Driver's Pre Dawn View Flinders St to Pakenham. Part 1 Express to Dandenong.

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @waynewhite2323
    @waynewhite2323 3 года назад +14

    Thanks M8, that was fantastic. Something special about that time of the morning!

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Few see lines at this time of day, but of course it would look the same in the evening, generally with more road and other train traffic visible.

  • @georgeronn1263
    @georgeronn1263 3 года назад +6

    Nice ride. Love when you can go non-stop. Nice job protecting your source’s reflection in the windscreen.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +3

      They are much easier to edit when non-stop also, but getting rid of the reflections was an ordeal!

  • @scottyerkes1867
    @scottyerkes1867 2 года назад +1

    Love all the elimination of level crossings which reduces traffic delays. Truly an express ride!!
    Thank you for sharing.😀

  • @gailgamann7873
    @gailgamann7873 3 года назад +3

    Love your videos. Always informational with explanations of signals etc. I love the way Melbourne is putting railways above or under, sure takes away the delays with traffic and road crossings and thoroughly opens up the rail corridor. Thank you so much for your efforts. Whenever I see your name as creator I always end up glued to the screen. Great trips. Well done.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for your kind words! Maybe you have not seen some of these before. Check anything to do with the Dandenong line and in some you will see views with the viaducts being built. Maybe something to fill in a bit of time if you are locked down.

  • @noelroberts8199
    @noelroberts8199 3 года назад +4

    Love the night time rides, this sounds like a Comeng, thanks for the vid tressteleg 1.

  • @土浦乗り鉄
    @土浦乗り鉄 3 года назад +2

    Very nice.from Japan.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +2

      I’m very pleased that you enjoyed it. 👍😄

  • @stopbunsen
    @stopbunsen Год назад +1

    The sound of a Comeng is burned in my brain at this point, they've been around for so long. I hear we could be retiring them in the coming years, which makes sense but it is always a little bit of history disappearing. I used to like the look of a Hitachi train pulling into the station. They weren't that nice to travel on on a 40 degree day, but there was something about them

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  Год назад

      Yes, the Comeng trains are the last in Melbourne where you can hear the sounds of the gears, unlike the meaningless electronic warbling of new trains. Similarly Sydney’s V set double deck interurbans are in the same category, also Brisbane‘s original EMU trains. The whole lot are being phased out gradually as newer trains are being built. Such a pity. I am preparing a before and after side by side video of the Upfield l line at present and will make sure that if we are riding a Comeng on either of those time periods, that is the sound I will use in the video. I never had any particular liking for the Hitachi Trains, they just seem like tin boxes on wheels.

  • @MarkHenstridge
    @MarkHenstridge 3 года назад +5

    Gee, Melbourne has changed a lot since I was last there in 2004.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      All cities change, some for the better, some for the worse 😊

  • @monishadmukundan9073
    @monishadmukundan9073 3 года назад

    Very Nice , keep it up, love 💕 frm india

  • @AndrewCastlemaine
    @AndrewCastlemaine 3 года назад

    Really enjoyed cruising along the line. Richmond Stn looks almost pretty that time of the morning. And to paraphrase a certain movie: "I love the sound of a Comeng in the morning. Thanks!

  • @geoffreymoore1510
    @geoffreymoore1510 3 года назад

    Thanks for a great ride. I read below a bit and got some of my questions answered. When were the new viaducts built? With my limited knowledge of Melbourne, I think new stations were added in between old ones like for example Oakleigh if I am right? I, too appreciate all the info and stuff you add.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      😊👍 The level crossing removal process, from memory, started around 2014, and it’s around that time that my driver recognised the potential in creating before, during, and after scenes of the various work sites.

  • @alancampbell8760
    @alancampbell8760 2 года назад

    After years of catching the 5:22 stopping all stations, this sort of commute was only in my dreams

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  2 года назад

      Yes, it was a much faster service than all stations. Pity the poor people all stops from Packenham to town. Unfortunately Melbourne does not know what express services are, which are normal at all times on some journeys in Sydney.
      As for lights on at the G, you’ll have to ask them as I would not have the slightest idea.

  • @Cgvgggggghghghhghhgfbj
    @Cgvgggggghghghhghhgfbj 3 года назад +1

    Amazing video

  • @ksmashgamer5748
    @ksmashgamer5748 3 года назад +1

    Do you have videos of Pakenham East Depot?

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      I doubt it but if I do I will add it to part 2 whenever I do that.

  • @pnh555
    @pnh555 3 года назад

    Was this pre-dawn or late-night? Only ask because saw lysaughts steel train at South Yarra at 5:37 - this usually is inbound in evening.

    • @johnlang4198
      @johnlang4198 3 года назад +1

      Pre-dawn. Left Flinders Street at about 0439hrs.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Thanks. At the start of the video I state when it occurred. Also a number of station clocks tell us the time.

  • @petertrevena804
    @petertrevena804 3 года назад

    A great video😊👍

  • @peterausfranken
    @peterausfranken 3 года назад +1

    And then some people say Melbourne's public transport was slow😉 31 Kilometers in about a half a hour is great😂 Nice Video

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      It sounded good to me too until I realised it was only around 60km/h, not startling for a run with no stops. I also have a normal service run and it goes for about 70 minutes, a tedious slow all stations run.

    • @YoungHarry1000
      @YoungHarry1000 3 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 60km/h was the average speed. It would have been going a lot faster than that to make up for the slow bits, such as the 40km/h at Caulfield.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      That proves the point - there are too many slow locations. As for Caulfield, there is a sign telling drivers there is a 25 km speed limit over the pedestrian subway. If it is falling apart, time to fix it up. If trains are too noisy, put rubber between the rail and the sleepers. With the track being almost straight through here, the speed limit should be much closer to 60 km/h. The crawl into Dandenong seems excessively slow for much too great a distance. It all adds up.

  • @PeterYacono
    @PeterYacono 3 года назад

    WOW that new raised link is AMAZING

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      I did a number of videos showing Skyrail construction. You will find them here.
      Melbourne - Driver's View Trains
      ruclips.net/p/PLLtOIHp49XNDtaNr2H41P2th0S56s6bIH

    • @PeterYacono
      @PeterYacono 3 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 tremendous! thank you

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      😊

  • @paradornphanyingyok1464
    @paradornphanyingyok1464 3 года назад

    Such a great Video! Now, i'm currently working with Metro Tunnel and usually wondering how the real site is. Thank you guy!

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      Good to hear from you. If you think you can get anything of interest on this project, I would like to hear from you 😊

  • @RailwayVideos.
    @RailwayVideos. 3 года назад

    Lovely view from the cabin

  • @jakesadelaidetramstrainsco3787
    @jakesadelaidetramstrainsco3787 2 года назад

    what time did you film this video great job

  • @andyrob3259
    @andyrob3259 3 года назад +2

    Great video. Loved it. Thing Is rides SHOULD be that quick. Well on a well run system. It should be run as 3 lines. 1: Stopping all stations to Dandenong. 2 & 3: Flinders St - Caulfield - Dandenong - all stations to Pakenham or Cranbourne. The should be more overtaking lines (another at Hughedale would help). The line is getting too long not to do this.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +2

      I largely agree with that. My preference for stopping patterns would be one service all stations to some midpoint station with some importance. I don’t know the area well enough to nominate such a station. Then there should be another service stopping at Richmond, S. Yarra, then the terminus of the short working train, then all stations to Dandenong and Pakenham or Cranbourne from there. Having trains 10 minutes apart and every one of them stopping at every station is ludicrous.

    • @richardleonard2946
      @richardleonard2946 2 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 As you may know, but for @AndyRob, the Lilydale/Belgrave lines do this well. In peak hour they run expresses basically between Box Hill (roughly half way out) and the city (3 tracks) in the centre track with stoppers in parallel on the other track. The 3rd track runs stoppers in the other direction. Then stop all stations Box Hill to the end of the line.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  2 года назад

      Yes in general terms I was aware of this. Outside of peak hours, Melbourne has precious little express suburban service. Maybe Werribee along the main line would be amongst the best.

  • @margaretcampbell2681
    @margaretcampbell2681 Год назад

    How do the points work? Do they set automatically?

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  Год назад

      Except for maybe some shunting yards, signals are set by a person in a Signal Box. In years gone by, there were hundreds of these in each state. Now with a lot more points moved by electric motors and with the help of computers etc, just a few signal boxes can control a whole state. The driver just has to keep an eye on signals to make sure the points will send the train on the correct line.

  • @5mnz7fg
    @5mnz7fg 3 года назад

    Is this Melbourne, Australia? And what kind of transport system and rolling stock is it?

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +3

      Lucky guess! While the equipment generally is owned or financed by the state government, all public transport runs to timetables determined by the government. It is a mix of suburban electric trains which you can see here, a tramway network which is said to be the worlds largest, with gaps in the Tramway network being served by buses operated by a number of independent contractors.
      The train we are riding was built by Commonwealth engineering in Dandenong Melbourne and dates from the 1980s approximately. More recently Alstom has provided the X’Trapolis trains, and Siemens has also provided electric trains.
      Trams were also built by Comeng, Allston, and Siemens.
      The Commonwealth engineering factory was later taken over by Bombardier but is now owned by Alstom. Railway gauge is 5‘3“, tramway is Standard gauge.

  • @ethansrailwayvideos
    @ethansrailwayvideos 3 года назад

    The old rail yard near platform 1 at Dandenong is not there now, don’t know what will be there.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      I dare say it will be cleaned up sooner or later.

  • @kevinshelly6853
    @kevinshelly6853 3 года назад

    Great video Loved it Thank you Did you know that the stations between Caulfield and Richmond start with M.A.T.H.S There you are theres your useless bit of information for the day.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      The young of today will only understand CALCULATOR 😊😄😆

  • @mce_AU
    @mce_AU 3 года назад

    Nice trip.

  • @pauloconnor2980
    @pauloconnor2980 3 года назад

    I can't help noticing that the lunar lights at Caulfield have been replaced with theater boxes!!!

  • @luizaugustoramos2520
    @luizaugustoramos2520 3 года назад

    Sadly Comengs will be gone soon ... I must visit Melbourne again in the next few years so I can have a last ride on one of them. Hopefully this will be possible from 2022 on as Covid restrictions ease, international border reopens and Latam/Qantas flights to South America resume. Another great video, tks!

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      Hopefully things will be better next year. At the moment, almost nobody can come here from overseas. Certainly not tourists.

    • @luizaugustoramos2520
      @luizaugustoramos2520 3 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 so sad! Here in Brazil we are still having tough times with Covid but things are starting to get better. I personally got my first jab a few weeks ago, Delta variant is not making much of a harm and we'll get third shots from September.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Actually life in most states is not too far from normal with no Covid loose in the community. However it’s terrible in New South Wales and slipping out of control in Victoria at the moment. Vaccination rates are not as high as they could be due to a shortage of imported vaccines. I’m in Queensland.

  • @dontown1531
    @dontown1531 3 года назад

    Enjoying from Vancouver @ 2:30 AM. Was Down Under in 1987 & traveled all over by train for entire month of May.Been a 'train-a-holic' since I rode a train by myself in 1955. Cheers.

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Insomnia?? 😊. When Covid problems normalise, sounds like it’s time for a return visit!

  • @VO5-Vida
    @VO5-Vida 8 месяцев назад

    Not in service expressing Caulfield, Clayton, Carnegie, Morrabeena, Westall and expressing all stations. WHY?!

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  8 месяцев назад

      It was probably an Empty Cars run. Sometimes a train required to start service at a terminus on the system is located somewhere else. Sometimes that happens every day, sometimes trackwork puts trains in the wrong places for their next service.

  • @carrahulley8484
    @carrahulley8484 9 месяцев назад

    Caulfield time was 4:52 am and 25 second out of the city

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  9 месяцев назад

      Yes they often have to start early. Whether this was a routine early morning run or an oddity following trackwork or something, I don’t know.

  • @Bobrogers99
    @Bobrogers99 3 года назад

    I'm impressed with how much of this line is new, eliminating many level crossings.

  • @alexisprotopopo
    @alexisprotopopo Год назад

    this train left at 4.30 am that is way too early

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  Год назад

      Well, somebody has to get all the trains in place for the peak hour to work 😊. Luckily not you or me!

  • @alancampbell8760
    @alancampbell8760 2 года назад

    Why is the G lit up like that, waste of power

  • @carrahulley8484
    @carrahulley8484 Год назад

    Start at 4:35am city centre

  • @bigman4225
    @bigman4225 3 года назад

    nice video im ex fright driver as per usual rvb horn sound not very good needed nathan 3 chime from america cheers

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад +1

      Whistles here are mostly only a formality. Thank goodness we don’t have the ridiculously long level crossing whistle code which the USA has! If anyone doesn’t hear a single toot of a train whistle, too bad! 😄

    • @bigman4225
      @bigman4225 3 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 i has too fatal over my career both teenager with headphone

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Sorry to hear that. When I was a Melbourne tram driver, I only injured one person who did something foolish near the back of the tram which I could not see, but some of my workmates were not so lucky. Some remained drivers, some did other work after that.

    • @bigman4225
      @bigman4225 3 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 i took it well unfortunate my mate who we would always crew together took himself from the stress stay safe mate

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  3 года назад

      Yes, different people take it differently. Driving trams was tricky as people would wander all over the street at times. Nobody should be walking on a train track.
      You stay safe too. All good where I am.

  • @davidklaehn2938
    @davidklaehn2938 2 года назад

    I like the sound of the train horn, sounds like elephant trumpeting. Scare the shit out of me that hour of the morning💩💩🚝🚝🚝🚄🚄🚄🚂🚂

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  2 года назад

      I can’t be sure now, but the train must have been a Comeng, the last trains with ‘traditional’ Melbourne whistles. No doubt anyone living near a rail line would be quite used to their sound.

    • @davidklaehn2938
      @davidklaehn2938 2 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 The good old trains seem smooth

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  2 года назад

      Probably. The XTraps don’t even have air suspension so the ride on some of Melbourne’s indifferent track is not the best.

    • @davidklaehn2938
      @davidklaehn2938 2 года назад

      @@tressteleg1 I'm from Queensland, the trains here are quiet good and fast, hopefully I will get to Melbourne one day and check out the transport system, it's looks really good.🌟🌟

    • @tressteleg1
      @tressteleg1  2 года назад

      Well I’m on the Gold Coast and go south each year. If you don’t expect too much from Melbourne you won’t be too disappointed 😄