Parramatta to Katoomba: Journey To The Blue Mountains With Us | Slow TV
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- One of the most iconic rail journeys in the country, (maybe even the world?) - a trip up the Blue Mountains Line is a must! 🚉🌄
But since we're all doing our bit and staying at home, we thought we'd bring this journey to you ❤️
Jump on at Parramatta as we push through to foggy plains of Western Sydney, before we begin our climb up to 1000m above sea level, through the Blue Mountains National Park - ending in the historic town of Katoomba.
Grab some snacks and settle in - this one is a ripper! #SydneyTrains #NSWTrainLink #TransportforNSW #SydneyTrains
For those unfamiliar with the Blue Mountains, here are the stations.....and other bits of information.
X = Not stopped at.
2:10 Westmead X
3:02 Wentworthville X
3:55 Pendle Hill X
4:48 Toongabbie X
5:59 Seven Hills X
7:46 Blacktown (first stop after leaving Parramatta).
11:03 Doonside X
12:15 Rooty Hill X
13:33 Mount Druitt X
15:48 St. Marys X
16:49 Werrington X
18:49 Kingswood X
20:31 Penrith (Second stop after leaving Parramatta and last suburban station).
22:50 Nepean River, which used to mark the boundary between suburban Sydney and the Blue Mts. I don't know if that is still the case.
23:36 Emu Plains
28:16 Crossing the Great Western Highway
29:39 Lapstone X (Back in my day, Lapstone was always considered to be the first of the Blue Mts. stations. Emu Plains was always thought of as a Penrith suburb).
30:20 Glenbrook Gorge, on the left.
32:42 Glenbrook
36:22 Under the Great Western Highway
37:36 Blaxland
41:08 Warrimoo X
44:01 Valley Heights X
44:17 Rail museum on the left, which used to be the Valley Heights loco depot.
45:41 Overpass to Hawkesbury Road, which runs down to Richmond and Windsor, on the Nepean River.
46:22 Springwood
50:38 Faulconbridge X
53:26 Under the Great Western Highway again.
54:17 Linden X
56:00 Yet again the line ducks under the GWH.
57:13 Pacific National hauling grain.
57:49 Woodford X
1:00:54 Hazelbrook
1:03:13 Once again the highway crosses over the line.
1:04:20 Lawson X
1:05:56 Bullaburra X
1:08:18 The highway traffic (on the left) is climbing Boddington Hill, the steepest part of this section of the highway.
1:10:44 Wentworth Falls (Generally considered to be the start of the "upper Mountains", as it is about 300 metres higher than Lawson).
1:14:31 This time the highway passes under the line.
1:16:36 Leura
1:21:13 Katoomba
I hope that you enjoyed the ride! :D
This is making me want to go to Australia even more than I've wanted to go. Sydney seems to be the best place to visit. Great video, watching from the United States of America, in the state of New Jersey.
Perfect I need this parramatta to Katoomba relaxing during lockdown
Lol same
I love the hissing sound just before when the V set accelerates
Thank you for putting this up so we can take a ride on the train and ignore the chaos outside while in lockdown.
Greatl videos! Love to see more NSW cab views. I've travelled on most of the European and American trains via You Tube but need to see more Aussie Ones!
This is great! Very few of these sort of videos from Australia that I've seen - if there are going to be more, perhaps consider identifying the stations passed through for non-locals? Great stuff.
AMEN on the relaxing during the lockdown. I will share this with my young raily friend in India he will enjoy it too. Good work and thanks for the stopping Station names.
Great idea for lockdown, Well done! A recommendation, a subtle progress bar at the bottom of the screen with the station names would be good
great video,missing my traintrips to katoomba,thanks for the video
Wonderful footage, thank you!
Great Video, keep them coming.
Please do more of this!! Can you do a hurstville to kiama vie one day? I rly miss travelling on that line every week
Yep! Certainly in the works.
Wow that fog rolled in quickly. Amazing video!
Used to commute from ktown to Penrith and back everyday for about 3 years. I actually miss it
Would love to see some of *Sydney Trains Cab Video's* content on here! Love the work!
This is my daily commute. Although I get off at Springwood.
A ride on board a V set! V sets are my favorite!
They’re not my favourite but they’re one of my favourites :)
They re very comfortable - a pity that it looks as if their replacements will not be in the same class.
sucks to be you then!
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Great Video!
You really should put some captions for example station and suburb that we are passing.
You could even caption the surrounding for example:
- Parramatta Square (To your right) (0:00)
- Westfields Parramatta (To your left) (0:00)
- Future site of Parramatta pools (To your left) (1:15)
- Parramatta Park (To your right) (1:50) (Location of the hot air balloons for Australia Day)
- Westmead Station (2:10) (Future Connection of Parramatta light Rail & Health District)
So on,
A refreshingly boring but beautiful journey at the same time. Boring because you see the tracks, but beautiful mostly because it brought back memories of my first train journey to Katoomba as a 7 yr old in the 50's. I now live in SA, just north of Adelaide, so miss all the Sydney trains. Thanks to Transport for NSW. Great driver's eye view though, especially going from fog in the lowlands to sun in the mountains. Well done. Home you made a return journey version....lol. Was going to go back to Sydney, this year, 2021, but for bloody idiots starting the covid crap again.
Play this while listening to The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar, quite an ethereal experience.
Beautiful journey
Hoping that if I get a trainee driver role, this would be the office!
I would make one suggestion, and I consider it an important one. That is, you should identify the stations you pass through as well as those at which you stop. From Parramatta to Blacktown there were 4 unidentified stations, and from Blacktown to Penrith, a further 6 unidentified stations and we're only a bit under 21 minutes gone in this video.
Crazy to think those sandstone cuttings were done in the 1860's, and still in use today :)
I love that this is the most viewed video on the channel in a while. Shows what the people want to see haha
More to come!
Its more exciting than watching wallpaper peel.
Nice chopper sound, Lithgow next time please!
I did this trip in 2017 on year 10 camp ♥️ we started at central though
👍👍🏻🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃👌🏻🚞🚉 love the sound of the VVVF of the K Set
many thanks!!! in SEOUL
Really enjoy these videos, keep it up! Would of liked to have seen it go to Lithgow, but still great non the less.
Next time!
@@TransportForNSW I would never think that you guys would actually reply!
Can you film somewhere really long? Like Parramatta to Dubbo. Or Sydney Terminal to Brisbane (Roma Street). Or somewhere really long please?
Doable!
it is a pity the first half hour is lost in the mist. it would have been interesting to have seen the development alongside the trainline between Parramatta and Penrith.
Can you do one of a 42 class GM on a climb somewhere so we can hear that beautiful sound of a 567C V16 EMD working hard.
Looks like a special lens is used to give a 3 D effect.
24:00 "Let me tell you of an interview, with a *Plain* old *Emu!* LOL (with apologies to John Williamson).
Watch out for Emu Plains... Emu can be a handful
i’m assuming the cliffs of the south coast is next or the rolling hills of the souther highlands?
The west
We desperately need this in 4K please.
What chance of a trip down to the ‘gong?
Should of had cameras recording on the sides for some of the views for example: when passing Wentworth falls lake
30.00 to 31.00 1976 Glenbrook accident had a fatality in the rear car of a westbound double deck interurban electric train when a westbound freight led by electric locomotive 4623 collided with the rear of the passenger train.
The rear car of the passenger train was DCF.8004. It was rolled down an embankment and cut up on site, with the pieces being lifted by RAAF Chinook helicopter back to Elcar, Chullora. DCF.8004 became the first condemnation of a double deck interurban electric car.
Nice vid.
Do you guys let kids onto V sets like in the cab??
Nope - unless it's for a special occasion.
@@TransportForNSW Oh okay because my son really wants to go in one of the v set cabs.
Can you add titles showing the names of the stations we're passing through?
Let me guess. You have a GoPro 2.
There should be an a Return Trip From Katoomba to Central
It's in the works!
@@TransportForNSW Thanks for Telling me I hope Sydney Is Okay from this Outbreak
Is that a V set? It looks like one!
can you upload a real-time journey for central to Perth pls
We could only take you as far West as Lithgow.
Don’t forget to ‘tap on’ the like and subscribe button folks 😂
Ionesco Whistle of the chopper controlled v set
maybe put the bridge names in, like Bolt street,
howcome it is narrow gauge in QLD?
I think it’s better to see the cab and operation.
haha a saw my house.
Sounds like a V set.
Is this a c set? No wait it’s scrapped. Is it a vc set? No they got retired. What train is this????
Train people the ones making this interesting in the commenta
This could have been amazing if this was in 4k 60fps, or was 1080p 120fps or similar. Instead we decided to film like its 2010 :(
I'm good with the video just like this. The 4k is way too much for my phone and makes everything look glitchy. Even if this were to he uploaded in 4k 60 fps, I'd still be watching this in 1080p 60 fps.
Anyone old enough to remember when the overhead platform at Granville collapsed?
It was the Bold Street overhead ROAD bridge.....loco hit the support stanchions
....nothing to do with this vid.........which is great thanks Tpt for NSW.
26.20 where does that train come from i see it everyday in the mornings
Bathurst to central
Want to do a train marathon and watch a trip from central to casino or all the way to roma st
That would be cool!
Why does this exist and who got a promotion for posting it
I don't get why Melbourne or Queensland rail do these videos