Drivers eye view, Southern Cross to Tocumwal, Dec 2023
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- Travel with the train driver as we journey from Southern Cross station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to the end of the line at Tocumwal, just over the border into New South Wales. The last section of the line from Shepparton is a freight only line. We start out on the Vlocity service then change trains at Shepparton to board our special heritage train hauled by two T class locomotives to complete the journey to Tocumwal. Dec. 2023
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I am seeing more parts of regional Victoria than I ever imagined and enjoying every minute. Thanks again for the videos.
You're welcome. I am very happy you are enjoying them 😀👍
Thanks for another great video
You're welcome. Glad you enjoy them all 👍😀
Loved this! It was like arriving home, all the familiar sights and scenery - even though we live here! 👍👍
@@marionkapp9577 very happy you enjoyed the ride all the way home. 😀 Glad you enjoyed the video 👍 😀
Thanks for the great video I didn’t know Tocumwal had a passenger train station.
It has a station but no regular service. Only the occasional special tour train. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
love watching the scenery go by so quick and the clouds not move at all!
Glad to hear you enjoy them 👍 😀
Great video
Very happy to hear you enjoyed it 👍 😀
Looks like you have got a fan base following you around
Just a little bit 😀😀👍
Great video as always !!!🤗👍
Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀
Walked across that train bridge the other week.
Added a bit of urban art ;)
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Great video - like.
Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed it 👍 😀
The weather looks just like it does out my windows right now, in London, UK! Isn't this midsummer in Australia? Fascinating glimpse of railway life. (To be fair, the sun did come and the clouds thinned out further inland).
Winter is on it's way back again over here now. Starting to get those cold and wet days again. 👍😀
@@driver667 I just watched your recent video from Wangaratta to Benalla, so I see what you mean. Some years back I was living in West Bengal, just a few miles north of the tropic of Cancer. Around mid-December it started getting a bit misty in the mornings. Two weeks later it was clear again and the locals told me that winter was over. Sometimes it's nice to be a passenger and just watch the world going by and it's a joy to see your part of the world. I'm still getting my head around the broad gauge/standard gauge thing. One thing that I did notice is that there is really a lot of graffiti in Melbourne and also there seemed to be a secure compound for local trains at one point, presumably to keep them clean. It's probably a sign of a deeper problem. Not sure what is is though. I see you have loads of other video to watch. Brilliant!
@@apc108 broad and standard gauge is a problem that's not going to go away unfortunately. Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. Plenty to keep you busy 😉 Sounds like you've seen a lot. 👍😉
1:04:11 the horn scares the crap out of the girl on the bench lmao
@@tspoon772 it did give her a jump. 👍😀
This nice long video helped me through a rather difficult night of little sleep.
I noticed many of the road crossings had standard gauge lines installed, just in case the powers that be decide to do a conversion some day. 🤔
1:06:55 I think the camera had a little case of the electronic hiccups there.😵💫
It was an electronic hiccup 🤔 This line is not being converted to standard gauge now. Glad the video helped. 😀😀👍
The video ive waited for...
Glad to hear you enjoyed this video. 👍😀
1:04:00 great how the girl jumped after the horn was blown 😂
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What's the go where the line branches off to Echuca with the Baulks across the tracks??
@@wezza60 the line branching off to Echuca needs work and is currently booked out of use. 👍😀
@driver667 Thanks mate, after I commented, I thought hang on, the Echuca service runs via Bendigo, I didn't realise there was a cross line from the Shepparton line.
@@wezza60 sure is. Hopefully we see it reused in the future. 👍😀
Didn't think old mate in the yellow car at 2:54:15 was going to stop. 😅
Why are we hearing a second whistle from the rear? The video in reverse?
A second locomotive behind the first. They liked to be heard also some times. 👍😀
It looks like the track speed north of Shepparton is a lot lower than when Cobram passes came though here? 70 km/h?
Fells like 80 but the road vehicles (doing 100) wouldn't be running away so fast.
65kph out there. A bit slower than when the pass still ran. 👍😀
Was that a steam train from Shepp to Tocumwal?
It was a heritage diesel locomotive. 👍😀
Did u prefer n sets up to Shepparton or velocity trains?
I preferred the locomotive hauled trains. 👍😀
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wait this line has been restored!
when did they do it?
Regular trains still only travel to Shepparton. Tour trains can run to Tocumwal. This was a special train to Tocumwal. 👍😀
@@driver667 oh
@@percyengineproductions061 👍😀
Freight still runs along that line I believe.
@@carisi2k11 it certainly does 👍😀
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Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀
@@driver667 I travelled up to Yarroweh on Sunday with a friend by car ..... A few changes between Seymour and Shepparton since my last carbide there and back in a N class in 2020 ..... new Junction to Echuca at Toolamba looks promising but Dookie Line not so much ..... Sad to see Numurkah Yard gone but c'est le vie. I did travel on an X hauled Cobram Pass a few weeks before closure and a weekend your of the Goulburn Valley Lines in the mid 1990's (including Dookie)
@@RailfanDownunder there have been a lot of changes since your travelling around back then on the Cobram pass. It's a long time since I ran the Cobram pass. Glad to read about your experiences. 👍😀
You’d think with all that straight track it would be faster speeds and Australia would invest in some high speed locos
Straight track certainly makes higher speed easier but........... 🤔👍
At the 50-minute mark, it looks like an NPC might have glitched
haha tra in