The next gen of metro trains have also been busy doing night testing on the outer reaches of the Pakenham line between Berwick and the new Pakenham East depot where they'll all go to sleep at night.
Dubbed HCMTs - High Capacity Metro Trains - they're a step change from the existing fleet: they're longer (7 x 20-22m cars, as opposed to current 6 x 20-22m car trains), which increases passenger-carrying capacity. Approximately the same amount of seating capacity as older generations, but far more space for standing room + multiple spaces for wheelchair/disability access.
Daniel Bowen (past president of the Public Transport Users Association) has a good blog and he's done a breakdown of the capacities across the fleet. The official crush figures for the HCMTs aren't included (but other sources are saying 7-car HCMT will be 1380 gross capacity - for planning purposes - and able to crush up to 1800 people).
https://www.danielbowen.com/2017/06/...s-2000-people/
HCMT testing videos thanks to Railways of Doom (lol) YT channel
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Re: the table above, this is a Comeng (introduced in 80s, many upgrades since - including one right now) - via reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/c...t_day_of_2020/
This is a Siemens, via flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/camperdown/27711567484
This is an X'Trapolis, via wiki:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F..._10M,_2013.JPG
Siemens/X'Trapolis were introduced in the mid 2000s.