Hey! Hope you enjoyed this Q&A :)) Join my Discord at this link: discord.gg/Hg2cMkaedH You'll have to accept a few rules, but then you'll be smooth sailing. If you don't have a Discord account, it's super easy to set one up. It's going to be a lot of fun, I'm hoping we can all have lots of chats about transport, city planning and Sydney. I hope I see you there! Also, if you wanna buy NIMBY Rails, you can buy it at this link: store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/. NIMBY Rails is a railway simulation game where you can build a railway system anywhere in the world. It's just $27 on Steam, and it's absolutely worth it; prepare to lose many hours playing the game.
I'm a Ruse old boy and I reckon you are going to have a far more interesting (and lucrative) career than you ever would in medicine. Keep up the great work Sharath!
i assume james ruse? ill never live it down, i passed the entrance exam but chose oakhill because my brother went there. Why did my parents give me a choice?? sliding door moment. too much weed, got a 25 and below or whatever it was in the TER. All my fault, but i wonder what could have been.
Sorry, but I had to stop watching after ten minutes because your unnecessary (nervous?) laugh at the end of each answer was annoying. Otherwise it would have been an excellent way to spend an hour... chuckle chuckle.
Congratulations. You created a category of video (town planning videos in Sydney) that I never thought I needed. Or at least (go cover myself) it's a category I was unaware of until I saw your videos.
Sharath, you've made my year so far, lets keep it going for the next years. I hope we see your channel grow even more and become a wonderful community changing Sydney for the better
30K+ subscribers but only 443 likes? Many questions but how many advanced any sort of a debate? E.g., are billions spent servicing existing places justified?
Talgo's gauge changing rolling stock is probably a reference to the set ups in some parts of the world that allow a train to change its gauge during a revenue journey. Talgo is a particular brand of such rollingstock and facilities, but other engineering companies have created such systems. I believe they are most well-known in Spain, where some inter-city passenger trains actually change between gauges mid-journey. Basically the rollingstock is designed to interact with a mechanism built into the rail that modifies it's gauge as it rolls over it, converting a train between gauges on the fly. As for why we don't use them here, simply put we don't need them. For starters, we actually have a pretty comprehensive nation wide standard gauge network. All the capitals (and their key industrial terminals) are linked by standard gauge and a surprisingly large portion of Victoria's railway network has actually been converted to standard gauge already. This just leaves SA, WA and QLD as odd states out with narrow and broad gauge networks (Tas too but you weren't catching a train across the bass straight anyway). For the most part there isn't actually that much of the WA and SA networks still in use that aren't part of the standard gauge national network, so no major issues there. For QLD, the main issue would be an inability to run trains from the North Coast line onwards to NSW/VIC, but I think there is a real question on why you would need to in the first place? If we're talking about moving goods from Cairns/Townsville/Mackay to NSW/VIC, then container ships are a major competitor that rail will struggle to beat. So then you have to consider, what break of gauge services are actually required? Most our bulk freight rail movements travel to ports in the same state the grain is grown in or the minerals are extracted from, so no need to worry about different gauges. Coal extracted in QLD travels a couple 100km east to a coastal QLD port and never comes remotely close to the standard gauge tracks of NSW. Any containerised freight that travels intra-state doesn't really care about gauge either. There might be an advantage to being able to directly move a container car from a local gauged train to standard gauge train for interstate transfer, but if you have to make that movement it's not that much more work to just use a crane to switch the container to the new train instead. Likewise, any passenger service that doesn't cross state borders doesn't care about gauge. The ones that do are all standard gauge services using the national network. Even Vline services to Albury in NSW use standard gauge rollingstock now. It doesn't really matter that QLD, NSW and VIC use three different rail gauges when there is a standard gauge rail between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. If it doesn't already have a standard gauge rail link, odds are there isn't enough demand to justify the cost of implementing gauge changing tech to allow movements to and from that location.
Congratulations! My young son and I live watching your channel then going exploring and seeing it. On the trains, I really love the V Sets. They have more space being 2x2 on seating, they are quiet and usually well air conditioned and I find the OSCAR sets sometimes mess with phone coverage more.
Very enjoyable as always Sharath. A bit harsh on Canberra - it has (easily) the best cycle path networks in Australia, and it is one of the few cities where privately owned personal electric vehicles (scooters, esk8's and so on) are legal. Keep up the good work mate.
Glad your attracting viewers . We need to keep building Sydney beautiful . Can you please keep fighting for more stops on Sydney West metro .. and for high density at every station
Would be interesting to compare how to go to different places in Sydney by public transport (e.g. Bus 410 vs Metro + T1/T9 + T4 / South Coast Line, Macquarie Park Station ➡ Hurstville Station)
36:06 Sorry for my name - it means "a double slap in the face" in Japanese. It's just a funny name and I'm not even Japanese (it's meant as a gag). Thank you for answering my question and congratulations on your channels success!
I really thought you would be an Ive Fan, as you give me such Wonyoung vibes, Also did you go to the Twice concert in Sydney? Also you might want to listen to Billlie they have great music vibes
love your content would love some newcastle content i can help with that NIMBYrails is great what are your views on high speed rail you seem to have prioritised sydney to canberra i thnk stage 1 should be sydney to newcastle it seems more state significant to do first
I briefly got involved in politics several years ago, and realised that politics and altruism are mutually exclusive. If you get into politics to help people, the vested interests will destroy you.
Huge congrats on the milestone Sharath, can't wait to see where you go from here. It was so exciting having my family reach out to me when you appeared in the Herald and Guardian because they were excited by it. I may be raised by nerds. 10:20 Solving Sydney tho
Casula has the station located where it is because of geographic location! You should travel there to see how steep the road into the carpark is, impossible to realign it
9:23 ever since your west ryde victoria road stroad video, i have not been able to look at it the same 😭 like i feel 10x more frustrated about it now that i know what a stroad is
Congratulations Sharath! So well deserved. My partner and I send your videos to each other and discuss them in detail when we drive around Sydney, we love your content! I work in Fashion which of course is completely different to Engineering but I find your videos fascinating, and it makes me love Sydney even more. Looking forward to seeing what's next for you!
Congrats Sharath !! it’s always so great when I see your videos pop up. Keep it going and please post as often as possible. I’m a former Sydney town planner and I love your content.
Congratulations on your 30,000 sub mark, and I'm definitely proud of being one of them. I love the channel, especially the videos about railway stations, as I'm a train enthusiast. Keep up the good work, mate.
Super congratulations mate...this is one of the best channels I look forward to....all the very best and hope we get more videos from you...keep going...
You should also check out a game called city bus manager, it’s basically like nimby rails but it buses and it doesn’t have a steep as a learning curve. (I have played both)
Sharath to have more subscribers then the populations of all but 49 towns in Australia and a paragraph in the Sunday morning herald written about you shows how hard you’ve worked just to earn those subscription’s………..plus your videos are easy to watch and I live on the central coast I was wondering if you could do another video like the peats ridge road you made awhile back. Preferably one about rail transport on the central coast (if you get a train to wondabyne there’s a quarry next to it that quarried sandstone to be used in construction of the old railway bridge on the Hawkesbury river and quite a few buildings in Sydney cbd)
Congratulations, and well deserved. Your videos are great. By the way loved that you added a stop at Silverwater as one is very much needed in the area, the politicians just said that Silverwater was a jail and therefore did not need access to public transport, on the other hand you said Silverwater was just industrial. I beg to differ Silverwater is becoming and more and more suburban and is backed up to Newington (another suburb with little public transport), hence a stop in Silverwater would be greatly appreciated.
Congrats! The first time I met you at Chinta Ria at Darling Square, I vaguely remember to continue what you were doing. So damn proud of you and your channel! All the best young man!
You'll change Sydney soon. I know it. Been here since 800 subs. Keep it up Sharath, you created an interest in urban planning interest in me. Thank you for the great content that isn't anywhere else.
Don’t over do your under done take on humour, a Segway to my next comment,have you been interested in sewer systems, fish ladders, old highways through bush lands- local interest , thanks
Congratulations well deserved, you looked so excited and genuinely grateful. Maybe one day by the time im an old lady youll be our transport minister and ill be able to travel round nsw with ease enjoying my golden years! Maybe work on dogs being allowed on public transport, what a dumb rule! 😊
Hey! Hope you enjoyed this Q&A :)) Join my Discord at this link: discord.gg/Hg2cMkaedH
You'll have to accept a few rules, but then you'll be smooth sailing. If you don't have a Discord account, it's super easy to set one up. It's going to be a lot of fun, I'm hoping we can all have lots of chats about transport, city planning and Sydney. I hope I see you there!
Also, if you wanna buy NIMBY Rails, you can buy it at this link: store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/. NIMBY Rails is a railway simulation game where you can build a railway system anywhere in the world. It's just $27 on Steam, and it's absolutely worth it; prepare to lose many hours playing the game.
Well deserved mate - there was a real gap in the market for content about Sydney's history and infrastructure and you've filled it really well
Congratulations Sharath! Well done on reaching 30,000 subscribers! Great Q&A too!
Congrats on 30,000 Sharath! Hugeee thanks for the mini shoutout! Keep up the awesome work!! 😊
I'm a Ruse old boy and I reckon you are going to have a far more interesting (and lucrative) career than you ever would in medicine. Keep up the great work Sharath!
i assume james ruse? ill never live it down, i passed the entrance exam but chose oakhill because my brother went there. Why did my parents give me a choice?? sliding door moment. too much weed, got a 25 and below or whatever it was in the TER. All my fault, but i wonder what could have been.
Sorry, but I had to stop watching after ten minutes because your unnecessary (nervous?) laugh at the end of each answer was annoying. Otherwise it would have been an excellent way to spend an hour... chuckle chuckle.
Well deserved Sharath, looking forward to the 100,000 subscriber special!!!!!😊
You need to be so powerful that they rush to you rather than Harold Scrooby of the Pedestrian Council for urban policy commentary
Congratulations. You created a category of video (town planning videos in Sydney) that I never thought I needed. Or at least (go cover myself) it's a category I was unaware of until I saw your videos.
Sharath, you've made my year so far, lets keep it going for the next years. I hope we see your channel grow even more and become a wonderful community changing Sydney for the better
Congratulations! We talked about you in one of my planning classes the other day thanks to that SMH article
Congratulations! It felt like only a week ago I looked and it said 27k subscribers. Glad to be one of 31,300 people in the world subscribed to you!
Totally deserved, we are the lucky ones to have you and your great work.
Omg thankyou for knowing the lack of public transport to SW Sydney eg: Bonnyrigg, Wetherill it's the forgotten area
Maybe it’s too hard to do but I think a video redesigning regional nsw transport would be pretty cool
Similar to the one upgrading Sydney’s
I enjoy rural NIMBY more because then I don't have to think much about the level crossings
CONGRATS!! I swear I only started watching like a month ago and you were on 10K subs! It's only up from here 😁
Congrats!!! Very well earned 🎉🎉🎉
55:48 - haven't personally been there, but Bantam / Home Island has to be the most "different" while still being in Australia.
If passion, humility and friendliness was some guy😊
#HereBefore30K
Looking forward to having this type of content beating out celebrity gossip on the nightly news.
My brother... it is called quality content. You just need some exposure. Congrats much love
Congratulations Sharath! Given you fancy K-pop you should consider doing K-pop tiktok dances on Central's new concourse 😂
JK don't do that
30K+ subscribers but only 443 likes? Many questions but how many advanced any sort of a debate? E.g., are billions spent servicing existing places justified?
1:06:00 We got Building Beautifully gaming before Gta 6💀💀💀💀💀
Talgo's gauge changing rolling stock is probably a reference to the set ups in some parts of the world that allow a train to change its gauge during a revenue journey. Talgo is a particular brand of such rollingstock and facilities, but other engineering companies have created such systems. I believe they are most well-known in Spain, where some inter-city passenger trains actually change between gauges mid-journey. Basically the rollingstock is designed to interact with a mechanism built into the rail that modifies it's gauge as it rolls over it, converting a train between gauges on the fly.
As for why we don't use them here, simply put we don't need them.
For starters, we actually have a pretty comprehensive nation wide standard gauge network. All the capitals (and their key industrial terminals) are linked by standard gauge and a surprisingly large portion of Victoria's railway network has actually been converted to standard gauge already. This just leaves SA, WA and QLD as odd states out with narrow and broad gauge networks (Tas too but you weren't catching a train across the bass straight anyway). For the most part there isn't actually that much of the WA and SA networks still in use that aren't part of the standard gauge national network, so no major issues there. For QLD, the main issue would be an inability to run trains from the North Coast line onwards to NSW/VIC, but I think there is a real question on why you would need to in the first place? If we're talking about moving goods from Cairns/Townsville/Mackay to NSW/VIC, then container ships are a major competitor that rail will struggle to beat.
So then you have to consider, what break of gauge services are actually required? Most our bulk freight rail movements travel to ports in the same state the grain is grown in or the minerals are extracted from, so no need to worry about different gauges. Coal extracted in QLD travels a couple 100km east to a coastal QLD port and never comes remotely close to the standard gauge tracks of NSW. Any containerised freight that travels intra-state doesn't really care about gauge either. There might be an advantage to being able to directly move a container car from a local gauged train to standard gauge train for interstate transfer, but if you have to make that movement it's not that much more work to just use a crane to switch the container to the new train instead.
Likewise, any passenger service that doesn't cross state borders doesn't care about gauge. The ones that do are all standard gauge services using the national network. Even Vline services to Albury in NSW use standard gauge rollingstock now. It doesn't really matter that QLD, NSW and VIC use three different rail gauges when there is a standard gauge rail between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. If it doesn't already have a standard gauge rail link, odds are there isn't enough demand to justify the cost of implementing gauge changing tech to allow movements to and from that location.
Nice to see you a couple of times recently. Squawk to Amy. Lol. Cheers, Jim
Congratulations! My young son and I live watching your channel then going exploring and seeing it.
On the trains, I really love the V Sets. They have more space being 2x2 on seating, they are quiet and usually well air conditioned and I find the OSCAR sets sometimes mess with phone coverage more.
Very enjoyable as always Sharath. A bit harsh on Canberra - it has (easily) the best cycle path networks in Australia, and it is one of the few cities where privately owned personal electric vehicles (scooters, esk8's and so on) are legal. Keep up the good work mate.
Glad your attracting viewers . We need to keep building Sydney beautiful . Can you please keep fighting for more stops on Sydney West metro .. and for high density at every station
Would be interesting to compare how to go to different places in Sydney by public transport (e.g. Bus 410 vs Metro + T1/T9 + T4 / South Coast Line, Macquarie Park Station ➡ Hurstville Station)
36:06 Sorry for my name - it means "a double slap in the face" in Japanese. It's just a funny name and I'm not even Japanese (it's meant as a gag). Thank you for answering my question and congratulations on your channels success!
I really thought you would be an Ive Fan, as you give me such Wonyoung vibes, Also did you go to the Twice concert in Sydney? Also you might want to listen to Billlie they have great music vibes
Great vid! With the Canberra question you answered, what do you think could be done to improve it? Love your videos and your style is phenomenal.
Chatswood have good infrastructure and design, sure, but it is so overpriced! Don't think most people can even consider living there
love your content would love some newcastle content i can help with that NIMBYrails is great what are your views on high speed rail you seem to have prioritised sydney to canberra i thnk stage 1 should be sydney to newcastle it seems more state significant to do first
I think I watch too many of your videos as I felt like I could preempt quite a few of your answers… 😅
I briefly got involved in politics several years ago, and realised that politics and altruism are mutually exclusive. If you get into politics to help people, the vested interests will destroy you.
Congratulations 🎉! I wish you all the best on the journey to 100K. Can’t wait till RUclips sends you a silver play button ▶️. Good luck 🤞
If I could change history every rail line in Australia would have been built standard gauge.
Hole on hold on hold on.. you say you DONT LIKE V SETS?!?!?
The problem with Melbourne public transport is that it's all in Melbourne. 🙃
You should start a club where we discuss about new ideas for Sydney trains and try to get them implemented.
Huge congrats on the milestone Sharath, can't wait to see where you go from here. It was so exciting having my family reach out to me when you appeared in the Herald and Guardian because they were excited by it. I may be raised by nerds.
10:20 Solving Sydney tho
I think you are definitely making a difference! Well done Sharath.
lmao at stroad lover what a funny question, congrats from south australia mate keep up the good work
You've now overtaken Kalgoorlie-Boulder!
Casula has the station located where it is because of geographic location! You should travel there to see how steep the road into the carpark is, impossible to realign it
WOO HOO! Congratulations
Please do more Wollongong video! Congrats again Sharath
9:23 ever since your west ryde victoria road stroad video, i have not been able to look at it the same 😭 like i feel 10x more frustrated about it now that i know what a stroad is
Congratulations Sharath! So well deserved. My partner and I send your videos to each other and discuss them in detail when we drive around Sydney, we love your content! I work in Fashion which of course is completely different to Engineering but I find your videos fascinating, and it makes me love Sydney even more. Looking forward to seeing what's next for you!
These videos are so cool, they get me so hyped up to drive!! Glad your partner likes them too, sounds like such a legend!!
@@VishKiritharan 😂😂😂
Congrats. Question have you been to bardwell park
Congrats Sharath !! it’s always so great when I see your videos pop up. Keep it going and please post as often as possible. I’m a former Sydney town planner and I love your content.
ill be honest mate i didn't think id be into this kinda content but you do a great job mate and it's open my eyes thnk you and well done
you deserve this 100% sharath
Legend! You make great vids mate! Keep it up!
Nice to see another fellow NIMBY rails enjoyer, so good.
I’m a Local to Sydney always good to watch
We need you to run the Transport NSW insread of a Labor fonor.
13 hours later, it’s 31.4!
Your videos are so well made and interesting. You deserve all the success you get!
Excellent work
You couldn’t of done it without me!😂
Congrats on the subs mate :)
get em to 100, 000 subscribers
Proud of you Sharath!
good work. congrats
Congratulations on your 30,000 sub mark, and I'm definitely proud of being one of them. I love the channel, especially the videos about railway stations, as I'm a train enthusiast. Keep up the good work, mate.
Super congratulations mate...this is one of the best channels I look forward to....all the very best and hope we get more videos from you...keep going...
You should also check out a game called city bus manager, it’s basically like nimby rails but it buses and it doesn’t have a steep as a learning curve. (I have played both)
I love NIMBY Rails. I’ve managed to recreate the whole NSW train network. Imagination is the only limit.
Sharath to have more subscribers then the populations of all but 49 towns in Australia and a paragraph in the Sunday morning herald written about you shows how hard you’ve worked just to earn those subscription’s………..plus your videos are easy to watch and I live on the central coast I was wondering if you could do another video like the peats ridge road you made awhile back. Preferably one about rail transport on the central coast (if you get a train to wondabyne there’s a quarry next to it that quarried sandstone to be used in construction of the old railway bridge on the Hawkesbury river and quite a few buildings in Sydney cbd)
Congratulations, and well deserved. Your videos are great. By the way loved that you added a stop at Silverwater as one is very much needed in the area, the politicians just said that Silverwater was a jail and therefore did not need access to public transport, on the other hand you said Silverwater was just industrial. I beg to differ Silverwater is becoming and more and more suburban and is backed up to Newington (another suburb with little public transport), hence a stop in Silverwater would be greatly appreciated.
Congrats! The first time I met you at Chinta Ria at Darling Square, I vaguely remember to continue what you were doing. So damn proud of you and your channel! All the best young man!
You'll change Sydney soon. I know it. Been here since 800 subs. Keep it up Sharath, you created an interest in urban planning interest in me. Thank you for the great content that isn't anywhere else.
Don’t over do your under done take on humour, a Segway to my next comment,have you been interested in sewer systems, fish ladders, old highways through bush lands- local interest , thanks
Keep up the fun styled content! That’s one of the reasons I watch ya vids. Looking forward to more 👍
Congratulations well deserved, you looked so excited and genuinely grateful. Maybe one day by the time im an old lady youll be our transport minister and ill be able to travel round nsw with ease enjoying my golden years! Maybe work on dogs being allowed on public transport, what a dumb rule! 😊
Congratulations. Loved the article in the SMH.
Sharath. I have followed your journey from the start and I am amazed at the way the channel has developed. Keep up the good work.
nice job, i watched you since like 2k subs but it was on my tv, and i dont have my yt account connected to my tv so i couldnt sub that early.
you're a legend Sharath!! thank you for what you do, your videos are so cool and fantastically well put together
Keep it going Sharath! I like your videos so much
You deserve it all mate.Congrats to 30,000 subs.
Congratulations I've learnt a lot
Congrats!!!!!
Good job man