Drivers eye view, Southern Cross to Tocumwal, Dec 2023

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3 ай бұрын

Travel with the train driver as we journey from Southern Cross station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to the end of the line at Tocumwal, just over the border into New South Wales. The last section of the line from Shepparton is a freight only line. We start out on the Vlocity service then change trains at Shepparton to board our special heritage train hauled by two T class locomotives to complete the journey to Tocumwal. Dec. 2023
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@PetesTools.BiggestFan 8 күн бұрын

Walked across that train bridge the other week. Added a bit of urban art ;)

@driver667 7 күн бұрын

@@PetesTools.BiggestFan 🤣👍😀

@Day_Jyer 2 ай бұрын

love watching the scenery go by so quick and the clouds not move at all!

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

Glad to hear you enjoy them 👍 😀

@rosscorr 3 ай бұрын

I am seeing more parts of regional Victoria than I ever imagined and enjoying every minute. Thanks again for the videos.

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome. I am very happy you are enjoying them 😀👍

@austingreenough6396 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for another great video

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Glad you enjoy them all 👍😀

@iulian9608 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always !!!🤗👍

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀

@MarkWilliams-sf9pd 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great video I didn’t know Tocumwal had a passenger train station.

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

It has a station but no regular service. Only the occasional special tour train. Glad you enjoyed the ride 👍 😀

@user-gk8gg1zt7l 2 ай бұрын

Great video - like.

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Very happy you enjoyed it 👍 😀

@martythemartian99 29 күн бұрын

This nice long video helped me through a rather difficult night of little sleep. I noticed many of the road crossings had standard gauge lines installed, just in case the powers that be decide to do a conversion some day. 🤔 1:06:55 I think the camera had a little case of the electronic hiccups there.😵‍💫

@driver667 29 күн бұрын

It was an electronic hiccup 🤔 This line is not being converted to standard gauge now. Glad the video helped. 😀😀👍

@mels1811 3 ай бұрын

Great video

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

Very happy to hear you enjoyed it 👍 😀

@beasts4life_99 3 ай бұрын

The video ive waited for...

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear you enjoyed this video. 👍😀

@cjeremie 3 ай бұрын

Looks like you have got a fan base following you around

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

Just a little bit 😀😀👍

@AzzaTheGreat 2 ай бұрын

Didn't think old mate in the yellow car at 2:54:15 was going to stop. 😅

@wilfriedfriedemann3349 3 ай бұрын

1:04:00 great how the girl jumped after the horn was blown 😂

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣👍😀

@apc108 3 ай бұрын

The weather looks just like it does out my windows right now, in London, UK! Isn't this midsummer in Australia? Fascinating glimpse of railway life. (To be fair, the sun did come and the clouds thinned out further inland).

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

Winter is on it's way back again over here now. Starting to get those cold and wet days again. 👍😀

@apc108 3 ай бұрын

@@driver667 I just watched your recent video from Wangaratta to Benalla, so I see what you mean. Some years back I was living in West Bengal, just a few miles north of the tropic of Cancer. Around mid-December it started getting a bit misty in the mornings. Two weeks later it was clear again and the locals told me that winter was over. Sometimes it's nice to be a passenger and just watch the world going by and it's a joy to see your part of the world. I'm still getting my head around the broad gauge/standard gauge thing. One thing that I did notice is that there is really a lot of graffiti in Melbourne and also there seemed to be a secure compound for local trains at one point, presumably to keep them clean. It's probably a sign of a deeper problem. Not sure what is is though. I see you have loads of other video to watch. Brilliant!

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

@@apc108 broad and standard gauge is a problem that's not going to go away unfortunately. Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. Plenty to keep you busy 😉 Sounds like you've seen a lot. 👍😉

@johnsergei Ай бұрын

It looks like the track speed north of Shepparton is a lot lower than when Cobram passes came though here? 70 km/h? Fells like 80 but the road vehicles (doing 100) wouldn't be running away so fast.

@driver667 Ай бұрын

65kph out there. A bit slower than when the pass still ran. 👍😀

@RailfanDownunder 2 ай бұрын

😊

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 👍 😀

@RailfanDownunder 2 ай бұрын

@@driver667 I travelled up to Yarroweh on Sunday with a friend by car ..... A few changes between Seymour and Shepparton since my last carbide there and back in a N class in 2020 ..... new Junction to Echuca at Toolamba looks promising but Dookie Line not so much ..... Sad to see Numurkah Yard gone but c'est le vie. I did travel on an X hauled Cobram Pass a few weeks before closure and a weekend your of the Goulburn Valley Lines in the mid 1990's (including Dookie)

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

@@RailfanDownunder there have been a lot of changes since your travelling around back then on the Cobram pass. It's a long time since I ran the Cobram pass. Glad to read about your experiences. 👍😀

@mihailoarsic5716 3 ай бұрын

👍

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

👍😀

@Aaron-is9xo 23 күн бұрын

You’d think with all that straight track it would be faster speeds and Australia would invest in some high speed locos

@driver667 23 күн бұрын

Straight track certainly makes higher speed easier but........... 🤔👍

@hishamw6755 2 ай бұрын

Why are we hearing a second whistle from the rear? The video in reverse?

@driver667 2 ай бұрын

A second locomotive behind the first. They liked to be heard also some times. 👍😀

@leahhenshall6072 3 ай бұрын

Was that a steam train from Shepp to Tocumwal?

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

It was a heritage diesel locomotive. 👍😀

@Trainspottervic 3 ай бұрын

Did u prefer n sets up to Shepparton or velocity trains?

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

I preferred the locomotive hauled trains. 👍😀

@percyengineproductions061 3 ай бұрын

wait this line has been restored! when did they do it?

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

Regular trains still only travel to Shepparton. Tour trains can run to Tocumwal. This was a special train to Tocumwal. 👍😀

@percyengineproductions061 3 ай бұрын

@@driver667 oh

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

@@percyengineproductions061 👍😀

@carisi2k11 3 ай бұрын

Freight still runs along that line I believe.

@driver667 3 ай бұрын

@@carisi2k11 it certainly does 👍😀