a better trip is Moss vale to Port Kembla. I did it when i was 12yrs old, 442 class up to MV and a 600 class back full of lime stone. i'll never forget it.
NSW Southern Highlands is surely pretty high up on the long Beautiful Parts Of Australia list. :) I'll enjoy letting this rumble along in the background as I study for an assessment tomorrow. Cheers from a Northern Sydneysider/casual railfan.
I lived in Bungendore area as a kid, sensational to see this view of a line that was only a side window to Sydney. Best of all, recognising the landscape and enjoying the rail view over to the road after years of the road view to rail! Mesmorising the speed of the track going past on a big tv, love it. Watching a bit day to day, enjoying the journey. I don't live there now so a wonderful memory lane video, looked a great day to film! 🙏👍😁
great video!! We were lucky to have a holiday to Canberra from the UK where we live, back in 2014. We travelled on the NSW Countrylink from Canberra to Sydney Central. Unforgettable!
wow this must be wonderful being a train driver driving anything from freight trains & light engine movements. it is good to have nice view from the cab onboard on a nice smooth journey everyday. because for me I always loved watching freight trains roll by my local station on the southern Sydney freight line. their job is really good seeing the drivers at work. I liked the nice friendly toot horns that the drivers sometimes press from their freight train. I like all freight operators in Sydney because they all got very nice locomotives. & we have the best freight trains in sydney
Lovely video. I got a 1 month rail pass in May 1987 & traveled all over Australia when Australia National still existed. I'm a 'train-a-holic' & have logged over 250,000 km by train since 1955 mostly here in Canada (51x on 'The Canadian") but also in UK June 1990 when Brit Rail still existed. Cheers from Vancouver. BTW the only route I didn't get to fit into my schedule was this route to/from sydney-canberra.
Fantastic video for some one who hasn’t seen it for a while! Interesting to see when the lines become electric! All that empty land! Thanks for sharing!
Appreciate the vid mate I use to control the Main South Sending pass services from Goulburn, along with that garbage train everday It's great to see some actual footage of how it is out there
At 36:48 can be seen a line trailing in from the right. That's the former branch line to Captain's Flat. The line is still there to this day having not seen a train since 1969. The line was opened in 1940 closed in 1968 and reopened in 1969 to shoot the railway scenes in the appalling Mick Jagger film Ned Kelly. Steam loco 1243 (now in the powerhouse museum) with a huge kerosene head lamp was thinly disguised as a Victorian Railways steam engine.
Pretty much everything about Australia is backwards and inefficient and the people suffer from tall poppy syndrome. The only things it has going is an arch bridge,an Opera house and a couple of nice beaches.
Excellent picture quality. How come the engine noise seems so low that you can hear trackside effects like level crossings and birds, etc? I'd imagined the enormous EMD Roots-blown noise would have drowned out everything. Really great viewing. Thank you!
The video was shot from the No.2 end of the locomotive with a forwards facing directional microphone to attempt to drown out the wind noise. I am glad you enjoyed the video! If you want engine noise i could perhaps do another video with a second microphone closer to the exhaust/engine room for some quality engine sounds!
I have not been to Canberra by train since 1988. I worked the Canberra XPT as the Corridor Attendant Monday Morning ex Canberra so much has changed. So much has been ripped out or overgrown. Queanbeyan appears to be unattendant station now.
Always like these driver's views. Just curious, where did the old line on the right run (1:40 > 2:20) and the again cuts in just before Queanbeyan, Looking at the couple of interchange points sets, it must have played a busy role in the past. Living in Perth, this is new territory for me.
The old line at 2:00 looks like it might have been the original line into Canberra station. It's still shown as a rail line on Google Maps. The line that cuts in before Queanbeyan is the Bombala line (via Cooma). It was closed in 1989.
Brilliant video, thanks so much. Could you explain the 'GF18 passed on stop" explanation please, for those of us who don't know about SPAs and Axle Counters?
Glad that you enjoyed the video. We were required to pass GF18 signal in the stop position due to a failed axle counter. The Axle counters are what monitor the train traffic in and out of a set block between the signals by counting the axles in and out past each point. When one fails it can no longer accurately detect trains on the network between the locations the axle counter has failed at. The solution is to 'Block work' the train by authorising us into the block on a SPA or ' Special Proceed Authority' which is an authority given to the driver of the train from the Signaller to enter the Block under a set of conditions/instructions and in this case replaces the normal method of safe working for the track which is why the signal did not clear and we had to pass it at stop. There is a lot more to it although that is a basic explanation.
Great _"Cab View"_ video! What would be mice _in parts_ Albury to Central _(Sydney)!_ Although one has done it yet! I know the journey would take about ten hours! That's why it would have to be done in parts! :smiley: :train2:
@@sydneyanonymous5660 It would be, however if done in say 2-3 hour parts! Instead of 10 hour video! Eve if it took a few weeks? Would that be better? Like Savannahlander and Gulflander videos!
Totally amazed on the development between Campbelltown and Liverpool.. I grew up in Glenfield in the 80s and 90s. Was always a single up and down. What's loco is this filmed from ? Great video.
Hey there A railfan from India I have two questions about Aussie Railways... Wanna ask what's the top operating speed of the train? And what's the top operating speed in Australia and on which section ( if I'm not wrong the XPTs can run upto 200 kmph but what's the limitation on Aussie tracks )
Freight trains are limited to 115kmph depending on the locomotive and wagon combination. Passenger trains like the XPT etc are 160kmph although there are not many places it can get to such speed.
Odd that Wingello doesn’t seem to have a pedestrian crossing next to the station. I suppose people who need to cross the tracks would need to cross right next to the road?
There was a freight train in front of us that we were following just after Goulburn. As we were a light engine we are a low priority movement and had to follow it for the journey.
This journey was slower than usual being a non priority Light Engine movement. Passenger Trains do the journey in about an hour less with priority pathing.
Hermoso video, imágenes impecables. Pero podrían ponerle un poco más de alma la cosa: Referencias de lugar Velocímetro De dónde vienen los ramales convergentes Hacia dónde van los divergentes. Cuántos vagones arrastra Qué tonelaje Nombre de los ríos y viaductos Etc Etc
Some decent areas capable of 160km/h, too bad the ones within Sydney were all lowered to 115 or 105 km/h. Also you can see the lowering of track speeds to 120km/h at level crossings from the early 2000s.
interesting: were this (squishy) railway combing the Americas instead, then all those overpasses & underpasses seen during this first ½ hour here would be level crossings instead, and this for a line with barely any passing loop either
I can’t believe how’s Australia so behind we r in 2024 !!!!!!!!!!! I was in Germany in the year 1960 I took “”the train, freccia azzurra “” from Norimberga to Roma , time 11 hours . The year 1966 Melbourne to Sydney 880klm. I took with the south Cross train 16 hours!!!!!! Ps but I like the Video tanks to drives
Considering this line runs betweens Australia's capital and its largest city I would have expected some passengers trains but google shows they run only every 4 hours! I take it Australians are not big train users...
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Retired Driver, New Zealand Railways. Great to see operations from your side of the pond !
Why did you retire if i may ask?
I used to be a train driver in my younger days, this brings a tear to my eye.
Yes. I would love to see a Down journey from Chullora to Canberra.
Me too!
a better trip is Moss vale to Port Kembla. I did it when i was 12yrs old, 442 class up to MV and a 600 class back full of lime stone. i'll never forget it.
I wish I filmed it back when I was regularly running Clyde to Canberra.
Loved every mile of this trip, the blue sky on a perfect day and all the lush greenery. Gave me a great feel of the eastern side of the country.
NSW Southern Highlands is surely pretty high up on the long Beautiful Parts Of Australia list. :)
I'll enjoy letting this rumble along in the background as I study for an assessment tomorrow.
Cheers from a Northern Sydneysider/casual railfan.
Thanks for posting that. I love being able to travel to very-far-off places like that without having to get on plane.
I lived in Bungendore area as a kid, sensational to see this view of a line that was only a side window to Sydney. Best of all, recognising the landscape and enjoying the rail view over to the road after years of the road view to rail! Mesmorising the speed of the track going past on a big tv, love it. Watching a bit day to day, enjoying the journey. I don't live there now so a wonderful memory lane video, looked a great day to film! 🙏👍😁
And YES for the down journey...!!! 🚂🚃🚃🚃
great video!! We were lucky to have a holiday to Canberra from the UK where we live, back in 2014. We travelled on the NSW Countrylink from Canberra to Sydney Central. Unforgettable!
wow this must be wonderful being a train driver driving anything from freight trains & light engine movements. it is good to have nice view from the cab onboard on a nice smooth journey everyday. because for me I always loved watching freight trains roll by my local station on the southern Sydney freight line. their job is really good seeing the drivers at work. I liked the nice friendly toot horns that the drivers sometimes press from their freight train. I like all freight operators in Sydney because they all got very nice locomotives. & we have the best freight trains in sydney
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes us train drivers have some of the best offices in NSW i would argue!
that brickwork makes for the most captivating tunnel lining ever 🍸
A great video...thank you! I'd done the trip many times between 1984 and 2014 as a passenger so have never seen it from this angle before. 🙂
Glad that you enjoyed the video!
Salutări din România 🙋🙋🇷🇴
Lovely video. I got a 1 month rail pass in May 1987 & traveled all over Australia when Australia National still existed. I'm a 'train-a-holic' & have logged over 250,000 km by train since 1955 mostly here in Canada (51x on 'The Canadian") but also in UK June 1990 when Brit Rail still existed. Cheers from Vancouver. BTW the only route I didn't get to fit into my schedule was this route to/from sydney-canberra.
Most enjoyable. I live in Sydney but, truth to tell, I haven’t visited Canberra in over 30 years.
I luv that GM growl.
Fantastic video for some one who hasn’t seen it for a while! Interesting to see when the lines become electric! All that empty land! Thanks for sharing!
It’s a great run with perfect weather. ❤
Thanks so much. Light engine would be a good way of learning the Road.
I'm not even a train man, but, love love love these videos! New fan!
Love using these videos for route study!
Great trip to see Oz been to Townsville thee times my Daughter lives there nice to see blue sky not like UK in feb wet and fogs
what a fantastic view you have.
Appreciate the vid mate
I use to control the Main South
Sending pass services from Goulburn, along with that garbage train everday
It's great to see some actual footage of how it is out there
Glad that you Enjoyed it and i could provide a new perspective for you!
That garbage train is always getting in the way!!
Didn’t realise Canberra had a rail line. Always thought you had to catch the bus from Sydney
Amazing journey
Hi, love from India. I enjoyed this video vert much.
Great cabride 👍🏻 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 to Australia 🇦🇺
It looks very excellent system 😮.
At 36:48 can be seen a line trailing in from the right. That's the former branch line to Captain's Flat. The line is still there to this day having not seen a train since 1969. The line was opened in 1940 closed in 1968 and reopened in 1969 to shoot the railway scenes in the appalling Mick Jagger film Ned Kelly. Steam loco 1243 (now in the powerhouse museum) with a huge kerosene head lamp was thinly disguised as a Victorian Railways steam engine.
Great video,I always wanted to see the SSFL in action.
Fantastic video! What beautiful scenery on the way out of Canberra too. I hope to do a chase there in the coming months!
Haven’t seen many sheep and cattle properties on the way so far
Fantastic video and thanks for posting it. Great to get a chance to dive down the freight links. Looking forward to your next video.
4:17:42 got me jumping in my seat, honses!!
I've long been frustrated by how backward and inefficient Australian single track railways are. Good to see duel track after Goulburn. 😊
dual
@@malcolmlamb4547 Unless you're fighting with swords made out if rail 🤣
Small country multiple tracks, big country single tracks!!! Regards from Argentina!!!😂
To say nothing of the horns
Pretty much everything about Australia is backwards and inefficient and the people suffer from tall poppy syndrome. The only things it has going is an arch bridge,an Opera house and a couple of nice beaches.
Waow Amazing
I arrived at Chullora. I then realised that I would have to catch another train back to Moss Vale
29:26 The security-fenced area on the right is the headquarters of the military's Joint Operations Command.
Awesome.
would love to see the illawara line to bomo
Ill work on recording that one sometime soon!
I would like the Illawarra line go to Eden then west to wangaratta or Wagga Wagga.
I saw your locomotive on Monday on the 27 January 2024 We’re on a B SET NEER casula and Glenfield AT 5:25 PM
Super fine video
Thanks
Excellent picture quality. How come the engine noise seems so low that you can hear trackside effects like level crossings and birds, etc? I'd imagined the enormous EMD Roots-blown noise would have drowned out everything. Really great viewing. Thank you!
The video was shot from the No.2 end of the locomotive with a forwards facing directional microphone to attempt to drown out the wind noise. I am glad you enjoyed the video!
If you want engine noise i could perhaps do another video with a second microphone closer to the exhaust/engine room for some quality engine sounds!
At 1:22 or so there is a "Yard Limit" sign, WHY?
NO "yard" within kilometers and dead straight track as well.
I have not been to Canberra by train since 1988. I worked the Canberra XPT as the Corridor Attendant Monday Morning ex Canberra so much has changed. So much has been ripped out or overgrown. Queanbeyan appears to be unattendant station now.
What a slow trip! They should have held the garbage train at Goulburn and let you around! Or you could have stopped for lunch and still caught up.
It did cross our minds to get a coffee at Goulburn!
Always like these driver's views. Just curious, where did the old line on the right run (1:40 > 2:20) and the again cuts in just before Queanbeyan, Looking at the couple of interchange points sets, it must have played a busy role in the past. Living in Perth, this is new territory for me.
The old line at 2:00 looks like it might have been the original line into Canberra station. It's still shown as a rail line on Google Maps.
The line that cuts in before Queanbeyan is the Bombala line (via Cooma). It was closed in 1989.
I did some asking around and this was a loop that serviced some local industry's.
This is really mesmerising and relaxing : )
Brilliant video, thanks so much. Could you explain the 'GF18 passed on stop" explanation please, for those of us who don't know about SPAs and Axle Counters?
Glad that you enjoyed the video.
We were required to pass GF18 signal in the stop position due to a failed axle counter. The Axle counters are what monitor the train traffic in and out of a set block between the signals by counting the axles in and out past each point. When one fails it can no longer accurately detect trains on the network between the locations the axle counter has failed at.
The solution is to 'Block work' the train by authorising us into the block on a SPA or ' Special Proceed Authority' which is an authority given to the driver of the train from the Signaller to enter the Block under a set of conditions/instructions and in this case replaces the normal method of safe working for the track which is why the signal did not clear and we had to pass it at stop.
There is a lot more to it although that is a basic explanation.
Excelente video
Very enjoyable.
I love this view and would love to see the down journey
Is there one through the _rat holes?_ I.e. Lithgow to Central?
There is several cab videos through the 10 tunnels. Rock solid rail videos has them and one of the climb out of Sydney on the T9 from Rhodes.
Love the trombone!
Bit disappointed after that long ride we didn't get to arrive in Sydney Central station, would've been a finality to the journey !🧐
Bloody marvellous video!
Thankyou so much for your awesome long videos.
i cant wait for the next.
🦘
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice videos
hi What locomotive is this and what make of engine as it sounds very powerfull. thanks
It is a ex NSWGR 421 Class Locomotive with a EMD engine.
@@sydneyanonymous5660ow come it is still candy?
Absolute Gold
Great _"Cab View"_ video! What would be mice _in parts_ Albury to Central _(Sydney)!_ Although one has done it yet! I know the journey would take about ten hours! That's why it would have to be done in parts! :smiley: :train2:
That would be a long video!
@@sydneyanonymous5660
It would be, however if done in say 2-3 hour parts! Instead of 10 hour video! Eve if it took a few weeks?
Would that be better? Like Savannahlander and Gulflander videos!
Totally amazed on the development between Campbelltown and Liverpool.. I grew up in Glenfield in the 80s and 90s. Was always a single up and down. What's loco is this filmed from ? Great video.
chanced across several races along dual-tracking around the eastern USA
Hey there
A railfan from India
I have two questions about Aussie Railways...
Wanna ask what's the top operating speed of the train? And what's the top operating speed in Australia and on which section ( if I'm not wrong the XPTs can run upto 200 kmph but what's the limitation on Aussie tracks )
Freight trains are limited to 115kmph depending on the locomotive and wagon combination.
Passenger trains like the XPT etc are 160kmph although there are not many places it can get to such speed.
Odd that Wingello doesn’t seem to have a pedestrian crossing next to the station. I suppose people who need to cross the tracks would need to cross right next to the road?
Farrar siding no longer there.Ive walked through the tunnel between Burbong and Bungendore when I was 15 years old as a relief porter.
Brooks bank tunnel?
de trés , trés longues distances !
wasnt the line once electrified to glenlee collery for electric loco hauled coat trains?
I believe so at some stage.
hadn't expected that dismaying conclusion after trundling by all those pretty stations towards.. .. ..the coast?
5 hours? Via were ? Bathurst?
Xplorer does the trip in just over 4hrs but they run at a higher speed board then what a loco does
Not quite, but they do go via LAKE BATHURST!
Why are you running so slowly on 100 kph track? Is there a stopping passenger in front that you can't get looped around?
There was a freight train in front of us that we were following just after Goulburn. As we were a light engine we are a low priority movement and had to follow it for the journey.
Can't believe it took five and a quarter hours , why so slow ?
This journey was slower than usual being a non priority Light Engine movement. Passenger Trains do the journey in about an hour less with priority pathing.
Hermoso video, imágenes impecables. Pero podrían ponerle un poco más de alma la cosa:
Referencias de lugar
Velocímetro
De dónde vienen los ramales convergentes
Hacia dónde van los divergentes.
Cuántos vagones arrastra
Qué tonelaje
Nombre de los ríos y viaductos
Etc
Etc
A truly wonderful journey i hope there are more long journeys like this very well done cheers bob.🦘🍺🍺💯👍👍👍👍👏👏
Were we following another train given that we had a lot of yellow signals?
We were following the Garbo train out of Goulburn and a stone train out of Medway Junction. It was a slower trip that normal.
Great vid! What date was shot on?
The best environment so far.....in Australia.
Beautyfull scenery. Roads....with cars! Industries. Farms.
I gotta admit: when that horn isn't startling, it's hard to take seriously. Especially at 1:45:08
Some decent areas capable of 160km/h, too bad the ones within Sydney were all lowered to 115 or 105 km/h. Also you can see the lowering of track speeds to 120km/h at level crossings from the early 2000s.
interesting: were this (squishy) railway combing the Americas instead, then all those overpasses & underpasses seen during this first ½ hour here would be level crossings instead, and this for a line with barely any passing loop either
I've never been to Australia. At least to look at her like that
is all the country youre going pass is it farm land? or what?
I can’t believe how’s Australia so behind we r in 2024 !!!!!!!!!!!
I was in Germany in the year 1960 I took “”the train, freccia azzurra “” from Norimberga to Roma , time 11 hours .
The year 1966 Melbourne to Sydney 880klm. I took with the south Cross train 16 hours!!!!!!
Ps but I like the Video tanks to drives
Big population in a small country.
@@Mattb81big excuses small brain. Australia’s population is concentrated in the east no excuse
These days they use 3 car DMU's (No longer use separate loco & carriages)
They talk of extending this line to Eden and making Eden a port
Was that on a xplora
The loco in the thumbnail, 421 class
Oh cool@@TrainsForNSWVlogs
Considering this line runs betweens Australia's capital and its largest city I would have expected some passengers trains but google shows they run only every 4 hours! I take it Australians are not big train users...
In the cities yes. Outside them not so much.
Was this hauling anything?
I saw that you stopped at a green signal and waited for a long time. Why is that?
Receiving special instructions from the signaller via radio.
I note ar 1:11:14 that teally annoying old X'ing that unhave to go at 40 thru. Damn that farmer...
There are a few restricted crossings around due to crossing visibility.
18:47 My boss's old house 😆
Nice how the right of ways are SO clean. Not in usa
Australia is a flat territory with very few mountainous depressions. Wouldn't it be feasible to electrify the country's entire rail network?
Wow this got 88k views 👏
Going very slow in the middle of nowhere! Trains go much faster in highly populated and built areas in Europe and Asia.
Outskirts of Canberra to Outskirts of Sydney. Not as the title suggests. No city traffic at both ends.
PAUL
What wabs the loco
A 42 Class diesel-electric......here is info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_42_class_locomotive
Very close@@hcrun , it was a 421 class locomotive, number 42103 in Candy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_421_class_locomotive
@@sydneyanonymous5660 Yep......I stand corrected, completely overlooking the change of Class designation with the double cabs. Sorry for jumping in. 🤫
Sounds like one of the trumpets is clogged up. Should sound healthier than that.
3:30:00📌