Metro Trains Melbourne

Metro Trains Melbourne has a drive through for suburban trains beside their stabling facility at Melbourne Yard.

And another at the Epping Workshops.

At the Craigieburn Train Maintenance Facility the train wash is a little different – it’s a six carriage long shed, and the wash unit moves along the length of the stopped train.

While the Pakenham East depot has a train wash dedicated to the fleet of High Capacity Metro Trains that operate out of the site.

V/Line

Meanwhile V/Line has a train wash at the Carriage Maintenance Depot on Dudley Street.

But these days it is mostly used to stable rolling stock that doesn’t fit into the constrained yard.

Leaving their train wash at Geelong their main washing facility.

The train wash receiving recycled water tanks in 2008, after being taken out of service during the millennium drought due to water restrictions.

Biowash sheds

A standard train wash can only clean the grime from the sides of a train – they won’t get rid of the blood and guts from an animal strike.

So bio-wash facilities are required so that staff can get under the train and blast them clean. The facility at South Dynon was the first.

Biowash shed outside the back of

And in 2021 a second one opened at Bendigo at a cost of $7.9 million.

And the old fashioned way

You’ll also sometimes find staff washing down suburban trains by hand.

Diesel locomotives.

And carriage windows.

It’s also how railway heritage groups keep their trains looking shiny and clean.

My mates busy with the soap and buckets, while I was distracted by my camera.

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