Cheers. I'm pretty sure 707 did repaint their Vinelander carriages into Overland. Don't recall if Steamrail had any though.

It was a Cruise Express Charter. The tour started from Sydney.

@ thanks!

They do look interesting. Hopefully they ride better than the current X'trapolis 100s at least.

They are a bogie kit from a company called Ctrl P Models. Unfortunately since the publishing of this video, they don't seem to be in operation anymore, as their website has been down for a few months now.

Cheers. Double heading is still a usual practice between Belgrave and Menzies Creek if I recall, primarily on the weekends.

@@Comeng998 Oh really? I've never seen it

Might be a more summer season thing. There was a reduction of services during the middle of this year.

@@Comeng998 Oh, thanks for letting me know!

Very well done mate, would have been interesting for a funnel to funnel movement between Belgrave and Lakeside

CMV Truck & Bus is a dealer for heavy road vehicles. They chartered the train as part of a company Christmas party.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem so at the moment. They are the same VLocity's that are used for other short/long distance services. The only ones to have buffets are the Albury services.

@ wow I wish The n class are back

G'day, Steamrail Victoria are the operators of this tour. They run a few of these Rail & Sail specials per year.

G'day, CL17 is owned by Streamliners Australia. Currently it is with SRHC for its reactivation. Not sure if it'll move around to another group in the future, but for now it's with SRHC.

It's promoted as modernisation. Electrification is the fit out and conversion of a line to use electric trains, which isn't the case with this replacement of the classic fleet, as the VLocity are still diesel powered.

@Comeng998 I find the regional trains in Victoria very noisy especially at Southern Cross Station when there are 3 or 4 of then side by side on each platform but the new Vlocity trains ( great name for them) are nice to look at but they still smell very badly of diesel. Don't like sitting backwards when travelling long haul as your regional train fleets are all fixed direction seating .Sydney regional trains may be over 40 years old but just as diesel polluting or even more but I am unsure if they are just as loud as the Victorian regional trains ( probably are but less noticeable as Central station regional trains are stationary on outdoor platforms not as crammed as they are at indoors at Southern Cross Station) and our seats are multi directional which makes it a little more comfortable when I travel between Sydney and Melbourne. Apparently our new region trains whenever we get them don't have sleepers could have fixed direction seating but I believe still have a "buffet" car . I didn't pay attention but was the train I travelled on out to Bacchus Marsh likely to have been a vlocity train?

The VLocity trains are an evolution of the Endeavour and Xplorers which NSW use for some regional services. That does sound right about the NSW trains still having buffets. It is very likely that your train to Bacchus Marsh would have been a VLocity, as since the start of this year, are the only rolling stock to operate that line.

Absolutely. That would give the capacity boost the line needs during peak seasons. Unfortunately the platform at Warrnambool is a little short for 6 carriages, I've heard.

@ they should’ve extended and upgrade the platform more if they wanted to have 6 car Vlocity services.

One does wonder if they are able to do the same procedures as the other short platforms like Heathcote Junction if they were to introduce longer trains in the mean time.

@ yes

From what I understand, the line has been upgraded to allow trains to operate at 130km/h in some sections. However the timetable during this transition period is timed to operate at 115km/h, being the running speed of the locomotive hauled services.

A few year's ago, it would have been adequate to replace some of the N sets as I recall they did run them in 3 carriage sets in terms of capacity. But since the fare cap, they've all been set up in a 4 or 5 carriage configuration, it will be interesting seeing how this goes in the future.

@@Comeng998 X W’bool person, 3 car N sets were run on the in between service the morning and night train were 5 cars

@@andyball7270 it was really poorly organised. Very disappointing