After a weekend of “overcrowded” trains to and from Ballarat does our timetable need a rethink?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ballarat is a growing city and the idea of adding more trains is the ultimate solution and despite what V\/Line might be telling the media, they do have trains available and add more capacity. Further, these trains sit idle in railway yards across the station being vandalised<\/a> whilst V\/Line refuse to place them into service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ballarat also needs electrification to Wendouree Railway Station<\/a> allowing more modern and less polluting trains to come into the network providing a much better service then the V\/Locity trains that continue to be ridiculed for their outdated design and lack of longer distance facilities<\/a>. Ballarat users of V\/Line should expect better services than a V\/locity set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ballarat also should expect services to be extended from Ballarat to Creswick<\/a> the same way some services are extended to Ararat and also Maryborough. Creswick and the northern areas of Ballarat are growing as is the entire city and more services are required. Presently Creswick only has 2 V\/Line trains services to Southern Cross per day yet the town is half the population of Ararat<\/a> having 5 train services per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n