Wow, so many tunnels all so close to each other. I didn’t know this existed, thank you for this unique view 😊🎉

Great video. Loved the different perspective. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.

Some yearsago I was one of many people at Zig Zag station (seen at 8:35) waiting for our tourist train to bring us back to Central.While we waited a coal train hauled by 4x 86 class locos powered up the hill. The sound, and the power was amazing.That is a serious climb.

Great video of an inaccessible but fascinating part of the system. Thanks, a real treat !

I've worked in some of these tunnel as a track worker back in the late 80s. Bloody loud when a coal loco is chugging thru hauling 30 odd carriages of coal , when you heard that horn you made a very quick bee line to a recess in the wall and jammed your fingers in your ears .. lol

What a trip down memory lane. From 1957 to 1961 I travelled this route to and from school. Prior to electrification it was No. 9 mixed goods in the morning and the workers special in the afternoon. Thank you for a superb video.

This is an amazing and unique view. I was surprised that it seemed like a constant speed was maintained throughout this journey while winding around the mountain and through tunnels whilst climbing the grade. Thanks for sharing this amazing experience with us.

Ah Yes, the memories. I remember these tunnels very well. The "Rat Holes" we used to call them. I was at Lithgow from 1978 to 1986 and went thru them so many times I couldn't even estimate. It's good to see the area again but wow hasn't it changed! No old yard and the top yard used to be full of coalies. It's not even a skeleton now of what it used to be, sad, very sad. I had a lot of great times with a lot of great people in Lithgow and have a lot of great memories. It was a fantastic family atmosphere and attitude and we all looked after and helped each other. It was so good if I had the chance I'd go back and do it all again, even the cold uncomfortable nights on the 46ers up and down the hill, cause I'd know I'd be experiencing the best working, and the times with the best people.

Fantastic video. Brings back memories of working out of Lithgow in the 80's driving 46, 85 and 86 class.

Being a young NSW Government apprentice in the 70’s I had the opportunity to do the full journey.From riding the Indian Pacific into Lithgow the 46 class would take over I detrained walked to the front asking politely,flashing my apprentice pass was allowed to sit in the inspectors seat a trip I’ll never forget.I recall the driver commenting as he braked into platform 1 “ wow after all those kilometres crossing the continent we’re arriving on time” as a smile ran across his face.

Awesome video Bevan! Loved the engine sounds of the C’s ascending up the grade, hard workers!

Superb! The only time I've seen this route going up the incline. This line is quite a feat of engineering.

This is awesome, thanks

Awesome video! Great seeing what this looks like from the drivers perspective. I routinely chase and film the Airly trains between Capertee and Bell. Let me know if you ever want a track-side shot to cut in to one of your cab videos!

Great video.

Great video. You can see how much work has had to go into the drainage in that section.

C507 managed to be in two places at once, both on the train and parked in the siding at 1:40.

I have seen a few videos, going from the opposite way ( tunnel 1 to tunnel ten). Yours is unique (different) and the locomotive driver has tried to maintain the speed, up the mountain towards Bell. Well done.

Thanks for Posting- many good Memories! Sounds just like our old L Class Loco Cabs over here in the West. Do You use much Sand in Winter- Frosty Mornings?

Just imagine what the music would be like in the 1940s when standard goods loco and a 57 class blasting through these tunnels. Thank you for sharing this with us.👌🇦🇺🤠

That's an impressive climb. The engineer drove it well too, and lots of power at the head end helps!

Fantastic, just like being in the cab of the lead locomotive.

Excellent video awesome very nice my friend fantástic capture Like nuevo Suscriptor from Argentina 🇦🇷

That's a spectacular section of line, some rocks had to be moved to build this.

WOW AND WOW AGAIN

Good stuff

Excelente vídeo, hermoso país.. Los trenes que se ven en el minuto 8 aproximadamente a los costados...Son trenes que no circulan mas???.saludos desde Argentina.

A really beautiful part of NSW

Can someone help out this Yank and tell me at which time in the video are we rounding Cape Horn curve? Trying to pick out which one it is using Google maps. Thanks in advance. 1 in 42 is brutal. More so in the days of steam. That is on par with Tehachapi and Donner Pass on the Union Pacific (former Southern Pacific) here in the U.S.. Reading up on these C Class locomotives I discovered that they are an export version of the EMD SD40-2 , built under license by Clyde Engineering. The SD40-2 is my favorite locomotive, as it was first line power during my most active period of railfanning. It was also the last EMD model built mostly before the damned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mandated the use of "Quiet Fans " and exhaust silencers in 1980. They could fill a canyon with sound like nothing on rails today. Whether pulling up grade with their turbocharged V-16 engines screaming or descending the hills with their dynamic brake fans howling, you could hear them coming from a long way off. I remember standing on the Horseshoe Curve in Pennsylvania and hearing a set of four of them plus a two unit helper starting their pull out of Altoona, 5 rail miles away. By contrast, Amtrak's Siemens Chargers make hardly any noise whatsoever (not to mention that they are butt-ugly as well).

Was it Lithgow where the… uh… was it called the switchback railway(?) zig zag railway(?) is? Something I have memory visiting when I was extremely young with the grand parents. I remember it being very step, very cold and pretty wet. Cool video though! Haven’t seen to many rail videos like this down here, usually other countries.

Salutări din România👋👋

Nice but where is Lithgow? Also a shot of the train set the scene. What are those passenger cars on the right about half way through? Must have been tough building a railway there. What is the coal used for?

Clearances seem to be very tight!

Great video, I wonder how many tons of dynamite were used to blast this line out of the rocks ! Has anyone any details of the Garrett etc. at 8:05 ?

I noted a pair of transponders in the fourfoot at 4m51s as the train passed the speed limit markers. What cab signalling systems and Driver's Vigilance systems do American trains have? I'm a retired Railwayman in the UK by the way.

Victoria is demanding the return of the C class locomotive 🚂

Train No. VP08 ? great footage though

It's nice that you get to thrash our good Victorian broad gauge locomotives.

Nice video! If you have a spare GoPro wrap it in a pillow case and use it to capture the sound.

its hard to think how they get all 2 or 3 loco to be pulling at exactly the same pace/timing or sequence on each loco /engine can't think of the word i mean ? great video 10/10 i am an electrician from UK

Viewer from USA...... A couple of Questions. 1) What country is this in? I am guessing New Zealand? 2) What is the elevation change from your starting to end point? The engineering that went into the line is quite impressive.

Up through The Ten Tunnels which drivers of steam dubbed "The Rat Holes". A Fantastic clip you uploaded Bevan. It's a shame when the V Sets will be withdrawn when those Maryung NIF's end up being put into service. Lithgow yards was crawling with them.

Did I just miss the passing traffic in the other, direction or is there no passenger services on this line or were they just cut out?? Great scenary but a bit lonely

Good viseo, but for my comfort, it would have been better if the camera was mounted centrally.

This is great if you are local but where is the train going please?

Interesting. How much work to carve such deep canyons in the rocks. Couldn't they have made a tunnel?

Are those parked commuter trains at the beginning of the film

scary railway tunnels 😅

8:36 Thats a station platform? It is so tiny. How is it even legal being so narrow and short?

at 1:33 is that an AN class, be buggered if i can find photo's of it cos google's search buries the entire class except for Wikipedia's page of the class, i'm probably wrong as i'm trying to match the portholes but i think the rise before the top is not right

Where is this?

Cool

More videos in the cab would be good

I take it this is in 🇦🇺?

Good video BUT tbh, you need to actually add where your passing through or some details. I mean there’s a closed station early on; what was it? Unless you’re from Lithgow no one knows what they are looking at. No history of the tunnels. Take your cues from other global cab views that do so. Don Coffey is the best of these.

Thanks that was interesting. A lot of degenerative braking by the look.

Unreal video through the"Rat holes"

Dear Diary!!!

Oh, the irony. Nice clean electricity powering a dirty old coal train.

Is this Aussie land, who knows???

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