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The Backyard Traveller
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Solar System Trail, St Kilda
Take a walk from The Sun, all the way to Pluto along this scale model of our Solar System.
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Farewell Tasmania
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Our last day in Tasmania and the return journey home on the Spirit of Tasmania.
Strahan to Cradle Mountain
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A drive from Strahan on the West Coast of Tasmania, to Zeehan, Rosebery mining town, and finally we finish up with a hike to Dove Lake taking in the spectacular scenery of the Cradle Mountain National Park.
Wilderness Cruise, Tasmania
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Taking a cruise from Strahan, across Macquarie Harbour and on to the Gordon River in Tasmania's South West Wilderness region. We also visit the remains of the Sarah Island Penal Colony, a sad reminder of our sometimes brutal history.
The Long and Winding Road - Hobart to Strahan
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Take in the drive from Hobart to Strahan, passing through some of the wilderness areas of Tasmania , including stops at Lake St Clair, the Franklin River and Queenstown.
Russell Falls and Richmond
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Taking a scenic drive through the Derwent Valley to Tasmania's favourite waterfall. After, a visit to the historic town of Richmond and it's most famous landmark, the Richmond Bridge, Australia's oldest bridge.
A Day in Hobart
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Spending the morning wandering around Hobart, a drive to the top of Mount Wellington, and finishing off at the Royal Tasmaninan Botanical Gardens.
Port Arthur Historic Site
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Going back in time to our convict past, and discovering what life was like in the early years of Australia's history.
Tessellated Pavement, Pirates Bay, Tasmania
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Visiting the Tessellated Pavement, Devil's Kitchen and Tasman Arch on the Tasman Peninsula on our way to Port Arthur.
Tasmania's East Coast, Bicheno - Tessellated Pavement
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A different kind of video this time with a timelapse of the drive south, down the east cost of Tasmania from Bicheno to the Tessellated Pavement. There were a couple of stops along the way, briefly visiting the Spiky Brdge and Triabunna.
Ross, Oatlands and Bicheno, Tasmaina
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From our Tasmania 2022 trip, the historic towns of Ross, Oatlands and Campbell Town. Also a chance to learn a little more of Australia's convict past and some of my family history. Finally, a visit to the blowhole in Bicheno on the east coast.
Spirit of Tasmania Melbourne to Devonport
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This footage was from about 2 years ago, but I never had the time to do anything with it. I finally found some time to go through this older footage and do something with it. The picture quality at times was not the best due to some sub-par camera equipment (it has been replaced).
Where have all the penguins gone?
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A visit to Granite Island, Victor Harbor, South Australia.
National Holden Museum, Echuca
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I was very thankful for the chance to visit this museum before it closed doors for good. Great memories of what is now a bygone era, and a sad reminder of what Australia used to be in regards to the manufacturing industry.
Australia's Oldest Rail Journey, The Overland
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Melbourne to Adelaide on the nation's oldest rail journey in Red Premium Class.
XPT Sydney to Melbourne in First Class
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XPT Sydney to Melbourne in First Class
As the Manly Ferry cuts it's way to Circular Quay
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As the Manly Ferry cuts it's way to Circular Quay
National Motor Museum, Birdwood, South Australia
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National Motor Museum, Birdwood, South Australia
Wow that was very interesting (and educational)
Amazing video
hey man you put a lot of effort into your videos, you deserve 100k subs. I wish you best of luck on your content creating journey and enjoy life to the fullest. Just a reminder to never give up!!!❤❤😃
What’s with the American style bell hells to Betsy this is Australia
All the way clicky clack clicky clack night and day wow not to mention the micro wave food. 😂
This is such a good channel and video it’s so underrated. I just can’t understand people sometimes
I’m subbed and I’m an AUZZIE
I love reliving our holidays through your videos. Thank you.
Way back in the early 1960's, my parents agreed that I could use some of my savings from my Saturday job to take myself on a week's holiday in Melbourne. Rather than fly, I took the Southern Aurora (then very new) to Melbourne and the Intercapital Daylight back. The sleeper train was very comfortable, even though I did not have my own shower (the compartment only had a loo and handbasin). The Daylight seat etc was comfortable enough and it was good to see the countryside. By Australian standards of the day, the travel was reasonably fast (far from that by European timings). The food on both journeys was indifferent but fresh and safe. I don't think I'd repeat the journey.
That blue FJ Holden prototype is actually Mr Holden’s wife’s car
Only sleeper 4 me n wife..😂
The night melbourne to sydney was late on this day, how do I know? the train is sitting on platform 2 instead of 1.
Thanks for a nice video. I am not so sure about the music (matter of taste). I wonder what percentage of seats were occupied by folks going from Sydney to Southern Cross? Given the time and cost differences.
If you happen to have the footage of the train going from Mount Barker junction to Parklands that would be extremely valuable if you are willing to share it.
I went Adelaide once
Thank goodness they’re finally going those crusty old trains. Upgrade was long overdue and over ten hours to Melbourne, ridiculous in 2024 !!
O ye !! Only 100km an ‘hour ha ha ha !!
Ha ha don’t bother!
That was back in the 80s carriages older then God bless you and your family Warren and Ingrid Melbourne Australia 🦘😎😺😺🦘🐨🐨🇦🇺🇦🇺🧔👩🌞
I had good Times on the overlander meeting people playing card's getting drunk don't drink ALCOHOL ANY MORE God bless you all Warren and Ingrid Melbourne Australia 😎🥰🥰😸😻🦘🦘🐨🐨
I've been there twice
I never understood why is diverted true Geelong then looping around Ballarat
Gauge conversion and ARTC's route plans
Spencer Street station was better before it was 'upgraded' to what it is now.
Fantastic video.
Thank you very much!
You should show more about the train. The various sleepers, meals etc.
Embarrassingly backward.
Do change the heading to 'Australia's second-oldest interstate rail journey'. It was beaten by Sydney - Melbourne, in 1883. It was never called 'Intercolonial Express'. The name Overland dates from the 1920s, not the 1930s. SA historians stick adamantly to the latter, but VR documents refute that. Today's timetable is completely useless.
From 7:05 , the on train Geelong description is destroying the pronunciation of Geelong related names. Even has trouble with Governor. Better to have a professionally recorded announcement or none at all.
Great video, I really enjoyed that, nice to see the crew give a brief history of each location, something they did rather well on the Indian Pacific and The Ghan. NSW TrainLink could take a page from Journey Beyond and give a decent but brief narration of the various historic places between Sydney and Broken Hill NSW on the "Outback Explorer" service.
Glad you enjoyed it
Good video shame no vocal covertly as some do find hard to read or some just can't read
I preferred the trip when the Overland went via Ballarat(broad gauge). I first traveled on the Overland back in the early 70s, the carriages consisted of today's steel cars(now 70 years old) and old wood bodied carriages and the train was much longer. On occasions the Overland departed Adelaide with a first division and a second division and it was an overnight train
Stupid USA type bells yuck
It’s always fascinating to find one’s self pictured as a part of background footage but there we are at 14:50, just before Easter 2023. We also travelled to Adelaide last Monday so are semi-regular users of the Overland. Last week’s train was fully booked due to the GP travellers returning to Adelaide and combined with Easter. Good footage btw and an interesting synopsis of the best way of travelling between ADE-MEL provided you have the time. If you’re cheap like me you can save up to $40.00 by catching the V/Line train (pictured) which arrives at Ararat about an hour before the Overland for as little as $5.00, then pay the Journey Beyond fare from Ararat to Adelaide.
Sydney to melbourne or melbourne to Sydney train is old Not good 😊
My mum and dad went in the overland from Melbourne to Adelaide and they said it was a GD trip when they went in there
Sorry, but I found this very boring to watch due to no voice commentary, and monotonous music.
I travel on the XPT Sydney/Melbourne line several times a year. I quite enjoy it. Cheaper for me to travel by train then the expense of fuel to drive up and back. One trip I did, I ask one of the stewards how fast does the train average speed and replayed 160 kmph when there is no rail restrictions.
Does the train have power points ?
I have traveled once during the day and once did an overnight in a sleeper
Thing is rough as guts.
We were on the xpt train from Melbourne to Sydney, noisy bumpy ride, such a long day travelling, lots of slow riding due to people stealing the copper wire in Broadmeadows. So glad to reach Sydney bout 9 O clock at night. We also had a stowaway on board so they stopped at station a police wreck waiting for him.
what no wildlife
Average speed 300k my arse,it would not take 10hours to get to Melbourne.I drove many a time between Albury and Melbourne and not once did the train get there before me and my speed was 110km.There is unions rules how fast this train can be driven in all states.There will never be a high speed train in Australia.Where there should be high speed is between Sydney and Canberra,Melbourne and Geelong.
High air fares have led to many people taking the train rather than flying between Sydney and Melbourne, as evidenced by the packed train. The height of luxury it might not be, but it's a very relaxing way to travel if you are not in a hurry and the crews are generally very pleasant. Meals are available and the snack bar is an option not available on planes. New trains are on the way so I hope rail travel becomes an even more enjoyable way to get about. It's worth it just to avoid Sydney Airport!
Unfortunately the new CAF Civity trains will not include Sleeper accomodation so the train will no longer be a good alternative to flying. Unless they change their minds of course. Also they will not be operated by push-pull power cars at each end but have a Diesel engine under each car (probably Diesel Electric so they will be DEMUs - Diesel Electric Multiple Units) presumably a more noisey solution.
Wow, this looks like time travelling. He would have thought such a rich, modern country as Australia would have such antquated trains. Inside the 'first class' carriage looks like something from the 70s. Puts me right off train travel in Australia
The train was introduced in 1982.
@@johnleonard2202 42 years ago. Oh lordy
It’s no Eurostar 😂
True enough. A large, sparsely populated, country. With cities only becoming largish after the car and aeroplane were around. Therefore, train isn't the preferred method of travel for most people, therefore no investment, therefore outdated train isn't preferred method travel. The usual public transport demand-investment cycle seen in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
As an Australian yes it’s backward to the extreme. Yet we have transit fans foaming over this as if we should be proud.
❤❤❤ average speed. 70 k not 300k like most InterCity Trains in developed countries.....no Money to upgrade the Infrastructure ❤❤❤
No train averages 300km/h. Agreed that the average speed (which is 85km/h when on-time) is poor. The majority of the slow running is north of Junee. South of Junee the train is actually faster then driving (when running on time of course).
correct. don't know the history but because the major towns in vic are on the straightest alignment it is the shortest distance whereas in nsw it goes all over the place. @@johnleonard2202
It's full of freight traffic and that's not good for the infrastructure, nor does it leave much time to repair it.
Brave person indeed.
what with the shit music
It will always be Spencer St Station, to us Victorian's 👍 I haven't travelled by train, from Melbourne to Sydney, and vise versa, since the late 60's🤗 Pity you didn't show the inside, of the train😢
The chug a lug trains in Australia……pathetic! Check out the trains in Europe, puts these old geezers to shame.
Yea Ostraya deeply backwards out of the capital cities. Mediocrity reigns supreme like an addiction.
Large distances and low population density make HS Rail extremely expensive to consider. if it wasn't for the long steep gradients these trains could have been faster (the power car traction motors had to be lower geared than the equivalent BR Class 43 units).
Going to Melbourne, Kylie Minogue’s home city, would be a real treat - I wonder if Kylie herself ever took this train when she was younger ❤❤❤❤❤
Almost certainly not. Vary few people travel the full distance, or very few did until the last couple of years when airfares got out of control. 11 hours train with two services a day, or 1 hour flight (plus airport times, maybe 3 hours all up) with flights better than every half hour. Flying is far easier for almost 100% of people.
@@TheGreatLordDufus interesting, with the current debate on climate change and of how the EU is banning flights that it considers “shorthaul” within EU member states, including in France, something that the Irish government is considering doing about flights between Ireland and the U.K. in compliance with EU climate change directives - a ban on flights and/or their plans for 15 mins “smart cities” away from rural areas could see the increased popularity of (diesel) ferry travel, sea connections or the plans for a high speed rail tunnel project under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin, which up to this point has been shelved so many times, aside from the Irish governments recently increased investment in rail infrastructure in Ireland - every time ferries have been put onto Irish Sea routes they have reached capacity very quickly, even post-Covid and any restrictions on air travel between Ireland and the U.K. will very quickly accelerate that much further
@@michaeljohndennis2231 I wasn't aware of the Irish proposals, thanks for that. France, if memory serves, is banning flights where a train makes the trip in 2.5 hours or less. If you had TGV going Melbourne-Sydney on the current track alignment, assuming it was made ready for speeds (which would actually require a lot of bends removed or made shallower) would be 1 to 1.5 hours more than that. With few decent sized population centres in between to add interim catchment - Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga under 100k each are the only decent sized stops on any feasible route. Australia is big, and sparsely populated away from maybe eight centres - only five of which reach 1m and one more 500k which almost merges into one of the big five anyway. And one of those big five - Perth - is 2500km from the nearest of the others (roughly equivalent to London-Moscow) so not really an option. There is often talk, repeatedly for 40 years, of implementing HSR here but it seems very unlikely in the next couple of decades that Melbourne-Sydney (depending on the year the 2nd to 5th most flown domestic route in the world), Brisbane-Sydney, Canberra-Sydney or Adelaide-Melbourne will actually get built. History, geography, and demographics all add up to make the routes marginal at best. Plus Qantas are supreme lobbyists. Simply electrifying lines seems beyond our capability (or, more accurately, political will). There is supposed to be a business case being delivered at the end of the year for Newcastle-Sydney HSR. That could conceivably eventually become Brisbane-Sydney, a route that doesn't involve mountain ranges. But history suggests not a metre of high speed track will actually get built, just a bunch of junkets to France, Spain, China and Japan for "fact finding" before the plan gets shelved and dusted off for a new set of business cases and reports in another 5-10 years.
@@michaeljohndennis2231 The only people worried about that are governments and people that can’t stand up for themselves. You really are voluntarily walking right in to a dictatorship.