{"id":139748,"date":"2024-10-14T10:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T00:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139748"},"modified":"2024-10-14T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:10:30","slug":"vlocity-trains-are-not-the-answer-for-regional-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139748","title":{"rendered":"Vlocity trains are not the answer for Regional Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, well it finally happen the locals are getting restless about what the benchmark of Vic Regional Travel<\/a> seems to be replaced with “Modern” trains which not fit for purpose for trips exceeding 2.5 hr to terminating point and a little time to get food and drinks before travellers do coach transfers when no eating or drinking apples to some coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been much upset and pushback from regional communities on the removal of carriages designed for longer distance and far more comfortable than the cheaper and noisy Vlocity train sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, the proposed introduction of Vlocity Trains on the Warrnambool Line will see almost 1\/3 of seats per service taken way from the line and the very popular snack bar will also be removed. V\/Line seem to believe removing comfort and amenities from longer distance trains is something the travelling public support, they could not be more wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what happens when decision makers make decisions on the traveller’s behalf treats Regional travellers<\/a> differently to the City dwelling people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N sets are long in tooth, and were good in their prime but will still hold their ground for a few years more until a newer regional train is designed and delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But it was the acceptable standard for longer routes unlike the shorter distance DMU Velocities pushed to do the longer routes over these older loco trains currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to see a layout to replace the aging N set similar to the aging XPT and very modern QR Tilt train from Alstom….where motor trailers are at the ends of the train and passengers isolated away from the constant vibration and pressure of the traction engines on the DMUs…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.alstom.com\/solutions\/rolling-stock<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credit to\u00a0Bob Kilmartin<\/a>\u00a0for sharing the news article In the Warrnambool Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seems some Victorian’s are waking up to V\/Lines poor management of rolling stock across the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":60345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10073,47,186,181],"tags":[993,8,9949],"class_list":["post-139748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","category-vlocity","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-warrnambool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t