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Other noticeable change is that on Xmas eve it is Wednesday timetable except for Geelong which is Friday timetable so the extra 0100 Dn runs.

Goulburn Valley will stay as broad gauge until such time as there is a business need to convert it to sg . The traffic from this line is all to Victorian destinations in Melb wharves and Geelong grain ...

When Hoppers Crossing station was first opened it was located as an island platform immediately on the Down side of the level crossing . With the electrification of the Werribee line the original stai ...

2000 ABC News reported a 35 year old man trapped under a V/Line train at North Melbourne has now sadly died .

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The curve at the Down end of Lara sweeping around to the Canterbury Road lx allows 160kmh max for Vlocities with maximum allowable applied cant . This curve is of 1207m radius.

So indicatively a cu ...

Could be either dodgy HEP unit on the N class or HEP cable loose / or working loose between one of the cars , or loco and front car.

The other glaring error that VLP need to address fast in the next timetable change is to ACTUALLY provide the service that they are advertising to Echuca.

The advertisement says go to Echuca by tra ...

Patronage over 100 is being recorded on Weekdays on the morning Up between Echuca and Bendigo .

VLP TV advert urges one to go to Echuca by train, but only runs a day return service by rail on Satur ...

Whilst the photo is in an album titled "Spirit of Progress" we can deduce the following :

* It is not the SOP as the loco is not streamlined and the carriages are wooden.

* The loco would appear ...

*The section of Broad Gauge north of Murray Bridge to Albury, the moment a Victorian train passes that into NSW, does the train operate to all NSW Rail Safety Laws, Regulations and Accreditation condi ...

The old suburban subway is about mid point along plats 9/10, 11/12, 13/14 if it is still usable . Issue is where it would come up on the three suburban island platforms. If re-opened it would all be w ...

The ordered fleet of 3 car and 2 car Vlocity trains will give the flexibility to make up any size train consist from 2 to 8 cars in single car increments.

The only justification for building additi ...

Riggs Creek Loop was introduced as crossing loop with LH running to cross trains with Train Orders in the mid 1990's . It was intended to have a second similar bg loop at Bowser and the loop track ...

The first 3 car revenue run to Geelong was in fact an unplanned move owing to out of course running on the 1936 Dn Sth Geelong (VL40) on Friday 08/08/08 , and on odd occasions since .

Sure not pro ...

All urban rail Operators aim to maximize the number of pax they can get on their trains by maximizing width especially within the rollingstock outline profile which determines for the gauge the maximu ...