The train seems a bit dirtier than I expected.
The carriages labelled incorrectly inside (perhaps an additional carriage was added).
Crew announcements seemed to be rather excessive. They mentioned all the normal things about smoking, food at the kiosk etc. They even spelled out which part of the journey would be serviced by the on-board food and the running schedule. Just when you thought it was all over, the guy comes back on and apologises for interrupting the announcement to answer the phone and continues rambling.
The seats all face the same direction - apparently they are rotated at the end of the journey. There's heaps of legroom. In fact, probably a bit too much because the tray was a bit wobbly at full extension. The top controls and air vents didn't quite align with the seats.
After a short while, the announcements fire up again.
Devonshire tea ready for collection at the kiosk in the middle of the train, for those who had ordered earlier.
And that the milk, sugar and stirrers were next to the kiosk. This point was emphasised repeatedly.
Seymour station had a nice collection of old carriages, but it's too near Melbourne. It would be a crappy journey to travel the rest of the distance [to Canberra] by coach, which was the schedule for weekdays.
Apart from all that, I liked the automatic sliding doors between carriages and the toilets were better than those on my Vline service to Bairnsdale.
Not much to talk about in regards to the coach leg from Albury to Canberra. The only bag that I took was my Ortlieb pannier so it was off the coach and on the bike from the secure basement at work.
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