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You will be more than surprised at how many tram stops have been removed from the city centre, and with both directions on the same side of the cross street, it can be a long walk from one tram line to the stop for the other street. Anyway, is it next year you are coming to check it out? It would be a very slow trip to Sydney by tram. Take your sleeping bag.

Yes i am planing to come in March 2024 to Melbourne. I must fly from Frankfurt to Singapure and then change a plane to Melbourne. There is no direct flight from Frankfurt to Melbourne. It will be a lot of change in Melbourne. When i last lived in Melbourne the Docklands where no part of the City. With trams they only have the W Class and the Z Class. Oh man i think l am getting old😉

Okay. I’m not sure if I will be down there in March. Wait and see. There should be a few W8 class doing the city Circle Blut they crawl around these days, as they are governed to about 30 km/h. Nearly all the Z3 class are still running, the rest are new. Docklands you won’t recognise. As for Frankfurt airport, last night on TV news we saw it was a good place to go swimming, as well as a UBahn station doing the job of an efficient drain hole!

@@tressteleg1 Yes the airport in Frankfurt was closed for about 8 hours. On Thursday there was a lot of rain along the middle of germany. Here in Coburg (North Bavaria) the train station was full of water and was also closed for a few hours. I'm watching a lot of videos about Melbourne. I do want to see a lot in my 3 weeks in Melbourne and this must be good planed before😉

@@peterausfranken Yes, good planning is essential.When I used to travel to Europe I largely had planned which town I would be in on what day. I don't mind giving you some guidance but would be best done by email, not public knowledge here.

My first visit in 1965 I was that such a long distance could have almost continuous shops! Nothing much has changed since then.

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It is ready, but you will have to wait a few weeks while I show a few other subjects in the meantime.

Thanks for a good ride. I go to Peter Mac and it's interesting to see what's after it.Part2 will be interesting.🇦🇺

@brucekilby9957 Part 2 along with another version of the entire run I expect will appear on Friday. Good luck with Peter Mac. A friend of mine had a very good success recently after he went there.

@@tressteleg1 Yes,thanks. I haven't been watching for a while,but it's good to catch up with the fine filming of interesting Routes.🚋🇦🇺

😊👍. This may help you find lines which you may have previously missed. Melbourne Trams - Driver's Views, Rides kzfaq.info/sun/PLLtOIHp49XNAm1qAXx3Oc73LehZsggS3t

I started taking clips of the various driver controls a few years ago, but never finished. I should try to complete the project.

@@tressteleg1 : Great. I think a lot of us would really like to see it. Thanks for your response ... and for the work you do on your channel.

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Well unfortunately too many riders never touch on.

and i catch this tram to school and back!

Consider it a late birthday present 😆 Almost always my videos are posted on a Friday afternoon between 4:30 and 5:30 pm, but on odd occasions I forget and it may be a bit later. Well you are lucky to catch a tram to school every day. I expect you will always remember those rides.

That sometimes did happen anywhere. The tram driver would probably have some idea as to how long the lights would remain red, and if likely more than a few seconds would open the doors anyway. Otherwise he would keep the doors closed until cars beside the tram and moved away, and following cars seen the hazard lights on and stopped. Then he would open the doors.

@@tressteleg1 great, thanks!

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@@tressteleg1 Most of the time the driver just opens the door and passengers getting on and off have to walk around the cars. But the cars can't go until the tram leaves even if they were there before.

@@simonealexander7313 That’s right, and any car stopped beside a tram stopped at a tram stop must not move while the tram doors are open.

Just one of many removed in the city when the raised platform stops were built. I suppose if the truth be known, they got rid of them just to save the cost of construction, but in a few cases, stops were too close together such as the King Street stops in both Collins and Bourke Streets which were just a few hundred metres from the Spencer Street stops. In Swanson Street, when they removed the Victoria Street and City Baths stops and moved the Latrobe Street stop to the southern side of that intersection, it was an awful long way from Queensbury Street to that stop. But I suppose the long-suffering public knew that protesting would be a waste of time.

@@tressteleg1 so I'm guessing its also why there are numbers skipped as well right? Coz it goes like stop 1,3,5 or whatever it is

@justinwright4833 Generally when a number is missing, a former tram stop is missing. The only exception is when two lines may meet and join a single line, like where the 70 joins the 75 at the back of the old Hawthorne depot, Riversdale Road will run in sequence with the numbers of 75 or 70 so one of those routes is sure to have a different number of stops so one of those routes will suddenly jump numbers.

​@tressteleg1 I also believe there was a stop between brunswick road and Ievers Street that was labelled as 'Princes Park' Stop 18 (not the stadium) that has been recently removed

That’s very possible. I suppose it depends on whether any important football matches are played there any more.

When you lay the tram lines beyond North Coburg, probably.

Long trip without a restroom on board. 😂

Typical these days. But drivers soon learn to recognise those on another planet and are ready for them. Luckily when I was driving, mobile phones and their distractions did not exist.

I don’t even look for Dislikes these days. They used to be easy to see but not now. Anyway I don’t care if the occasional dickhead dislikes my videos. If they actually watched any of it, I still get the money, ha ha.

When I was a kid, the older folk would tell me ‘you can please some of the people, some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time’. I miss those simpler days. The 1990’s visiting Melbourne. The 2000’s visiting Sydney as well. So much has changed, I sometimes wonder how much good some of the change has been. Your videos allow me to remember my childhood, for which you have my thanks. I’m only 32, but due to health issues I can’t recall things that occurred barely 5 years ago. These, and other videos like it remind me.

@MASSspec1990 Nice to read your words. The purpose of my videos is to make people happy from a transport point of view, and I am pleased that I am helping you, even if in a small way.