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Population Australia:- 26 million USA :- 333.33 million Freight carried (Billion tons per km) Australia :- 413 USA :- 2105

Ok but why did i think the railway was being extented to golden grove 😭

I remember the old level crossing near bowden, apparently it was the only crossing on the entire metro to have elevated lights

Xpt to and from Melbourne has bed bugs in there1st class seats you have been warned the state railways didn’t reply to my complaints

ELECTRIC VEHICLES AREN'T THE WAY TO GO 🤬. They're Sh*t Boxes & Belongs In A Scrap Yard 😃😂. I Love The CUSTOM COACHES CB60'S & CB80'S 😍😃. I Loved Buses Since I Was Little 😍😃

having 3 gauges is wild. Say what you will about passenger rail here in the US but we're lucky that we basically accidentally ended up with a single standard gauge

After many years of this coming out, nothing has changed, but the weirdest thing about the Articulated bus is that: They miscounted the seats, the image shows 61, it says 65, and on the BRT, the image shows 61, it says 107. That's impressive, I think these buses are in great hands if their able to put in invisible seats

Close it north of port Adelaide, electrify it south of port Adelaide Also close the Grange line and Belair line south of Mitcham and electrify that north of mitcham

Most long distance train services are only for old baby boomers with disposable income like me not the common worker or families Country rail closed down viciously by Hired henchmen in 1980s particularly David Hill and Scully MP TRUCKS DESTROY COUNTRY ROADS THAT LOCAL COUNCILS CANNOT AFFORD TO REPAIR

Nationalization "for the greater good" sounds like the beginning of a slippery slope towards a confiscatory command economy. Sorry but I don't buy this narrative.

You can travel anywhere in Victoria under $10 now

Adelaide Commuter Link should be the nme for it.. Brisbane metro should be TransBrisbane

MOST TOWNs that have lost their rail service have died

Perhaps they could use something like a standard gauge Diesel Tilt Train.

Is this like 958 steamranger?

This is a total pet peeve for me too. Tho, to play devil’s advocate - are the features of frequency, capacity and full grade separation more important than the mode of transit? Who says a very high capacity, frequent bus service that is running on fully dedicated rights of ways with proper stations and off board fare payment isn’t a Metro? A BRT Metro, perhaps. But just because all metros to date have been rail, doesn’t mean they always need to be. For example what if there was a maglev Metro, or perhaps a hyperloop (god forbid) - assuming they approximated the capacity and other features of a rail based metro I don’t see why they can’t be called “Metro”. 😊

Great video! Australia is set up well for regional rail - it’s just a matter of upgrading the existing system from routes built in the 19th century. Better coordination, with increased frequencies, and even moderate speed improvements will bring rail travel time down to less than driving. If it can be cost competitive - with reasonably priced sleeper berths on long distance routes, it can really make chip away at the airline market. It makes sense to start with upgrades on the Sydney to Canberra route - it doesn’t need to be full high speed - but just making the route more direct so a trip takes 2 to 2.5 hours instead of almost 4 - this will be competitive with flying when you think of the time involved in going to the airport + security etc…

its almost 2025 and the only chance of rail to mt gambier is my dad telling a story of how he took the bluebird in the 80s

You make complete sense. Your arguments for better regional rail services make sense to me, to you and to nearly everyone else. There just have to be improvements in this era of rising fuel prices and the environmental problems. Also, what about poor Tasmania where there is no passenger rail at all. Excellent video and sorry for this comment being 2 years after the fact 😄.

Should just pull everything up and replace it with standard gauge.

You should see the mess UK's railways are in.

What is Australia not a failure at?

The United States has an advantage immediately because of no break of gauge.

I came here from an Adelaide VS Perth video

I've actually found it quite useful for bike rides. If you ever need to access Shepard's hill for MTB it's really close, and after a finishing a ride further up north its been really convenient to hop on Flinders from Adelaide Showground after riding down Greenhill Rd, or hopping on at Emerson after riding down the Old Freeway bike path, and then ride up the expressway bike path, accessing Aberfoyle, Flagstaff and Happy Valley. It's a pretty niche use, but its actually been fairly useful for me.

Not a lot of viewers here, for a topic that has been lot of neglect by Australian governments. Particularly the Federal government in Canberra. They (the national government) go for extremely expensive nuclear powered submarine warships, but can't fix national transport issues properly. Do you know how much new national railway could built for 370 billion (cost of 8 nuclear subs)? I can't speak for the viability of US rail services. Finally, I like to say that politically and e,economically the Western world in general, is again going down quite useless cul-de-sacs in land transport. EVs for example, despite the promise of but yet undelivered self-driving capabilities (lot of difference between driver assist and self driving), the corporations (Tesla) and governments go for the expensive option once again; only the wealthy can drive in the end (I.e cars), when they are mandated to be computerised self driving vehicles, while rail vehicles are simply guided by permanent way rail (also easier to make trains self-driving than cars).

Governments not spending money on regional transport period. Long distance trains across Australia ought to be all electric trains. It's just the governments not spending money on electrical transmission lines conversion, not spending money on new rolling stock and locomotives, and especially not spending money on engineering works such as new railway lines, bridges, tunnels and viaducts. They rather spend money on new freeways which are much less safe than rail travel, for the average passenger, and produce tons and tons more carbon dioxide emissions.

Did you say that locomotive hauled trains in vic suck and that Vlocities are good??? So wrong

G10 video when?

very informative vid , mate!

The most impressive thing about Amtrak is that it was never expected to succeed-it was designed to fail, and was basically set up as a euthanasia program. The fact that it has now survived 50 years of political hostility is incredible. With the newest plans, Amtrak is setting up for a system with better economies of scale and connectivity, as well as linking more destinations and thereby achieving more widespread political support. One of the main reasons that politicians are able to oppose it is because it does not directly benefit their constituents. With a more widespread network, more people will be affected by funding cuts, which in turn will hopefully set up a virtuous cycle of investment. Also-I can't seem to identify the location at 19:42-19:48. Could somebody please help me with this?

Mostly? It's because planes are cheaper & faster. But mostly not everyone wants to travel across the country in a train that takes days to arrive unless on thier holidays.😅

Well said. You look at a map, these cities are so close, it shouldn't take 10 and a half hours

I would love to be able to travel from Sydney to Melbourne and Brisbane in 4-5 hours - around the same time as a flight to Perth. Unfortunately in a country where federal elections happen only every 3 years, forget that☹

This video is certainly interesting - I definitely agree with your statements regarding station facilities and their need for upgrading (although that has been somewhat fixed since this video was released), but your ideas with the Grange line seem to me to not be the best of choices - I would say the requirement to transfer between lines would mean a dip in already low patronage numbers, which would only be able to be rectified with increased capacity, which you have denied the option. I would propose the Grange line service's operating sphere, but increasing the frequency by the 'Belair' method - including a passing loop or two (might I suggest at Albert Park station) and/or the increase of the double track out of Woodville. 4000s operating the line at electrification would also increase capacity from the 2-car 3000 sets.

Was it a mistake to transfer the South Australian railways to the federal government?

Australia- short sighted and narrow minded. No long-term vision for the railway ! Too busy bituminising unsealed roads and upgrading existing sealed road. Any bonehead can obtain a truck license and live on KFC, McDonalds, Energy drinks and takeaway coffee, whilst routinely falsify their work diary, and create large amounts of pollution and road congestion. Australia can’t see beyond short-term profits and personal convenience. Sad !

The american shortline railroads have been under threat from PSR- Precision Scheduled Railroading which is neither precise nor scheduled. This practice has resulted in doubling the lengths of trains in order to economise on crews, dropping shortline railroads in favour of high volume loads like coal.

Just an idea. Instead of relocating the bus station, how about extending the bus routes to or through the train station?

I bit late to the party, Queensland have an narrower gauged tracks then all of Australia for some reason, you forget cane trains in QLD, NSW and maybe WA. th-cam.com/video/5-M8Grh8gYA/w-d-xo.html

School children have a stand alone fare

The U.S. is too built up and industrialized with quite an extensive network of railways to be fairly compared with Australia which is still an agrarian and mineral dependent nation with virtually all its population located on its coasts. A better comparison would be with Canada or even Russia!

There are a bunch, at least on the north coast NSW, of those train stations shut down where the XPT used to go... which made me sad.

As someone who has been on a long(ish) rail journey on board a DMU, I think having a DMU on a route this long would be a less than ideal idea for NVH reasons, I think getting modern passenger locomotives and passenger cars based off designs used abroad would be a better idea for passenger comfort, as DMUs are louder and vibrate a lot more when compared to traditional locomotive hauled trains, and if you have an actual passenger locomotive they don’t have any speed advantages I feel a good choice of train to base new trains for The Overland (at least for day running) off of would be the Siemens Charger and Venture based trainsets that Brightline operates and Amtrak and Via will be receiving in the next few years, though there is still the issue of even though these trains have a 200km/h maximum service speed this wouldn’t be possible in service as 115 is the maximum speed on any of the standard gauge track between Melbourne and Adelaide If you want speed increases without having to upgrade hundreds of kilometers of track, the best option would be to get a gauge changing train from CAF or Talgo and run it along the broad gauge line from Melbourne to Ararat, which has maximum speeds of 160 and 130, though I don’t think either CAF or Talgo make anything diesel powered currently Also, I think on a route of this length an overnight service would be perfect, and wouldn’t require any speed increases, so there would be no need to buy new passenger locomotives, and once again I think the best rolling stock for this would be from Amtrak, and specifically would be the Viewliner series of sleeping cars, which in my opinion is the best sleeping car design ever devised, and I would imagine CAF would still have the tooling to build considering they delivered the last Viewliner II in 2022

Naracoorte would have to be bypassed due to development on the corridor but at station and freight centre could be re established at Hynam ( QUBE logistics has. Truck only one across from the meat works). The line could be kept seperate from Wolseley to Bordertown to make recreating the junction easier. The amount of grain that travels through western Victoria & the mallee in SA to Portland would create tons of freight/ cash

Transcontinental trains are usually useless

Want to resurrect regional rail speed it up run several trips and have them connect to a HSR line as feeders for network connectivity

From the States🇺🇸, new subscriber & love this vid! Aussie🇦🇺🚂🤘🏻and right honest!

the one way freeway was a reversable road that had a timetable of going north on weekday mornings ,south on weekday afternoons and evening, Saturday , Sunday and Public Holidays south in the morning and north in the afternoon & evenings. Access was controlled by boom gates and lights.. I found that living in Adelaide I could visit the south coast region for the day on the weekend and use the road for the trips to and from the area. I thought of it like the eight lane Sydney Harbour Bridge where the use of overhead green arrow light or red cross control the use of lanes 3,4,5 & 6

Oi dont disrespect the n class