Victorian Rail & Tram Observations 2025

[BanksfielderIdiot823]

And now, onto 2025.

[VolgrenFTW]

Metro Tunnel signage everywhere at City stations and some places throughout network.
Xtrapolis 2 has touched Victorian railways as it was towed to its facilities from Ballarat.

[Bennett2]

Great to see Metro Tunnel signage rolling out, definitely a sign that we are getting closer to its opening.

[Heihachi_73]

Every window on B2 2049 blocked except one. Funny how you don't have to follow the law when you are the law.
https://redd.it/1j30rw5

Cover your car's rear windows with too many racing stickers, dark tint or reflective one-way windows even though you can see perfectly out of them (but the Authoritah can't see in) and have 120 fps HD dash cams and a giant LCD monitor showing everything, and you'd get booked, your car defected and the government will steal some of your money; if you're the government however, you can cover a vehicle in semi-opaque plastic, which then goes straight to landfill after the for-profit advertising company has made bank, and it's perfectly fine.

[Heihachi_73]

W3 660 has recently resurfaced out of nowhere.

https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comm ... rketplace/

[BanksfielderIdiot823]

Union Station earlier today, fire onboard X'Trap 898M on an inbound run. Apparently, it was an E-bike brought onboard that caught alight.

https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comm ... n_station/
https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comm ... without_a/

[Linto63]

Last locomotive hauled Warrnambool services are to be converted to Vlocity operation with the new timetable effective 14 April. Will leave the three daily Swan Hill services as the only remaining long distance locomotive hauled V/Line services. The only other locomotive hauled service is the 06:07 Geelong - Southern Cross and 16:31 return; this could also be a candidate for conversion.

[Heihachi_73]

2049 vs. car on Bridge Rd this morning. Can we use this as an excuse to put it back in the PTV livery so people can actually see out of the windows?
https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comm ... ork_today/
https://old.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comm ... here_mate/

The crash wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had eighty straight years of carbrain allowing cars to turn across tram tracks every 50 metres. There are no less than eighteen places for cars to turn across "segregated" tram tracks between Church St and Hawthorn Bridge despite having signalised intersections every 400m. Even the Maccas Drive Thru has its own dedicated pair of crossings.