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For the last week down in Birrarung Marr the general public have thier chance to view 1 and 1/2 car mock of the new High Capacity Metro Train. The HCMT 65 new 7 car EMUs being built by Downer Rail for the initially for Pakenham & Cranbourne lines in mid-2019, then the Metro rail tunnel and...

The most famous horse race in Australia was held on Tuesday. To get the 100,000 people who attended the Flemington Racecourse Metro put on extra services from Flinders Street and Southern Cross with services running every 5 to 10 minutes. The main motive power for the services were Comengs. I...

From the age http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/entire-melbourne-rail-network-grinds-to-a-halt-due-to-computer-fault-20170713-gxap89.html Once again our train control centre fails and chaos. This time it fails smack bang in the peak. They'll be re positioning trains all night.

From The Age: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/end-of-the-line-nears-for-seymours-150yearold-train-signals-20170312-guwcwt.html Quite amazing considering every other V/line commuter service runs with modern day signalling. Not that V/line use it to any great benefit.

Bit of a good news story. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/she-had-absolutely-no-idea-man-proposes-to-woman-he-met-on-frankston-train-20170302-gupn75.html The Frankston line is known for many things. A marriage proposal is a new one.

From The Age http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-city-loop-power-outage-leaves-trains-stranded-between-stations-20161213-gtamft.html From what I can gether it sounds like the pantograph entangled itself in the wire given the reports of sparks and banging. The Northern Loop carries...

From The Age: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/new-2-billion-train-deal-to-create-1000-local-jobs-20160911-gre0wj.html The seem to be a mix between an X'Trapolis V/Locity. As a user of the Pakeham line they will be a welcome improvement to the Siemens with thier horrid seats and the 30+...

From the Age http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/train-derailed-after-colliding-with-truck-near-colac-20160713-gq4y7y.html The train involved was 8753, the 1321 Southern Cross to Warnambool service. Made up of N class locomotive N475 and N car set FN5(BZN252-BN13-BRN40-ACN15) It has a...

From the ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-01/seaford-line's-woes-prove-scrapped-railcars-still-needed/7467800 We can file this under "Silly stuff railfans say" 1: They can't go to under the wires because the elevated cab is a bit close for the 25kv. 2: They are very thirsty on...

From the Age: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbournes-new-train-station-revealed--and-theres-something-not-quite-right-about-it-20160511-got1k9.html Interesting development. Makes a bit of sense considering the new High Capacity Metro Trains will be the only ones through this tunnel. Of...

From the Herald Sun: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/sky-rail-protesters-vow-to-fight-victorian-governments-plans/news-story/487f10877a3963ac5333d1c6fa530120 Fair to say there is a bit of NIMBYism going on here. There's been some completely stupid claims about what this will do. The...

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/vline-trains-forced-out-of-service-by-mysterious-wheel-fault-20160114-gm5o4m.html#ixzz3xDGfk6LX It's not exactly much has changed on the rail system. The only thing that has is the Regional Rail Link in the middle of last year. It's not exactly much help...

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hurstbridge-derailing-keys-used-to-steal-train-could-have-come-from-ebay-20151110-gkvut8.html A fairly serious incident to say the least. Unfortunately stolen keys are all to common out there.

At the moment in Melbourne the EBA is up for negotiation with things turning a touch south in the last couple of weeks. Thursday there will be a second 4hr stopwork between 10AM and 2PM for Yarra trams over pay and conditions...