Melbourne Public Transport - route 456 - Leakes Road to Albion station

Route 456 from Leakes road to Albion Station. 5 minutes late arriving, 2 passengers on but other one was a fare evader. operated by SITA buslines. Volvo/Volgren bus. quiet route, plenty off and on throughout. no issues with traffic. 

route map

bus stop sign (with night bus sign)

empty bus shelter

Volvo bus dropping me at Albion station

Albion station sign, western side.

view from platform 2 at Albion station, sight from platform one is more depressing

Melbourne Public Transport - Route 444 - Aintree

Route 444 - Aintree, operated by SITA busline , 3 passengers on departure, 3-4 minutes late leaving stop,  bus driver waited for train to arrive from Southern Cross station. so no issues with driver doing that. Aintree is a growing suburb in outer west of Melbourne. runs once an hour. good service

bus route signage at Rockbank station

route 444 map

empty new shelter finally getting some use now buses are finally calling in to Rockbank station

waiting for the bus to come

not very handy

interesting moquette

Victorian Public Transport - route 454

Route 454 - Melton Station to Cobblebank Station

Bus route 454 from ptv.vic.gov.au

got on at 7.11pm, all up 11 passengers.

arrived at Cobblebank station 7.26pm, no one picked up on route, couple of fare evaders.

route 454 info at Melton station

doesn't stop some people

Volvo bus operated by SITA bus lines at Cobblebank

Melton station bus rank

Victorian train stations

time for the Craigieburn line, starting at North Melbourne station 

part of the Melbourne train network map

Rockbank train station rebuilt

Rockbank Station rebuilt 2019

the Victorian state government's Regional Rail Revival plan has worked extremely well

 bus stops so well utilised on re-opening