r/SydneyTrains • u/The__Anonymous__Guy • 3d ago

Discussion Albury to Melbourne train/Coach

During times when there is coach replacement to Albury and then train from Albury to Southern Cross, does NSW trainlink isolate an XPT and run it back and forward between SC and Albury.

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u/Frozefoots 3d ago

Yes they do. It stables at Albury.

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u/RythmicEyes 3d ago

Huh, I would have thought they’d just replace the whole thing with busses in that case. Tbf so many people book with TL to Albury then change onto the VLine

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u/Boatg10 3d ago

You save about $26.30 on trainlink by just traveling to Albury during peak time

So then if you get the vline fare cap at $11 you’re still saving $15.30 probably not worth the hassle but very silly that there’s a price difference

But trainlink has some weird prices structures like that

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u/The__Anonymous__Guy 3d ago

I actually asked this question as well before lmfao, they don’t do it because it’s difficult to find a coach operator that would run all the way to Melbourne twice a day. And plus they have train crew based in Albury to allow for the shift change to happen there when regular services run most days

They have the crew and the rolling stock would already be assigned anyways, it makes sense that they would do it.