A TRIAL of reservation-only seating on V/Line trains travelling along the Albury line will continue over summer, and will extend to seven days a week over the busy holiday period.
Beginning earlier this week and running through to the end of February 2024, all V/Line services on the Albury line will be fully reserved, in a move expected to provide more certainty for passengers travelling on the line.
This booking system has now been extended with seat booking required on the Albury Line with a paper ticket.
Not really good enough for public transport. VLine needs to either obtain more train or provide road transport. Public transport means no one misses out.
V/line removed the N sets from the Albury line when they were well aware of the pending growth in the passenger traffic. I hear seats and access to the Albury services is under much demand.
They knew and made the problem worse it seems…..does these people know what they are doing?
I wonder if anyone from above has being pressuring them to remove the older trains by stealth?
Why does it seem that non qualified pen pushers from Vic Gov got buigger say then professionals in the Industry?
As there some sort of special arrangements to trash our rail transport system?
does anyone know?
Nearly 450,000 passengers have travelled on the Albury train line in the first 12 months of discounted V/Line rail fares.
The recent Easter saw the passenger tally 18 per cent higher than the previous Easter in the first month of the lower fares in 2023. The huge rise in demand for V/Line travel has resulted in complaints of overcrowding with Albury line services regularly having more passengers than seats.
12 Apr 2024