Subiaco Square Road13 62 13
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Buzzing with activity any time of the day, any day of the week, the Subiaco railway station is the only train station in Subiaco, and part of the Fremantle Railway Line.
THE GOOD
- Subiaco Train Station is very clean and functional, quite open and luminous but still protected by a contemporary cool metallic structure and good lightning in the evening.
- There are just two platforms, so it is easy to move around, and they have a simple and effective electronic information system.
- Moreover, the station is in the heart of the shopping and restaurant and café area, with several cafés, restaurants and a shopping centre at barely ten metres from the station. The vibrant Subiaco Street Markets, trendy Rockeby Road and the gorgeous St Joseph's Catholic Church are also a a few minutes walking distance from it.
THE DOWNS
- The multirider tagging machines are located outside, on the ground concourse level over the platforms not in the platforms. This is annoying at peak times, especially if you are tagging on and want to catch a train leaving in a few minutes but find a flood of people tagging off or on in front of you upstairs.
- The number of seating benches is limited. There is room for more.
- There are no public or pay toilets in the station. There is a close unisex public booth toilet very close at the corner between Subiaco Square Road and Brigid Road, but it is not good enough.
- There is no information booth in the premises, just a board with maps and info.
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
- A toilet booth is needed. If people have an emergency, they could not get to the close-by public booth.
- There is space for at least for two more benches on each platform.
- More tagging machines needed, at least one on each platform. So the tagging is more fluid and faster at peak times.
- We like it tidy and clean, but also beautiful. Why not using the large grey ugly walls in the platform area as a canvas and have a mural painted on them?
