Excellent coverage, John. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do myself one day. I wonder what happens during shutdowns? A boat replacement service for this station perhaps?? 😊

Are these the ones that will become battery electric? Regen braking down hill when fully loaded recharging enough to get back up again when empty.

I've caught the train from Central to Gosford and return. That ride down the Cowan bank is amazing, escarpments, tunnels, forest and then the train cavorts out over the Hawkesbury river with islands and oyster farms when I went past. What a trip. I'll never forget the spectacle until the day I die. The sun was rising, there was fog in arms of the river - it was beautiful. For someone from Victoria it was very eye opening. I'm having a PTSD episode watching this though LOL. It was tarnished unfortunately by a nasty search by transit police on the way back from Gosford (not long after this station in the vid) then another attempt 15 mins later. Proper police were called - it all ended well for me but perhaps not so well for the transit police. That's one advantage of cameras in trains.

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Why were different pantographs raised for the run into Traralgon from Moorwell at 28:09? What's the difference?

Fascinatingly unique - I wouldn't have imagined there was such a thing!

Gosford Quarries had a dead end rail siding off the Down Main not far from the station platform, it ran along in front of the house, closed in the early 1970's I think. Fancy living in that house with all the clatter from the crossing bells. You can get a good feed of oysters and other shellfish off those rocks at low tide too. Very enjoyable video, thank you John, well done.

Excellent John

Drone and boat used for this?

Great show there John. Can't get over the traffic volume in that period of time! Also, the Drone really adds to the overall experience, thanks. Cheers AC

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Last Saturday AD60 6029 ran shurtle services between Gosford and Hawkewbury River, and Wondabyne would be a fabulous location to video it. As we passed Wondabyne there were a fair few people on the platform.

Thanks for sharing this one John,I had forgotten the name of the station,but sure remember the scenery along that section of line,and always thought it to be beautiful.Didn’t know any of the other facts about the area either,so I’ve learned something new today 🙂

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Excuse me sir, may I know where this address is? Who knows, I might be able to visit there someday

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Great video sir. A suggestion. Maybe have the captions on screen longer for those that watch at 1.25 or 1.5 video speed. Keep up the good work!!

Thank you for the amazing drone shots. They look stunning 🤩

An excellent video indeed. There's something that's hard to describe, maybe a kind of realisation really, that comes over a person as they see these things in action for real. I worked in the Pilbara for a few weeks in an elevated area, next to the open valley of Karijini National Park, where I seen the constant stream of autonomous trains arrive off the main north/south line and take the large circular loop below the loading stations where they fill the trucks one by one and gradually loop around to take their place alongside the main line back north once again, moving Australia to China, one truckload at a time. They take around 3hrs to complete a loading phase before setting off north to port once again. On cool still mornings, once the final trucks had been loaded and despite being a few km/miles from the train, we could clearly hear the engines pick up from 3hrs or so idle and load up followed by the clinking of every truck's connection to the next as they took up the slack. Most interesting and impressive. Automation and AI will no doubt continue continue to hone this process and remove more humans from the entire process, including the mining. I hope China will continue to remain a willing customer...

Great little ride there John, thanks! Should be open to the public! Cheers AC

Good to see the fruits of ones labour return to the rails (G42, beach Forrest line loco). If not only a small part I helped along with other tradies machine up the 4 engine plates at Amecon ship yard 1990's. Got me interested in the steam side of the hobby, Im now in the process of building 2 womat loco's. 5" and 7 1/4" gage.

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I love steam engines when I was a kid I use to love trains

Good one John!

Nice bit of wheel slip before the crossover.

Excellent Tour! Glad to see you running on the bottom loop again... What is the stiffest grade coming up out of the bottom loop? Probably around 8:02 to 8:45 in the video? Now if you could just build a balloon turning loop between Wombat Jct and the engine facilities on the downhill side using embankments and trestlework to keep the grade manageable, you could have constant running on both loops. You'd just have to go into the engine terminal to get water...

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I live in Croydon, and you should see it now... There is no sign of the old railway... And so seeing the vision of how the old railway operated, is remarkable. The new station is going to be absolutely amazing, and for the first time ever croydon will not be divided by the railway line. I am certain that's gonna make a tremendous change to croydon.

Hi John, Awesome video, well done. It is utterly fantastic what they have done there by incorporating all the original works into the modern facilities. This is a model of what should/could be done in many other places. I think of the Roundhouse/Machine Shop I used to work at here in Vancouver BC that is now fortunately saved, but not with the machinery, which is quite similar in many respects to what is in your video. Thanks for a great showing. Cheers AC.

That was most informative. Thank you John.

i really like what has been done. 10 out of 10.

It would have made a wonderful railway museum rather than Thirlmere.

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Hello sir, I'm from Indonesia. I want to ask what transportation you take to the Pilbara because if one day I go to Australia I can visit the Pilbara to record the trains there.

The old Somerton rd crossing is crazy to look at back then to now…. I grew up in Meadow heights , now it’s a bridge an 2 lanes each side all the way to Epping

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Are those locomotives home made or just bought from somwhere?

What astonishes me is one of the longest electrified rail stretches was closed all because of expensive overhead costs and declining freight traffic. Should've kept the overhead for passenger service like Sydney intercity services.

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The silver ghost and the bell.

What a lovely line and in such wonderful scenery. Thanks, always worth a watch. Pommy Glenn

Astounding.

Lots of fun without even leaving home,I’m assuming you live there🙂

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A magnificent steam railway, a wonderfully very scenic tour! Thanks for including the track diagram sketch, it answered many of my questions. Obviously a lot of teamwork and a lot of love is showing on the LR!! You fellows are so well blessed! ;-)