TransWA & Transperth Trains

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Last updated: Tuesday, 11-Jul-2006 00:00:00 CEST

The TransWA & TransPerth trains network comprises five lines: Armadale; Fremantle; Joondalup; Thornlie and Midland. These services are operated by TransWA Train Operations. There were more than 32 million total rail boardings during the 2004/05 financial year.

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Areas Covered by Transperth & TransWA Rail

Transperth currently serves the Perth metropolitan area from the Perth City, east to Chidlow, west to Fremantle, south to Mandurah and north to Two Rocks. These suburbs are divided into nine fare-zones, by the distance from the Perth city centre.

SmartRider

The Public Transport Authority and Transperth plan to introduce a smartcard-based system in late 2006 named SmartRider, replacing the existing MultiRider. Some students in high schools have already been issued these cards, although they have not yet been introduced to the general public. This is set to happen by 2006. The student SmartRiders feature a picture of the student, their name and address of their school. On October 16, 2005, 2000 people started trialling the SmartRider system for one month.

The smartcard-based system is based on software and hardware from the UK company Wayfarer

TravelEasy

The TravelEasy is a Transperth's email update service that sends notifications to the users. Users can opt-in to this service to receive the service changes, disruptions and special events on selected railway lines and bus routes through email. Later on, the TravelEasy account can be used to link the SmartRider card for account balances or other operations.

Free Transit Zone

In Perth central areas, Free Transit Zone is provided for free travel in Perth City. Also inside this area, three bus routes are provided for free travel between streets in Perth. See Trans-Perth CAT - Central Area Transit - for more details.

A fleet of 150 railcars make more than 750 trips each weekday between 59 stations spread across a rail network of more than 100km. The network comprises five lines:

Armadale Rail line
Thornlie Rail line
Fremantle Rail line
Joondalup Rail line
Midland Rail line

These services are operated by Transperth Train & Rail Operations. There were more than 32 million total rail boardings during the 2004/05 financial year.

Transwa operates 62 scheduled rail services every week across four routes:

The Australind provides two daily return services between Perth and Bunbury.

The Prospector provides a daily return service between Perth and Kalgoorlie, and an additional service on Mondays and Fridays.

The AvonLink provides a weekday return service between Midland and Northam.

An extended AvonLink rail return service (otherwise known as the MerredinLink) operates between Perth and Merredin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

There were more than 250,000 Transwa rail boardings during the 2004/05 financial year.

Suburban Transperth Rail Lines

Armadale/Thornlie Rail Line

21 stations

Perth (MPH) McIver (MMR) Claisebrook (MCK) Free Transit Zone Belmont Park (ABP) (Special events only) Burswood (ABD) Victoria Park (AVP) Carlisle (ACE) Oats Street (AOS) CR Zone 1 Zone 2 Welshpool (AWL) Queens Park (AQP) Cannington (ACN) Beckenham (ABM) Thornlie (ATE) Kenwick (AKK) Maddington (AMN) Zone 2 Zone 3 Gosnells (AGS) Seaforth (ASH) Kelmscott (AKT) Zone 3 Zone 4 Challis (ACS) Sherwood (ASD) Armadale (AAE)

Fremantle Rail Line

16 stations

Perth (MPH) City West (FCW) Free Transit Zone West Leederville (FWL) Subiaco (FSO) Daglish (FDH) Shenton Park (FSP) CR Karrakatta (FKA) Loch Street (FLS) Showgrounds (FSG) (Special events only) Claremont (FCT) Zone 1 Zone 2 Swanbourne (FSE) Grant Street (FGS) Cottesloe (FCE) Mosman Park (FMP) Victoria Street (FVS) North Fremantle (FNF) Fremantle (FFE) CR Zone 2

Joondalup Rail Line

10 stations

Perth (MPH) Free Transit Zone Leederville (JLE) Glendalough (JGH) Zone 1 Stirling (JSG) CR Zone 2 Warwick (JWK) Greenwood (JGD) Zone 2 Zone 3 Whitfords (JWS) (Some trains begin or end services here) Edgewater (JER) oondalup (JJP) Zone 3 Zone 4 Currambine (JCE) Clarkson (JCN) Zone 4

Midland Rail Line

12 stations

Perth (MPH) McIver (MMR) Claisebrook (MCK) Free Transit Zone East Perth (MEP) Mt Lawley (MML) Maylands (MMS) Meltham (MMM) Bayswater (MBR) CR Zone 1 Zone 2 Ashfield (MAD) Bassendean (MBN) Success Hill (MSH) Guildford (MGD) East Guildford (MEG) Woodbridge (MWM) Midland (MMD) Zone 2

Mandurah Rail Line

This is a new 11 stations This railway line is currently under construction and will creat a great benefit to commuters and passengers once complete providing a direct link from Perth city to Mandurah and a number of other destinations along the way including:

William Street underground platforms, near Perth Train Station Esplanade underground station.

Free Transit Zone then following the Kwinana Freeway, with stations at:

Canning Bridge Zone 1 Zone 2 Bull Creek, at Leach Highway Murdoch, at South Street CR Zone 2 Cockburn Central, at Thomsons Lake Zone 3 (some services will begin or end here) Kwinana Zone 5 Wellard, at Thomas Road, Leda Rockingham Zone 5 Zone 6 Warnbro, at Waikiki Zone 6 Mandurah, at Mandurah Zone 8

For more information contact:

Transperth website - www.transperth.wa.gov.au
New Metro Rail website - www.newmetrorail.wa.gov.au This site contains information about all of the projects associated with New MetroRail.
The Public Transport Authority - websitewww.pta.wa.gov.au

History

Transperth was formed by the amalgamation of Bus, Ferry and Rail passenger services during the 1980's. All of these services were originally operated by the State government either by Metropolitan Transport Trust (MTT) operated the Bus and Ferry services. West Australian Government Railways (WAGR) owned and operated under the name Westrail. Towards the end of 1980's and into the 1990's Transperth competed with private operators through a tender process to service various passeneger routes.

Later into the 1990 Transperth re-tendered the services they continued to operate. Transperth now owns the vehicles and leases them to the route operators who are responsible for the maintenance of the vehicles.

Transperth controls the public transport (by contracting other companies) in Perth, Western Australia. It is run by the Public Transport Authority.