They come in all shapes and sizes: Trams in Melbourne, Australia 2017: Biggest System in the World!
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- The Largest Tram Network in the World - simply put such a diversity of trams and the sheer size is is just breathtaking. Unlike many cities across the world, that where dismantling their networks in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Melbourne chose not to follow this trend.
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I've lived in Melbourne all my life and use trams for work and leisure, they are just a normal part of our city. Melbourne would be so different if we didnt have trams, lifeless! This footage has been so well filmed showing a lot of variety. I love the tram system we have here, i hope people from all over the world will get a chance to try it sometime!!
If you havent noticed we drive on opposite side of road to most countries
I wish we can build trams in the Philippines! Old Philippine Portaits used to have one like the San Francisco Tram tracks!
@@carlanthonyiral5932 I think Philippines is too crowded for that lol😂😂
@@waffelo4681 if you are pertaining to the metropolitan manila cebu and davao, yes. But if it is on the provincial countryside, it's feasible to say the least.
@@carlanthonyiral5932 yea
Excellent video. I moved from Sydney to Melbourne back in 1981 and I have never regretted it for a second. Melbourne is a truly amazing place.
This video just hangs around the inner city area . A number of trams go out a long way from the city centre thru green belts which are aesthetically pleasing
That is true, there are tons more trams in suburban areas in Melbourne
Thank you for uploading this video. I was living there in 2017. The city filled with Victorian architecture was gorgeous. The sound of tram bells and announcements give me nostalgic chills.
I lived there in 2017 as well, so nostalgic and happy memories. I miss you so much Melbourne.
Melbourne is so beautiful. I’d love to visit Australia someday.
So true ❗
Same!
Melbourne tram is very useful when one wants to travel around the city.It is convenient and easy to acess.
Unusually, Melbourne's tram network runs many routes along the same lines before they diverge later in the network.
Also there is a law that trams in suburban areas (where there are no platforms) create an instant zebra crossing between it and the nearest footpath whenever they stop. It is illegal to overtake a stopped tram.
Michael Pilling According to a tram driver that posted something online and I quote. "Notice how the stop signs are only there for decoration". Aka people constantly ignore it.
You can pass a stopped Tram if first you come to a complete stop yourself and then you can pass it at walking speed so long as it is safe to do so. Too many morons in Australia.
Yeh similar to an S-bahn style train network its so that you can service higher density areas/areas with more traffic with frequent services while still providing links to surrounding areas.
You have to wait for the doors which ave signs that flip out saying ‘stop’, are closed. Then you can pass the tram 👍
Or Toronto
Melbourne is cool place for travellers, the tram makes all the backpacker can enjoy the good experience
As a Melbourne native, it’s a cool city to live in, too. Trams help make this city special. Love the place.
Thanks for sharing the diverse tram network of Melbourne Australia!! Truly amazing!! Love the blend of old and new. I have friends who live in Melbourne and they speak highly of the tram system!!
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1:19 so Melbourne still uses W class trams on their system! There are some in America, but I've never seen any of them in person!
2:37 I always find it amazing that a city's streetcar or light rail system has intersecting tracks in the middle of the street!
5:15 aren't those two trams following each other a little too close?
7:45 That's the lognest 3-piece streetcar I've ever seen! and I thought my local streetcar system (RideKC streetcar) had the biggest 3-piece streetcars!
8:45 that streetcar looks a lot like most of the modern streetcars in America!
9:38 that bell is the same bell used on the RideKC streetcar! But this tram is a Bombardier, while the Ride Kc streetcar fleet is all CAF!
Does two trams are following each other Cuz all the trams here are follow each other in the peak hours and that's not a W class tram it's a restaurant tram
PtvLover 100 The restaurant trams are W class, and the tram in question at 1:19 is a regular city circle W class, not the restaurant version.
Oh k
the 'modern streetcars in America' tend to follow the 'lightrail' approach of trying to be substitutes for trains.
The W class are only used on the free City Circle tourist route. IIRC, they were last used in regular service in 2014.
Melbourne is amazing. The tram system reaches to the suburbs. I really enjoyed my time in melbourne
Loving melb ! I’ve been living there for like 3 months which equals to 90 days ! So nostalgic and amazing city !!!
3 months =90 days everyone knows that 🤣. You don't need to mention twice
So many triggered people in the comments,not happy that Melbourne has the biggest tram network in the World,and going for over 150 years.
I stand corrected ,133 years.
They are an essential part of Melbourne’s culture,jump onto a tram to Collins St,Block Arcade,check out some music at Basement Discs,then sit down for a lovely coffee at a famous Melbourne laneway cafe,bliss.
Love the old girl.
I understand your plight.i live in Adelaide South Australia and we have the best rapid bus Obahn system in world,Germans invented concept but we mastered concept and it became successful.better than Germans who created Obahn bus routes.the amount of jealous people in other countries is amazing.they can't accept our good governance and feasibility studies that produce good outcomes while theirs fails.we don't know how lucky we are here in oz until we read those comments.glad we live on a island.love this bluddy country I'd rather see more of my own country than go to these f....d up jealous countries.
Melbourne without trams is like chips without sauce. Just doesn’t work. Trams are the Melbourne family.
I was born and raised on Melbourne till my mid twenties when I moved to Sydney, and as much as I have grown to appreciate my new city over the years Melbourne will always have a special place in my heart. I still visit family and love going into town. One day I may return. It is also heart warming to read that others love Melbourne too. I remember the difficult years during the late 80s to early 90s the Kirner years when Melbourne got hit with a recession, stocks dropped, the market fell and many people lost their jobs and businesses closed. Melbourne city was a ghost town. It was hard and difficult times. Then the rebuilt came and slowly the city regained itself with the Kennet government and so on, Now it is bustling with people everywhere, it has come a long way.
Jeff Kennet was an absolute VANDAL to this city, closing police stations, schools, hospitals… and wasting big money on enormous buildings. A terrible Premier, as many will be happy to tell you in the street!
I love the combination of old and new, excellent!
Great shots of the city. Thanks
The most impressive network in the whole wide world!!! 💓
Nagyon jó videó Gratulálok! Magyarországról.
Ahhh, my home town... how majestic...
Lucky. I’m live in Sydney. It’s awful
Similar to SF, love it. In fact very similar now that SF got Siemens vehicles. I loved Melbourne when I was there
Awesome video! I can't believe how close apart each tram vehicle runs; almost like buses! Some of the newer bells remind me of Tucson, AZ's SunLink streetcar.
Clang! Im coming. Clang clang! Get off the line..! Top speed of an E Class tram is 129 kmh (80 mph) - known as the 'nuclear option'.
Na, they don't get faster than 80kph, or 50mph, still, a 70 tonne anything isn't stopping for anybody unless they ask nicely
Melbourne looks so nice!
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It’s is nice really trust me but the country is way better
Beautiful place, I was there for 45 days superb
R u still alive or ?
@Gamer Lad02 I do 😂🤣🤣🤣🥲🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🎉🎉🎉
@Gamer Lad02 f u dead?
the unusual design of the trams. Very nice city
Trams and bikes are the best modes of urban transport
Very beautiful video!
Thanks for video
There is also the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant, which operates over various tram routes. It was the first of its kind in the world. Very popular today.
@Craig F. Thompson Could your reply be 'fake' news, as I have never heard about this operation. The Colonial Tramcar is not a coach, single or otherwise; it is an actual W-class heritage tram refitted with a convection oven, etc.
RIP Tram Restaurant
Really great video! I'm also getting into the tram fascination :D
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A little like in Budapest in Hungary - doors on both sides, two driver cabins :-D
Przemcio78 In the US there’s doors on both sides and two driver cabins. I always thought this was normal, San Francisco.
thats normal everywhere...
In Poland most cities have one-way trams only and the finishing stops are circular
Very nice video, thank you for upload. -- The tram system is really very interesting in its variaty of older and newer trams, and also the historic tram at 01:30. -- Would love to go to Australia for an interesting journey. But not at the moment. Shit Corona pandemic. 😡
In Brisbane a Sporting/Community Centre was named, after a former Lord Mayor who decided to increase congestion and pollution in the community by removing the trams and that person was Clem Jones.
kwv4865 Same thing happened in Adelaide with Sir Tom Playford.
In russian Saint-Petersburg, former trams' world capital, such "Lord Mayor" was Valentina "SosOOlevna"/"Sucker" Matvienko and thus Melbourne became a new trams' world leader. Xcept it happened in the mid 2000, unlike in Brisbane
@@suej9329 The old Tom was very Playful didn't he? :)))
@@Whitebeard79outOfRus no you just upset, Melbourne’s has the largest tram newtowrk for about 133 years or something like that
@@RRAAZZAA Wrong, SPB was the world largest network until its tram-massacre in the beginning of 2000s. Melbourn, prob, was largest in the Western world
A lesson in not throwing things away if ever there was. Sydney has brought them back in small numbers, which is good, but it’ll cost billions to have them back to the extent Melbourne currently enjoys.
The US scrapped hundreds of systems and now is trying to bring back just a handful, at huge costs.
to get as large as Melbourne's Sydney would have to "reclaim" a lot of land and it will never be able to.
Sydney had a bigger tram Network than Melbourne before they closed it down.
As a child, I visited Melbourne once. SinceI was only about 8 or 9, I still had a sort ofchildish behaviourin me, so whenever we were in the back of a tram and a nother tram was behind us, my siblings and cousins would wave our hands at the tram operators and sing 'hello from the other side'
Ah, the good old days
So amazing this Video 👌
2:22 Tramways can go very far. This tram series has been made for Mulhouse, France.
Melbourne has so many trams that if you went from the Melbourne cod to box hill or Doncaster (both are about 10 Km away from the CBd) you’d still se trams
Nice. Some day, will experience to ride trams.
Come to Melbourne.The trams are free to travel on in the central business district.
@@petermcculloch4933 😱wow
8:40 The blue banner at the intersection - I cannot believe they are still building the bloody Metro tunnel!
Melbourne is glamour!
Beautiful looking city
I didn't realise they had different models, let alone so many types. That old one near the start looked phenominal!
yeh its nice seeing the older ones kept running
The W class at 1:19?
Yeah that one so good
Watching to see what the tram network was like pre covid times
AWESOME
The problem with Melbourne trams existing continuously for so long, is that they haven't had a clean sheet to work with. In Manchester U.K. the tram system, while much smaller, is better integrated with the trains and busses. The trams there enter two mainline railway stations and also go to the airport ; all the stops are platformed and therefore much safer.Another interesting thing about Manchester trams is that they are often up to twice the length of those in Melbourne.
Melbourne has no need for longer trams, if a route becomes popular then they just run more trams. Most lines operate every 5 minutes during peak and 8 minutes during other daylight hours. That means there are trams every 30-120 seconds on the lines in the city.
Sorry to disagree with you but Melbourne does have a few longer trams but I understand that on many of the routes there would be a problem with turns. Melbourne is a nightmare for car drivers with so many individual trams and the notorious Hook Turns. Look on TH-cam for 'Manchester Metrolink New Lines 2012-2017'. I'll be back in Melbourne early in 2018 but while considered a very confident driver will avoid the C.B.D.
john gaskell Melbourne is a nightmare for you as a driver, then leave the car at home and you won't have problems?
At no time did I state that I found hook turns challenging but referred to drivers in general. I have held a clean driving licence for fifty years and had no problem driving in Melbourne when I was over in Australia on holiday in March of this year. I did however find the general standard of driving in Melbourne to be poor which probably accounts for the number of vehicles I saw with damage.
kwv4865 I did not say that I personally found Melbourne a nightmare to drive in but was advised of this by a director of a company in Melbourne who is an expert in transportation and infrastructure. I coped very well during my visit last March driving defensively being aware of how many vehicles there were there with damage.
Trams are cool
Michael Sandford yes they are!!! I miss the w class used back in the 80 s on many routes.
I didn't expect Melbourne looks like normal city in Europe, I expected cangaroos and 40°C in shadow :-D
@blue heeler Is this Australian humor? :-D
@blue heeler I thought your humor is put ketchup on everything. :-D
@blue heeler Actually that is our thing, you have BBQ sauce. :-D
@@Pidalin I live in Melbourne, use trams and have my own pet kangaroo
Can get very hot but it’s winter time at the moment wait till the summer, anyway Melbourne is just another normal city in the world
Di sono ga ada musim ujan kali ya ?... Jadi ga perlu atap untuk hate pemberhentian
City of trams.
What?
Good
I live in California and I still haven't ridden all the San Fransisco Muni lines. For that matter, there are several miles in Los Angeles and San Diego which I haven't ridden yet, plus the Redlands rail line, even though I only live 1-2 years from these cities.
I'm going to look up the data on the Melbourne system, I would have thought Boston has more miles of LRT.
Boston only has a 23 mile (37 km) line length. The 3 largest systems in the US are LA at 83.6 miles (134.5 km), San Fran at 35.7 miles (57.5 km) and then Boston. All three have ridership numbers around 50M passengers per year.
Compare this to Melbourne though at 155.3 mi (250 km) and >200M passengers. So Melbourne's tramways are longer than the 3 largest US systems combined and transport 50M more passengers per year than the 3 US systems combined.
I Would Ride These Trams From Hungry Jacks To My Hotel
I'd like to visit Melbourne.
Gothenburg Sweden still has 12 tram lines and some of them are from late 19:th century
the original network is from early 19th century
3:10 даже на другой половине земного шара так делают)))
No
@@HazptMedia почему - нет - если мы это видим?
Val M ???
@@HazptMediaзначит я не так NO понял? для меня это слово переводится как - нет. то есть(раз ответ мне был)моё утверждение подверглось сомнению и отрицанию. или вы что-то другое хотели сказать?
Val M не волнуйся, приятель
There might be a larger tram network somewhere in Russia or Eastern Europe but it is certainly in the top two or three.
Michael Rapson nope, Russia in second place of 208km of tram network.
Melbourne still number one with the largest tram network on earth of 250km.
And it continues to grow. Won't lose the title any time soon
Saint-Petersburg had the most large tram network until the mid 2000 when its corrupted mayor (sounds familiar in Russia, ah? ;) Valentina "SosUlevna"/"Sucker" Matvienko (yes, the world has to know its villains!) began to fight the tram as "obsolete type of transportation" and cut some of the tracks which gave the Tram Grand Prix to Melbourne
@@Whitebeard79outOfRus OK. Melbourne wins.
ось чому я так хотів в Австралію!
Love Melbourne
I love Melbourne and the trams. Not, however. when having to do a hook turn when turning right.
That is easy once you get the hang of it.
Hook turns were once the only way to turn right, then between 1930 and 1955 cities around Australia changed all (most) intersections to be "turn right from the right lane". They changed all intersections but the ones in Melbourne CBD.
NOW I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS TRAM
Trams Kinda looks like a train right?
@@transportfanaussie Trams are smaller than trains, usually but not always get power from an overhead wire, and usually run in one- or two-car consists although there are longer ones in a few places like Melbourne. But yes, there's overlap at the edges of both definitions.
Every town or larger village in Europe have a tram system
I loved MEL city and its fabulous transport! 👌🏻❤️
1:45 indicate left, turn right?
Hazard lights... I think
You are right. At 1:51 you can't see the other side despite seeing it nearly from the back, I thought it was off. But a second later you see the other side. Probably had too much sun on my screen when watching it the first time.
At many intersections in the city of Melbourne, drivers are required to do "Hook Turns" wherever tram tracks cross that intersection. This is done so that no trams are held up by cars turning in front of them. The cars wait in the turning lane on the left and turn right after the lights turn red. It's unique but works well.
Hazard lights actually
Yes we turn right from the left in the city part. Strangely enough it works! People from the country side come into the city and get very confused by it.
Wonder how many people are using the trams in August 2020?
If you from Australia you should most likely know still a fair few cause some people still have to work (if. It from Australia we don’t have a as bad covid situation as the rest of the world so yeah)
An Sydney started to rollout a bigger tram network.
It will never have a larger Tram Network, Sydney dismantled all of its trams then brought them back.
Melbourne is too cold?? Go look at streetcars in Toronto Canada in the winter. he he
No snow, nor storm, usually 3 to 5 degree winter morning... sounds not to bad, huh? But the wind chill...
Wear a sweater :-)
Rome...today? The hottest week of the year! Drought and 41° C !!! Melbourne I'll come baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!! TIMOSHA I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
Ps But W6 Class trams? Are they died, aren't they? ::::::((((((!!!!!
I remember the 2009 heatwave where Melbourne reached 46° celcius! That wasn't a great time in Melbourne with the rail network literally collapsing and the accompanying black saturday bushfires.
Interesting...for a tourist wondering how confusing they might be getting to where one wants to go ??? UK's public network was very easy to understand for a tourist...
Signage and mappings, huh? I realised how international Montreal has remained upon encountering Toronto's laughably inadequate signposts, etc.
Perhaps, do some research using this website to plan tram journeys. www.ptv.vic.gov.au/journey
For tram journeys, this site gives advice on what number tram to catch to a destination. Tram stops are numbered, so that passengers know which stop to get off at. On board announcements will advise passengers which stop is closest to a certain destination.
Very easy,there are maps in the trams.
Hey Skip, fancy finding you here. Welcome to Melbourne!!! Actually, it is fairly easy getting around Melbourne, as most of the city streets are straight and quite wide. All the beat. Robert.
Better Than NYC Subways
They are good and economical for big markets. But not good for long distance travel.
So melbourne has threes without leaves?
We have winter in Australia too you know
I hear many other languages being spoken like Chinese, Hindi, Korean, etc
And English ?
That’s because Melbourne is one of the most multi cultural city’s in the world
Hi Timothy Migliore, I am making an educational TH-cam video on sustainability research and Trackless Trams. Can we get in touch. Thanks, Linda
hi and I'm in Australia and i saw my self
Looking for Nick Mason 😂
6:54 Wait a minute, Is the B class talking!?
yes, most trams have an intercom that the driver can use to communicate with people both inside and outside of the tram. though the outside intercom is very rarely used and I think I've personally only ever seen it in action once
you spelled "world" wrongly in your title.
No he didnt
Funny how Melbourne has the biggest (and somewhat extremely complex) tram system. Rewind back to the 40's/50's, Sydney has the largest and busiest tram network!!
But I do like Melbourne as a tourist. Weather wise hell no. Too bloody cold
Operative word for Sydney Tram Network-- HAD.
nobody is talking about the 40s or 50s
Alex Andrews did just up there.
Alex Andrews Sydney's "tram" network is a joke.
Melbourne... cold... What are you talking about? 😂
World !
Fuck the world!
Don't be rude!
Yes it's much easier getting around Melbourne on the tram than Sydney. However Melbourne is growing rapidly and some hard choices are coming. In the suburbs cars must complete with trams on narrow streets. They will need to start building subway lines and rip up some tram lines.
Rip up tram lines? Absolutely not.
Nice tram , " but why are so many Asians there ? ".
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Just to compare. Melbourne 360 km of tram lines (# of tram track kilometres unknown). Prague, Czech Republic 547 km of tram lines, 147 km tram tracks.
As of May 2017 the Melbourne tramway network consists of 250 kilometres (160 miles) of double track (A total of 500Kms of tram track), 493 trams (plus 43 heritage trams), 29 routes, and 1,763 tram stops. It is the largest urban tramway network in the world, ahead of the networks in St Petersburg (205 km), Upper Silesia (200 km), Berlin (190 km), Moscow (181 km) and Vienna (172 km). As such Melbourne's tram network is the largest in the world.
In contrast the Prague tramway network, consists of 142.4 km (88.5 mi) of track, 931 trams, and 21 daytime routes and 9 night routes.
As per the comment above, not sure where you plucked those numbers for Prague (although I have an idea).
@@airgunzel4430 142,4km of double tracks ;-) Melbourne 5,5mil citizens, Prague 1,25.
Magnificent video..... no music while playing so, bore. at least melodious song will while to be playing yaar..........
Yes we have to thank Henry Bolte for keeping the trams in Melbourne... but I won’t thank him for executing Ronald Ryan.....
Bolte could see this as an electoral winner. Political expedience and nothing more.
I personally love trams,they give the city great culture.
And pollution free.
sorry michael you need to reaccess that. Bolte did nothing to keep trams in Melbourne, he fought tooth and nail to have them removed, this is why no money was spent on the network and trams until the 80s....only reason W's were around for so long. Robert Risson is the man you need to commend, he was head of the tramways board and went head to head with Bolte who belived totally in the dominace of cars. They came to a stand still, Bolte couldn't get rid of the trams but he refused to spend any money on them, hoping it would die a slow death.
@@timbo0173 Thaks Tim, Mea Culpa! Thank God for that... perhaps that is why he kept the Red Rattlers for so long....
she has a leaking nuclear power plant
What are you talking about
I'm french so sorry for my bad english... Melbourne is not the longest tram network in the world! In Austarlia yes, but not in the rest of the world. Many trams are uggly and old! But modern trams have a funny story , the Alstom trams comes from Mulhouse in France because they have too much trams! I leave close to Mulhouse so this is weird to see they trams here !
Melbourne DOES have the biggest tram network in the world and by a considerable margin at 250km. St Petersburg USED TO have a bigger network (At around 280km) however alot of their network was removed and ripped up (Now at around 205km) so as a result Melbourne now holds the world record for the biggest train network in the world.
Ah yes yes I have not seen, are extensions planned on the Melbourne network because I calculate that Paris will exceed Melbourne in 2025 in number of kilometers
A laughably hard-on-the-eyes, muddled-looking, hopelessly corporateered place there..WTF cares about its just-as-shitty tramways, right.. .. . .
Many of the older trams are being replaced by newer ones.........
Paris has a bloody hell long way to go, they have 80 kilometers of trams, Yarra Trams is currently ~250 Kilometers. And the next likely extension is from Caulfield, through Monash Uni to Rowville, an extra 18 kilometers.
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This is the largest tramnetwork? Haha
Correct. Our tram network is 250 kilometers long.
Care to add anything of substance or just remain looking stupid
Why HaHa? In terms of mileage [kilometres] Melbourne holds pride of place.
Triggered mate? It’s true,Melbourne has the biggest tram network in the World,don’t be jelly.
Trams take-up too much road space.lm glad Perth haven't got trams.
That goes for cars too
Horrible things. I hate them.
Why? They're fabulous!
They are al lot better than buses. I used to live in Sydney, where the trams were all discontinued in 1961. After that, Sydney's roads became an absolute nightmare of pollution from the increase of buses and cars.
@@RGC198 Only because of the 1960s engine technology and leaded fuel. Not such a problem now.
@@NoTaboos Yes, the unleaded fuel has made a difference, but with the amount of petrol driven vehicles around, there are still pollution problems in some cities.