![At 5:23pm this evening (June 7, 2024), the first passenger train to arrive into Mildura since 1993 [Correction: 2016, see below] pulled into the platform](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/6c71c49f-1f88-470b-a0cb-1df8fb63101d.jpeg){kind=link}
Unfortunately, this does not mark the return of a public train service to Mildura. It does, however, mark the beginning of private train services the general public is permitted to travel on.
This is the last photo I will be posting of today’s 707 Vinelander tour to Mildura until it starts the journey back to Melbourne on Monday morning.
We were told today that a heritage train actually ran in 2016. It was just a single car DERM run by DERMPAV. This Vinelander would be closer to what was regularly seen on the line before its closure (an N class + 5 N sets + guards and power van
Update: I discovered today this actually isn’t the first passenger train to Mildura since '94. DERMPAV organised a single railmotor up here in 2016. This still is the first proper train though