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Today, I travelled the entire QR Citytrain network. Not entirely by train (Manly-Cleveland by bus, due to track work, but I did touch on/off at every extremity—Rosewood, Springfield Central, Gympie North, Kippa-Ring, Shorncliffe, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Varsity Lakes and Cleveland. I didn't include airport line because it's not QR network.

Unfortunately, I got hit with a fixed fare touching "off" at Cleveland, because it has directional gates and thought I touched on. I've submitted an adjustment request, so we'll see what happens.

^ Well done.   

Pfft, been there, done that, back in the days of the old QR cardboard tickets.

Quote from: STB on February 27, 2021, 06:58:21 AM
Pfft, been there, done that, back in the days of the old QR cardboard tickets.

So no Springfield line, Kippa-Ring, probably Sunshine Coast finishing at Nambour and I'm guessing no Gold Coast line either? It's a bigger network now.

Pity that the ICE was out.  I am not sure if the ICE is coming back. Anyone know?

Re GympieLander.  Those services will always be ' GympieLander ' to me    IMU or aghast NGR

I did a tour of the Citytrain network Easter 2008 as part of the free travel using Go card for that time.

But I spread it over 4 days. 

Summary:

Quote from: achiruel on February 27, 2021, 00:14:12 AMToday, I travelled the entire QR Citytrain network. Not entirely by train (Manly-Cleveland by bus, due to track work, but I did touch on/off at every extremity—Rosewood, Springfield Central, Gympie North, Kippa-Ring, Shorncliffe, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Varsity Lakes and Cleveland. I didn't include airport line because it's not QR network.

Sorry for reviving a dead thread, but do you have any idea of how long it took you total? A roommate and I are thinking of trying this and want to see if we can manage to beat you time-wise

Quote from: AOB on June 04, 2022, 22:43:57 PM

Quote from: achiruel on February 27, 2021, 00:14:12 AMToday, I travelled the entire QR Citytrain network. Not entirely by train (Manly-Cleveland by bus, due to track work, but I did touch on/off at every extremity—Rosewood, Springfield Central, Gympie North, Kippa-Ring, Shorncliffe, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Varsity Lakes and Cleveland. I didn't include airport line because it's not QR network.

Sorry for reviving a dead thread, but do you have any idea of how long it took you total? A roommate and I are thinking of trying this and want to see if we can manage to beat you time-wise

I started 4:28am and finished around 2am (roughly), don't remember the exact time. Would've been quicker, had it not been for the trackwork between Manly and Cleveland. I did know about the trackwork, and had planned to do that section earlier, but there was a fatality (RIP      ) on the line that day.

I want to give it a go myself again one day, but next time I think I'm going to stay in Gympie overnight and start there, to avoid having to do the whole Gympie North-Petrie section twice. It's a long trip!

Quote from: achiruel on June 05, 2022, 08:55:29 AMI started 4:28am and finished around 2am (roughly), don't remember the exact time. Would've been quicker, had it not been for the trackwork between Manly and Cleveland. I did know about the trackwork, and had planned to do that section earlier, but there was a fatality (RIP      ) on the line that day.

I want to give it a go myself again one day, but next time I think I'm going to stay in Gympie overnight and start there, to avoid having to do the whole Gympie North-Petrie section twice. It's a long trip!

Jesus, that's a while! We were planning start at Gympie as well, and with any luck we reckon we can get the whole thing in about 14 hours (so ending at ~8pm)

Yeah it was a long day but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Keen to try it again!!!

Alright, made a Twitter thread where I'll be detailing my attempt at this live. Here's the link if people are interested! https://twitter.com/BoweAri/status/1548547237223239680

Thanks for the link!

Good luck AOB, watching on, following on with interest!!   

Hope you're including the busways!   

But good luck mate let us know how you go. Gympie will be the tricky bit...

^ they left Gympie North on time!  05:56am.

Quote from: timh on July 18, 2022, 07:02:42 AMHope you're including the busways!   

But good luck mate let us know how you go. Gympie will be the tricky bit...

On twitter he stated that their is a free bus connection that goes into town.

This is good to know.

So far, AOB is on his planned schedule. Gympie-North > Petrie > Kippa-Ring
Back to Northgate > Shorncliffe
Eagle Junction, now on the way to Doomben.

> https://twitter.com/BoweAri

Doomben, Ferny Grove completed.  Now on the way to Springfield Central.

 

On the way to Rosewood.

Heading back to Park Road from Cleveland.  Only the Goldie to do now.

Well that's a wrap, crazy to both see some RBOT members on Twitter and get interviewed by the ABC - definitely wasn't expecting the 2nd one starting off. Going to demolish some food on the GC, then a nice relaxing 2 hour journey home 

Well done AOB et al.  A record!   

Interview on ABC Brisbane Drive 18th July 2022 host Steve Austin with AOB.

Topic:
The record attempt to cover all lines of the SEQ Citytrain network (Except BNE Airport line)
in around 14 hours or so.


Interview --> https://backontrack.org/docs/abcbris/abc_drive_aob_18jul22.mp3 MP3 12.4MB


Here is your unrolled twitter thread AOB 

As a PDF and a html page.

PDF --> https://backontrack.org/docs/qr/records/AOB_18july22.pdf PDF 7.5 MB

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1548547237223239680.html

https://twitter.com/railbotforum/status/1549098583924043778

https://twitter.com/railbotforum/status/1549099139140845568

Well done, you beat my time by a long way.

Not sure when I'll have the opportunity to give it another go, maybe later this year. Not sure I can beat your time anyway but it was never really about time for me, I'd just like to give a try without trackwork or incidents.

I should try this starting from Cleveland. Sounds like a plan.. Retired now, so have plenty time to kill.