They were a bit trigger happy with that - the region mostly just scraping 30 degrees yesterday.
Maybe some Seymour depot drivers treated themselves to a short shift yesterday as part of the industrial action?There was no industrial action yesterday apart from doing overtime. Seymour, Albury & Shepparton line stoppage is tomorrow (Wednesday). Although it is protected action there are very strict guidelines staff need to follow, drivers and other staff can't pick and choose what they want to do/not do.
According to V/Line's website action was planned yesterday - and my usual train home (1648 Dn South Geelong) was replaced with buses - which station staff at Southern Cross stated was due to industrial action also.Maybe some Seymour depot drivers treated themselves to a short shift yesterday as part of the industrial action?There was no industrial action yesterday apart from doing overtime.
According to V/Line's website action was planned yesterday - and my usual train home (1648 Dn South Geelong) was replaced with buses - which station staff at Southern Cross stated was due to industrial action also.Maybe some Seymour depot drivers treated themselves to a short shift yesterday as part of the industrial action?There was no industrial action yesterday apart from doing overtime.
The various Twitter feeds have been alive the past week or so with similar reasons against cancellations and service changes - even on days where no action was advertised for that particular (or sometimes any at all) line.
Are you suggesting V/Line are simply using this as their excuse of the month even when it is not connected to the true cause?
I do understand that staff can't just do as they please - 'treated themselves' was purely intended tongue in cheek.
According to V/Line's website action was planned yesterday - and my usual train home (1648 Dn South Geelong) was replaced with buses - which station staff at Southern Cross stated was due to industrial action also.The 'planned' action Monday was just the ban on overtime which resulted in trains being cancelled as there weren't enough drivers to cover all the services. Its a bit sad that V/Line considers staff staying home to be with their familys on their rostered days off as part of the industrial action but that's where we're at.
Vline still doing a great job of wrecking the services, better than what the workers can. One pm peak train disabled at Footscray last night about 17:45, created late running on Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo lines for most of the night. They probably had 100% late running after 18:00 for the rest of the night. Yesterday only the Traralgon line affected by industrial action, today Seymour, tomorrow Geelong Line.I was on that train, it was handled quite poorly thanks to poor communication but the frontline staff at Footscray did exceptionally well given the circumstances.
Then again, with hot weather perhaps that will cause more grief today than the drivers.
Last night XPT to Sydney cancelled, train stabled shut down platform 1 at SX. was creating interesting moves in the yard with one platform unavailable. Dunno how this morning went. Still, we cannot blame Vline for that one.I'd hazard a guess that the cancellation was due to bushfires in the area between Picton and Mittagong.
Could have diverted via Unanderra. In today's privatised/corporatised railway, maybe it's not convenient to make such short notice ad hoc arrangements. As for the passenger, who gives a rats... ?Last night XPT to Sydney cancelled, train stabled shut down platform 1 at SX. was creating interesting moves in the yard with one platform unavailable. Dunno how this morning went. Still, we cannot blame Vline for that one.I'd hazard a guess that the cancellation was due to bushfires in the area between Picton and Mittagong.
I originally posted about this in another thread but so as not to take that thread even further off course than I already have I'll continue it here.Dont hold your breath about a line speed increase on account of the remianing sleepers being changed to concrete.
Track work is taking place this week on the Bendigo line. A long string of new concrete sticks has been laid out next to the West track from around the 72km post heading in a down direction right up to the point where the 160 KM/H board marks the change in line speed
The placement of the new ties corresponds almost perfectly with spots where there are still timber sleepers remaining and it looks like this work will remove pretty much all timber from this section.
It remains to be seen whether the line speed will be increased from 130 > 160 in this section
Also of interest (well to me anyway) is whether V/Line will take advantage of Wednesdays industrial action to get some of the work done during daylight hours instead of doing the work at night.
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