V/Line passenger train comes apart between Seymour and Tallarook

A V/Line passenger train from Seymour to Melbourne has broken apart between Tallarook and Seymour. The train carrying passengers was a three car sprinter set and suffered an event where the first rail car carriage detached from the second two cars.

The issue has caused major delays on the Seymour and Shepparton Lines.

V/Line has been perpetually plagued with operational issues for the last two years and has been the source of many compliants about their handling of rolling stock management on the Warrnambool and Bairnsdale Lines. V/Line removed seating capacity on the Warrnambool Line by replacing popular longer distance rolling stock with short distance suburban minimalist rolling stock.

There have been continuing failures of rolling stock on the Swan Hill line due to the poor maintenance cycles currently being undertaken. V/Line seem to want to remove rolling stock from traffic as soon as they can so they are not pushed to go back to better service delivery.

V/line are short of rolling stock yet they have chosen to dispose of over 40 carriages in the last 4 months. It is my view at least and the evidence through various articles here suggests they deliberately run down rolling stock to remove it from service and replace it is substandard rolling stock not fit for the routes they place it on.

Could this issue today be caused by the running down of rolling stock being the sprinter sets?

It is also believed the same incident caused delays to the XPT service between Sydney and Melbourne withthe interstate passenger service being held at Seymour for up to 1 hour. Given the networks (V/Line and ARTC Interstate) and separated from each other it is unclear why yet another V/Line incident would or should affect traffic on the Albury and Sydney line.