Weird and wonderful facts

• We don’t allow pets on our trains, but did you know you could fit 25 hippos head to tail on a 6 car train? 90 tonnes of beast.
• 25 hippos weigh the same as a full train load of passengers.
• Did you know a bus weighs 17,000 kgs which is as heavy as 11 hippos.
• A full house watching the footy at Optus Stadium would fill 731 buses or 322 train carriages.
• Steam engine trains were running in Perth up until the late 1960s.
• The electricity used to run one train for one km is enough to cook 288 cupcakes.
• There are 548,100 boardings on our trains, buses and ferries on a typical weekday.
• Who’s taken the most trips with Transperth? That’s one of our train drivers, who worked with us for 50 years and made over 60,000 trips.
• We don’t know of any babies born at our stations or on our services, but we have had a marriage proposal on the Fremantle Line.
• If you placed all of Perth’s rail tracks in a straight line it would stretch nearly all of the way to the International Space Station. You may need to catch a bus for the last 50 kms.
• It takes a crew of over 200 to clean Perth’s trains, buses, ferries and stations every day.
• The most interesting Lost and Found item we’ve had turn up was our youngest solo commuter who at two and a half years old was found safe and happy on a bus in Malaga.
• Our Education Officer Dave left his $2000 violin on a train when he was coming home from school. Thankfully it was recovered!
• Buses are a lot less thirsty than cars per passenger. A half full Transperth bus with thirty passengers will use 1.3 litres to move one person per 100 kilometres while a car with only five mates averages 2 litres per person per 100 kilometres.