{"id":188822,"date":"2025-03-21T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188822"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T23:41:13","slug":"warrnambool-line-failures-continue-with-defective-vlocity-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188822","title":{"rendered":"Warrnambool Line failures continue with defective Vlocity trains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 10:20am departure from Melbourne to Warrnambool on 20th March 2025 was terminated at Winchelsea<\/strong> due to a defective Vlocity train. This is now a recurring problem with the trains that have been asked to travel much longer distances on a short distance configuration and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vlocity trains were never designed to run longer services than a maximium of 2 hours, they are now being asked to run services as long as 4 hours on an uncomfortable service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just recently there have been several cases where failed Vlocity trains have severely disrupted services on the Bendigo Line and for unknown but ridiculous reasons V\/Line the worse run passenger rail company in Australia<\/a> have replaced some Swan Hill services with Vlocity sets for a > 4 hour journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state needs a review of the management of V\/Line and especially the decisions of Ben Phyland who is the head of Ticketing and Rolling Stock for the PTV and the person responsible for the adverse decisions about buying more diesel buses on steel wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is time to stop buying from Vlocity trains and undertake an urgent review into requirements for rolling stock moving forward as there are many and varied options for rolling stock that do not include a”bottom of the barrel” solution like a Vlocity.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been recent cases of Standard Gauge Vlocity trains to Albury being 6 cars with only 3 cars being available for passengers, this is a company in crisis with the operating agenda to bury issues and hide the failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 10:20am departure from Melbourne to Warrnambool on 20th March 2025 was terminated at Winchelsea due to a defective Vlocity train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":60345,"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":[47,186],"tags":[993,8,9949,12964],"class_list":["post-188822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-warrnambool","tag-warrnambool-line"],"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