Broken Hill Last Train

Broken Hill Last Train is a full documentary of our trip from Sydney to Broken Hill on the Outback Explorer in April 2021. We start with a 5:00am departure from home, going over the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the dark and arriving at Central Station at 5:30am. The luggage check in is not until 6am so we do a tour of the grand concourse which is stunning. We were fortunate enough to travel in the first class carriage and the comparison to the economy class is only the fact that the seats recline to 22 degrees where in economy they only recline 10 degrees, plus the buffet is in the first class carriage.
The train ventures through Sydney and suburbs in the early hours of the morning arriving at the Blue Mountains on sunrise. We have included stops at Orange and Ivanhoe.
We have also included a food review of State rail's hot dinner which we found quite satisfactory.
Music by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy - Check Your Phone - thmatc.co/?l=1D8E8431
Music by Noah Guy - Saltines & Gingerale - thmatc.co/?l=C3A8970B
Timestamp
0:00 Countdown
0:07 Leaving home
0:22 Sydney Harbour Bridge
0:38 Central Railway Station
2:22 Broken Hill Outback Explorer
3:07 Tour of first class carriage
4:01 Central to Katoomba
5:05 Katoomba to Blayney
7:5 Blayney to Orange
8:33 Orange to Euabalong West
11:07 Way out west
11:54 Broken Hill tourist information
13:24 Outback scenery
14:20 Ivanhoe
15:22 Salt bush plains
16:00 Official food review
17:11 Menindee
18:57 Broken Hill
20:29 Outtro

[@MikeJackson1955]

Great video. It does show one thing though, and that is how loud the engines are on Xplorer/Endeavour cars. (even over the music) They actually grate after a while. So dated now, but don't expect anything else for a long time.

[@1THEMAGUS]

What a mighty record of your trip. Loved it and will look fwd to checking out previous ones.

[@chenjack4567]

2002 i traveled from Perth to Sydney, also stopped two hours for tour at Brokenhill where is very beautiful place.

[@slepper98]

Well done, thanks for taking the time. I caught the bus twice from BH back to Sydney, I wish this service was available back in the 80's. Cheers.

[@robertcameron5007steelwheel]

Nice little video i enjoyed it

[@RGC198]

Thanks for sharing. This is one trip that I wish I had done when living in Sydney prior to moving in 1981. I have been as far as Orange on that direct line, but no further. I have also been to Mudgee by train via Lithgow years ago.

[@AustNRail]

Shame Mudgee now cut off at Kamdos. That missing link would provide an alternative trip into Dubbo

[@RGC198]

@@AustNRail Does the train still go to Kandos? I thought it was cut off at Lithgow. It really doesn't make much sense why they just couldn't keep the Mudgee trains going. yes, extending the line to Dubbo via Mudgee would be a great idea. Unfortunately, governments never seem to know what most of their voters actually want done.

[@AustNRail]

@@RGC198 you are correct, no passenger services beyond Lithgow towards Mudgee. There is however regular freight trains. I looked at all the stations along the route and they are in great condition. I’m certain the train would be popular if the line was reinstated back to Mudgee. I know I would head up there and check out the vineyards.

[@RGC198]

@@AustNRail Years ago, my wife and I traveled from Sydney to Mudgee by train and it was great. We had to change trains at Lithgow, where a rail motor ran between Lithgow and Mudgee.

[@porthill702]

Very well done guys, thank you.

[@1950accordionman]

Well music a bit loud but I enjoyed the video, very well done, I drove trains for a long time but I never got any further west than Katoomba

[@kimhewittstravelguide]

Thanks for the feedback.I’m very conscious about the voice now. Wise I could amend this one .

[@teddytheyorkielowellpenner777]

I'm with ya on the music

[@jade_carp]

Love it absolutely love it!

[@robo113603]

Gr8 video, but keep the music background music volume down, can't here what U were describing

[@robo113603]

This service could ,or should be extended thru to Adelaide between the usual IP service ??

[@chenjack4567]

Brokenhill was already very quiet in 2002. At that time most steel plant were transferred to Asian countries. Nice lovely lady i like.

[@kimhewittstravelguide]

Thank You

[@MikeJackson1955]

They don't do steel in Broken Hill. The mine silver, lead and zinc

[@garrystokes6830]

Great video. What I can hear of your comments is good but the music! Way too loud!

[@annee7221]

Thanks for uploading the video. However, if there is a next one, please, please get rid of the music and turn up the audio. Can't hear you over the music and the music has nothing to do with video.

[@kimhewittstravelguide]

Ok thank you

[@tld8102]

it’s a shame now it’s a sub par coach connection. why did they cut the service?

[@utareangara5529]

only 2 carriages???

[@kimhewittstravelguide]

Yes only two

[@alancampbell8760]

Yep, lnp govt, what else would you expect

[@paulrussell9436]

So a menindee lakes tour..where was the lake from your train..boring