{"id":151493,"date":"2024-11-28T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151493"},"modified":"2024-11-28T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:30:18","slug":"maybe-a-msm-journalist-should-investigate-why-v-line-management-failed-to-manage-these-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151493","title":{"rendered":"Maybe a MSM Journalist should investigate why V\/line management failed to manage these events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am was riding around the system recently and note a few sets were reduced from 5 cars to 4 cars for the older N sets.<br><br>As I observed with the older train which remains on Warrnambool and Swan Hill N13 currently has 4 cars, VN19 4 cars, VN14 and FN9 which I got off yesterday 4 cars&#8230;..<br><br>From information gathered I understand they are fast tracking the withdrawal of N sets and cutting back on maintenance and giving heritage railway groups old N sets why are they doing this in rolling stock shortage when passenger are impacted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"A busy Sunday Morning and 07:40 Swan Hill was reduced from a 5 car loco haul to a 3 x1 car Velocities DMU!\">Swan Hill when the loco haul is reduced to 3&#215;1 Vlocity Rail Motor<\/a>?<br><br>As for the Warrnambool with the newer time table after 1st December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=125943\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"V\/Line reduces seating capacity on Warrnambool line with Vlocity services\">all day service will be reduced from 5 car loco hauls to Velocities DMU 3&#215;1<\/a> leaving the 2 day service either direction, similar to the Gippsland Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"152557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-11-22-at-16.36.13.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo N13 with 4 cars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"152556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-28-10.14.05-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-28-10.14.05-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-28-10.14.05-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-28-10.14.05.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BDN carriage from my recent Swan Hill ride on VN3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As what I currently saw recently the stabling yard facilities for the Vlocities have not being installed or activated just yet and the state I understand is broke!<br><br>Now Swan Hill line still has locomotive hauled passenger services  and they want get rid of that too despite not having a viable longer distance rolling stock plan.  Surely it is a critical outcome for a rail company to have a rolling stock plan commensurate with the needs and expectations of the travelling public.<br><br>Albury line which has those newer Velocities Standard Gauge is very problematic currently, no buffet service due to staff shortages and 6 cars reduced to 3 cars&#8230;.<br><br>What more can happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lot people are very unhappy with the decisions of V\/line with the management currently, even in vibe from frontline in thick the action on site one notices they are tired and exhausted not say frustrated something&#8217;s got to give&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All I write is currently is observations, from my humble opinion, I am sadly seeing a rail system falling apart&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am was riding around the system recently and note a few sets were reduced from 5 cars to 4 cars for the older N sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"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":[993,8],"class_list":["post-151493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myki","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151493","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152566,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151493\/revisions\/152566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}