{"id":136313,"date":"2024-10-03T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136313"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:11:06","slug":"options-for-connecting-western-victoria-with-passenger-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136313","title":{"rendered":"Options for connecting Western Victoria with passenger rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How to reintroduce rail to Western Victoria if you&#8217;re going for low-cost and easy. Pretty sure the Nationals proposed something similar to this in 2018 but only to Horsham\/Hamilton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-1024x870.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-1024x870.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-300x255.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-768x652.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-1536x1305.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GY8ZShlbAAAjA3e-2048x1740.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>V\/Line (purple) and The Overland (black) are left as is. SG trains are acquired and connect to Ararat trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was the Vic transport dept or V\/Line and I was tasked with doing this sort&#8217;ve thing on the cheap, I&#8217;d look at what SG passenger trains were available in NSW or something. Or see if a small fleet could be acquired overseas and modified locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively use a couple of N Sets and N class locomotives that are freely available on the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: https:\/\/x.com\/timothyjweber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to reintroduce rail to Western Victoria if you&#8217;re going for low-cost and easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10073,47,186],"tags":[13716,12401,8],"class_list":["post-136313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-hamilton","tag-horsham","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136313\/revisions\/136316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}