Drivers eye view, Southern Cross to Warrnambool, Oct 2023
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2023
- Travel with the train driver as we experienced the entire journey from Melbourne to the terminus at Warrnambool in the south west of Victoria, Australia on the regular passenger train hauled by an N class locomotive made in the early 1980's. Maximum speed for this train is 115kph. October 2023.
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Love your work for what it is, ie the scenery etc, but ALSO love it because watching one of these is so calming. I had a terrible day & have watched half of this & now feel much better; Thank you!
Very happy to help you calm down after a hard day and happy you enjoy them 👍 😀
By the way What was the damage 💰 adult and concession? 😂
@@TheManuel012009 I don't deal with tickets. That's the conductors job but I do know that you can travel anywhere in Victoria now for a maximum of $10 per day. Cheap as chips 👍😊
Thanks. Live on on the Warrnambool line and travel it frequently to Melbourne. Love the work.. keep it up. Well Done!
@@lwinaus8810 thank you. Very happy to hear you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
Finally another whole line Cabride video. Thanks mate, you are doing a wonderful job.
You're welcome. The long ones are a lot of work and take ages to render and upload but I'll keep em coming every so often. Glad you enjoy them. 👍😀
Thanks for the ride along keep up the good work
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
Thank you driver. I have always wanted to ride up the front. Good job.😊
Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed the ride 👍😀
Enjoyed the ride (especially cab ride) through my neck of the woods, thanks for sharing. Can’t beat the sound of these engines and horn as they pass through my local station 😍
They do sound great 👍 Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
I am still watching it over a couple of nights, its lovely to see the difference in the scenery between the towns. About 25 yrs ago took the train from Spencer Street to Warrnambool they supplied lunch and tea and bus trips around it was thoroughly enjoyable then back at Warnambool station then back to Melb.
Vline package holidays. It's sounds like one of those trips. They used to boost tourism back then 👍😊
The horn never gets old, even though I hear it around 10 times everyday 😂
It is a good sound 👌 👍😀
Greetings from Auckland New Zealand!
Sadly my traveling days are over but so good to be able to enjoy the scenery you guys are famous for.
So glad I found you and grateful thanks for the video.
Cheers
Greetings to New Zealand. Lovely country you have there also. Travelled quite a bit in New Zealand but need to get back there again with the camera 😀 Very happy you are enjoying the videos. Cheers 👍 😊
Another video. Same line basically that passes the back of my house. Nice to see the changes a few months bring!
@@AzurePrower the rail scene is changing quite rapidly at the moment. 👍😀
Great video keep it up 👍
@@MarkWilliams-sf9pd thank you. I will. 😀👍
Fabulous video, glorious weather, truly great country, loved to see the people waving to the train as you left Colac.
Very happy to hear you enjoyed the ride. It was a great day for it. 👍🙂
How relaxing is this trip.!!.... so excellent. Great landscapes. Thank you.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
Thank you for posting this.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😊
Thanks driver, I couldn't count the number of times this train brought me back to my family in Melbourne on my days off when I lived in Portland in 2018.
I probably drove you back to your family a few times back then. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀
I'm not a train nut, but the sound of VLine's is so bloody relaxing
Glad you enjoyed it and found it relaxing 😌 💤👍😀
Especially when it's idling while jogging along at 70km/h.
@@timconnors 👍😊
I enjoyed every Km of this video. Well done.
Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed the ride to Warrnambool 👍😀
Loved it. Though I did play at 2X, once out of Geelong, and without sound. Great scenery. I'll continue down the line when I get a chance, and watch some other routes too. Many thanks for videoing, and posting for us to see and travel.
Very happy to hear you enjoyed the ride and hope you enjoy many more 😀 👍
Most appreciated, Mr. 667. Nice to see some quality Aussie cab-views on YT.
You're welcome. Very happy you enjoy them 👍 😀
Rip Skippy at 1:28:45😢
Sometimes it happens. 😔 Not much we can do about it. 🤔
I saw that
2:27:45 to about 2:28:50 is such a vibe. There's just something so special about slowly entering a small town by train, especially a town which retains its historic railway station.
It is nice to see history remaining in place and operational. Glad you enjoyed it 👍😀🎄
Awesome journey thanks.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 🙂
Hello is Michael kalik I did the trip from Melbourne to Albury two weeks ago over the Melbourne cup weekend i done the trip from Melbourne to warranambool few times is a beautiful township down there thank you mate for videos from Michael
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the videos and hope you enjoyed your train trips 👍😊
The amount of times I rode this line, it makes me so happy to see it getting some representation (to be fair i usually only hopped on at Lara and off at Geelong but rode from southern cross a few times too)
Very happy to hear you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
I watched the full trip from the UK. One of my relatives moved to Austraila in 1960. I wish I could do the same. Many thanks!!
Very happy you enjoyed it and you never know, one day you could be in Australia 🤔👍😀
Come-
You will never leave.
I came in 1957 at the age of 13 (from Lancashire)
I'm at Stonyford and love hearing the train pass by each way a few times a day. It's interesting to see the locality from your POV.
Happy to bring a different point of view to you. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀
I worked a race train to Warnambool back in the 70s, we were the first train out & the last back in, after 1am when we got back to Spencer St. I had only 6 hours off, as I was rostered for the Daylight express out of Melbourne.
That's a heavy work schedule 🤔👍
Great video mate, nice to see the views from the good old N class. Will miss them when they go but hopefully they will have a new chapter in their lives hauling freight or hauling heritage trains around the countryside occasionally still
It will be sad. End of an era. 🤔 Glad you enjoyed the ride. 👍😀
Great video mate, sure has changed from when I was a fireman in Warrnambool in the 80’s and a driver at dynon in the 80’s and 90’s. Brought back a lot of great memories for me👍
Great to hear you enjoyed it, Les. It's been a while since I've seen you. Hope you're enjoying retirement 😀 👍
I sure am, best roster I’ve ever had!
@@leswhite9961 😀😀 great to hear. It'll be a few years yet till I get on that roster 👍😀
Who am I talking too?
@@leswhite9961 Colin Sharp. I started at Dynon in 1985
Great ride. I love my Victoria.
Great to hear you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
It is lovely to watch
Very happy that you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
G'day, thanks for the from Melbourne to Warrnambool, as a country boy l hate travelling through the City and it's no different on the train, once out in the open country l start to relax and take in and enjoy the ride, is that the same for the Driver of a train, great weather for the trip, cheers mate keep safe, Neil 🤠.
It is nice being out of the suburbs and out in the country. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
As much as I enjoy my virtual train travels in central Europe it is good to come home occasionally. Thank you.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the trip. 👍 😀
Love these! Always wanted to be a train driver but not able to so this is the next best thing.
I'm very happy to be able to effectively 'bring you into the cab' with these videos. 👍😀
@@driver667 Are you on Discord?
No I'm not. 👍
@@driver667 Email?
On the about page, there is a spot for my email 👍😀 Actually I'll work on where that has gone. Seems youtube has changed a few things.
watching this at 144p 8x speed, covered 2 hours in 15 minutes °•° its like it was a Shinkansen
🤣🤣 Hang on! 🤣👍😀
Beautiful trains and beautiful country :)
UK fan 😊
Thank you. Very happy you enjoy them. Greetings to the UK. 👍😊
@driver667 you too my Aussie friend hope to see more train cab rides 😀 👍
@@LingLiu2014 you will 👍😀
I heard a Velocity Train down here last weekend, must have been a test run, very distinctive horn.🇦🇺
I haven't heard of any vlocity testing down there but who knows. 👍😀
I love these videos, so simple but to us who don't get these views it fills a void of wonder! I've never understood how a driver knows the track switching is correct?
The signals tell the driver where we are going. Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. 👍 😀
Thanks very much for this wonderful journey on a beautiful day. I was gonna ask about the white and yellow numbers but I eventuallyfigured out the white was the distance from Melbourne and the yellow was speeds for the bends. sad about all the stations and diversions removed. I guess they re-used the extracted rails for other work. Looking forward to more of your trips. Cheers from Sydney.
Very happy to hear you enjoyed the ride. Hope you enjoy a few more. 👍😀
@@driver667 Let me know if interested in my RUclipss of trams and trains etc. From a passenger or spotter point of view. Includes our 'Ghost station" in the Eastern suburbs that never was.
@@geoffreymoore1510 👍😀
Putty Cat all is well, Hope you have a great day I will if it stops raining here, Grass needs to be cut, right now the grass is to wet it has to dry out some.
Always jobs that need to be done. 👍😊🐈🐈🐈
ah yess the Southern Cross, an iconic southern constellation
It is 😊👌👍
اللهم صل على محمد وال محمد goooood
Ah, that makes more sense. I saw the title, and thought Southern Cross (the one in WA) to rural Victoria in 3.5 hrs? I didn't know we had the worlds fastest train!
Hmmm, I don't think our trains are up to that sort of speed yet 🤣🤣👍🙂
I have always wanted to do this trip on an N set. looks like my time is limited
Yes, don't put it off, time is limited. 👍😀
Nice and relaxing vid. What does number sometimes shown in the bottom left corner represent?
The number on a white background that flashes up is kilometres from Melbourne. Very happy you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
Excellent high standard Video, thankyou. I assume a fairly easy Road to learn past Geelong?
To Melbourne yes, to Warrnambool it's a hard track. One of the harder tracks due to the ups and downs combined with speed curves at the bottom of grades etc. But probably one of my favourites to drive because it is a challenge. 👍😊
40:28-This is the town whose name the band that was later the Little River Band saw on the Princes Freeway on their way to a gig in Geelong, and they eventually took that town name for the band's name.
A town made famous by the band 👍😀
That sounds like one powerful engine.
Develops around 2500 horse power. 👍😊
Quaint little old station building at Pirron Yallock there. Wish they hadn't closed down so many lines and stations...
Pirron Yallock seems to have been saved by heritage. 👍 It's a nice little building. 👍🙂
I quietly wonder how long before the RRL from Sunshine to Wyndham Vale is electrified and made part of the suburban network.
Might be a few years yet 🤔👍🙂
Sounds better than the red rattler i would catch from Geelong to Spencer St in the 70's, remember the leather or similiar pull cord used for emergencies, every now and then some fool would yank it for fun. i did a lot of fishing at "Breakwater" as a kid but no way would i eat fish out of there now, just near the 2nd bridge past Breakwater on the side on the river bank were old loading/unloading platforms, they were crumbling in the early 70's so probably not there now, lots of snakes down there, lifting up old bits of roofing tin and the Tigers would get a bit excited. The good old days.
It sounds like the 'good old days' 🤣 Lots of experiences. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😊
I drove and fired that line on the 60’s still remember dropping the staff at Birragurra and having to walk back and pick it up. 😂
It's a bugger when that happens 😀😀 Staff sections are almost non existent now. 👍😀
5:00 all of these bridges are a reminder of man's ability to build bridges over things to get to other things.
We are always trying to get over things 😀😀👍😊
I don't know if it's possible or not, but it would be good if there could be a speedometer in one of the corners, like a watermark, so you can see how fast the train is going at any time.
As much as it sounds good, I don't record the speed at all. 👍😀
I cant believe how satisfying watching these videos are. I have them going when I'm working in a little box on the bottom left of my screen. Sound is very low so i can still hear the train and concentrate on what I'm doing. Is there one from Melbourne to Shepparton on its way?
There is one from Melbourne to Shepparton in the works. It will be in the new year but it is coming. 👍😀
That's awesome. I love the long haul trips. My favourite is Warrnambool followed by Swan Hill. My dad and I watched the one to Quorn as well. Took him back to a happier time in the Flinders Ranges. Please keep them coming. I can't get enough ❤
@@user-jg6bp7uy7n I'll keep em coming. Glad you enjoy them 👍 😀
Great stuff!
🚅 don't you all enjoy railroad
🚈 trams, trains etc are just so cool
🚞 come take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder :)
They are good 👍 👌
@@driver667 Good vid too, thank you. Have a great day/night. : )
@@KenanTurkiye Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. You have a good day also. 👍 😀
@@driver667 👍🙃
Iv been on this track many times
Familiar territory... 👍😀
After 3pm, it is no longer time to hope the soldiers for Remembrance Day. Nice work
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The 2:25:31 my brother and I hunt foxes with the dogs in those wood heaps I stand on the end stump closest to colac and my brother hunts from the Camperdown end. And also hunt the big cypress tree hedge at 2:34:39 cheers for your video also given me some farms to go knock on some doors for my cover areas 😎👌🏻.
Glad you enjoyed it and gave you ideas 👍🙂
59:50-Kardinia Park (GMHBA Stadium) basically comes into full view.
Yes it does 😀👍😊
Looks like a lot of work taking place in the South Geelong to Marshall area. Is the track being duplicated or a passing loop put in? I also notice at Marshall there appears to be the foundation for something being installed on the non platform side and the piers for a bridge. Is this for a second platform? I have watched a number of your videos it gives a different perspective to travelling by road even to familiar areas where the track runs parallel to the road.
The track is being duplicated from South Geelong to Waurn Ponds. It's a lot of work going on. Glad you enjoy the videos 👍 😀
Col please do from Warranambool to Melbourne thank you
It is on my list for the future when I get a chance. 👍😀
what do the slits light refer to? Wodonga Station has one?
Sounds like you are talking about a Banner indicator. It tells the driver what is on the next signal as sighting of the next signal might be a bit short. 👍😀
Love your work and trying to catch up, I have noticed driving the 'N' you are required to use the vigilance control (I think that's what is called) but when you ran the 'C' it wasn't used. Thanks and well done.
The C also has a vigilance. It just didn't sound the same. Very happy you are enjoying the videos 👍😀
@@driver667 Thanks
@@johnnywarbo 👍😀
Great video . What do the numbers in black with a yellow background mean ? 😊
They are curve boards. That is the speed around and direction of the curve. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍😀
Hello. I enjoy watching your videos. Is it possible to produce a video of a Melbourne to Adelaide or Melbourne to Sydney trip?
That would be a big video but it is on my 'to do' list. Very happy you enjoy them 👍 😀
@@driver667 Thanks for your response. Do you intend to make travel videos from other big Australian cities such as Perth , Sydney or Brisbane ?
@@enioaugustodearaujo7501 that is something I would like to do but I will have to see how it goes. I drive across Victoria so that is fairly easy. 👍🙂
@@driver667 Are there in Australia high speed lines where trains reach speeds above 200 km/h ?
@@enioaugustodearaujo7501 no. The politicians have talked about it a number of times but it has never been built.
If hauling freight, What’s the tonnage difference between standard and broad gauge freight? 🤔
The gauge doesn't make a difference. It's the standard that the track is kept up to that makes the difference. 👍😊
at 1:11 what is the other smaller light for on the right? blue?
That is a dwarf signal. Basically a low speed yard signal. The blue means the same as red. It is blue so it does not get confused with the main signals. 👍😀
The three most important jobs in Australia today.
1: Nurse 2: Teacher 3: Locomotive Engineer with a digital video camera.😁
🤣🤣I'll agree with that. 👍😀😀
It may have escaped my memory, but did you upload videos for the sections between Southern Cross and Geelong for this journey? I can only remember seeing from Geelong onwards from about a few weeks ago.
I did watch that type of video from Geelong onwards.
Yes there was a video on the Warrnambool train from Southern Cross to Waurn Ponds uploaded about 4 months ago. 👍😊
@@driver667 Oh yeah, I think I remember now. Thanks. But then how come you also uploaded one between Geelong and Waurn Ponds? Was that taken from the other video or was it a new one?
@@therealsammyvee888 it's a new one. There are changes happening along the line. 👍😊
@@driver667 Ok, cool. Thanks.
At 3:30 the Albury train goes left to go up north if this train stays straight at this point how does it get to the south?
At Footscray, the Albury train runs underground after running past the freight yards and pops out after Footscray on our right. 👍😀
Still waiting for the stone point run ❤
It's on my list. I'll get there. 👍😊
Hi there, a lot of works going in South Geelong before and after the old diverge to Queenscliff. What are they up to? Thanks
Sorry should have waited a bit further, I am assuming a new station.
@@johnnywarbo duplication of the track as well as level crossing removals incorporating rebuilt stations 👍😀
@@driver667 Okay thanks quite a bit of work👍
@@johnnywarbo yes, quite a lot. 👍😀
6:00 mins to 6:10 is like a backwards motion illusion 🌱 😎
🤣🤣👍😀
29:58 what are the extra set of tracks that appear through the journey?
They are protection just in case of a derailment on the bridge. 👍😄
When you do a run like that, what does the rest of your day look like? Do you take a break then drive back?
We generally drive out then have a break before driving back 👍😀
I'm really enjoying the engine hum inside the cab... Not so good from the outside. 😅
Glad you enjoyed the trip to Warrnambool. 😀👍🙂
Wat was the speed of the train bettween southern cross and geelong station
The speed for this train in that section is 115kph 👍😀
Lights (RED over ORANGE) track speed reduced ?
Slower speed. Get ready to stop 👍🙂
Maybe I'm wrong (most likely I am!) but I haven't been on the train from Warrnambool to Melbourne in 30 odd years and I always thought the line ran through Werribee, Laverton, Newport, Yarraville etc???
It used to before the RRL line was built. Now it turns off before Werribee and runs across to Sunshine and in through Footscray. 👍😀
Here is the link to a video of the train to Geelong going via Werribee on a day the Sunshine route was closed.
ruclips.net/video/O4cJSwvo8Xc/видео.htmlsi=9MNkMH-kx0Agglku
@@driver667 Thanks for that!
Oh ! the poor Wallaby 😰😥💔
Poor thing 😔🤔
It is the 19:13 to Warnambool
Hi there Driver667, I know NOTHING about trains and have a couple stupid questions....... What is the cruise speed of these thing and what happens if you where to fall asleep?? Thanks for sharing and sorry for the lame questions. Edit... this was oddly satisfying.
This train has a maximum speed of 115kph but the vlocity railcars that run most of the services now have a maximum speed of 160kph. There is a button I have to press every 30 seconds or so, if I don't press it, the train stops. Glad you enjoyed the ride. 👍😊
Ah yes, Warrnambool, the hometown of footy great, and now Fox Footy expert commentator, Jonathan Brown (he's one of my favorites), and also Carlton AFLW captain Kerryn Peterson.
Some football talent out of Warrnambool. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀
@@driver667 Also, former GWS coach Leon Cameron was on the same junior footy team as Browny, the South Warrnambool Roosters.
Great video , excuse my ignorance whats with the 3rail on the flyover at the start?
That is the dual gauge. Our train is on broad gauge, the train from Albury uses the standard gauge. 👍😊
@@driver667 thank you im a bit wiser now..
@@peter15871 no problem. It's the problem we have from the different gauges. 👍😀
@@driver667 i know years ago there were numerious different gauges all over the place in oz .from what i can remember, but i thought it was all one gauge now .
@@peter15871 not quite. Victoria is mostly broad gauge, NSW is standard gauge, SA is mostly standard gauge with broad gauge suburban trains and a small network of narrow gauge freight lines on the Eyre peninsula. QLD and WA state systems are narrow gauge. Australia has not quite worked it out yet. 🤔🤔👍😊
You needs to the return video Warrnambool to southern cross n class locomotive
Yes I do 👍😀
Also what does the WHITE SIGNS mean like 320, I know YELLOW is for SPEED 65/80/100 etc.
I'm guessing you mean the white sign that flashes up in the bottom left? Km's from Melbourne. 👍😀
Correct! km to Melb. thank you
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does the line go beyond warnambool or is that the end of the line?
It goes through to west vic freight yard, a few kilometres further. A future video not far away 👍😊
Do u think vlocity trains will be on the line by the end of the year?
There is a potential.
Certainly by early next year anyway I would guess. 👍😊
Sincerely hope not.
2:33 Double left rails at this point (and earlier): Is this a derailment guard or is the track at this point dual-gauge?
That is dual gauge track through there. 👍😀
@@driver667 Thanks, mate. :) Crimony--I'd hate to have to design the switch mechanisms for something like that. I once saw a video of an early, manual dual-gauge switch where the track attendant had to make NINE individual mechanical motions to select the route on the switch. That's on YT here somewhere, and I can't find it now.
@@josepherhardt164 that sounds like a bit of a complicated job..... it would be easier if it was all one gauge. 🤔 👍😊
@@driver667 In think in Spain, which has a number of gauges, there are now engines and rolling stock that can be run through an automatic axle adjustment mechanism, thus allowing for the same engine and rolling stock to run on multiple gauges.
@@josepherhardt164 yes, I have seen video of it in operation. Interesting. 👍😊
1:28:53 Mmmm Wallaburger
Did the wallaby survive?
I don't think so 🤔 😔
Did he miss the Roo there? :)
Poor skippy 😔🤔
What a shame we lost that line.
Which line 🤔
Just so many unofficial stock and farmer access crossings between Terang and the Bool. What are the rules applicable ?.
They are actually official occupation crossings. There is a set of rules for farmers using them. 👍😀
@@driver667 love the Aussie rail journeys because you are able to see so much more of the rural landscape than British rail equivalent.
@@davidpearn5925 I am very happy you enjoy the views of the Australian outback. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀
What do the yellow tags and white tags mean, cheers.
The yellow are curve boards, speed around and direction of the curve. The white ones are km posts. Distance from Southern Cross. 👍😀
Thank you.
You're welcome 👍😀
fuel burn per hour>? per 100km?
Not sure exactly but a rough guess, maybe 3 litres per km hauling 250 tonnes of passenger train. 👍🙂
Just a reminder to anyone in Victoria. This trip only cost $5!!!!!!!! Same from the City to Wodonga!
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Hey driver I got a question.
Well..?
1:28:51 rest in peace
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