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And the Whole Train Went - WTF !! ?

For this story, you, the reader will need historical context to understand the punchline Historical Context bit (if you have lived in Melbourne recently, and understand the recent changes in the Public Transport system you can skip this bit) In recent years, through a combination of, and since the great influx of people moving to the "World's Most Livable City", the Western Financial Crisis (aka GFC) and the general price of car fuel, inner city car parking, and worsening Traffic congestion, many people have started using the trains to get to work. The increased usage of trains forced the Train management team to change the way trains get into the City Loop, meaning more passengers now have to 'change trains' at outer lying stations in order to get to the inner city "loop" stations. I choose to be one of those disadvantaged public transport users, needed to change from the city bound Werribee train at the North Melbourne station, in order to catch a ...