Lots of complaints a. about the 3-carriage train being insufficient on many days, and b. loss of the buffet bar. It’s a 3.5 hour trip…a buffet car is all but essential.
The old trains had 5 carriages, the maximum length most stations on the line have. The new trains come in 3-carriage lots, and to have 6-carriage trains is considered too long.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the NSW method of the loudspeaker telling people they must move to a particular carriage to alight. It happens a few times on the trip to Newcastle that I took only a few months ago. Have the driver’s carriage stop a carriage or two beyond the platform.
Given in the perfect world the apps say it’s an hour I think your expectations were high. 20 minutes to town, 10 minute wait, 39 mins to Heidelberg seems about right. The metro tunnel was never going to fix the requirement to go in and then out.
I’m a ‘give me convenience or give me death’ kinda guy. Perhaps I need to hustle a bit in the transit from State Library to Melbourne Central (which is a ridiculous transition) or improve my route as @Tyler suggested
Unacceptable? I mean this is purely due to re routing and the way the trains go around the loop. If you were close to a connection that you missed you could conceptually have changed at Town Hall and then again at Parliament to shortcut going to State Library (or have changed at Caulfield.
Each of those adds risks and potential for bad connections, but Dandenong ine to Heidelberg is obviously not a core route that was trying to be helped, so there’s potential inefficiency. 10 minutes due to a missed connection is unfortunate, but it’s also only 10 minutes. But you could also have had an improvement in waiting time at Murrumbeena due to increased frequency on Dandy line.
If you’d driven after drinking it could have been way slower and way more expensive if you had a little bad luck.
Yep. Some creases to iron out on my part, that’s for sure.
Don’t take me too seriously. This whinge is also partly playful. But yeah, the whole Murrumbeena - Parliament - Heidelberg in 50 minutes with no changing stations worked just fine.
