I'm now in Melbourne, Victoria. In the past 12 months, I reviewed regional trains in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, I have also travelled on Journey Beyond's luxury trains, namely the Ghan, Indian Pacific and Great Southern.
However, I didn't get to pay much attention to V/Line services here in Australia. Therefore, after a few hours of planning in front of my laptop, today I've come up with an idea of travelling on every type of passenger train in the current V/Line fleet in one day!

As of 4 May 2022, V/Line passenger train fleet include:
Broad gauge VLocity (3VL0–3VL28, 3VL30–3VL75, 3VR76–3VR79, 3VL80–3VL92)
Standard gauge VLocity (3VS93–3VS94)
Broad gauge Sprinter
Broad gauge N set
Standard gauge N set
Broad gauge H set
Z type carriage (incorporated into the N sets)*

My plan for this challenge is to catch 8 trains:
5:13am - 5:58am Melbourne - Bacchus Marsh (Broad VLocity)
6:19am - 7:14am Bacchus Marsh - Melbourne (Broad H set)
7:46am - 8:45am Melbourne - Geelong (Broad N set, First Class)
9:30am - 10:35am Geelong - Melbourne (Broad VLocity)
1:36pm - 2:59pm Melbourne - Seymour (Broad Sprinter)
3:09pm - 4:40pm Seymour - Melbourne (Standard N set, Economy Class)
5:33pm - 7:11pm Melbourne - Seymour (Broad Sprinter)
7:44pm - 9:45pm Seymour - Melbourne (Standard VLocity)

I'll start my day at4:30am, if everything goes smoothly, I'll be able to finish my day by10:00pm. How did I go? You can find out in this video!!



This video was filmed on 14 April 2022, a few footages were filmed on 13, 15, 26 and 27 April 2022.

00:00 Introduction - Southern Cross Station
02:30 Myki card vs. Paper ticket
04:46 Trip One: Broad Gauge VLocity (Unit 76-79)
10:07 Melbourne to Bacchus Marsh
12:37 Trip Two: Broad Gauge H set
15:22 Bacchus Marsh to Melbourne
21:50 Southern Cross vs. Flinders Street
22:50 Trip Three: Broad Gauge N set First Class
27:02 Melbourne to Geelong
35:14 Trip Four: Broad Gauge VLocity (Unit 00-75)
40:20 Geelong to Melbourne
42:18 Z type carriage
43:20 Trip Five: Broad Gauge Sprinter
47:04 Melbourne to Seymour
50:35 Trip Six: Standard Gauge VLocity (Unit 93-94)
53:29 Seymour to Melbourne
57:13 Broad Gauge VLocity (Unit 80-92)


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