Ms Day, 55, died from a brain haemorrhage in December 2017 after being removed from a regional Victorian train for being drunk.

Regional train driver David Aisbett said it was up to a conductor to decide whether passengers should be removed from rail services.

The driver contradicted conductor Shaun Irvine's evidence from earlier this week, who said it was up to police.

"He's (Irvine) telling me that there's a lady on the train that's under the influence of some recreational substance and she doesn't know who she is, where she is, he can't get any sense out of her so he doesn't want her on the train," Mr Aisbett told central control in a recording played at the inquest on Friday.

There was no way of seeing what was happening in the carriage, Mr Aisbett said, and he had to relay information.

"I only repeat as accurately as I can," he said.

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Mr Irvine previously said he did not tell the driver he didn't want her onboard.

"I don't believe I said I didn't want her on the train ... I believe that I said she was under the influence of something and unable to meaningfully respond to my questions," Mr Irvine said on Tuesday.

The inquest was earlier told the Aboriginal Community Justice Panel at Bendigo was contacted and asked if someone was able to pick Ms Day up, but no one was available.

But on Friday volunteer justice worker Sandra Owen denied the claim and said while the name "didn't ring a bell" it didn't mean she would not help.

"Just because I don't know her doesn't mean we're not going to support the person, because we support them regardless," Ms Owen said.

The unpaid volunteer, who was one of just three volunteers at the service, was told Ms Day was intoxicated, didn't want to speak to the ACJP and wasn't making sense.

"I told him that we couldn't come and pick her up when she was drunk and we would have to wait until she was sober," Ms Owen said.

This was for the safety of volunteers but she told the officer to call again once Ms Day was sober, she said.

"If I don't know the person that would put me at risk, I don't know their level of intoxication. And I'm transporting them home in my car on my own with another person."

However she confirmed she was unavailable to collect Ms Day when asked by the police officer.

"We are only volunteers and this is where my frustration (comes from)," she said through tears.

But she said if she had known more about Ms Day's circumstances and details she would have been happy to meet her at a train station and taken her home.

Once Ms Day was in custody, police didn't go inside her cell until she was due to be released that night.

She died 17 days after hitting her head five times in the cell.

Coroner Caitlin English is examining whether racism contributed to Ms Day's death.

Australian Associated Press

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