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V/Line operates rail services to the regional cities of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Seymour, Traralgon, Ararat, Maryborough, Echuca, Swan Hill, Albury, Bairnsdale, Warrnambool and Shepparton. In addition, V/Line coach buses connect with many rail services at major stations to serve towns located away from the passenger rail network. [87]
When V/Line Passenger was formed the company fleet was cut down to the A class, N class, P class and Y class engines; the P and N class with head-end-power were less useful hauling MTH carriages, and the Y class were also less useful due to the 65 km/h top speed for the class (the Stony Point line's average maximum line speed is 80 km/h [13 ...
School bus USA Classic: Single-deck GM Canada (1982-1987) MCI (1987-1993) NovaBus (1993-1997) 1982 to 1997 Used or retired buses refurbished by Dupont Industries since 2007 Canada USA Classic 2000: Single deck Carpenter Body Company: 1999 to 2001 School bus United States Classic TC60-102N: Single deck Motor Coach Industries: 1987 to 1993 ...
Privatisation began with some of the bus operations in December 1993. V/Line was split into Passenger and Freight divisions, with the latter sold outright. The Met was divided into Bayside Trains, Hillside Trains, Swanston Trams and Yarra Trams on 1 July 1998 and these along with V/Line's passenger operations passed to the private sector in ...
An aerial view of Guy Motors' Fallings Park Factory 1953 Guy GS bus built for London Transport. Guy Motors was a Wolverhampton-based vehicle manufacturer that produced cars, lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company was founded by Sydney S. Guy (1885–1971) who was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
The V/Line VLocity, sometimes called the VLocity 160, [a] is a diesel multiple unit train built by Bombardier Transportation and, later, by Alstom [1] in Dandenong for V/Line, the regional rail operator in the Australian state of Victoria. Continuously in production since 2003, the VLocity is the highest-speed train in the V/Line fleet, with a ...
From 1995, the class members were repainted into the new V/Line red and blue livery, and the V/Line logo on the side was altered after the privatisation of V/Line in 1999. [3] In a program started in 2007 N class locos received white stripes along the cab-fronts, and their cowcatchers were painted yellow, to increase visibility at level crossings .
These improved services contributed to an increase in V/Line patronage from 6.5 million passenger journeys in 1993/94 to 7.0 million in 1995/96. [ 2 ] In addition, they performed some longer trips to destinations such as Albury and Echuca , although this was not specially catered for in their designs and thus led to some concerns over amenities ...