Victorian Government MP Anthony Carbines took to social media on Sunday night to document his experience on Melbourne's public transport system following the One Day International cricket match at the MCG.

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Mr Carbines was at Jolimont Station with a large crowd of people at 10:20pm, when he began tweeting to bemoan the lack of trains travelling to Hurstbridge.

The parliamentary secretary for environment's tweets included pictures of the crowded platform, as throngs of cricket fans waited for a train.

"Ah, Jolimont ... I'm with Maxwell. It's always a South Morang when you wanna Hursty!" Mr Carbines tweeted.

He continued with: "Haven't seen this much anticipation since Twiggy [Ross] Dunne [former VFL footballer] was lining up post the siren. Ah, train other way arrives..."

"Small talk at Jolimont wearing thin..."

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Mr Carbines' run of bad luck continued, when he finally boarded a train to Hurstbridge, the train apparently had to terminate at Clifton Hill due to a problem with the door.

"At Clifton Hill. Door problem so we are stuck. '...and the band played on'," he tweeted.

He tweeted again shortly after: "We are getting off the train as door rooted. Ah, Clifton Hill. What a joke."

While waiting at Clifton Hill for the next train to arrive, Mr Carbines continued to tweet, including the hashtag #internationalcityNOT.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews regularly spruiks Melbourne's credentials as an "international city", when talking about his plans to improve Melbourne's public transport.

Mr Carbines' trip home to Rosanna ended at 11:24pm, with: "Rosanna. It shouldn't take an hour plus," but not before he took a swipe at the cleanliness of the train.

"Gotta seat. Oh for a mop," he tweeted along the way.

On Monday, Mr Carbines said he was a regular user of the city's public transport system.

"Like Melbourne's weather, you praise it when it's good and complain about it when it's bad," he said.

The tweets came after Victoria's regional rail line has been plagued by problems coming into the city, due to train wheels wearing down at a faster than normal rate, and a country train failing to trigger boom gates.

V/Line spokesman Colin Tyrus said engineers were investigating why a train from their fleet failed to trigger boom gates in Dandenong on Friday night.

"When you get an isolated incident like this, it needs to be fully investigated and understood so that's what the engineers are now doing," he told 774 ABC Melbourne.

"They're analysing the data, they're talking to the train driver, they're interviewing people about what the effect was, what caused it - there could be a number of contributing factors and they're looking at all of those."

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