I've been on a tram that got stuck right on that Kooyong level crossing before. Some car cut off the tram and forced the driver to brake in an unpowered section.

Glenhuntly just got removed (grade divided) so 2 left

As much as these suck from a throughput standpoint (so slow and cumbersome), they are interesting pieces of engineering, especially considering the switch over for the trains at 1500 volts DC from the trams network at 600 volts DC - this always fascinated me, and such a thing can only exist because of political will and cooperation between the companies at the time. It's interesting to me to think that when the VR lines were all steam, having a tram level crossing was a fairly simple concept, and then how it evolved with electrification of the trains. The good kind of madness :) I used to go past the crossing near Glenferry Road in Kooyong on the way from school back now and then in the day, but up near Glenferrie station (Swinburne University) that used to also be a crossing until they raised the railway during electrification. There was also one on Whitehorse road in Deepdene where the old outer circle line once ran but sadly no real remnants of it left. I'm still disappointed Melbourne lost the inner and outer circle lines - it's amusing that only now they start talking about the suburban rail loop. I guess there's still the Alamein line as a remnant, but Melbourne suffers quite a bit from the "hub-and-spoke" topology.

AMAZING Mate!! Only in Australia is possible to see level crossings like these, some time ago I was able to see only of Glenhuntly, I didn't know there were more!! I wanted to know the gauges of the train and tram... 1600mm and 1435mm. All the best Aussie from Bs. As. Argentina

Shame there is barely any remaining. It’s really interesting that’s there are crossings that have trains/trams!

as sad as it is to say goodbye, im happy that we don’t have to put up with an extra minute crossing the tram tracks on the commute to school or work

Cool video ! Nice complication of the 4 crossings . Can barely hear the barker technics bells at riversdale road , probably because of who ever was mowing or what ever they were doing . They are pretty quiet tho

Should the tram square in Riversdale road be removed or not or the route 16 one

Ding ding! I'm a tram and I approve this video! :D

glen huntly is gone now. as i take this route often, i never really noticed this was something rare and special. i was just always mildly annoyed that the train slowed down quite a bit before passing through glen huntly

The Gardiner crossing was just stupid, I mean, they built the bridge over the freeway. A long time ago, the freeway literally used to have traffic lights at pretty much every main road. It was the south eastern arterial. So, they went and built a road bridge over the freeway when the freeway was finally built in it's current form. When they did this, it left a down and up road that only came down for the rail crossing. It's absolutely absurd they didn't do the entire thing in one go.

Are they still there? I wanna film them

I’m actually glad I visited both the Riversdale and Kooyong tram squares on my recent trip over the border. Kooyong’s in pretty bad shape

These crossings are/were probably among the worst in Melbourne as the trains have to slow to a crawl to get across the tram tracks.

So is the overhead power at the same height for both trams and trains? Is that a standard? Also, about how much of a gap is there for tram power?

Glen Huntly Tram square is no more :(

Very sad to see the tramway not separated from car traffic

Whats interesting is that all of these crossings have hinged gates !

r they still manned or controlled somewhere else all four of them?

Well Glenhuntly is not far behind Gardiner now as it's on the list to be removed.

So sad :(

That’s hsv Holden sport red car 4:05

Y r all the trains going so slow??

Da się? Da się! To czemu na Jagodnie nie ma?

I hope one day all levels crossing of Melbourne will remove. They are very uncomfortable.

It’s cm Or m Not mm