Southern Cross + North Melbourne Junction - Explained!

Southern Cross station is the centre of Victoria's regional railway network, and is the largest railway station in the state. A short distance away is North Melbourne station, and there are several complex junctions around both. This video attempts to explain the track layout, and what routes trains normally take through this maze of track. The diagram used in this video does not show the many yards and sidings in this area - it would have been way too complicated - it just shows main running lines.

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All photographs and video taken by Martin Bennet (that's me), as well as diagrams animations and narration. My voiceover in this video was recorded by my brother Cian, who happens to be a sound recordist and musician. Check out his music here: https://hyperfollow.com/cianbennetmusic

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Marcus Wong's blog post about the whole Platform 8 thing: https://wongm.com/2022/07/vline-versu...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro/Southern Cross Station
01:17 - North Melbourne Station
01:57 - Overview of trackage
04:10 - Suburban Trains
07:52 - Country Trains (V/line)
10:15 - The Albury line/Standard Gauge operation
11:33 - Shunting at Southern Cross
12:57 - The weird thing about Platform 8
13:51 - The North Melbourne Rail Viewing Platform!

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