Speaker 1: That went off last night at Marvel Stadium. He brought
Speaker 1: out the Irish band that is Ed Sheeran here on
Speaker 1: over one hundred lars. You mentioned earlier he snuck into
Speaker 1: Melbourne via train, Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: He was filmed getting off at Southern Cross station. And
Speaker 2: when I say he was at the station like he'd
Speaker 2: come from Sydney to Melbourne on the train a local job. Yeah,
Speaker 2: no plans for him.
Speaker 1: Well, Roger Weeks is from the New South Wales train link.
Speaker 1: He joined us now morning Roger.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Jace, Lauren and Clint how are you good?
Speaker 2: We're good now, Roger edge shear And there were some
Speaker 2: people saying it wasn't him on the train, it was
Speaker 2: a decoy. It was definitely him though. Wasn't it the
Speaker 2: court the train from Sydney to Melbourne?
Speaker 3: I can absolutely confirm it was it.
Speaker 4: Now, what happened?
Speaker 2: How did this come to be? Well?
Speaker 3: Ed and his family when they're on tour. As I
Speaker 3: was chatting with them, they love catching trains. They are
Speaker 3: really probably for two key reasons. Obviously it's got a
Speaker 3: lower iron mental footprints and traveling by road by air,
Speaker 3: and it's just a nice way for them to spend
Speaker 3: time together in the family. So they were really excited
Speaker 3: as they were walking through and we got them onto
Speaker 3: the XPT.
Speaker 4: So Roger, what's the how long is the trip and
Speaker 4: sort of what sort of amenity? Yeah, tell us about
Speaker 4: the carriage. Was they lay down by? What's the bedding
Speaker 4: like all the rest of great?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Good. So it's just under eleven hours for our
Speaker 3: Sydney to Melbourne service, So it's that nice opportunity to unwind.
Speaker 3: Let's sit back and relax. And in our overnight service,
Speaker 3: of course, we have sleeper cars. In our first class carriage,
Speaker 3: which is where the shearings were, we have separate cabins
Speaker 3: and so by day you can sider it the seat
Speaker 3: and then when it's nighttime, our crew come in, pull
Speaker 3: a bunk bed down, turn the bottom of seed into
Speaker 3: a bed.
Speaker 2: But I didn't even know this existed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have showers and toilets for eleven hours.
Speaker 2: Did he have the whole family there?
Speaker 1: He did?
Speaker 3: It was really nice.
Speaker 4: Was the food cart in operation?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So we have a buffet train.
Speaker 1: You buried the league.
Speaker 3: You can have a dinner of butter chicken. All An,
Speaker 3: you're a class.
Speaker 4: Do you know what he had? To eat.
Speaker 3: Look, we don't he may have had a bite to
Speaker 3: eat before he came. People can have their choice, they
Speaker 3: can some people bring their own food, but the buffet
Speaker 3: is very popular.
Speaker 2: And so were you sworn to secrecy that you couldn't
Speaker 2: tell anyone about this until afterwards.
Speaker 1: Because you know broken that now he's one.
Speaker 2: Of the most famous people in the world, and it
Speaker 2: was just like incognito.
Speaker 3: That's right. I mean, we protect the privacy of all
Speaker 3: of our passengers, but in this instance we did have
Speaker 3: some requirements to make sure that Ed and his family
Speaker 3: had had a safe, secure and private trip down to Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I understand the concert last night was fantastic, just as
Speaker 3: you'd expect.
Speaker 2: He had a good night's sleep on the Trene and
Speaker 2: there do we know he was in the bunk beds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: And was he a good passenger?
Speaker 3: Oh? Great? Because they're such nice people. They are They're
Speaker 3: just down to earth, really friendly. The girls were so
Speaker 3: excited about, you know, meeting our driver and look.
Speaker 1: At the driver's pressure on the Did you get a photo?
Speaker 1: Did you get a picky no?
Speaker 3: You know what they were really clear about this was
Speaker 3: their family important to protect the privacy.
Speaker 2: Well, well done, Roger. I love it. I think more
Speaker 2: people should get on the train. I actually didn't know
Speaker 2: it was the thing. That sounds quite delighted in.
Speaker 1: Your South Wales train Link Chief executive Roger Weeks joining
Speaker 1: us on the egg. The man behind getting.
Speaker 2: The edd to Melbourne, Jace will be on the train
Speaker 2: now he knows there's a buffet.
Speaker 1: Yeah a long's him and crane and is that on
Speaker 1: the service from the city to Sandringham here in Melbourne?
Speaker 2: Okay you Roger.
Speaker 1: Thanks Roger, have a good weekend.
Speaker 3: Right, have a great day.
Speaker 2: Jason Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following them on
Speaker 2: the socials.