@@michael_beast Actually, you can access the Zig Zag historic railway from it, and that railway's staff use it sometimes. It's also used by bushwalkers sometimes. With the re-opening of the historic railway it should see more traffic.,
Yes, Clarence station, at the other end of the Zig Zag, has a substantial and refurbished carpark. Zig Zag station itself IS accessible by car, but it is a dirt road, that could do with a bit of improvement. Of course you can catch a mainline train to Zig-Zag station.
The train at Rydal wasn't a Dubbo train as they use the XPTs for Daily Dubbo services but the train was the weekly Broken Hill train as it is and Xplorer.
Great video you have made keep up the great work! Interesting about Wallerawang station, I am a resident near the train station in Wallerawang, I really hope the station reopens, would be great for the town and people wanting to have a day out here, from the station have a great little supermarket with local butcher meat and bakery bread open on weekends, would be able to buy some stuff for a BBQ and walk down to Lake Wallace where there is fishing, swimming in summer and BBQ facilities, people from Sydney could go for day out in the country and have a bbq, also a great bowling club with great affordable meals and cheap beer walking distance from the Station in addition to to other pubs with meals and a beer garden with an outlook over the Great Dividing Range, would also be great for local residents for travel to Central or Parramatta not having to get a bus to Lithgow! Hope the reopening happens! Also the grass area next to the line at Wallerawang station I was told used to be a live stockyard in the 1950's and 1960's I think then closed down!
Wallerawang Station operated as a cafe until a few months ago and you could sip coffee sitting on the platform. You twice referred to an Xplorer as an XPT. And if you rent the station masters cottage at Rydal (as I have done), you can prebook the Dubbo XPT to stop and take you into Lithgow (cheaper than a taxi) in the late afternoon where you have a bit over 2hrs to enjoy dinner before catching the Bathurst Bullet back to Rydal, as this train always stops at Rydal. Good fun.
If you go a little farther west after Bathurst, you find some lines that have been closed down, but the scenery is wonderful. There used to be a line from Blayney through Cowra that isn't used anymore, but most of it is still intact. It goes through historic places like Carcoar, which is truly lovely, and the station is still perfectly intact.
Great video! As a local from Portland it was lovely to see some familiar stations on your channel. BTW Wallerawang is pronounce "Wull air a wang" but the locals usually shorten it to just Wang. On the other hand congrats on getting the pronunciation of Tarana right, with the emphasis on the first syllable. If you return this way you should check out the abandoned rail tunnel under Tunnel Hill near Wang which was used to store mustard gas during WW2.
Out of curiousity, there's a few disused tunnels in the area... The Tunnel Hill tunnel you refer to, is it the one under the road turn-off to Wallerawang? I think there may also be a turn-off east of the current main line there on. The permanent way still exists leading behind the prison to an old colliery near a camping area and Army training area, though the rail is gone I was never sure which tunnel was the one that was used to store the WMD but imagined the one closer to the training ground might have been it
Gwabegar, pronounced gwob-be-gar. There is a video of a train travelling from Coonabaraban to Bugaldie. There is a coach service from Lithgow to Baradine from 10am weekdays that replaces the train on the Gwabegar line. It only goes to Coonabarabran, but on Thursdays it goes to Baradine.
Civil Engineers and Tradies put on hi-vis, steel cap shoes and hard hats, and work in unsafe environments to make a space visually appealing for tiktok dances and promote sick winter drip that cannot be worn in a construction site 😂
It was cool to see Bathurst station had both the large (boring) rectangular station signs as well as the older (stylish) 'London Tube' style station signs. Since I lived in Sydney up until 1991, I'm guessing these signs are now few and far between?
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Yeah, its a shame the zig zag is narrow gauge but it was due to the rail museum nit willing to donate any NSW heritage carriages- instead they had to outsource to QLD narrow gauge locos
The reason Zig Zag railway got rebuilt as a narrow gauge railway was cause the Railway authorities at the time made nsw stock available only for the nsw rail museum
Interesting fact; The Zig Zag Railway is NARROW Gauge, not Standard gauge like the rest of NSW. This was due to the Commissioner for Railways only making heritage locomotives and rolling stock available to the officially sponsored New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. So the line had to be re-laid to 3' 6" gauge and locomotives and rolling stock sourced from Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania Incredibly short sighted decision by the government of the day.
An interesting fact about Lithgow - Lithgow Yard Signal Box is the oldest continually operating signal box in the southern hemisphere. It has been in continual operation since April 1885, there is still a mechanically operated lower quadrant main line signal operated from the lever frame in the signal box.
Disappointed you didn’t take the train to all these stations.. but understand since the trains aren’t exactly frequent services to get off and film and get on the next one. Would be good to see more on the Gwabegar line to Mudgee - I thought you’d mention the coaches departing Lithgow (that should be trains!)
Great video as always mate! Looked like an awesome adventure for you and Amy. I hope Wallerawang station is reopened someday, as it would probably see more usage than Rydal or Tarana.
We all gotta agree 0:40 is the best out of context moment from all of Sharath's videos so far! Like he's made some comedic moments but nothing beats a simple play on words out west XD
And, if not mentioned already elsewhere, Wallerawang is not Wallara-wang, it's actually pronounced Wal-lair-a-wang with the emphasis on the lair, though there are not many of those in this quiet town, to be fair. Love your videos, all of them. You should go to Millthorpe next time you are out in the Central West.. Request stop for the Dubbo XPT and a great little town. It's an easy day return trip by train from Sydney. The train will drop you off at 11.48 in good time to explore the town and have lunch and will then pick you up again at 16.11 to take you back. Best done during Daylight Saving to enjoy the Blue Mountains views in daylight. Spoiler alert : when Millthorpe Station closed a while back, the track was moved out away from the single platform, presumably to make maintenance easier for the track tamping machines etc. So when it was re-opened a few years ago, did they move the track back? No, they built a new platform further out to match the track alignment. They did the same thing, realigning the track away from the platform at Molong too, which has a beautiful station and was once the junction for a second cross country line to Dubbo, but so far the passenger service has not come back there, and probably never will. Speaking of Building Beautifully, if you've not yet done a video featuring Mt Victoria you need to. I think there has never been such an impressive station built for such a minor town. Arriving there on a V Set when it is snowing is a special treat.
What, you went to Jenolan and couldn't find any time to comment on some of the quirky buildings? 🤣 Anyway, another great vid - Thanks! P.S. Last time I dropped past Bathurst Station, there was a beautiful 1950's Ansett Streamliner bus parked out front - would have been worth the trip on its own 😁
The train you filmed at Rydal was the Broken Hill Xplorer, not the XPT. The Dubbo XPT usually has 4 or 5 carriages. As for the pronunciation of Wallerawang, it's Wal-er (as in air) -a-, wang, or as we used to call it - Wang.
Hugely enjoyed this video, an old stamping ground (there have been pineapples in the district since the 1860s). Cringed every time you pronounced Wallerawang - the emphasis is on the second syllable - as in Woll-AIR-ah-wang. Looking forward to your video on Gulargambone. Hint - also has emphasis on the 2nd of 4 syllables :)
Rydal Station was at time the terminus of the Western Line. So brief window in time, the station was a major interchange of goods/produce and passengers. In September each year there is a Daffodil Festival at Rydal. In 2022 heritage trains (diesel) ran during the Festival, early 20 Century styled carriages between Lithgow and Bathurst. Looks like you skipped Sodwalls, before Tarana. Just next to the first single lane bridge (Driving East from Tarana). that crosses over the railway, is an vantage point. What is interesting there, is to observe the massive almost hairpin loop that the railway goes through. In the distance (be a great drone shot) is a disused aqueduct rail bridge - which looks just the those found outside of Lithgow.
Nice job, it's a great section of railway to explore. Just a couple of pointers on place names though. Wallerawang in pronounced Wall-air-a-wang, while Gwabegar is pronounce Wab-e-gar, the G is silent. Great job as always.
He also got the Bathurst Bullet wrong , it's an Endeavor set and the train passing through Rydal , more than likely the Broken Hill Explorer, being only 3 cars long?
You miss a great bit between Rydal and Tarana and that was a Sodwalls realignment where the line was redirected due to the incline of the track, and the track was lengthen a few kilometres there is still an old large stone bridge and ramping similar to the ones at Zig Zag, if you travel be train it is very noticeable stone bridge, you can see it by road also if you take the road between Tarana - Sodwalls - Rydal roads, and for Wallerawang which is miss pronounced, the locals just call is Wang, also I heard that there is a likely opening of the Tarana to Oberon line as tourist and also a likely of the largest business in Oberon (Borg) looking at it also. It great being a local to the area. The Station Master at Rydal that use to man the gates at the level crossing for many years was a Mr Featherstone
Ahh pity I did not know you were in Lithgow or I’d try to catch up. Could have shown you the tunnel hill viaducts, and also some of the historic “Hoaksville” town ruins. Oh and it’s wal-air-a-wang :)
Imagine an express tunnel with more direct service to orange and high speed to Adelaide with some intermittent stops like lithigow and another one in between like Lawson and blaxland creating a true express route to st Mary’s via blue mountains now they get a true local/ express service 😅
Great video Guys ! I’ve still not visited Bathurst but it’s definitely on the list of weekend trips . Your videos are always very interesting and entertaining as well . Cheers
Do you actually go for the wallabies or do you wear the hat ironically nevermind.... More importantly wow it's about time more great content to watch. You have a great sense of humor and editing to match. Thanks for great content keep it coming
At 20:33... the building would have been the signal cabin. You can tell because there is a gap in the platform face where the mechanical rodding and wires would have been.
Wallerawang was home to power stations (Mt Piper and Wallerawang) , coal mine infrastructure and workers lived here and in Lithgow not far away. A quiet station would be Ben Bullen. Enjoyed your video. I left working on the railways based at Lithgow in 85 when several lines started being replaced by buses.
hey man don't misrepresent the NIF (new intercity fleet) debacle. the trains are unsafe and as a result the RTBU (rail tram and bus union) has prevented them from entering service. changes are being made to make them suitable, they'll enter service eventually.
The whole episode is a disgrace, period! Blue Mountains Line users are suffering with outdated rollihg stock for no other reason than ego's of the politicians and unions involved in the whole debacle!
As a person who likes the V sets, it'll be hard to say goodbye to them, same with the warm and toasty k sets with seats that are still comfortable and easy to clean.
Thanks for driving to Bathurst via so many Stations in Blue Mountains areas. So many places to explore in & around Greater BM World Heritage Listed Areas.
Don't know if you should mention that the Blue Mountains are not mountains as you find in the US and Europe. It is in fact a plateau, part of the Great Dividing Range, a plateau running along the whole east coast of Australia. The fact it is a plateau made crossing it very difficult as early explorers tried crossing via the valleys and getting blocked as valleys get blocked unlike European mountains. Wentworth, Lawson and Blaxland crossed by travelling the ridges. And the Great Western Highway follows the original path they found (By Cox, sent by the government to build the road)
Lithgow station is the station I use every weekend to travel to newtown! So nice to see this area get some love :) We may have to help you pronounce wallerawang though😅
The steam train tour at Bathurst was part of Transport Heritage Nsw Bathurst steam weekend they operate over thr June long weekend, also im kinda surprised you didnt say anything about steam locomotive 5112 which is on display next to Bathurst Station
From Melbourne, I never learned to pronounce Wallerawang, I think the emphasis is on the middle syllable, Wall-ER-awang. I was fortunate to ride on the Lithgow to Mudgee rail motor. I once travelled from Lithgow to Zig-Zag, I rode with a bad tempered driver who stopped at the very small platform. I think his bad mood was on some other matter. I drove to Oberon from Goulburn, a scenic route I recommend the road spirals into this huge hole and out again. It can snow in Oberon. My main dissapointment was I tried to play WoW in my motel room, it wanted to update the client with a 12GB download but my plan was only 4GB. It worked perfectly at home a couple of days before.
Heres how i would make Wallerawang station's upgrade. Keep every heritige part in it as is while adding 2 way seats with a Cafe in the waiting room that acts as a coffee spot & a Ticket office named T.T.T.T (Thats The Tasty Ticket) as well as Lighting and Glorious Looking poster boarders that has a Menu of the Food Options at T.T.T.T, and the Station Sign will Be unique as it has a built in Chalkboard sign that tells about the meals at the cafe. There'll obiously be a Carpark & Bus/taxi Stop and a Modern second platform for Returning Services to Sydney only, Thats Where the screens will be as well as the Sheds where the Stuff is. Any Objections Anyone?
Y Great video, although your pronunciations of places are pretty wild. Wall-era-want, Gwe-begar(Gwor-bee-gar). Not being critical as you probably have never heard these spoken.
Union bastardry was also at the top of the list for these shiny new units not being able to run. I suppose propaganda has gotten to you, but both government and unions did not work well, Government being coalition and unions being lefties, well battle lines drawn. But for you to take one side is very unfair and biased. the truth is always somewhere in the middle. Perhaps lost on you.
I'm sure there rights and wrongs on both sides.... but the fact remains that it was incompetence not to sort this out before the cheques were written and the trains were delivered.
My father was a railway man working around Lithgow in the 1920s. He was sent to Rydal to relieve and fell for the daughter of the publican of the pub he was staying in. They married in 1926 and had five kids - I'm number 4. Your coverage of the central west was amusing but you need to study town names a bit. it is 'Wol air a wang' emphasis on the 'air'. Tarana is 'Tarra Nah' with emphasis on the 'Nah'. Finally the town is pronounced 'Bath.st' with a schwa instead of 'ur' just like Brisb.ne and Melb.ne. All the best to you and Amy.
Um Local here Lithgow has population of 20.000 don’t know where you get your info from this was from the last census and Wallerawang is a pronounced Wal-ler-a-wang!! or Wang for short and Tarana is pronounced Ta-ran-na you say it fast. 😊🙄
something I heard recently was everyone feels like when they were yonger the world was a better place to live. This is why a slogan like trumps 'make America great AGAIN' is so meaningful for people because they truly believe that things used to be better. I feel like this is why NIMBYs hate change so much. Even my parent's are nimbys :(
24:20 this is incorrect, this was bought off someone’s collection when they died and they worked for years reassembling and fixing it to its former glory, the computers for signalling are really cool
you should do a vid and take a trip up the to the northern tabelands line that was closed between Armidale - QLD border. and the train station at werris creek would be a great video, the most beautful station in Australia imo
Ummm 7:05 read the RTBUs concerns on safety with those trains on their webpage Also one more interesting fact the electrication ends west if bowenfields and ARTC becomes the primary track operator not Sydney Trains
I hope that you make it out to the Orange! The line end up at Dubbo where they are building a new rail workshop. And Orange is the point where the line turns to the Perth line, (at the East Orange siding). There are MANY closed lines out here too!
I love that the novelty tourist attraction train station has better parking/road access infrastructure than the actual train station at zig zag.
I mean to be fair, there is basically no reason for one to park at the actual Zig Zag station...
@@griffinrailsidk why it is there, it serves nobody to be honest.
@@michael_beast Actually, you can access the Zig Zag historic railway from it, and that railway's staff use it sometimes. It's also used by bushwalkers sometimes. With the re-opening of the historic railway it should see more traffic.,
Yes, Clarence station, at the other end of the Zig Zag, has a substantial and refurbished carpark. Zig Zag station itself IS accessible by car, but it is a dirt road, that could do with a bit of improvement. Of course you can catch a mainline train to Zig-Zag station.
just catch the train there
The most feel-good channel on RUclips. The enthusiasm is infectious. Another great vid, keep it up!
I have done Zig Zag Railway before it was burnt down and I’m so glad it’s back. An excellent day trip adventure.
The train at Rydal wasn't a Dubbo train as they use the XPTs for Daily Dubbo services but the train was the weekly Broken Hill train as it is and Xplorer.
As an Oberon local, good to see you in my neck of the words.
Great video you have made keep up the great work! Interesting about Wallerawang station, I am a resident near the train station in Wallerawang, I really hope the station reopens, would be great for the town and people wanting to have a day out here, from the station have a great little supermarket with local butcher meat and bakery bread open on weekends, would be able to buy some stuff for a BBQ and walk down to Lake Wallace where there is fishing, swimming in summer and BBQ facilities, people from Sydney could go for day out in the country and have a bbq, also a great bowling club with great affordable meals and cheap beer walking distance from the Station in addition to to other pubs with meals and a beer garden with an outlook over the Great Dividing Range, would also be great for local residents for travel to Central or Parramatta not having to get a bus to Lithgow! Hope the reopening happens! Also the grass area next to the line at Wallerawang station I was told used to be a live stockyard in the 1950's and 1960's I think then closed down!
Wallerawang Station operated as a cafe until a few months ago and you could sip coffee sitting on the platform. You twice referred to an Xplorer as an XPT. And if you rent the station masters cottage at Rydal (as I have done), you can prebook the Dubbo XPT to stop and take you into Lithgow (cheaper than a taxi) in the late afternoon where you have a bit over 2hrs to enjoy dinner before catching the Bathurst Bullet back to Rydal, as this train always stops at Rydal. Good fun.
If you go a little farther west after Bathurst, you find some lines that have been closed down, but the scenery is wonderful. There used to be a line from Blayney through Cowra that isn't used anymore, but most of it is still intact. It goes through historic places like Carcoar, which is truly lovely, and the station is still perfectly intact.
Great video! As a local from Portland it was lovely to see some familiar stations on your channel.
BTW Wallerawang is pronounce "Wull air a wang" but the locals usually shorten it to just Wang. On the other hand congrats on getting the pronunciation of Tarana right, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
If you return this way you should check out the abandoned rail tunnel under Tunnel Hill near Wang which was used to store mustard gas during WW2.
Yeah, I noticed the slightly non-standard pronunciation too. Never mind, it's a nice informative video.
Out of curiousity, there's a few disused tunnels in the area...
The Tunnel Hill tunnel you refer to, is it the one under the road turn-off to Wallerawang?
I think there may also be a turn-off east of the current main line there on. The permanent way still exists leading behind the prison to an old colliery near a camping area and Army training area, though the rail is gone
I was never sure which tunnel was the one that was used to store the WMD but imagined the one closer to the training ground might have been it
Gwabegar, pronounced gwob-be-gar. There is a video of a train travelling from Coonabaraban to Bugaldie. There is a coach service from Lithgow to Baradine from 10am weekdays that replaces the train on the Gwabegar line. It only goes to Coonabarabran, but on Thursdays it goes to Baradine.
@@gregc9690 I catch the Thursday coach to Baradine once a year. My dad lives in Kenebri. After Mudgee, the coach is almost empty.
Civil Engineers and Tradies put on hi-vis, steel cap shoes and hard hats, and work in unsafe environments to make a space visually appealing for tiktok dances and promote sick winter drip that cannot be worn in a construction site 😂
It was cool to see Bathurst station had both the large (boring) rectangular station signs as well as the older (stylish) 'London Tube' style station signs. Since I lived in Sydney up until 1991, I'm guessing these signs are now few and far between?
Wallerawang.... Otherwise known as "The Wang" by the locals.
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Atleast the Oberon - Tarana historic railway will be standard gauge unlike a certain other historic railway.
Yeah, its a shame the zig zag is narrow gauge but it was due to the rail museum nit willing to donate any NSW heritage carriages- instead they had to outsource to QLD narrow gauge locos
The reason Zig Zag railway got rebuilt as a narrow gauge railway was cause the Railway authorities at the time made nsw stock available only for the nsw rail museum
10:30 that’s actually called an endeavour
True
This is Gold! Glad to see you enjoyed the central West and mountains!
Wonderful. As a Bathurst local this makes me happy. Hope you enjoyed the town.
00:20 As a local, could you please confirm whether Bathurst is indeed pronounced Bath-Hurst, or Ba-thurst?
@@AlphaGeekgirl Bath est not bath uuurst!
Baffust
I always enjoy your content and this was no exception. Keep it up, I mean it. You're awesome and I always enjoy learning from you.
Interesting fact; The Zig Zag Railway is NARROW Gauge, not Standard gauge like the rest of NSW. This was due to the Commissioner for Railways only making heritage locomotives and rolling stock available to the officially sponsored New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. So the line had to be re-laid to 3' 6" gauge and locomotives and rolling stock sourced from Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania
Incredibly short sighted decision by the government of the day.
An interesting fact about Lithgow - Lithgow Yard Signal Box is the oldest continually operating signal box in the southern hemisphere. It has been in continual operation since April 1885, there is still a mechanically operated lower quadrant main line signal operated from the lever frame in the signal box.
Zig Zag, Wondabyne, Wirragulla, Wallarubba and Bell are on demand stops. and these are the four smallest stations on the NSW Trainlink Network
There's also Kembla Grange Racecourse and Lysaghts, with both being a request stop and Kembla Grange Racecourse similar size to Bell.
Thanks for coming to visit Sharath, glad you and Amy had a great time
Disappointed you didn’t take the train to all these stations.. but understand since the trains aren’t exactly frequent services to get off and film and get on the next one.
Would be good to see more on the Gwabegar line to Mudgee - I thought you’d mention the coaches departing Lithgow (that should be trains!)
Bathurst station reminds me in some ways of other country stations: Albury, Wagga Wagga and Broken Hill, spring to mind.
Crazy, I was just at Bathrust! Did you manage to catch any of the Winter Festival events while you were there?
Great video as always mate! Looked like an awesome adventure for you and Amy. I hope Wallerawang station is reopened someday, as it would probably see more usage than Rydal or Tarana.
Great videos! Love the history!
We all gotta agree 0:40 is the best out of context moment from all of Sharath's videos so far! Like he's made some comedic moments but nothing beats a simple play on words out west XD
And, if not mentioned already elsewhere, Wallerawang is not Wallara-wang, it's actually pronounced Wal-lair-a-wang with the emphasis on the lair, though there are not many of those in this quiet town, to be fair.
Love your videos, all of them. You should go to Millthorpe next time you are out in the Central West.. Request stop for the Dubbo XPT and a great little town. It's an easy day return trip by train from Sydney. The train will drop you off at 11.48 in good time to explore the town and have lunch and will then pick you up again at 16.11 to take you back. Best done during Daylight Saving to enjoy the Blue Mountains views in daylight.
Spoiler alert : when Millthorpe Station closed a while back, the track was moved out away from the single platform, presumably to make maintenance easier for the track tamping machines etc. So when it was re-opened a few years ago, did they move the track back? No, they built a new platform further out to match the track alignment.
They did the same thing, realigning the track away from the platform at Molong too, which has a beautiful station and was once the junction for a second cross country line to Dubbo, but so far the passenger service has not come back there, and probably never will.
Speaking of Building Beautifully, if you've not yet done a video featuring Mt Victoria you need to. I think there has never been such an impressive station built for such a minor town. Arriving there on a V Set when it is snowing is a special treat.
Wal ,air ,a wang .
What, you went to Jenolan and couldn't find any time to comment on some of the quirky buildings? 🤣
Anyway, another great vid - Thanks!
P.S. Last time I dropped past Bathurst Station, there was a beautiful 1950's Ansett Streamliner bus parked out front - would have been worth the trip on its own 😁
The train you filmed at Rydal was the Broken Hill Xplorer, not the XPT. The Dubbo XPT usually has 4 or 5 carriages.
As for the pronunciation of Wallerawang, it's Wal-er (as in air) -a-, wang, or as we used to call it - Wang.
Hugely enjoyed this video, an old stamping ground (there have been pineapples in the district since the 1860s). Cringed every time you pronounced Wallerawang - the emphasis is on the second syllable - as in Woll-AIR-ah-wang. Looking forward to your video on Gulargambone. Hint - also has emphasis on the 2nd of 4 syllables :)
Great video, Amy looks like she had a great time!
Rydal Station was at time the terminus of the Western Line. So brief window in time, the station was a major interchange of goods/produce and passengers. In September each year there is a Daffodil Festival at Rydal. In 2022 heritage trains (diesel) ran during the Festival, early 20 Century styled carriages between Lithgow and Bathurst.
Looks like you skipped Sodwalls, before Tarana. Just next to the first single lane bridge (Driving East from Tarana). that crosses over the railway, is an vantage point. What is interesting there, is to observe the massive almost hairpin loop that the railway goes through. In the distance (be a great drone shot) is a disused aqueduct rail bridge - which looks just the those found outside of Lithgow.
just near carlwood is a rickety old rail bridge on the way to Hazelgrove, you can still walk over it if you are game.
Nice job, it's a great section of railway to explore.
Just a couple of pointers on place names though. Wallerawang in pronounced Wall-air-a-wang, while Gwabegar is pronounce Wab-e-gar, the G is silent.
Great job as always.
The train that passed Rydal was probably the Broken Hill Xplorer or an Xplorer replacement for the XPT
He also got the Bathurst Bullet wrong , it's an Endeavor set and the train passing through Rydal , more than likely the Broken Hill Explorer, being only 3 cars long?
@@davidrayner9519The bathurst bullet uses endeavor sets.
Nah that video cropping (gwabegar rail line partially opened for freight and is pronounced wabegar (I think)
on backyard of Lithgow train yard sits Lithgow rail modelling club, time after time they make open door days. Worth to visit.
You miss a great bit between Rydal and Tarana and that was a Sodwalls realignment where the line was redirected due to the incline of the track, and the track was lengthen a few kilometres there is still an old large stone bridge and ramping similar to the ones at Zig Zag, if you travel be train it is very noticeable stone bridge, you can see it by road also if you take the road between Tarana - Sodwalls - Rydal roads, and for Wallerawang which is miss pronounced, the locals just call is Wang, also I heard that there is a likely opening of the Tarana to Oberon line as tourist and also a likely of the largest business in Oberon (Borg) looking at it also. It great being a local to the area. The Station Master at Rydal that use to man the gates at the level crossing for many years was a Mr Featherstone
Lithgow is a cold hole,but there are some good pie shops 💁🙏✌️👌👏
No way that’s real 6:20
Did you get tracked or something? Or just your car got vandalised?
Ahh pity I did not know you were in Lithgow or I’d try to catch up.
Could have shown you the tunnel hill viaducts, and also some of the historic “Hoaksville” town ruins.
Oh and it’s wal-air-a-wang :)
Where's hoaksville near?
@@rainbowbeeeater Tunnel Hill, which is North west of Lithgow
Imagine an express tunnel with more direct service to orange and high speed to Adelaide with some intermittent stops like lithigow and another one in between like Lawson and blaxland creating a true express route to st Mary’s via blue mountains now they get a true local/ express service 😅
Great video Guys !
I’ve still not visited Bathurst but it’s definitely on the list of weekend trips .
Your videos are always very interesting and entertaining as well . Cheers
Its been too long...
Can you do something similar for the Hunter line?
Heres most of request stops in NSW:
Zig Zag
Wondabyne
Mindaribba
Hillside
wrong! its hilldale not hillside
rest:
lysaghts
kembla grange
bell
wallarobba
wirragulla
Do you actually go for the wallabies or do you wear the hat ironically nevermind.... More importantly wow it's about time more great content to watch. You have a great sense of humor and editing to match. Thanks for great content keep it coming
We did a Herry Potter night back in 2008, it was magic with snow and lots of Harry Potter props, love this place Good video mate Best regards Andrew
Amazing stuff brother
Its very interesting to see these old train stations still being used on the line!
The train that you filmed at Rydal wasn't an XPT or even the Bathurst Bullet. It was the Sydney to Broken Hill Explorer train.
Too bad it’s slow
I’m so happy your back on RUclips! It’s been a while! I love your videos 🙌🙌
It's hasn't been a while. Sharath has been producing great regular content for a while now.
At 20:33... the building would have been the signal cabin. You can tell because there is a gap in the platform face where the mechanical rodding and wires would have been.
Love that you are bringing your own quirky humour to your videos now.
Can you talk about what the Sydney train network was like today 100 years ago?
Thanks, you two, for a beautiful tour of the Blue Mountains. I love seeing some of the smaller stations in NSW.
Wallerawang was home to power stations (Mt Piper and Wallerawang) , coal mine infrastructure and workers lived here and in Lithgow not far away. A quiet station would be Ben Bullen. Enjoyed your video. I left working on the railways based at Lithgow in 85 when several lines started being replaced by buses.
Glad to see you made it to Oberon. You will have to come back when its running.
hey man don't misrepresent the NIF (new intercity fleet) debacle. the trains are unsafe and as a result the RTBU (rail tram and bus union) has prevented them from entering service. changes are being made to make them suitable, they'll enter service eventually.
There was nothing inaccurate about saying that the fleet has been gathering dust and that the whole episode is evidence of incompetence.
The whole episode is a disgrace, period!
Blue Mountains Line users are suffering with outdated rollihg stock for no other reason than ego's of the politicians and unions involved in the whole debacle!
As a person who likes the V sets, it'll be hard to say goodbye to them, same with the warm and toasty k sets with seats that are still comfortable and easy to clean.
@@brettyallop6018 egos of unions?? the things aren't safe, they can't be used until they are safe
@@jack2453 yes fair and true, but I would say not enough context or detail
Dam! That was actually really interesting! Keep up the amazing work!
You need to visit the Lachlan Valley Railway at Cowra and see all the old trains on display
Great video
Thanks for driving to Bathurst via so many Stations in Blue Mountains areas. So many places to explore in & around Greater BM World Heritage Listed Areas.
Don't know if you should mention that the Blue Mountains are not mountains as you find in the US and Europe. It is in fact a plateau, part of the Great Dividing Range, a plateau running along the whole east coast of Australia. The fact it is a plateau made crossing it very difficult as early explorers tried crossing via the valleys and getting blocked as valleys get blocked unlike European mountains. Wentworth, Lawson and Blaxland crossed by travelling the ridges. And the Great Western Highway follows the original path they found (By Cox, sent by the government to build the road)
& home to the capertee valley, bigger than the grand canyon.
Wallerawang!!! Isnt it pronounced "wull-air-er-wang"? Anyways, genuinely enjoy this channel so much.
This is such a silly video I love it
Lithgow station is the station I use every weekend to travel to newtown! So nice to see this area get some love :)
We may have to help you pronounce wallerawang though😅
Amy's burns throughout the video.
The steam train tour at Bathurst was part of Transport Heritage Nsw Bathurst steam weekend they operate over thr June long weekend, also im kinda surprised you didnt say anything about steam locomotive 5112 which is on display next to Bathurst Station
Great adventure! I also gotta say .. I'd prefer the V-sets stay around!
Yay! Another vid
It's Gwabegar not Gwebegar, and it's pronouced as 'Wabegar' Also Wallerawang is pronouced as Wal-air-ra-wang, Not Waller-ra-wang
From Melbourne, I never learned to pronounce Wallerawang, I think the emphasis is on the middle syllable, Wall-ER-awang.
I was fortunate to ride on the Lithgow to Mudgee rail motor.
I once travelled from Lithgow to Zig-Zag, I rode with a bad tempered driver who stopped at the very small platform. I think his bad mood was on some other matter.
I drove to Oberon from Goulburn, a scenic route I recommend the road spirals into this huge hole and out again. It can snow in Oberon.
My main dissapointment was I tried to play WoW in my motel room, it wanted to update the client with a 12GB download but my plan was only 4GB. It worked perfectly at home a couple of days before.
My father's family came from Rylstone. They all pronounced it Wo-lair-a-wang. The a is very short, in phonetic terms its the indeterminate e.
Wa-lair-a-wang
That's Wuh-LAIR-a-wang...
and Gwabegar (not Gwebegar) pronounced GWOB-e-gar
Heres how i would make Wallerawang station's upgrade.
Keep every heritige part in it as is while adding 2 way seats with a Cafe in the waiting room that acts as a coffee spot & a Ticket office named T.T.T.T (Thats The Tasty Ticket) as well as Lighting and Glorious Looking poster boarders that has a Menu of the Food Options at T.T.T.T, and the Station Sign will Be unique as it has a built in Chalkboard sign that tells about the meals at the cafe. There'll obiously be a Carpark & Bus/taxi Stop and a Modern second platform for Returning Services to Sydney only, Thats Where the screens will be as well as the Sheds where the Stuff is.
Any Objections Anyone?
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Great video, although your pronunciations of places are pretty wild. Wall-era-want, Gwe-begar(Gwor-bee-gar). Not being critical as you probably have never heard these spoken.
Union bastardry was also at the top of the list for these shiny new units not being able to run. I suppose propaganda has gotten to you, but both government and unions did not work well, Government being coalition and unions being lefties, well battle lines drawn. But for you to take one side is very unfair and biased. the truth is always somewhere in the middle. Perhaps lost on you.
I'm sure there rights and wrongs on both sides.... but the fact remains that it was incompetence not to sort this out before the cheques were written and the trains were delivered.
Unions always have a vested interest in getting the ALP elected to government.
Totally agree. RTBU thugs are far more to blame. They’ve lied through their teeth from the start.
My father was a railway man working around Lithgow in the 1920s. He was sent to Rydal to relieve and fell for the daughter of the publican of the pub he was staying in. They married in 1926 and had five kids - I'm number 4. Your coverage of the central west was amusing but you need to study town names a bit. it is 'Wol air a wang' emphasis on the 'air'. Tarana is 'Tarra Nah' with emphasis on the 'Nah'. Finally the town is pronounced 'Bath.st' with a schwa instead of 'ur' just like Brisb.ne and Melb.ne. All the best to you and Amy.
Great fun video, with actually lots of interesting history carefunly tended to 😄🤠 Thankyouthankyoythankyou.
Um Local here Lithgow has population of 20.000 don’t know where you get your info from this was from the last census and Wallerawang is a pronounced Wal-ler-a-wang!! or Wang for short and Tarana is pronounced Ta-ran-na you say it fast. 😊🙄
something I heard recently was everyone feels like when they were yonger the world was a better place to live. This is why a slogan like trumps 'make America great AGAIN' is so meaningful for people because they truly believe that things used to be better. I feel like this is why NIMBYs hate change so much. Even my parent's are nimbys :(
Reversed building beautifully: demolishing boring
Good video, but the mispronunciation of Wallerawang is killing me.
Woll-air-ah-wang
Same here in Kogara, Rockdale and all the way to Wolli Creek. Princes Highway is ruining our suburbs.
The Bathurst suburb of Kelso was copied by Queensland for a suburb in Townsville
Love the content, I know you focus on sydney’s rail network, I would love for you to do a video on the Hunter rail line. Keep up the good content :)
Very interesting and very informative Keep up the good work
24:20 this is incorrect, this was bought off someone’s collection when they died and they worked for years reassembling and fixing it to its former glory, the computers for signalling are really cool
you should do a vid and take a trip up the to the northern tabelands line that was closed between Armidale - QLD border. and the train station at werris creek would be a great video, the most beautful station in Australia imo
Hell yeah, that would be very cool -- been meaning to do a video on that one myself. Went up there with a buddy back in April, had a great time :D
Ummm 7:05 read the RTBUs concerns on safety with those trains on their webpage
Also one more interesting fact the electrication ends west if bowenfields and ARTC becomes the primary track operator not Sydney Trains
I hope that you make it out to the Orange! The line end up at Dubbo where they are building a new rail workshop. And Orange is the point where the line turns to the Perth line, (at the East Orange siding).
There are MANY closed lines out here too!
Driving down the road to Tarana looked like a fun time. You go up and down the hills repeatedly almost like a slow and tame rollercoaster.
Only time I went to ZigZag and Lithgow for a Sunday 2.50 dollar trip, it was snowing
"Damn" -Sharath 2023
Don't you mean the ; The Queen's Son's Birthday , long weekend holiday ?
Good job Team BB. What a great couple, looking forward to the wedding.