So much NSW rail history in one video! Suburbans without yellow fronts, original K set windows, XPT and Xplorer in Countrylink V1 livery, Candy V sets, Outer Suburban Tangara, 2 car K set, Wyee with sidings! Fantastic
Good to see & hear an XPT accelerating hard from a stand for a change @ 7:13. Sounds like an old Valenta responding to the driver notching up while he is presumably keeping an eye on the traction motor Amps.
Ian M I went on the 'first' XPT that did a test passenger run from Paramatta to Penrith. You wouldnt have the ABC footage, or a cab ride of that journey? This was the XPT seen on the ABC fillers. If you have a close look at the filler if it is still around, in an outdoor scene on one corner, the rail joints are not aligned correctly and the bogie jumps to one side. Go back three carriages, and theres a kid [me] who leans on the window to have a good look at the cameraman gets a big smack on the head when the carriage jumps on the same joint!!
@shazam75 Dead man's switch - is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness.
@902107910 Even though your comment is a year old thought i'd reply. The 2 car sets can be seen up at Newcastle travelling between Morisset and Newcastle. They are also down at Wollongong. A fair few years ago the 3PM Newcastle-Sydney train was a 2 car, All Stops train. It had no toilets. Got that train 1 day and had to get off at Woy Woy to go toilet HAHA
hahahaha, i caught a tangara (without toilets) from ablion park to central, and i had to get off at hurstville just so i can take a piss. It was a special service (due to that airshow thingy)
Sylvia Else No it isn't train is much faster anyway cars are uncomfotorble and trains are comfy and good and it is much quicker to go by train then boring old broom broom cars
The fastest XPT service takes 2 hours 23 mins. The Xplorer does it in 2 hours 15 minutes, despite having a lower to speed. The fastest electric service appears to take 2 hours 27 minutes, even though it has lower speed limits and stops more often. Google Maps indicates that a road trip for the exact same trip would take 2 hours 8 minutes.
Sylvia, try keeping up with an XPT in Southern NSW? Track speed for the XPT is 160km/h where a car can only do 100km/h I tried that once between Albury and Cootamundra and didn't fair so well. Even with the speed restrictions that the XPT encountered I still couldn't keep up.
Express trains ((also sometimes referred to as fast trains, though this is a relative term, usually meaning that it runs faster than other trains on the same line; in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, the threshold speed was 40 miles per hour [64 km/h)) are a form of rail service. Express trains make only a small number of stops, instead of stopping locally. In some cases, trains run express where there is overlapping local train service available, and run local at the tail ends of the line, where there is no supplemental local service. During overnight hours, or other times where it is practical, express trains may become local, but still running to where an express train would terminate. [Wikipedia] So I guess that the XPT can be called an Express in that it doesn't stop at all stations that a local train would even though by modern standards it is not a fast train (this is due to infrastructure in that XPT often has to zig zag up hills and similarly down the other side instead of there being a tunnel through the hill; if the track was flatter due to more tunnels, viaducts etc. the power cars could have been geared for 125 MPH (201 km/h) as per the IC125 they are based on instead of being lower geared to be able to climb steep gradients (XPT design speed is 160 km/h, 99 MPH). In the UK especially in BR days (prior to privatisation) the announcer would say e.g. that the train calls at Basingstoke, Hook and Farnborough and is then Fast to London Waterloo meaning Express or non stop even though the train itself is not particularly fast.
So much NSW rail history in one video! Suburbans without yellow fronts, original K set windows, XPT and Xplorer in Countrylink V1 livery, Candy V sets, Outer Suburban Tangara, 2 car K set, Wyee with sidings! Fantastic
Good to see & hear an XPT accelerating hard from a stand for a change @ 7:13. Sounds like an old Valenta responding to the driver notching up while he is presumably keeping an eye on the traction motor Amps.
That button is the vigilance control. Not pushing it would eventually bring the train to a halt.
Ian M I went on the 'first' XPT that did a test passenger run from Paramatta to Penrith. You wouldnt have the ABC footage, or a cab ride of that journey? This was the XPT seen on the ABC fillers.
If you have a close look at the filler if it is still around, in an outdoor scene on one corner, the rail joints are not aligned correctly and the bogie jumps to one side. Go back three carriages, and theres a kid [me] who leans on the window to have a good look at the cameraman gets a big smack on the head when the carriage jumps on the same joint!!
6:54 Awesome, never seen a 2 car CityRail set
This is the first thing I have seen of the XPT when it still had its original Valenta engines...unfortunately they are no more even in Britain.
@shazam75 Dead man's switch - is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness.
the v sets still have candy stripe paint when did they change that?
@902107910 Even though your comment is a year old thought i'd reply. The 2 car sets can be seen up at Newcastle travelling between Morisset and Newcastle. They are also down at Wollongong. A fair few years ago the 3PM Newcastle-Sydney train was a 2 car, All Stops train. It had no toilets. Got that train 1 day and had to get off at Woy Woy to go toilet HAHA
7.23-7.36 Nice gear changing
hahahaha, i caught a tangara (without toilets) from ablion park to central, and i had to get off at hurstville just so i can take a piss. It was a special service (due to that airshow thingy)
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MR Kim is funny Airplane Clown.
correct
@ijm1000 HAha yeah, but very slowly
Quicker to go by car than this express train.
Sylvia Else No it isn't train is much faster anyway cars are uncomfotorble and trains are comfy and good and it is much quicker to go by train then boring old broom broom cars
It takes 2 hours by car, 1 by the XPT, slow hey
The fastest XPT service takes 2 hours 23 mins. The Xplorer does it in 2 hours 15 minutes, despite having a lower to speed. The fastest electric service appears to take 2 hours 27 minutes, even though it has lower speed limits and stops more often. Google Maps indicates that a road trip for the exact same trip would take 2 hours 8 minutes.
Deaths on XPT = 0 (Arrive relaxed)
Deaths on Road = 1000's (Arrive frazzled, if not arrived in body bag.)
Sylvia, try keeping up with an XPT in Southern NSW? Track speed for the XPT is 160km/h where a car can only do 100km/h I tried that once between Albury and Cootamundra and didn't fair so well. Even with the speed restrictions that the XPT encountered I still couldn't keep up.
@ijm1000 AWS?
Fact. XP 2000 was involved in the Wallan derailment it was still on the track still and another carrage
Track faults
Ticking drives me nuts
Its the Hasler recorder
It records anything the XP power cars do from the front and rear of the train
This should be calledthe low speed train..the Intercity EMUs do faster than this
Express trains ((also sometimes referred to as fast trains, though this is a relative term, usually meaning that it runs faster than other trains on the same line; in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, the threshold speed was 40 miles per hour [64 km/h)) are a form of rail service.
Express trains make only a small number of stops, instead of stopping locally. In some cases, trains run express where there is overlapping local train service available, and run local at the tail ends of the line, where there is no supplemental local service. During overnight hours, or other times where it is practical, express trains may become local, but still running to where an express train would terminate. [Wikipedia]
So I guess that the XPT can be called an Express in that it doesn't stop at all stations that a local train would even though by modern standards it is not a fast train (this is due to infrastructure in that XPT often has to zig zag up hills and similarly down the other side instead of there being a tunnel through the hill; if the track was flatter due to more tunnels, viaducts etc. the power cars could have been geared for 125 MPH (201 km/h) as per the IC125 they are based on instead of being lower geared to be able to climb steep gradients (XPT design speed is 160 km/h, 99 MPH).
In the UK especially in BR days (prior to privatisation) the announcer would say e.g. that the train calls at Basingstoke, Hook and Farnborough and is then Fast to London Waterloo meaning Express or non stop even though the train itself is not particularly fast.