It was very crowded people coming from work and from Australian Open etc. All train movement were halted Wendouree ,Wyndham Vale etc was impacted and coach transfers and Ararat Service was delayed.
The Local State Member for Warrnambool defended what has been a disastrous change to the rolling stock on the line stating their would not be a loss of seats, that turned out to be a blatant fib.
I was sampling the new working time table and after nice comfortable ride on 17:06 which was tabled as loco haul on VN19 I hoped off and met up with the 3 car Velocity.
A total of 75,000 concrete sleepers have also been ordered for installation on the standard gauge Yelta Line, which is one of the major grain lines serving the State of Victoria.
On the Warrnambool line, these trains have been only three-carriages long due to the station platforms not being long enough for six-carriage services.
Shouldn’t they keep those older train for substitutes set to cover these newer trains to cover the newer train in a event they fail?
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