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Tour Our Trains

​​​​​​​​​​​​​tour our trains.

Take a virtual tour of our trains. Our virtual tours provide a unique opportunity to see what our trains offer, from the comfort of your own home, or on your device while you travel. They are a great visual source of information on our service offerings. They can help you to prepare for your journey so that when the time comes to travel, you're ready to go. You'll find tips for navigating the virtual tours further down this page. 

Please note that we have presented our trains as accurately as possible, however changes to our trains are sometimes required for operational purposes. 

Our  carriage layout maps  may also be helpful when planning for your journey.

Virtual tours are not an accessible format for everyone, so we have also developed descriptive texts to share information about the facilities and features of the trains. You will find a link to them on each train page below. We are working to deliver information in a variety of alternative formats to meet more people’s needs, including those who are blind or have low vision. If you would like to provide feedback on these text descriptions please email us at  [email protected] ​.​

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The tours can be viewed in modern browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge or Safari. Internet Explorer is not supported. The tours can also be accessed on mobiles and tablets, where the touchscreen offers extra functionality while exploring the tours.

You can use your keyboard, mouse or touchscreen to move through the tour.

There is a ‘help’ section that can be accessed at the bottom right corner of the tours. This section provides more information about how to navigate the tours.

Click on the coloured circles throughout the trains (‘Mattertags’), or tap your screen if you are on a mobile device or have a touchscreen, to find out more about the train’s features. 

You can view the train tours in ‘dollhouse’ view by clicking on the 3D drawing icon at the bottom left corner of the tour. Alternatively, you can view the tour in 'floorplan' view by clicking on the flat drawing icon at the bottom left corner of the tour. The floorplan and dollhouse views can help you to move around the train to a specific location of interest. 

Use the ‘measure’ tool by clicking on the tape measure icon at the bottom left corner of the tour. This tool should only be used as an estimate. You can press the cross icon at the top right of the tour to exit from the measure tool. We have provided useful dimensions and measurements in the tours to assist people who require information about the spaces and onboard facilities to plan their travel.

You can view the tour in 'autoplay' mode by selecting the play symbol on the bottom left corner of the tour. This will take you through the tour automatically, without needing to click through and will show you highlights of the train in the pictures below. Please note that some people with sensory issues may have difficulty viewing the tours in this mode due to the speed of the camera turns.

You can close the highlights reel by clicking on the 'down arrow' at the bottom left corner. 

Access Fullscreen view by clicking on the frame icon. When viewing images in a Mattertag, it may be easier to view and move around them in Fullscreen view. In still images, make them bigger by clicking on the image when your mouse changes to a magnifying glass.

As you are moving through the tours, some areas of the tours may appear slightly out of alignment, this is due to the combination of reflective surfaces and narrow spaces. The alignment corrects as you continue through the train.

You'll find more tips for each train on the dedicated virtual tour pages, above.

MyTranslink 4+

Department of transport and main roads, designed for ipad.

• #34 in Travel
• 2.3 • 299 Ratings

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Description.

The official MyTranslink app is the perfect Queensland travel companion. Travellers and commuters can intuitively plan with real-time public transport information whether travelling by bus, train, ferry or tram. The app also makes it easier to personalise travel information and favourite frequently used stops. Other app features and benefits include: * Plan trips using the journey planner or in real-time by seeing the next service departing from your stop * Save your favourite stops and services to be alerted of any relevant travel updates * Clearly see the frequency of services (in real-time) via the Timetable tab * Trip Announcer - Get real-time stop alerts throughout trips (while en route) * View your recent trips and active alerts on the Plan tab * Stop Alerts - Receive alerts when you are close to your destination * Light and dark theme options For more information, please visit translink.com.au/mytranslink For MyTranslink app conditions of use, please visit translink.com.au/mytranslink/conditions-of-use. Note: Prolonged use of GPS features can affect phone battery life and data usage.

Version 3.7.12345

General updates and bug fixes.

Ratings and Reviews

299 Ratings

Too many annoying features

Firstly, when you leave the app and then go back into it, the screen / detail you were last looking at isn’t restored. Secondly, every time you choose to look at one of your favorite stops the default view shows a map of the local area that takes up most of the screen. You then have to hide the map to see a reasonable amount of useful information. Why - if you are looking at your favorite stops - would you want to see a map all the time?! A map view is definitely needed in order to locate new stops, but this should be a separate feature, not within Favourites! After several years of using this app, I still find myself wishing the third party app Go Brisbane was still available… it was so much easier to use. I have tried to send feedback about this App but it really feels like Translink don’t really want that. There is no in-App feedback option, instead you are taken to the generic Translink website which only allows 1000 characters (really?!!!), and no option to leave contact details for a response.

Well, sometimes it works

You have to know the limitations of this app to get useful information out of it. For example if you are crossing multiple suburbs it is sometimes useful to look at the map first to see what stops are nearby your destination rather than rely on the list produced when you use the ‘plan’ option. It is often not live data. Today I waited 6 mins for a bus the app said would arrive in 3. Other times when you click on the planned route to see the live data of where the bus is you can see the bus location. Often you can’t. If there is a major incident impacting the timetable the app will still tell you the scheduled times so you can head out for a bus that was never going to come on time.

It gets you there.

The app works for it’s main goal (I take you from here to there), but some times in the most inefficient ways… but it still takes you from point a to point b. There are times where it feels like it wants to rob you of every single penny you got by giving you Christmas light bus work even though two buses will get you there and sometimes it wants you to walk a marathon even though the bus you want is 5 minutes away from the stop right next to you. There are multiple buses that take you to the same location (some better than others) and it can pick the worst ones and not mention the better ones. I’ll give it 3 stars because it still gets you there but I recommend looking at the buses and planning your own route or know the buses and where there going and take them if you see them while waiting if they go to the same location.

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