I am from the uk, we spent a month in Australia, travelling up and down this line from Sydney to Melbourne and back, lovely experience. The locations are bringing back all those fond memories if a great time we had.
I enjoyed the views of the landscape as much as the trains. First time seeing this many Australian trains in one video. Excellent filming. Thanks for sharing. Watching from the East Coast USA.
I grew up 100 metres west of the Melbourne/Sydney line in the sixties. I loved trains then and I still do. Excellent videography from a rack and rail perspective. Rory, Tasmania.
I grew up in the 50’s and early 60’s in Scotland. As an avid train spotter. We had steam trains in those days which travelled every day at 90 to 100 mph. (160kph). They were monsters - loud, fast and magnificent. Australia in 2023 still doesn’t have trains that travel this fast. Joke really.
Beautiful video mate! Must be fun driving around the rural areas around railway lines, and I loved how you gave a description on every train and extra information on interesting places. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much for this highly interesting video! I am impressed by how fast and quiet the heavy steel trains go. Greetings from a retired train driver from Vienna / Austria / Europe
*Greetings from SoCal USA, I'm impressed on how There's American Railroad Tech Down Under!! (Railroad crossing, locomotives, some rolling stock like the well cars, etc) 😊*
These most of these locomotives are built here in Australia, plus the crossing in Western Australia are rectangular (I love and miss them). It’s not really American influenced but theres is some nevertheless! Glad you like our trains cos I like your train too!
The good thing about Australia's trains, You can see the lights a good 10/15 minutes in the back ground, before the reach you. Some tracks are dead straight for hundreds of miles. I need to go back, I miss the beautiful Country
Yeah and the Brown snakes are far, far worse than the spiders; no treatment no live - most common of our deadly snakes. Then there's the extremely aggressive and deadly Tiger snakes, the docile Copperheads with enormous venom yield, garden variety Red Belly Black snakes dangerous but not generally deadly, the extremely dangerous Taipans (coastal and Inland) which are over the top deadly and a few others. The bloody things are everywhere too.
The designs for the class 43s were borrowed to Australia as they needed to upgrade their railways towards the end of the UK HST building period. They looked at the plans and they asked BR to resign the locos slightly by making them a tad shorter to run on tighter bends on thier railways and adding a new cabs to make them look a bit different. The engine and controls remained the same as far as I'm aware
@@e.btvrail ah awsome i only really know the uk railway so its nice to learn something new based on other countries railway. its a bit like the class 66s we get are slightly different in other countries like india i think it is. but never seen another variant of 43 before which is cool
This was a feature-length episode and I enjoyed every minute! I appreciated the information you provided about how trains are numbered. I'd been wondering about that but was too embarrassed to ask in online groups. At 33:5 you showed Run 9761 coming through Bathurst. Is this a different numbering system again? It has no letters in it.
Each district has its own number 9= Illawarra where this train originated second number being 7 is West for Lithgow - Merrygoen. The third number is an odd or even number not already used and the last number is Odd= away from Sydney Even= toward Sydney. If there is a 5th character being N at the end of the train No. this indicates the train is operating in NSW and there is another train in another state operating under the same train number. Intrastate trains use this numbering system as they operate wholly within NSW. The Interstate numbering system uses both numerics and letters. Hope this helps
Just came across your page your videos are very informative. Ive been a US European rail fan all my life only getting into Aussie trains the last year or that. Question here, do the an class engines ever lead? They always seem to be trailing. Greetings from Ireland.
The entirety of the AN class fleet have recently been taken out of service here. It was a rarity towards the end of their use to see them leading trains, however when they were first introduced it was common to have solely AN's working trains. A good friends channel 'MAPV Trains' has older footage of them if you'd like to have a look.
great video footages! :) How do you where and when to go? I live in Oolong, along the Melbourne/Sydney tracks, and am trying to find a time table to show my grandsons passing trains, without needing to wait most of the day ! LOL! any assistrance be appreciated. Keep up the great footage :)
Hi Mate sorry it has taken so long to respond, the ARTC master train plan helps a lot, you can view this on their website and select which line you are looking for that they own. We've also found that social media tracking groups such as ones on Facebook are a great help as people post sightings in real time at certain locations.
Depends where you are most branch lines have speed restrictions that differentiate based on engine size and whether or not the train is loaded or empty. The lines featured in this video are predominantly high speed except for Temora
Lack of graffiti painted on the train cars surprised me. I guess here in America it is because of all the trains to come up from Mexico and go down to Mexico. 🤔 I stand corrected, this next train is covered with it from front to rear.
So the folks there do not draw all over the rail road cars when they stopped on the yards? Some of ",Home boys" and "Hooigans" are taking Krylon spray cans, and Rust Olium Paints anf making sloppy handwriting along with other words and drawlng creatures all o'er property of some one else. That makes me cross, because its not thiers to ruin. It makes it look like folks cannot control their actions.
Why cant the railways desegnate a carriage at the back of the train. Where people can take their pets in a cage or mussle on the last carriage. Where pet owner can pay a fare and transport their pet. Im sure that animal lovers wouldn't mind getting onto the last carriage. It could be done once a day trip. And really late of a night time. I hope the railways will consider it.
I am from the uk, we spent a month in Australia, travelling up and down this line from Sydney to Melbourne and back, lovely experience. The locations are bringing back all those fond memories if a great time we had.
Glad this video helped you relive that experience and thanks for the comment its always nice to hear
AMAZING!!! This is not only a video about Australian trains,but a mini encyclopedia (vasantha from Sri Lanka)
The scenes are stunning. The pacing, descriptions, and shots give it the feel of a well crafeted documentary. Great job!
I enjoyed the views of the landscape as much as the trains. First time seeing this many Australian trains in one video. Excellent filming. Thanks for sharing. Watching from the East Coast USA.
I grew up 100 metres west of the Melbourne/Sydney line in the sixties. I loved trains then and I still do. Excellent videography from a rack and rail perspective. Rory, Tasmania.
I grew up in the 50’s and early 60’s in Scotland. As an avid train spotter. We had steam trains in those days which travelled every day at 90 to 100 mph. (160kph). They were monsters - loud, fast and magnificent. Australia in 2023 still doesn’t have trains that travel this fast. Joke really.
Beautiful video mate! Must be fun driving around the rural areas around railway lines, and I loved how you gave a description on every train and extra information on interesting places. Thanks for sharing!
I concur! South Coast Freight Australia - you make excellent railway videos! As a fellow railway videographer, I salute you!!!
very nice sharing friend...gr8 capture....big like
Realy great and enjoyable video, and not just the trains.
Thanks a lot especially for your extensive information!
Thank you very much for this highly interesting video! I am impressed by how fast and quiet the heavy steel trains go. Greetings from a retired train driver from Vienna / Austria / Europe
Excellent commentary and information. Well researched and informative as well.
*Greetings from SoCal USA, I'm impressed on how There's American Railroad Tech Down Under!! (Railroad crossing, locomotives, some rolling stock like the well cars, etc) 😊*
You do know that both Australia and America got their railway crossing technology off of Britain, right?
@Me in charge I doubt that very much,,,,,
These most of these locomotives are built here in Australia, plus the crossing in Western Australia are rectangular (I love and miss them). It’s not really American influenced but theres is some nevertheless! Glad you like our trains cos I like your train too!
So impressive the railway network in Australia....incredible, makes ours in the UK look like a train set !!!
Beautifully shot. Lots of footage from where my old man grew up.
My best friend, Great video. Love your channel. Keep up the excellent work!!! Wonderful upload! Keep it up! +thumb up3!
Very well shot. Well done.
The good thing about Australia's trains, You can see the lights a good 10/15 minutes in the back ground, before the reach you. Some tracks are dead straight for hundreds of miles. I need to go back, I miss the beautiful Country
What an epic railway video. Watched from beginning to end!
Thanks mate, glad you liked it!
Love the underside view of that one train. I did that on one of my videos as well! Very cool!!
Nice!
Thankyou for an excellent video. I enjoyed it all and your explanations throughout were most helpful.
Really enjoyed. Have some good rolling stock, and traction.
A great episode there
Excellent! Great footage & I enjoyed reading all the info you put up.
Thank you!
The Bethungra Rail Spiral operates similarly to The Tehachapi Loop in California a very famous rail spot.
Thanks for the info, I’ll have to check it out!
@@south_coast_freight_ No worries it also has live cameras as well.
There’s a great museum at Tehachapi township as well as a a new lookout over the loop. Worth a visit.
Gorgeous scenic shots - well done!
A magnificent video. I really enjoyed it and I appreciate all the work that was put into filming these trains and making the video. Thank you.
That thumbnail, it's like British trains meet American trains
Summed up Australian railways in one sentence
Excellent video, well done and certainly racked up alot of k's with all that driving.
Thanks for this great video .
Boy, 37:38 is gorgeous. You couldn't pay me any money to visit Australia due to the spiders alone, but that's an excellent catch.
Yeah and the Brown snakes are far, far worse than the spiders; no treatment no live - most common of our deadly snakes. Then there's the extremely aggressive and deadly Tiger snakes, the docile Copperheads with enormous venom yield, garden variety Red Belly Black snakes dangerous but not generally deadly, the extremely dangerous Taipans (coastal and Inland) which are over the top deadly and a few others. The bloody things are everywhere too.
Excellent video- great variety and well shot and edited. The description of each train is a great addition… cheers from Melbourne
I just saw the IP at Millswood Station (in Adelaide) (Thursday 5 January at 2.45pm) about 1.5kms from Keswick - must have been at maximum length.
The residents love Wagga so much they named the town twice. Only in Oz.
hello from england! The XPT still looks like its going strong unlike the HSTs in Britain which have mostly been replaced as of right now
Excellent video. 👍🏻 Keep up the good work.
Very enjoyable thank you . looks like a lot of fun
Nice
Great Locations, Cheers.
The bush looks in great shape
Great video , loved the information, very useful!!
That was brilliant!
Nice Coverage
This is such a cool video with such a variety of trains and places
4:16 cool train
A really superb video
Good filming and very informative text. Thanks very much
im sorry was that an australian redesigned uk class 43 at 6mins in
Yes
The designs for the class 43s were borrowed to Australia as they needed to upgrade their railways towards the end of the UK HST building period. They looked at the plans and they asked BR to resign the locos slightly by making them a tad shorter to run on tighter bends on thier railways and adding a new cabs to make them look a bit different. The engine and controls remained the same as far as I'm aware
@@e.btvrail ah awsome i only really know the uk railway so its nice to learn something new based on other countries railway. its a bit like the class 66s we get are slightly different in other countries like india i think it is. but never seen another variant of 43 before which is cool
@@ImagineWagonsIIhere's a video that explains everything czcams.com/video/PBwBNX0vyfs/video.html
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Goods train on its way to Port Augusta
Amazing video! Lovely images with trains and awesome places! Thumbs Up and Subscribe
All the best from Dublin
Andrew
Hi, very nice video 👌😀😀
Belíssimo vídeo amigo parabéns pelo excelente registro, imagens espetaculares, like merecido 👏💯
Great video!
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Great videos
British style passenger locomotive and American Style F-Units in the same Railroad.
This was a feature-length episode and I enjoyed every minute! I appreciated the information you provided about how trains are numbered. I'd been wondering about that but was too embarrassed to ask in online groups. At 33:5 you showed Run 9761 coming through Bathurst. Is this a different numbering system again? It has no letters in it.
Each district has its own number 9= Illawarra where this train originated second number being 7 is West for Lithgow - Merrygoen. The third number is an odd or even number not already used and the last number is Odd= away from Sydney Even= toward Sydney. If there is a 5th character being N at the end of the train No. this indicates the train is operating in NSW and there is another train in another state operating under the same train number. Intrastate trains use this numbering system as they operate wholly within NSW. The Interstate numbering system uses both numerics and letters. Hope this helps
@@south_coast_freight_ Yep, that’s a huge help. Thanks for responding and for all of your great videos.
2:03 which will mean that this particular train will travel through the Border Tunnel and terminate at Acacia Ridge!
Great stuff :)
6:31 sounds exactly like a hst (if your from the uk)
Imagine this many DoubleBs on the road
Bonza Video Son it’s an pearler 😀😂😀😀
Please can you leave the description up a little longer.???????????????
Just came across your page your videos are very informative. Ive been a US European rail fan all my life only getting into Aussie trains the last year or that. Question here, do the an class engines ever lead? They always seem to be trailing. Greetings from Ireland.
The entirety of the AN class fleet have recently been taken out of service here. It was a rarity towards the end of their use to see them leading trains, however when they were first introduced it was common to have solely AN's working trains. A good friends channel 'MAPV Trains' has older footage of them if you'd like to have a look.
The rail has gone from my hometown Tenterfield
Great video! What’s the setup on the temora level crossing? Bell, lights etc?
Lights & Bells however no boom gates at the crossing I filmed at, there are multiple level Xing’s in Temora
What would be the run number for a loaded coal train from Boggabri to Port Waratah
great video footages! :) How do you where and when to go? I live in Oolong, along the Melbourne/Sydney tracks, and am trying to find a time table to show my grandsons passing trains, without needing to wait most of the day ! LOL! any assistrance be appreciated. Keep up the great footage :)
ARTC Master Train Plan
@@south_coast_freight_ That is absolutly terrrific! My grandsons and I thank you very much! Have a great New Year and happy Filming :)
I used to live in young I attented young high school
How do you know when and where freight trains will be?
Hi Mate sorry it has taken so long to respond, the ARTC master train plan helps a lot, you can view this on their website and select which line you are looking for that they own. We've also found that social media tracking groups such as ones on Facebook are a great help as people post sightings in real time at certain locations.
@@south_coast_freight_ no worries, thanks for the info!
Awesome scenery, stone age technology...
👍👍👍
CLP12 is known as the white ghost
Why am i watching an hour long video about rural trains in autralia again?
Don’t know
*@Tulio_laanen*
Because you're a fool.
What is the horse power of your train engines.?????????
Sorry, I meant "Casper".
Thanks Are these rails strong enough to take High Speed Trains
Depends where you are most branch lines have speed restrictions that differentiate based on engine size and whether or not the train is loaded or empty. The lines featured in this video are predominantly high speed except for Temora
What happened to the broken hill line? Is it temporary?
Flooding caused washaways and the closure of the line for afew months while this video was being filmed. It has since reopened
Very nice footage man and great location...so scenic. Love the views and trains from your country man!!
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Lack of graffiti painted on the train cars surprised me. I guess here in America it is because of all the trains to come up from Mexico and go down to Mexico. 🤔
I stand corrected, this next train is covered with it from front to rear.
is that an australian hst 6:33
@8:34 why is The GHAN loco there? lol
Because there are allowed use freight trains.
American here. What is the alarm at 21:00?
Some railroad crossing sound like that depending where you’re at. It may also be a pedestrian crossing also
NICE WORK MATE VERY NICE WORK WITH THE SHOW AND THE TRANS
How come the train engines don`t smock like the engines in America.????????????
Awesome
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Why do those engine motors sound like American ones when they pass by
Because they are built by General Electric. They sound the same also cos they have about the same amount of power
nice video
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So the folks there do not draw all over the rail road cars when they stopped on the yards? Some of ",Home boys" and "Hooigans" are taking Krylon spray cans, and Rust Olium Paints anf making sloppy handwriting along with other words and drawlng creatures all o'er property of some one else. That makes me cross, because its not thiers to ruin.
It makes it look like folks cannot control their actions.
Why cant the railways desegnate a carriage at the back of the train.
Where people can take their pets in a cage or mussle on the last carriage.
Where pet owner can pay a fare and transport their pet.
Im sure that animal lovers wouldn't mind getting onto the last carriage.
It could be done once a day trip.
And really late of a night time.
I hope the railways will consider it.
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