NORTH East bound passengers faced major delays on Saturday after an empty standard gauge train departing Southern Cross Station partially derailed off the tracks when returning to the stabling yards.

Two Saturday Albury services were cancelled as a result of the derailment, while two other services terminated or originated at Broadmeadows, with passengers using metropolitan services to travel to Broadmeadows to transfer to the V/Line Albury services to complete their journey.

A power fault on the metropolitan network on Saturday night also impacted some services on the Craigieburn Line.

Some V/Line passengers were caught up in this disruption and passengers, including one from Wangaratta, had to detrain the metro service at Glenroy.

V/line reported that coaches were sourced to transport passengers to Broadmeadows Station to connect with Albury services.

A spokesperson said the Saturday evening service to Albury was held up at Broadmeadows to wait for coaches to arrive.

"Some passengers who were unable to make the connection with the Albury train at Broadmeadows were provided with a coach to transport them to Albury," the spokesperson said.

A V/Line spokesperson said, “We thank passengers for their patience and understanding after some services were disrupted on Saturday following a minor derailment of a non-passenger train returning to the stabling yards at Southern Cross Station”.

“There were no further impacts to services relating to the incident across the weekend,” he said.

No passengers were onboard the train departing platform one at the time of the derailment and there were no injuries to the driver.

Two cranes were used to return the impacted train to the tracks overnight on Saturday.

Crews also inspected the track and signalling, and they were certified as safe for trains to resume running on Sunday.

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) has been advised of the incident.