Connex. Metro Melbourne Train Frequenices
Owner
& Operator of all Metropolitan Trains, Melbourne
“M
Train” now run by Connex and they share the same metro radio network, known as
“Metrol”
|
Usage |
Frequency
Output |
Frequency
Input |
Transmitter/Repeater
Locations |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 1 |
414.4750 |
405.1250 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 2 |
414.8250 |
405.3750 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 3 |
415.1250 |
405.6750 |
Montmorency |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 4 |
415.4000 |
405.9500 |
Montmorency |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 6 |
414.9500 |
405.5000 |
Wattle Glen |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 7 |
415.1750 |
405.7250 |
Epping |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 8 |
415.4250 |
405.9750 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 9 |
414.5000 |
405.0500 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 11 |
414.8500 |
405.4000 |
Heidelberg |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 12 |
415.0250 |
405.5750 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 13 |
415.2000 |
405.7500 |
Wattle Glen |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 14 |
414.5250 |
405.0750 |
Epping |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 15 |
414.7000 |
405.2500 |
Epping, Alphington |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 16 |
414.8750 |
405.4250 |
Montmorency |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 17 |
415.0500 |
405.6000 |
Heidelberg |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 18 |
415.2250 |
405.7750 |
Ruthven |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 19 |
414.5500 |
405.1000 |
Wattle Glen |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 20 |
414.7250 |
405.2750 |
Wattle Glen |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 21 |
414.9000 |
405.4500 |
Epping |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 22 |
415.0750 |
405.6250 |
Epping |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 23 |
415.2500 |
405.8000 |
|
|
Met Control Centre Ch 5 |
414.6250 |
405.1750 |
Heidelberg |
|
Met Control Centre Ch 10 |
414.6750 |
405.2250 |
Montmorency |
|
Connex |
411.4750 |
|
|
|
Connex |
411.3750 |
|
|
|
Mechanics&Electricians |
77.2400 |
82.8600 |
Montmorency |
|
Newport Rail Workshops |
410.8000 |
|
Montmorency |
|
Flinders St Platforms |
411.5250 |
|
Wattle Glen |
|
Flinders St Platforms |
411.6625 |
|
Epping |
|
Flinders St Platforms |
411.3375 |
|
|
Notes:
The second rail
operator, M Train, used the same frequencies as Connex. The 23 Met Control
Channels, haven’t changed since their inception in the early 1980s. When the
Kennett Government sold the Met Rail as two businesses, they continued to share
the same frequencies. As M Train (National Express) has pulled out, all
railways frequencies for Metro Melbourne stay the same, and they have been
checked today, December 19, 2002.
These
frequencies are used by train drivers across Metro Melbourne to communicate
with the Met Control Centre (heard on air as “Metrol,” which is located next
to, and up the stairs from Platform One at Flinders Street Station. (Where the
Driver’s Rooms are)
Drivers can
be heard calling METROL, FLEET CONTROL, MET SHOP, UNION and individual Railway
Stations, Signal Boxes, Towers etc, as well as the fact that train drivers have
a telephone interconnect facility, allowing them to make normal telephone
calls, using their radio, for free. AS THESE CALLS GO VIA LANDLINE AND THE
PUBLIC SWITCHED TELEPHONE NETWORK IT IS ILLEGAL TO LISTEN TO A PHONE CALL, so as soon as you realise that
the driver is using his radio as a phone, you are obliged, by law, to scan past
it.
Driver’s
radio’s are also part of the train’s Public Address System, and when the driver
plugs his radio in to it’s socket in the train’s cabin it also becomes part of
the Emergency Distress System. (they are portable and drivers can often be
heard ringing from home etc) In case you didn’t know, pressing that Emergency
button on the new and refurbished trains will ring the train driver’s radio,
and he will then look at the CCTV (on board cameras) to see what is happening.
Note also
that Connex Trains have built-in DVD Recorders (that are placed where the guard
once sat) that record every picture and sound across the whole train onto a
DVD, which is never taped over, but filed.
It is known amongst train drivers as the “electronic guard”
The MET was
to get a newer radio and train control system, but the State Government scraped
the project, stating that the current ‘Metrol” system was more than adequate. (Herald
Sun 9/9/03)
A VicNews The Victorian Scanning News Publication
ISSN 1038-6971 ©2003 Ashley Geelan
All information correct as at: Thursday, May
22, 2003
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