Metro, V/Line and Showgrounds Trains at Kensington

Kensington station is the first station on the Craigieburn line. During the end of September, the Royal Melbourne Show is held and to get people to the event, Metro Trains operates services to Showgrounds station which is on the Flemington Racecourse line and branches from the Craigieburn line at Newmarket. All Showgrounds services ran express from North Melbourne so do not stop at Kensington or Newmarket. Here we see Comeng, Siemens and X'Trapolis trains operating Craigieburn and Showgrounds services. We also see a few VLocity and Sprinter trains running the usual Seymour services. This was filmed during the end of the morning peak so it was very busy. In fact, some trains were running very closely behind each other and some had to run slowly to allow the level crossing to activate. Filmed in September 2023