Drivers view Tasmania, Guildford to Boco, Dec 2023

Travel with the train driver as we travel from Guildford to Boco along the Melba line formerly known as the Emu Bay Railway on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia on a DQ class diesel electric locomotive. December 2023.
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[@mels1811]

Excellent video

[@driver667]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀

[@smileypjau]

Awesome, I scored a cab ride from Guildford to Boco on the same engine '2009' in January 2018. Loved it. So scenic 😎

[@driver667]

It is very beautiful along this line, as with most of Tasmania. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀

[@rsinclair6560]

The great Emu Bay Railway, the best section of railwsy left in Tasmania.
The geometry of curves were improved introducing transition by a surveyor and manager of the railway during the steam years, therefore profitable longer ore trains.
This man was the son of engineer Ross Reynolds who disigned the section of railway over the ranges between Tonganah and Ledgerwood, 'The Billycock' ,(Scottsdale to Branxholme 1912 extension) A spectacular length of civil engineering with views of the Bass Strait Island North East Tasmania. If only this digital film technology was available to fim Coldwater Creek to Herrick.

[@driver667]

There are some beautiful lines long closed that I often wish the technology existed years ago to film but...... ah well. Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀

[@kjm1sax]

Would like to see a video of a TasRail train climbing out of the Brighton Freight Hub to Western Junction and beyond. Cheers K

[@driver667]

You never know what might appear 👍😀

[@fanrussula6081]

Amazing views of the Hatfield Forest Reserve. Thank you for uploading this video. What camera did you use?

[@driver667]

A go pro was used. Glad you enjoyed the ride. 👍 😀

[@bigcasey4143]

I hope the train crew didn't get hurt in the derailment at 52:30... Looks like quite a mess... You're probably right about it being cheaper to leave it there to "rust in peace"... Great video...

[@driver667]

It's beautiful countryside. Very happy you enjoyed it 👍 😄

[@TheJRScratchy]

-41.600419, 145.590043 put these coordinates into Google Maps, reasonably isolated!

[@granthogden4732]

@driver667: I keep wondering with these videos, if you have or ever have driven trains along any of the lines in your videos? Or if you know of the drivers who create these videos? Or if you have some way of finding the videos (I assume if the later, you probably have to keep the location secret for the train crew privacy)
The reason why I ask is I also wonder, with these videos happening all over Australia and sometimes the world, it makes me wonder if train drivers are only assigned in one state, or if they can be posted to a different state if needed.
I'm not talking about interstate trains I'm talking like say a metro Melbourne train driver driving a train in Sydney or another state etc

[@driver667]

I drive vline trains across Victoria with the videos being on my train. Train drivers drive for the company we work for but don't move around between companies and states unless we leave one and obtain a job at the other. Sometimes my camera goes for a ride on other trains. 😀👍

[@peterlovett5841]

I bet that's a pucker moment going past the derail debris. Looks like someone made the decision it just wasn't worth recovering the rolling stock.

[@driver667]

Much cheaper and easier to leave it there. 👍😄

[@rsinclair6560]

This also happened on the Tasmanian North East line about 1988? Three ex Queensland locomotives coupled together rolled off the track between Golconda and Nabowla. No road access for cranes and swamp country so they lay on their sides for one or two years. The locos were ZB class. Three 830 class Alcos got pulled over the embankment at Karoola when the wagons derailed and fell down of Piper River restle Bridge. Another couple off Alco rolled of the track slid down the embankment between Tonganah and Ledgerwood known as the Billycock section. A train guard I met got dragged in the guards van on it's side through Denison Gorge. The North East line was called 'The Goat Track'.

[@driver667]

@@rsinclair6560 sounds like you have quite a lot of experience and memories of the TGR. Very interesting hearing all about it. 🤔🤔👍