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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Travel with the train driver as we travel from Cardinia Road to Nar Nar Goon in the East of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia over the new Pakenham Skyrail that was built to eliminate the level crossings in this area in a Vlocity railcar. July 2024.
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No way!!! I was legit thinking of this as an idea for a video you could upload just earlier today. Nice to see you were already onto it. Hope you can get one going the other way too. Great work.
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@@therealsammyvee888 we were on the same wavelength. 😂😂👍
@@martythemartian99 I think someone has been into the bat juice 🤔🤔👍😂
Hopefully this time next year the new we will be riding the new viaducts on the Armadale Line in Perth !
@@qfa330 yes, interesting. I had a look at the progress when I was over there a little while ago. 👍😀
I have been so excited to see this since the new section opened, thank you for uploading!
@@TeamEXAngus you're welcome. Very happy you enjoyed the video 👍 😀
So good, I watched it twice. 🤗
@@emdB67 thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. 👍👍😂😂
As an observer from far away, it's nice to see another side of Victoria. I'm guessing this train will be go much further along the line. Looks like they've done a lot of work in Pakenham. It must have cost a lot but I'm sure it'll be worth it in the long term.
@@apc108 this is part of a trip that will run from Melbourne to Bairnsdale. This is up now to show the work completed through Pakenham. The complete journey will be coming in the near future. 👍😀
@@driver667 That's what I was hoping!
@@apc108 👍😀
I see that the electric overhead has been removed, why? Years ago I went on a school excursion to Morwell to see power stations and that was on a suburban electric train
That wires were removed by around 2000 as there were no freight or country passenger trains using the overhead any more and the suburban train system boundary was Pakenham. The overhead was in need of a lot of work so down it came. 👍😀
Any chance we'll see the new platforms and tracks further down Gippsland line?
Yes, the new full trip to Bairnsdale is coming. 👍😀
What are the short single ended sidings for? They look too short for trains..
They are over run protection. Just in case a train has problems stopping at the platform. 👍😀
is the new pakenham station finished it looks like it still got a bit work to do.
@@Mediawatcher2023 there is still some work to do to finish it off completely. 👍😀
@@driver667 The station wont take long to be finished
@@Mediawatcher2023 👍😀
Nar Nar Goon. Wasn't he the guy who trained Bruce Wayne before becoming a villainous enemy of Batman?
There's an idea. Can you drive a train from the Division of Batman to Nar Nar Goon?
🤔 you could 😀😀👍
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@@mihailoarsic5716 👍😀
I was on the one after that, all seats filled at Flinders Street, school holidays means more passengers I guess? Pakenham upgrade is huge. $415 million?
@@tomcat7525 it was a big project, that's for sure. 🤔👍😀
In your opinion, does the line need another passing loop between Pak East and Caulfield ?
@@ashpeake2426 an express line would be good to allow express trains to overtake the stopping trains but I don't think that will happen any time soon. 👍😀
Wait a minute , it is not a vlocity it is actually an n class
@@ryanramona4397 it's a VLocity. The picture of the N class at the start is wrong but I can't change that now. 🤔👍
@@driver667 When i saw it my reaction was oops oh well his forgiven lol
@@Mediawatcher2023 😂 oops 😀 👍
so i gather the old pakenham station would be now demolished
@@Mediawatcher2023 yes, I would guess there would be no sign of it at all under the skyrail. 👍😀
Even with bypass tracks, V/Line still gets delayed by metropolitan trains.
“Minimising congestion” as the government and LXRA says…haha, bullshit!
and nice video btw, of da new layouts
Only express tracks will fix this or give up and require a transfer at pakenham
@@nickstransportvlogs the new track arrangements at Pakenham East are great and do fix the problem at Pakenham that used to see three trains wanting to use two platforms at once. But as stated, a third or fourth track along the corridor is required to allow an express train to run freely. 👍😀
@@driver667
Sure the layout of East Pakenham can fix the bottleneck, but the problem seems to come right back when delays and disruptions occur.
One time, 8460 from Bairnsdale got delayed by 40 minutes because Metrol is stupid enough and don’t think straight, when they’ve let a HCMT be in front of 8460.
And yes, separate tracks allow express trains to operate without any hassle by being stuck behind a local train, but I think four tracks would be more appropriate for a line that is heavily used by Metro, V/Line and freight trains (only two, one going to the apex siding in Westall, the other to the paper mill in Maryvale. There’s soon to be more if that inland terminal in Dandenong South is built).
Three tracks would only permit express trains heading to one direction, this is the case with the line to Box Hill (from Burnley) and Moorabbin (from Caulfield).
@@nickstransportvlogs lots of problems, little money to fix it properly. 🤔👍
All this work and they still just leave the mud pits.....
When the works are scoped, project boundaries are defined to the nearest metre. The project cannot go outside those boundaries. You can tell where they start and end in this video.
@@xtrapolis954m yeah I know :/ I'm just being a hater....metro doing a crap job looking after our infrastructure. Maybe next election we'll get Mud Pit Removal Project 🤷