fast trains

Sometimes I wonder if something was meant to be . I arrived at Southern Cross Station a half hour early and boarded the near empty train as it was a lot warmer in the train than on the station platform.  This train was an unreserved fast train to Bendigo.  I hadn't been able to book the one I usually take via Swan Hill as it was fully booked due to a festival in Bendigo that wekend.  About ten minutes before departure three young girls sat down in the three vacant seats next to me.  I looked around the train.  It was filing up very fast and by the time the train pulled out of the station there was standing room only.  Good thing I believe in getting too the station early otherwise I would have had one very  uncomfortable trip to Bendigo.When I phoned up to book the ticket I was assured that there would be plenty of seats available on the fast train as most of the people going to the festival would have taken the earlier train.  Obviously there were a lot of people the same as me, didn't book early enough and by the look of the crowd heading to Bendigo it was definately a young persons festival.