to be interchanges between S1 ad S2 as well as between local & express S1??

[Electro_Sykes]

I can see it becoming a major interchange if my plan for a Northside rail tunnel under lutwyche and Gympie road ever eventuated, which it won’t thanks to a stupid road tunnel that is also planned to use that same alignment

[sherooda]

NWTC my beloved: would provide PT to what is currently a desert (not counting 345 BUZ), and the Gympie Road corridor would be served by a betro.

[sherooda]

@SurfRail

Albion has and will have more density and activity happening around it than Eagle Junction

Judging by that metric, then it would also make sense for SC and Redcliffe trains to stop at Nundah instead of Northgate. It definitely hurts to see a large cluster of high-rise buildings only being served by an off-peak frequency of once every 15min while Northgate, being a more accomplished interchange, is in the middle of nothing spectacular (just a few Queenslanders and industry).

If Nundah station would receive a proper station upgrade, I would love to see QR resume the park and ride to realign track 4, widen platforms 3 & 4, and make the station significantly more accomplished to serve the high-density suburb. Afterwards, the SC and Redcliffe trains will bypass Northgate station. So not only the Sector 1 trains will stop at proper interchanges where passengers can transfer to Sector 2 trains, they will also serve two of the densest suburbs on the rail corridor.

[SurfRail]

There is an argument for that, in my view.

[ilovebrizvegas]

I hadn’t though about that, but I can see the merit in that.

[Electro_Sykes]

I also think Albion was selected because any future northern suburbs rail tunnel would potentially spur off from there.

Council scopes out new Brisbane underground with suburban stations

Brisbane city council did a study a few years ago and both routes go from Albion.

[sherooda]

2032 - Brisbane Olympics

And all city stations would need to have their platforms raised for level boarding as well, especially for platforms 1-4 at Central station. To have a massive gap between the train and the platform at the metropolitan area’s busiest station is laughable. I reckon that they would raise the platforms at the current city stations after the completion of CRR; rather than force all the train lines to cross over travel through a single track pair (if they want to do it now), there will only be four l…

[rowangray]

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[Verbatim9]

You don’t necessarily need to raise the platforms if you can sink the tracks for those platforms.

[nathandavid88]

Wouldn’t sinking the tracks be a much more substantial project than just raising the platform height?

[sherooda]

That would require a proper destruction of track. This should pretty much be last resort if the platforms absolutely cannot be raised any further up.

[Verbatim9]

Yes and rebuild it on concrete to have ballast free track.

This requires less long term maintenance especially in underground stations. Also helps reduce dust at these stations caused from the ballast.

[icedlongblack]

I believe at Central platforms 5/6 are ballast free…!
Interestingly platforms 1-4 have the rigid catenaries from memory but not 5/6 despite having the newer ballast free track and raised platforms…

[rowangray]

New ramp cabinet’s, and I assume ramps, were installed at Toombul.

[Kram0]

Has anyone heard any news on the proposed Albion station redevelopment? It has all gone very quiet since the plan was announced? A builder should have been awarded this by now according to their own timelines.

New Albion Station Project

[SurfRail]

Any property development involving government elements is slow - rail or not. I see it all the time in my day job. If you want to stifle development, the best thing to do is force the developer to talk to the State.