Stations/Platforms with no ticket issuing machines
- Broadmeadows Up platform has a single validator only
- Diamond Creek Up platform has no machines or validators
- Essendon Up Platform has no machines or validators
- Keilor Plains Down platform has no machines or validators
- Diggers Rest Down platform has a single validator only
- There are no validators or machines at the Showgrounds or Flemington Racecourse Platforms
- Malvern, Armadale, Toorak and Hawksburn up and down (local) platforms have validators only
Stations staffed part-time but no BOM provided
- Diggers Rest Up
- Showgrounds, attended as required
- Flemington Racecourse, attended as required
- Jolimont Down, attended as required
- Richmond (up end), MCG entrance/exit, attended as required
Stations staffed for safeworking purposes but no BOM provided
Unexpected placing of machines
- Belgrave has an MVM 1 and validator at the Puffing Billy gate
- Brighton Beach Up has an MVM 1 and validator installed at the footbridge at the up end
- Jolimont Down has a customer service centre but no BOM
- Werribee Down Platform has an MVM 1 and validator installed
- Williamstown has an MVM 1 and BOM only, no MVM 2 installed
- Similarly Gowrie (since 1/2002) and St Albans Down (since 1/2002)
- Mitcham (down platform only) is fitted with electronic barriers
- The barriers at Mitcham were removed during October 2005 and apparently sent to Switzerland !!
Up platforms with an MVM 1 only (where an MVM 2 could be expected)
- Aircraft (Island platform)
- Ardeer (Island platform)
- Deer Park (Island platform)
- Flemington Bridge Up
- Macaulay Up
- Melton Up
- Middle Footscray (Island platform)
- Officer Up
- Rockbank Up
- Rushall Up
- South Kensington (located in subway)
Stations with two MVM 1 machines only (Machine installed on up and down platform):
- Rockbank
- Macaulay
- Flemington Bridge
- Rushall
- Officer
Stations with multiple BOM's:
- Flinders Street
- Spencer Street
- Melbourne Central
- Parliament
- Ringwood (Up and Down platforms)
Low numbered running issues (Less than 5000 tickets issued)
- General Motors: Issued ticket number 00000438 on 1st October 1999 (up to 00000754 by 8th February 2001)
- Werribee Down: Issued ticket number 00000916 on 9th October 1999
- Rockbank Down: Issued ticket number 00001149 on 13th September 1999
- Seddon Down: Issued ticket number 00001359 on 18th October 1999
- Fawkner Down: Issued ticket number 00001359 on 18th October 1999
- Williamstown Beach Down: Issued ticket number 00001919 on 9th October 1999
- Melton Up: Issued ticket number 00002116 on 14th September 1999
- Patterson Down: Issued ticket number 00003094 on 22nd October 1999
- Darebin Down: Issued ticket number 00003518 on 18th October 1999
- North Williamstown Down: Issued ticket number 00003586 on 9th October 1999
- Heyington Down: Issued ticket number 00003654 on 22nd September 1999
- Officer Up: Issued ticket number 00003912 on 15th February 2000
- Brighton Beach Down: Issued ticket number 00004017 19th October 1999
Speaking of numbering, the original issues had 5 digit numerals eg: 00561.
By February 1997, this had changed to 8 digit numerals eg 00001035 on some machines. All machines now display the eight digit format.
Some machines have displayed strange counting techniques eg:- Alamein 018 1010
- On the 14th October 1996: up to ticket number 01584
- On the 14th November 1996: up to ticket number 79545
- On the 3rd February 1997: up (back?) to ticket number 62338
- On the 28th February 1997: up to ticket number 00065152
- On the 7th March 1997: up to ticket number 65937
- On the 28th January 1998: up to ticket number 01500284 (!)
- On the 26th March 1998: up to ticket number 02078884 (!)
10/2000: I received an e-mail informing me that the machines, when first installed, all started at number 1. When a "card" was changed over, the machine generated a new starting number using a built-in algorithm. This is how some relatively low-use machines have numbers in the 3,000,000 range, and probably explains the numbering jump from 65937 to 0207884 as shown above.