Summed up Australian railways in one sentence

Glad this video helped you relive that experience and thanks for the comment its always nice to hear

I concur! South Coast Freight Australia - you make excellent railway videos! As a fellow railway videographer, I salute you!!!

I grew up in the 50’s and early 60’s in Scotland. As an avid train spotter. We had steam trains in those days which travelled every day at 90 to 100 mph. (160kph). They were monsters - loud, fast and magnificent. Australia in 2023 still doesn’t have trains that travel this fast. Joke really.

Thank you!

Thanks mate, glad you liked it!

You do know that both Australia and America got their railway crossing technology off of Britain, right?

​@Me in charge I doubt that very much,,,,,

These most of these locomotives are built here in Australia, plus the crossing in Western Australia are rectangular (I love and miss them). It’s not really American influenced but theres is some nevertheless! Glad you like our trains cos I like your train too!

Thanks for the info, I’ll have to check it out!

@@south_coast_freight_ No worries it also has live cameras as well.

There’s a great museum at Tehachapi township as well as a a new lookout over the loop. Worth a visit.

Yeah and the Brown snakes are far, far worse than the spiders; no treatment no live - most common of our deadly snakes. Then there's the extremely aggressive and deadly Tiger snakes, the docile Copperheads with enormous venom yield, garden variety Red Belly Black snakes dangerous but not generally deadly, the extremely dangerous Taipans (coastal and Inland) which are over the top deadly and a few others. The bloody things are everywhere too.

Lights & Bells however no boom gates at the crossing I filmed at, there are multiple level Xing’s in Temora

Each district has its own number 9= Illawarra where this train originated second number being 7 is West for Lithgow - Merrygoen. The third number is an odd or even number not already used and the last number is Odd= away from Sydney Even= toward Sydney. If there is a 5th character being N at the end of the train No. this indicates the train is operating in NSW and there is another train in another state operating under the same train number. Intrastate trains use this numbering system as they operate wholly within NSW. The Interstate numbering system uses both numerics and letters. Hope this helps

@@south_coast_freight_ Yep, that’s a huge help. Thanks for responding and for all of your great videos.

Yes

The designs for the class 43s were borrowed to Australia as they needed to upgrade their railways towards the end of the UK HST building period. They looked at the plans and they asked BR to resign the locos slightly by making them a tad shorter to run on tighter bends on thier railways and adding a new cabs to make them look a bit different. The engine and controls remained the same as far as I'm aware

@@e.btvrail ah awsome i only really know the uk railway so its nice to learn something new based on other countries railway. its a bit like the class 66s we get are slightly different in other countries like india i think it is. but never seen another variant of 43 before which is cool

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The entirety of the AN class fleet have recently been taken out of service here. It was a rarity towards the end of their use to see them leading trains, however when they were first introduced it was common to have solely AN's working trains. A good friends channel 'MAPV Trains' has older footage of them if you'd like to have a look.

ARTC Master Train Plan

@@south_coast_freight_ That is absolutly terrrific! My grandsons and I thank you very much! Have a great New Year and happy Filming :)

Depends where you are most branch lines have speed restrictions that differentiate based on engine size and whether or not the train is loaded or empty. The lines featured in this video are predominantly high speed except for Temora

Flooding caused washaways and the closure of the line for afew months while this video was being filmed. It has since reopened

Don’t know

*@Tulio_laanen* Because you're a fool.

Hi Mate sorry it has taken so long to respond, the ARTC master train plan helps a lot, you can view this on their website and select which line you are looking for that they own. We've also found that social media tracking groups such as ones on Facebook are a great help as people post sightings in real time at certain locations.

@@south_coast_freight_ no worries, thanks for the info!

Some railroad crossing sound like that depending where you’re at. It may also be a pedestrian crossing also

Because there are allowed use freight trains.

Because they are built by General Electric. They sound the same also cos they have about the same amount of power

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