27:00 So cool to see the train racing the road traffic on M1. It's even better when I watch the video at 2x play speed, LOL! I have done many trips on that M1 highway for my trips between Dandenong and Bairnsdale, but never rode on this V-Line train. Thanks for sharing.

I would like to see these Longer vids

Thank you! I live in California… love seeing rail videos of Oz. Very photogenic and it like being there! Cheers

Have watched this trip n parts, very nice informant video, thanks for putting that one on to you tube

Thanks. Enjoyed picking out the landmarks.

Aussies, Always MAKE Good Stuff

I came across your videos by accident. It was amazing to see the Australian country side and how it changes through out the video. It was good to see my old stomping ground of Kalgoorlie. Thanks for the video, I appreciate your time on rendering.

Thing that stands out most, the driver uses the warning horn, which not a lot of countries do, excellent journey, thanks

Great video, thanks for posting.

I just found out I own shares in Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Cool. 🤩 I think this video is the first one I've seen from south west Victoria. Also cool. 😁 When I finish it, I get to watch the 4th launch of Starship. Cool to the power of 10. 😎

thank you

Excellent video. I enjoyed seeing the skyrail go in at Pakenham. Hopefully once that is complete the funds will come through to complete the duplication through to Traralgon. Ridiculous that in the 21st century it still has single track lengths.

very good vid, looked smooth. thank you.

Two hours and eight minutes to Caulfield - exactly 2 minutes faster than the Up Gippie 50 years ago

I like the video. I used to visit my grandparents in Taralgon. It would be nice to see an outside shot of the trains if possible. Give some perspective.

As a local it was very interesting to see the Sky rail in Pakenham from the other side of the fence, I watched that part 1:11:00 to 1:15:00 approx. at 0.25 speed and saw lots of familiar landmarks from a new perspective. Those sleepers are hypnotic. Cheers 👍.

have to shoot this again with the new stations opened and the track duplication works complete

From the video it looks as if this a standard guage line but knowing there are a lot of Broad guage makes me wonder. Would appreciate your comment please.

Nice video😀

I noticed they are starting to build a Sky train starting @ Packenham. We have had a Sky train system in Vancouver since 1986. Ours uses third-rail for power & is driverless (operated by a central computer). Thanks for video.

I love your videos but appears to me that Australia has a bad graffiti problem like we have here in the USA! I am amazed to see some of the tags so high up that I wonder how the heck they did that and when did they have time to do it! I see railroad cars tagged all the time around here where I live and some of it is so beautiful but then its not at all. ThankYou

Shame, you should have veered right just before South Yarra and given us a view of the new Metro tunnel all the way through. ha ha.

Traralgon is certainly looking different!

Not gonna lie, the FULL section between Dandenong and the City…they absolutely need a third track. I saw you slowing down at so many yellows after Pakenham, and you making no stops (not even Noble Park) - the vLine needs a track that like in New York that will allow faster/express trains to shoot by the “locals”. Don’t get me wrong, the level crossing removals are great but man, Gov of Vic needed someone like Andy Byford to be like “uh uh uh, no Dan, build the bloody third track. Don’t be slack, especially if Southeast Melbourne is still growing!”

thanks for the video, question, do the velocity trains need access to both sides for start up? Hence why the first and last trains out of Bairnsdale are N Class?

Have you got any early morning drives on the Bendigo/Ballarat lines?

Maybe you can put these short vids together to make long videos of full runs. Hunting down the vids to complete them is a pain.

I am currently a night shift scrubman for a shopping centre in Ballarat which is a good job but I have always wanted to be a train driver. Can you give me any advice on how to make myself an attractive candidate for the position of a train driver and how long does it take to learn a route? I often fear I would take longer than expected to learn a route. I used to know a driver Gordon McPherson based in Ballarat and we would talk route knowledge a lot but he retired now and I don’t see him anymore unfortunately.

Is this line being electrified...? I see what look like concrete bases for the overhead wire systems on the side of the track.

funfact: the closest station to east pakenham depot is actually a regional station (nar nar goon) rather than a suburban station (pakenham and btw was this on an N class?

1:00:04 lasagne

What's the point in honking 2 seconds before you hit the crossings? It's way too late and you're just making needless noise when you're that close. If anyone's in the crossing at that point you'll run through them before they hear the horn - they don't have enough time to get out of the way and you can't stop in time, so you're just sounding the horn to no one's benefit.

I enjoy the sight of karst geology clues. To be a visit option should I enter again into Australia. Recommend such caves found within the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. What I won't do again is risking another walk underground with sharks,

Much better than the vlocities

Do you ever see idiots running across the tracks? and does it happen often? also are train drivers ever informed that ticket inspectors are on the train? sorry for the questions just find this stuff interesting.

Why was electrification cut back?

i always thought it does the city circle and comes back or is that done during peak time/

Gee that brake drive me nuts. its so annoying. Im glad i dont drive those locos other than that. an enjoyable video. i am surprised how English the countryside looks. I could settle down there very happlily. but you dont take retirees. Despite your Government constantly delaying the high speed projects. its good to see developments on that line. doubling what was previously single. electreification will hopefully come next and maybe making it fit for 100mph running. whether that means upgrading many of the level crossings and fencing off more of the track i dont know. but the signalling looks ok for 100mph running

What happened to Oakleigh?

What speed are you doing

THIS SYSTEM MUST ELECTRIFY! N O DIESEL!

folks ask,where you live, my reply,up walkabout creek and micks my neighbour

@1:12 at pakenham skyrail ?

Too bad you can't make better time west of Pakenham.

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What n is this