Trains, Trams & Buses at Box Hill - Melbourne Transport
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- In this video we visit Box Hill, a major activity centre situated around 14km east of the Melbourne CBD. Box Hill is home to one of the busiest suburban transport interchanges in Melbourne built in the Box Hill Central Shopping Centre, which is served by train, tram, and bus services.
We start the video at the train station which is served by services on the Belgrave and Lilydale Lines, which is a rather unique station in Melbourne. Box Hill station opened on the 1st December 1882 when the line from Camberwell to Lilydale opened. Between 1983 - 1985 Box Hill station was rebuilt below ground as part of the construction of the Box Hill Central Shopping Centre. As a result it's the only underground station in suburban Melbourne. In terms of patronage it's the 10th busiest train station in Melbourne, and the busiest non-interchange station outside of the Melbourne CBD. It also has a number of other interesting quirks and features; it has a disused platform, has a McDonalds within the station, and was the last station in Melbourne to use CRT screens for passenger information displays. At the station we see Metro Trains Melbourne X'trapolis 100 EMU's arrive and depart, but we also see a couple of steam trains.
Next we head up to the bus interchange which was built on top of the shopping centre. The fully-sheltered interchange is served by 17 different bus routes operated by CDC Melbourne, Kinetic, and Ventura. It's the second busiest bus interchange in Melbourne (only Monash University is busier) and is a great place to do some bus spotting, especially during the peaks with a large frequent variety of buses seen. In the video we film some buses during the afternoon peak. Buses seen include some of Kinetic's and Ventura's oldest buses such as the Mercedes Benz O405NH and Scania L94UB (with NCBC 'Downtown Citybus' bodies) respectively. We also see the usual variety including Scania L94UB's, Scania K230UB's, Scania K280UB's, Scania K310UB's, Volvo B7RLE's, MAN 16.240's, and more.
To end the video we visit the tram stop on Whitehorse Road just outside the shopping centre. Box Hill is the eastern terminus of tram route 109 which operates between Box Hill and Port Melbourne via the Melbourne CBD. The tram line to Box Hill is one of the more recent tram extensions in Melbourne, having been extended from its previous terminus at Union Road in Mont Albert on the 2nd May 2003. We see a couple of C1 Class trams (Alstom Citadis 202) which are the mainstay on the route 109, but we're also lucky to see a couple of older A Class trams on the route.
Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Train station: 0:52
Walking to the bus interchange: 12:52
Bus interchange: 14:49
Walking to the tram stop: 37:30
Tram stop: 39:52
Date:
Clips were filmed on various dates between November 2021 - May 2022.
Music:
Approaching Nirvana - Helix
Kevin Macleod - Fernsters Explanation
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By the way busofdoom, I like the music used in the waking part, it is eerie but also funny and 👍
I always get a little bit of vertigo going up those escalators
Nice video, good catches of some buses that are being withdrawn from service, the NCBC and the O405NHs are definitely the highlights of the video. The Denning is pretty interesting as well, never ridden them before but I heard they are really good. Good catch with that CB60 Evo II on the 903, although it isn't on the full route but I've seen them a few times doing a few rounds on the 903, better than seeing the usual Gemilangs and Volgren Optimuses which bore us out.
Thanks! Always an interesting variety of buses seen at Box Hill. I find it interesting that the CB60 Evo II's aren't as common on the 903 these days when they used to be among the most common bus on the route along with the Merc O405NH 550's and the bubble buses.
If you look closely you'll also see Ventura #858 in the video but it was laying over the whole time and didn't move out while I was there.
you should make a compliation video of all the bus stop bells in Melbourne including the old school one as most of them ar gone and a really great
When the pigeon rejects your command 😂😂😂 I feel sorry for u busofdoom
Send thoughts and prayers
Cool Vid, Much has changed since 2014
Indeed, I miss the days when you could see MAN SL200's here and other interesting buses including Merc O405NH's and the CB30 bodied MAN's.
The shopping centre is undergoing redevelopment so I’m curious to see what changes, if any, are made to the station and/or bus interchange
I noticed the text. It says Box Hill was rebuilt between 1983-85?
WRONG.
It was almost complete in 1983 because us students from Swinburne Tech used to wag school and jump on trains. Box Hill was well and truly completed in 1983.
There were no works going on there in 84 or 85 tomy knowledge.
Dept of Transport Victoria, please make use of Platform 1 at Box Hill. Everytime I've gone through this station it bugs me that the infrastructure is there but its wasted. Please lay a track and find a use for the platform!
I agree. I have often wondered why they don't have a third or fourth track all the way to Blackburn. Have platform 1 for Flinders Street stop all stations, platform 2 Flinders express, platform 3 Belgrave/Lilydale express, platform 4 stop all Belgrave/Lilydale.
Can have a third track through laburnum that the express trains share, direction determined by the time of day
"Bwok Hiwll" -- Old Vietnamese man.
That pigeon was Walking somewhere and you wanted to say hello and it’s walking away and it hates you
i rarely see smartbuses on the 903 anymore
There a few around
They run mainly between Mentone, or Mordialloc and towards Hidelburg
There r occasionally some K230UBs (particularly with the Custom Coaches CB60 Evo II body) that can do the full thing. Has happened a bit this year but it will be rarer for other Smartbus liveried buses like the Eggs, the Mercedes Benz O500LE with the Volgren CR228L body or the Ex Invicta K230UBs to do the full route.
RIP NCBCs
Ya
The pigeon hates you