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This is glasshouse country coaches 43, its used on the 905 school run from Glasshouse Christian College to Pumicestone, pretty cool coach

I miss the ICE set used to catch it on Saturdays from Caboolture to Central. So comfortable to ride

2:55 unfortunately this seat pattern is now being phased out for a plain bright blue/bright orange for priority seats.

In Sydney traffic, 80kmh very unlikely to be achieved. Sydney traffic is horrible. I left Sydney in 2005 and never looked back.

I think one or 2 got sent to CDC charter sections and only done as charters.

Nice can you please ride aboard a griffith buslines Volvo B8RLE

I think you should have had a ranking for how much do the carriages smell like someone has pissed all over the floors and walls

Thanks for this video! I’m planning a trip from Woolloongabba to Broadbeach North next week. Very helpful!

Hell yeah brother.

I remember this type of renault bus in service in sydney. The voith 3 speed was rather tall gearing, mostly 1st speed on torque converter before lock up in sydney traffic, more 2nd and 3rd gears lockup here in this video, nice hydraulic retard sound, kinda sounds like an electric bus on regen. Jm

There's nothing worse then getting an IMU 100 on the Sunshine Coast line

Can you do XPTs and Xplorers next?

If you visit Brisbane again you should review the b7rle volgren Optimus

I'll Miss These When They're Fully Gone 😭. In Winter These Were The Best Buses 😃. I Love My Buses In Canberra 😃. I've All Ways Loved Buses,Trucks,Ect Since I Was Little 😃

Hi, I have a friend who is OBSESSED with trains. He loves going on the Springfield Central line

Can you please do a review on a Queensland Rail train WITH graffiti on the outside, it doesnt matter if it is EMU, SMU, IMU, or NGR, but it needs to have graffiti on the outside

Omg what microphone did you use to record that train at the start

This very bus (or its twin) used to be my school bus back in the 90s! These two Volvos were the first low floor buses in Bundy, acquired at the beginning of 1998. One was used on the Bargara run. Just imagine, 50 odd sweaty school kids in the middle of summer. Poor driver. His name was Henry and he seemed to always score the new buses. Before these, it was the first of the two Scania L113CRLs and a year later in 1999 the first of the two Scania L94UBs that you also reviewed. I still remember that new bus smell. We all thought they were so much better than the Domino GM6V71s they replaced. Some advances were an auto gearbox, indicators that you didn’t have to turn off manually, electric wipers that worked as opposed to the mental compressed air ones, FM radio so we could actually listen to decent music and the seats had a kind of velour material. Not sure when it got changed to the red vinyl. Back then Duffy also owned a handful of Denning long distance coaches which sometimes substituted on the school runs while the city buses were out for maintenance. The air con in those coaches was a godsend. A real treat, then after a couple of days it was back to sweating.

Love how you used the term “old school”. Makes me feel so old! These two Scanias were acquired in early 1999 and looked badass compared to the Leyland Leopards and Dominos that Duffys had back then. They were the second pair of low floor buses, after the two Volvos acquired a year earlier. This one was my school bus in year 12 and the seats were all velour back then. A blue colour. AFAIK they remain in the fleet and I believe are the last remaining non AC buses in that company, which is no longer Duffy’s as it was sold to Kinetic in 2022. You mentioned the Brisbane buses. I still remember when it was a really rare treat to score an air conditioned bus (Volvo and later Scania) in Brissie, back in the first few years of this century. Doesn’t feel all that long ago.

Their toaster buses they look like little toasters on the road trust me they really don’t look very good at all I reckon bus Queensland should be all Volgren Fleets they do have Volvo B7RLE volgren cr228ls custom CB 80s I don’t like custom CB80s the volgren Optimus is pretty neat very good design to them

CB60 Evo2s Are really rare in Queensland I’m familiar with the ones here in Sydney. There are CB60 evo2s in Ipswich. But they really don’t look so nice at all. I know their Scanias I think they’re getting old now and I’ve seen some unusual ones at the Redbank Depot

I was at cultural Centre when A B12BLEA Volgren Cr228l turned up. I was like what was that doing here in Brisbane? It’s a Sydney bus. I think I’ve seen it before it broke down At Underwood, a mechanic had a come down and fix it so yeah, this is a Sydney Logan has two of these with Volgren and CB60 bodies I might be familiar with the ones in Sydney

I heard a howl definitely ZF

Where was this filmed?

The wonderful bus of Singapore... Sadly the last O405G got scrapped in 2020, and still only one preserved at a private area of Woodlands Bus Park. Sad life

I took this bus in 2000😊

Which one was this?

These trains have since been refurbished and are much better now. The technology and interior features is now in line with the newer trains in the fleet.

They are like a sports car to drive compared to the newer buses. Light, no power steering & no air conditioning.

if you listen closely to the whine at 2:12, you can definitely tell its a 6 speed ZF

As someone who uses these trains a lot (from Dungog). I don't see a massive problem with the seats, although they could be better. It is a public train. Personally I like the Endeavors a bit more because I feel that they have better ride quality along with generally less intense lighting; but overall I like the Hunter Railcars and I would say that the Dungog part of the Hunter Line might be one of the most beautiful parts of the network. At least where i've traveled. In conclusion, Great Video.

Steam finished on Brisbane suburban workings as a normal thing, in about 1969, so it's hardly "a few years ago that steam engines were still in use." Brisbane had planned to go electric back in the 1960s, hence the 15 SX sets (36 to 51 inclusive). These were only insulated for 1500v DC, so were never full electric trains in their own right. They were hauled regularly by 3900 class electric locos, for some years. I remember getting 3901 and set 36 from Manly one morning. Please don't knock stuff that was around long before you were born, as you did with the wooden cars by so rudely calling them "Red Rattlers." That was a derogatory name that started in Melbourne and is commonly used by people who can't be bothered finding out the proper names for things. In this case the cars were called Evans sets, or even "Dog Boxes," but never that filthy RR word! 🤬🤬 I rode in them in service in Brisbane and later in preservation. The EMUs are now the oldest suburban trains in Australia, but are still doing quite fine, as did the SX sets for over 30 years.

@TalkingPlanning Great video of a former favourite. Good to see another finding new life interstate. The Designline Orbitor batch that Ventura originally ordered (Ex 562-573) which included this one had the gearboxes set up to provide higher RPM output when accelerating to highway speed above 45 k/ph, as can be heard from @04:04 , hence why the gearbox will power harder in the higher up gears. As an example, the engine is at 1800RPM at @04:24 when the gearbox changes from 5th gear into 6th gear.

Hillsbus and Transdev John Holland keep K310UB and smilar K94UB and K280UBs

This CAF Urbos has sounds similar to trams PESA JAZZ 128N, 134N and Hyundai Rotem 140N

I live in Dubbo and the bus I catch is the screw at school at the afternoon. I touched the elephant.

I didn't blink when the silver suburbans were withdrawn, but my heart will hurt when the interurbans are taken away

You haven't made a video in a year

U should definitely check out Singapores buses. They also have Scania K230UB’S and Citaro’s

PPLLLSSS DO PERTH~ WE WANT TO STAY RELEVANT

If they modified the seats to high back configuration and had regular working toilets, this would undoubtedly be my pick.

Had they modified the seats higher for privacy and also have regular *working* and accessible toilets on the 100 - This would be the definitive unit for me! Nostalgia and enthusiasm aside, the practicalities and utilitarian aspects of the NGR (minus notorious poor padded seats) and gangway doors that don't normally close - esp in the Quiet Carriage sections leaves the NGR at highest pick.

So much quieter. Just bliss. I wish I had these on my route. It would be nice if they turned off the lights or at least those for half of the bus, for the light sensitive and so you can see out the windows properly.

These are my scores to the Smu260 is this: Comfort 3 Cleanliness 4 Features 4 Reliability 4 15/20

Why did you give three for cleanliness to the EMU train!? It looks so dirty and it's really starting to show it's age and it so much edged windows and the under that seat they you showed us that looked so cramped I would give it a 2 and the smu260 and imu160 looks quite cleaner

Can you do Melbourne next please!

Because the people are so nice, the sky is vast, there's nothing bad to say about it. Easy to spend 6 weeks there and really like it.

Can't believe Translink is letting so MANY passengers get away with fare evasions now. The bus lines own Network Officers are hardly in sight anymore, which astounds me given how much Translink wasted hiring them. I regularly catch the Kippa-Ring/Redcliffe services and always usually sit up the front just behind the driver (esp nightime) given the ferals that come on board that hide up the back.

Tangara also my favourite train but when I am inside of the tangara I can feel a bit sick. I don't know why but I think it's because they are starting to show there age. Maybe also because when the seats are all full the narrow path way I have to stand up and when my family's on the seats and I'm standing I think it's so unfair and uncomfortable and you can't flip the seats a 3 is fair fixed seats are a bit disappointed for longer journeys but ex g sets have similar seats to the Oscar h set seats and you can move them 5 is the score. I think the seats on the h set are more comfortable than you think. I don't really like the d sets because you can't move the seats.

I like spirit of Queensland