Drivers eye view, Goornong to Bendigo, Apr 2024

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  • @xr6lad
    @xr6lad 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’ve heard of preplanning but Huntly seems to be an indulgence specially when Bendigo already has 4 stations. And Ballarat is bigger and can’t even get a 3rd for the western suburbs. Still the helps that the local member was the Minister of Transport.

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Huntly will have houses being built around it in the next few years. They're not far away now. 👍😀

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@driver667 yup agree but my point still stands. Ballarat has only two and is a bigger city. Huntly is all of 10 minutes from Epsom and 15 from Goorgong. So at $2-$3 million a piece once of those could have been sacrificed. 5 stations including Huntly versus two for a bigger city does seem a tad pork barrelling.

    • @davidholder3207
      @davidholder3207 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm thinking along your lines xr6lad. The taxpayer is forking out hundreds of millions on Victoria's regional rail network at a time when patronage is falling. I drive regularly on the road from Pakenham to Phillip Island. Its classed as an M road but its more like a goat track from Tooradin eastwards. It could do with some of those millions that have been thrown at regional railways when a bus service could provide the required transport needs to connect Bendigo with country communities.

  • @rayroche94
    @rayroche94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for another great video. That crawl from Epsom into Bendigo must be really frustrating for the drivers.

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It certainly is but there's not much you can do about it. 🤔👍😀

    • @rayroche94
      @rayroche94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@driver667 I wonder how a Vlocity would go with a bull bar.

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rayroche94 hmmm, don't think so 🤔 👍😀

    • @emdB67
      @emdB67 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 trespassers seem to have been given too much power. 🤔

    • @joscallinet6260
      @joscallinet6260 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 From reading your and others' explanations of the reasoning behind why this stretch of slow track continues to exist, why haven't the policing and trespassing problems long-since been addressed and taken care of? Why would the Australian government, which I understand owns this stretch of railway line, be willing to tolerate this situation for as long as it evidently has for more than several years now. This slowdown makes no sense - and it surely must be greatly discouraging people from wanting to use this train route.

  • @philipwilkin1975
    @philipwilkin1975 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I rode this line many years ago and it was painfully slow, it seems to have been upgraded in certain areas but is still very slow into Bendigo

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Police operation. Trespassers. 🤔👍😀

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    19:07 Geez we're draggin' our heels here! 50 snails just shot past, going so fast they were just a blur! LOL😁

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Es car go??? 👍😀

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 Ahhhhhh Yep! *Zoom, Zoom!* 😁

  • @martythemartian99
    @martythemartian99 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When the train had to slow down, I just pretended it was a vintage railmotor on a tour.
    (I had to provide my own creaking sounds though.)🤓

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'll have to add a few creaks and groans. 🤣🤣👍😀

  • @joscallinet6260
    @joscallinet6260 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What was the reason for the "slow order" over what appeared to be track worthy of much higher speeds?

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Police operation, trespassers. 👍😀

  • @msg5507
    @msg5507 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jeez, quite a crowd on the platform at Bendigo...

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A very popular service. 👍😀

  • @adamant8235
    @adamant8235 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why is it 40 from epsom to Bendigo

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Police request due to trespassers 👍😀

    • @adamant8235
      @adamant8235 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You’re kidding …. Was this made public ?

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamant8235 as you would have heard, it was in the announcement in the train. 👍😀

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adamant8235 I misunderstood what you were referring to, the 40 is due to sleeper condition. My apologies. 👍😀

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 The sleepers might've woken up! I could hear them yawning! LOL😁

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    13:28 This place would go through you like a dose of salts..... Epsom Salts! LOL😁

    • @driver667
      @driver667  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh no 😳

    • @neilforbes416
      @neilforbes416 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 LOL

  • @Robloxnoobyboy
    @Robloxnoobyboy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Driver! Is it easier to become Driver or guard? And what ones does less training to become?

    • @Robloxnoobyboy
      @Robloxnoobyboy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What one.

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Conductor. Less training. 👍😀

    • @Robloxnoobyboy
      @Robloxnoobyboy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 and how long does that take?

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Robloxnoobyboy I don't know. 🤔👍

    • @Robloxnoobyboy
      @Robloxnoobyboy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@driver667 what u do

  • @mihailoarsic5716
    @mihailoarsic5716 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👍

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      👍😀

  • @Aviumkeeper
    @Aviumkeeper 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh dear, track trespassers ruining a good run (according to the announcement at 16:37)

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, good run ruined. 🤔👍😀

  • @garygeorge7035
    @garygeorge7035 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    give it a couple of years anh huntly closed lack of passengers

    • @driver667
      @driver667  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It will be the opposite. The housing estates are not far away. They will be at the station in the next year or two. 👍😀