Great video, Phil. I was in Sydney 1st week in February and visited Parramatta. The build quality is impressive as was the work at Central. Thanks to your videos I knew my way about!
Thanks so much Phil for covering all the exciting developments especially for those who can't get around so much in Person. I'd love to see the Wynyard to North Shore services restored and the disused tunnels employed for something like Doctor Bradfield's plans.
The problem with restoring the North Shore services is trams are just too slow over longer distances, you would be better off having trams interchange with the Metro at Crows Nest and Victoria Cross and not running over the Bridge into Wynyard, leave the Bridge and Wynyard tunnels for a future Northern Beaches Metro line. Building tram tracks back onto Military Road especially will be incredibly disruptive and difficult. Maybe once the new Western Harbour Tunnel tollroad opens.
Thanks for the update and hope it opens soon. I do wonder why it is only single track under Pennant Hills Road. If they make the walking track slimmer there is enough room to have it duplicated all the way.
The bridge is heritage-listed and to have widened the track formation to accomodate double-track would have incurred significant extra cost. It is only a super short section of single track, trams can traverse that in 30-45 seconds, so you can still run trams every few minutes easily no problem.
Another reason for the short single-track section at Carlingford is to save trackwork. Only two sets of points are required to provide two terminal platforms instead of four sets of points and a crossover (as at Randwick). The only advantage of the latter is that a tram can arrive on the left platform (facing north) while one is leaving from the right platform.
Great to finally see this line live again after so long, the right of way under Pennant Hills Rd will probably be done once the line is extended, but presently the cost / benefit analysis probably doesn't stack up with Carlo being a terminating stop. Also closing the road would present a big issues considering how busy it is, it would be a full weekend shut down of a major thoroughfare. Thanks for all you do in keeping us up to date on the progress.
It was exciting to see how it all looks now. I haven’t seen it between Carlingford and Rosehill until now. Except for the Yallamundi Stop All good mate! I love filming these updates. Thank you for watching :)
The bridge is heritage-listed and to have widened the track formation to accomodate double-track would have incurred significant extra cost. It is only a super short section of single track, trams can traverse that in 30-45 seconds, so you can still run trams every few minutes easily no problem.
Doesn't seem long since we were farewelling the heavy rail service on that line. Trams are proving a great success wherever they are installed, so I hope this is too. A great way to travel.
Great video Phil! I was out for 3 hours today filming the tram testing, I had lots of fun and caught heaps of them, very hot though 🥵 Great video again.
Thanks for a great video. I am gonna check this out on April 5th and also do a walk from Rosehill Gardens, across Bidgee Bidgee Bridge to Tramway Avenue. Still trying to work out the distance of that. Guessing perhaps 5km? I have shared this on my Facebook. Hope you don't mind.
Good video, Phil. Reusing an old railway system for light rail was a smart move. Do you or anyone watching this know what the frequency of the trains will be? Greetings from Seattle!
Great video. Love the red light rail trams there. Would these vehicles be compatible with with the Dulwich Hill or Randwick/Kingsford light rail trams? They have certainly done a great job there. Also, when is all this due to officially open?
The Urbos 100 should be regretted for this line, given the open ballast track, a pivoting bogie tram type (more like the E class Melbourne tram) would probably have been a better choice out there.
Am I right that it is double-track almost all the way to the Carlingford terminus, then narrows to a single track, then goes to a double track again at the platforms?
The City Light Rail (L2 and L3) have 10 modules with the 2 trams coupled. If they were just single trams they’d need 10 modules or even 12 due to high demand
@peterelvery engineers are special people.. I'm sure they could have done something either side ,retaining walls , new road bridge supports etc.without interfering with the road above .. plenty of example's about ..
@@geoflewis204Indeed they could have but chose not to. Too much pain for too little gain. The embankments on either side support the surrounding property as well as the road bridge. They could have closed the road, drilled, reinforced and concreted 30 metre deep supporting columns on either side, built concrete walls in between and excavated the embankments and built a new road bridge. This happened at Epplng Station when they realigned the up main in order to widen the platform. It took about a year. I'm pretty sure the prospect of closing Pennant .Hills road, one of the most congested roads in Sydney,, for a year was a contributing factor in the decision.
Can't believe it has been 4 years since that hot summer day when we were going from stop to stop to document the old carlo line hey Phil.
Oh yes it was piping hot!
It was very much worth it :)
Look what Phillip is doing
8:21 Aw, that was so nice of the driver! Other driver also waved 😊.
Love the length of these shiny new trams! I really enjoyed this one Phil!
I do wonder if a pivoting bogie model, similar length but fewer articulations, might have been a better choice given the open ballast track.
Thanks for that video. It's really good to know that it's been covered on here. Another great video Phil.
Great video, Phil. I was in Sydney 1st week in February and visited Parramatta. The build quality is impressive as was the work at Central. Thanks to your videos I knew my way about!
Nice video vid love the trams so shiny
Thanks so much Phil for covering all the exciting developments especially for those who can't get around so much in Person. I'd love to see the Wynyard to North Shore services restored and the disused tunnels employed for something like Doctor Bradfield's plans.
The problem with restoring the North Shore services is trams are just too slow over longer distances, you would be better off having trams interchange with the Metro at Crows Nest and Victoria Cross and not running over the Bridge into Wynyard, leave the Bridge and Wynyard tunnels for a future Northern Beaches Metro line. Building tram tracks back onto Military Road especially will be incredibly disruptive and difficult. Maybe once the new Western Harbour Tunnel tollroad opens.
Great video and happy Tuesday night and happy 26th march and I enjoy your channel
Thanks for the update and hope it opens soon. I do wonder why it is only single track under Pennant Hills Road. If they make the walking track slimmer there is enough room to have it duplicated all the way.
The bridge is heritage-listed and to have widened the track formation to accomodate double-track would have incurred significant extra cost. It is only a super short section of single track, trams can traverse that in 30-45 seconds, so you can still run trams every few minutes easily no problem.
Another reason for the short single-track section at Carlingford is to save trackwork. Only two sets of points are required to provide two terminal platforms instead of four sets of points and a crossover (as at Randwick). The only advantage of the latter is that a tram can arrive on the left platform (facing north) while one is leaving from the right platform.
Oooh yes that makes sense! :)
@@sydneytrainsvlogs It appears to be a case of organisation before electronics before concrete - a mantra on the channel RMTransit.
Nice video I enjoyed watching it!
Hi
Great to finally see this line live again after so long, the right of way under Pennant Hills Rd will probably be done once the line is extended, but presently the cost / benefit analysis probably doesn't stack up with Carlo being a terminating stop. Also closing the road would present a big issues considering how busy it is, it would be a full weekend shut down of a major thoroughfare.
Thanks for all you do in keeping us up to date on the progress.
It was exciting to see how it all looks now.
I haven’t seen it between Carlingford and Rosehill until now.
Except for the Yallamundi Stop
All good mate! I love filming these updates.
Thank you for watching :)
The bridge is heritage-listed and to have widened the track formation to accomodate double-track would have incurred significant extra cost. It is only a super short section of single track, trams can traverse that in 30-45 seconds, so you can still run trams every few minutes easily no problem.
Doesn't seem long since we were farewelling the heavy rail service on that line. Trams are proving a great success wherever they are installed, so I hope this is too. A great way to travel.
Yessir I’m so excited to watch
Great Vid Phill! Imagine All
The possibilities With The Light Rail In Hornsby!
Hornsby? Incredibly hilly, where would you take LR there? To the hospital or what? Down Pacific Hwy?
@@BigBlueMan118 i think so yez
it will good when it finally opens you always do great videos Phil
It should be open in a few months :)
Thank you :)
Great video Phil! I was out for 3 hours today filming the tram testing, I had lots of fun and caught heaps of them, very hot though 🥵
Great video again.
You can say hot again😂, the other day I done the 5km walk from Parra Square to Westmead in the heat, nearly fainted😅
Don't you have school? It's a Tuesday!
@@TrainsForNSWVlogs I went to school today. I was saying I went the other day, on the weekend.
I'm homeschooled
@@TrainsForNSWVlogs Oops, sorry, I thought you were talking to me for some reason💀
Thanks for a great video. I am gonna check this out on April 5th and also do a walk from Rosehill Gardens, across Bidgee Bidgee Bridge to Tramway Avenue. Still trying to work out the distance of that. Guessing perhaps 5km? I have shared this on my Facebook. Hope you don't mind.
can't wait to go on them
ohhh loooks intersting
Gorgeous day for it.
Good video, Phil. Reusing an old railway system for light rail was a smart move. Do you or anyone watching this know what the frequency of the trains will be? Greetings from Seattle!
Thank you! :)
The frequency should be every 10 or so minutes.
I have always wanted to visit Seattle and see the Boeing factory :)
Nice video phil keep it up
Hey film nice video I was wondering why does the guard always travel in the middle on an Oscar on the underground and not the back like the CCN ?
pretty exciting isn't. to think when stage 2 eventually opens this will go all the way to olympic park transforming the area.
Great video. Love the red light rail trams there. Would these vehicles be compatible with with the Dulwich Hill or Randwick/Kingsford light rail trams? They have certainly done a great job there. Also, when is all this due to officially open?
The Urbos 100 should be regretted for this line, given the open ballast track, a pivoting bogie tram type (more like the E class Melbourne tram) would probably have been a better choice out there.
Cool
Am I right that it is double-track almost all the way to the Carlingford terminus, then narrows to a single track, then goes to a double track again at the platforms?
Correct
Pretty sure the walkway doesn't change sides till Yallamundi.
Would the city light rail benefit better by having the 7 module tram set up, like in this video, Phil....rather than the coupled trams ?
The City Light Rail (L2 and L3) have 10 modules with the 2 trams coupled.
If they were just single trams they’d need 10 modules or even 12 due to high demand
@@sydneytrainsvlogs yes, I overlooked the city passenger traffic. And length could be a problem on George St. Thanks for the clarification, Phil. 🙂
@@sydneytrainsvlogs Fixed bogies only allow odd numbers of segments, unless an even number of such trams are coupled.
It better be a good system!
Nice Phil
Hang on .. So they sacrificed having duel track at Carlingford under Pennant Hills Rd. for a Cycleway .. Strange Times ..
Watch the video again. The pathway is cut into the supporting embankment. There's not enough height for an extra track.
@peterelvery engineers are special people.. I'm sure they could have done something either side ,retaining walls , new road bridge supports etc.without interfering with the road above .. plenty of example's about ..
@@geoflewis204Indeed they could have but chose not to. Too much pain for too little gain. The embankments on either side support the surrounding property as well as the road bridge. They could have closed the road, drilled, reinforced and concreted 30 metre deep supporting columns on either side, built concrete walls in between and excavated the embankments and built a new road bridge. This happened at Epplng Station when they realigned the up main in order to widen the platform. It took about a year. I'm pretty sure the prospect of closing Pennant .Hills road, one of the most congested roads in Sydney,, for a year was a contributing factor in the decision.
Phil u don’t mind if I call u Phillip? Yes or No?
No I think his real name is Phil
... dont ask me anything
🤣🤣🤣 why?
Hey Phil, just curious if you know whether there’ll be an open day for Martin Place or Gadigal metro?