Call them Melbourne's pinch points, or the hot spots of hurt. On Friday, when the train strike occurs, these commuters will face a painful trip into the city.

The train strike will run from 10am to 2pm but services will be hit before and after that time. Getting into the city from the outer suburbs is going to require commuters to knit together complex journeys, using trams, buses and, very likely, their feet. Let's hope it does not rain.

Last week's tram strike, which left thousands of city commuters frustrated, is going to pale in comparison to this.

We've used Public Transport Victoria's journey planner function with the train option switched off to see how commuters are going to get around town without the help of locomotives.