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Train for train.

I had a classic "signal goes to proceed as soon as I've stopped" at 9:37 😂 and it took a minute for the train brakes to release on all 41 wagons / 743 metres 😅 (do we know someone that would watch the panel going "what are you doing?! go go go!!" 🤔🤣 )

I wondered that too, until halfway through the year! Note also brand new signalling across all three mains between Wiri and Westfield - I believe those are being commissioned over Christmas / New Year.

Looks like he had a low speed light up

It's not as obvious on camera and you'd have to freeze-frame to see it, but the Low Speed (short range yellow light below two red aspects) was illuminated on WSF 1532 and that is a valid proceed indication ;) A Low Speed or an equivalent "Yellow on Shunt" signal is generally the last proceed indication you get, to go into a non-interlocked area (like a yard), and it means the motor points are set but the track may be occupied or obstructed and we must proceed cautiously and be able to stop clear of any obstruction.

@@dl9786-kr Thanks

Hello, you will find real-time footage elsewhere on my channel. For this particular line, try th-cam.com/play/PLDY-M2ylFhurlike-ETkwLCqZZzcdWSJe.html As stated in the video description, the footage is not sped up in editing, but captured on the GoPro as a timelapse. A timelapse is an easy way to capture footage in summer without the GoPro overheating from direct sun exposure. Recording a timelapse also takes a lot of the editing workload away, for me. This channel takes the privacy of my fellow rail personnel seriously, with all rail personnel blurred on video, and all radio chatter muted. This means real-time videos take a lot of editing, and I often do not have the time or the interest to sit through hours of footage looking at the same view I see out the window at work, when it's interactive and immersive at work. This channel was started to share the view out my window with friends, family, and colleagues, most of whom do not have the time or the interest to sit through a 3.5hr video (as appealing as it may sound for some). Later on, the timelapses had also found some purpose for my wider colleagues (Trainee Locomotive Engineers, Train Controllers, LEs from other depots, and the wider KiwiRail team) to get an overview of the track I travel on. If I'm honest, these videos being on TH-cam is mainly to use TH-cam as a distribution platform, and they're set as public so that my friends, family, and colleagues can find them easily without me having to personally give them the link (or manage access). These videos are not monetized in anyway, and will never be monetized, so I don't get anything out of these and I'm not here to chase the views or the subs. Any enjoyment the general public gets out of these videos is entirely unintentional; that is to say, with all due respect, you are not the target audience. TL;DR: feel free to check out the rest of the channel, but the timelapse is just easier and more practical for me and my intended audience - friends, family, and colleagues.

Well spotted. I don't know the reasons (I just drive past there), and I used to think maybe they've got plans for a future industrial subdivision, but now that you mention it, it's also likely that they're just not allowed signs-only level crossings once frequent EMU traffic starts in February (2025).

Thanks. Re the fences - I don't believe the fences themselves have any preventive effect (though sometimes they are installed alongside civil/geotechnical work that do), only monitoring and allow a slip to be detected before a train runs into it. They're often combined with wireless cameras, tilt sensors etc etc. It's not that uncommon, during/after storms, for trains to hit slips and downed trees. Usually it's just a fright for the driver and a large inconvenience for all. They're usually not known to the public because they happen in rural/remote areas with no impact on passenger trains, so it's not newsworthy enough for anyone to care. Re the trees at Poro-o-Tarao, the area is full of dedicated forestry lots and all the trees are plantation radiata pine, so it's really just a matter of when they were going to harvest them. We have older drivers who remember seeing those trees being planted!

I'm afraid that's well outside my area!

@@dl9786-kr what do you mean its outside your area like do you never operate the train 120 from Auckland to Whangarei? If that really isn't possible then is the Auckland Port Shunt to Wiri possible for you?

@@IxtimmibosRailRT1430 correct, I’m not certified to operate any of those. I only go into and out of Westfield from Hamilton.

@@dl9786-kr so you really can't film the port shunt or train 120?

@@IxtimmibosRailRT1430 that’s done by the Westfield depot mate. It’s never going to be me.

Just a runoff from the safety points to capture (derail) anything that goes past the signal at red, to protect trains coming the other way.

(For the sheldon coopers, this is sarcasm)

​@@hello-hb1ll sure, a sarcasm that ended up being deadly when you think about it.

​@@hello-hb1ll wait until it gets close to the tracks and then... you know things about to get messed up.

Never heard of a Road Foreman, but can you describe what they do? We may just call it something else now.

@@dl9786-kr I believe they rode on Locomotives observing and ensuring the Engineer was driving the train correctly and observing rules and regulations. They could be waiting to board the Locomotive at any station or crossing loop like a bus inspector. I imagine that Locomotive Black Boxes have made their job redundant.

@@johnjkiwi7818 kind of sounds like the LE Team Leaders nowadays, yes the Tranzlog event recorder made it so that every button or lever or switch we touch is visible on a download (which is reviewed regularly by the team leaders), but the team leaders still go on face to face observations regularly, and certainly the 2-yearly Mandatory Grade assessments are always done in person.

I remain flabbergasted by the amount of people that take issue with standard Health & Safety terminology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)

Man, I worked with them for 50 years and I hate them !!!!!!!!!!!

The road the rake was in has a lot of names lol. Some call it "1 West", some call it "weighbridge road" (might've been a weigh bridge some time ago?)... But getting out into the interlocked area, Train Control know it as "3 south end".

​@dl9786-kr Ahh very good, recently certified TC on the Auckland metro zone desks. Great to see the network from your perspective!

That's a common Health & Safety term, and that's the terminology we use at work. I didn't come up with it, nor will I sit here and defend it. Call it what you want. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)

Right or left doesn't matter. Trains have priority on ANY crossing.

@@am5p8 Only if there is no crosswalk. In that case, the train must yield to pedestrians.

@@ZombieMax Don't know what planet you're on but nowhere I know of is that correct.

@@am5p8 Look it up, it's the same rule between landing planes and seagulls.

@@am5p8 Mars possibly .

Shifts are normally 7-10hrs; maximum duty time is 11hrs, after which we are not permitted to drive any train or car and have to be driven back to depot. There's normally an hour between starting the shift and departure on the train (half an hour for paperwork & loco checks, half an hour for pre-departure shunting / train inspection). Hamilton-Waiouru is 4.5hrs each way without stopping, and there's meant to be a half hour meal break enroute, so if we go to Waiouru we're getting pretty close to maximum time.

Found a photo of the accident in Te Ara, and a 1995 TAIC report mentioned in passing about the 1981 Silver Ferns derailment near Waiouru. From what I can gather, it was the 55km/h curve starting at 44:40 (but coming the other way).

@@dl9786-kr My family and I were travelling to Auckland a few weeks prior and was served by the female steward killed in the accident. Shocker. On the same trip to Auckland, a farmer knew we were coming and slit the throat of a sheep as we went passed. What an arrse

About a month ago

Sawmill and Pulpmill at Karioi & Tangiwai were still running.

That's a set of safety points, so that if a train had a SPAD (signal passed at danger, i.e. went through a red) while the route is set for an oncoming train, it will be diverted to the runoff siding and derailed in order to protect the oncoming train who would be proceeding correctly on signals. The same exists for the opposite direction on the other side of the bridge.

@@dl9786-kr Thanks. Once upon a time I knew that such things existed, but had totally forgotten. :)

Otherwise known as "Catch Points" -they are deliberately designed to derail trains that pass a signal at danger [SPAD]

Train was 228, and for the worldwide audience, it was a freight train in New Zealand, and this happened going through a town called Ngaruawahia, between Hamilton and Auckland.

​​@@dl9786-kris it just the perspective, do I have a broken optical apparatus or are the tracks really narrow gauge? I'm European btw

@@thedoublek4816 New Zealand is on 1067mm gauge. You’ll probably be more used to 1435mm standard gauge.

@@dl9786-kr Not necessarily, the size proportions of the sleepers in relation to the rails made me think of meter gauge. But yeah, in my country, standard gauge is, well, the standard, however, there are also some secondary/tertiary and heritage railways in narrow gauges like 750 or 1000mm. In the area of urban light rail and streetcar systems, there is even more variation, including some oddballs like 1100mm.