Wongm's Rail Gallery

Passengers with bags fight their way through myki gates at Southern Cross Station

Southern Cross is a country station: what idiot thought only two wide gates would suffice for train loads of passengers with large bags?

Passengers with paper tickets waiting to exit the platform, as the sole V/Line staff member on the ground having to assist other passengers with directions

A train full of non-Myki passengers arrive at Southern Cross, with no obvious way for them to exit the platform

Only one gate for passengers with paper tickets at Southern Cross, while the V/Line staff are snowed under with enquiries

The usual Friday afternoon ticket queue at Southern Cross Station

With Myki not being available for use on intercity services, everyone still has to line up to buy a ticket each journey

V/Line might have two new platforms, but one thing will never change - waiting for the doors to open

An empty train sitting in the platform 15 minutes before departure time, and passengers still not allowed to board

Traralgon train formed by VLocity 3VL26 departs the brand new platform 16 three minutes late

You could give V/Line a million platforms and they would still find a way to run late!

V/Line passengers hike past an empty platform towards the main concourse, their train having parked beneath the Bourke Street Bridge

V/Line passengers run past an empty train to their actual train, parked at the north end of the station past the Bourke Street Bridge

Another VLocity consist docks into the platform with just a few minutes until departure time

Passengers finally allowed to board, after V/Line staff finally decide it is safe to do so while a headlight bulb is being replaced

Fitters from Bombardier fix the headlight of a VLocity before departure time

Sprinter 7015 arrives with two classmates, ready to form a delayed Seymour service

Seymour passengers migrate from the north to the south end of platform 7 after their train got moved

Notice at Southern Cross for reduced capacity on the midday Warrnambool service

With the entire V/Line Z car fleet out of service for bogie repairs, consist sizes have been reduced across the intercity fleet

Friday night, and V/Line at Southern Cross has a massive ticket queue as per normal

7am, and the queue at the Southern Cross Station booking office is already 10 deep

The joys of paper based tickets being the only way to travel with V/Line

Pair of Sprinters finally depart platform 2A, having delayed the arrival of both the Sydney XPT and The Overland

Only five V/Line trains cancelled in peak time? Whiteboard at North Melbourne station advising alternate transport

Double headed A66 and A62 depart Southern Cross on a down Bacchus Marsh

Running only 10 minutes late...

P11 trails a empty cars push pull from Melbourne Yard, set to form a down commuter service in 30 minutes time

Two trains just arrived at Southern Cross and waiting for a platform: in the foreground N458 arrives empty cars from Arden Street, N472 is actually carrying passengers

A66 finally gets to move again, having waited outside the station for only 5 minutes

Signs your yard layout sucks: a shunt move of empty cars (with P11) from the platforms blocks an inbound train full of passengers (lead by A66) for 5 minutes