Gus thanks for sharing! How to get a traineeship?! I so want to do this!!!!
@RGC198 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Than ks for sharing. Prior to 1981, I lived in Sydney and traveled on several occasions over the years from Sydney to Wollongong and Kiama on day train trips. Some of the scenery is absolutely spectacular on that line.
@eol68896 Жыл бұрын
Great video.i love the 90 class locos over there
@lorrainehodder8913 Жыл бұрын
You forgot to stop at Werri and Gerringong stations !!!
@planetX15 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps this is an express train that skips certain stations
@alwayslight2658 Жыл бұрын
Nice but consider to go 4k. It adds to the quality and video will last longer.
@davidpost428 Жыл бұрын
What beautiful countryside and what a clean roadbed!
@alanstrong55 Жыл бұрын
Looks like some good waters for fishing are along the way. Would not mind a courtesy ride on such a train. Hook up two passenger cars and a caboose. Looks like fun.
@terrybates1829 Жыл бұрын
Oh the Memories, i completed a lot of Resurfacing and straight rail of turnouts through that area back in my day👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
@MegaSnow121 Жыл бұрын
Very pretty area.
@DJ997772 жыл бұрын
What a disturbing noise that loco makes.
@B10Mman Жыл бұрын
Which disturbing noise are you talking about? All locomotives have rattles and squeaks in the cab, some say that they are put there to keep crew's awake.
@davidlang11252 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous! Thanks for posting uncut!
@neilgrayson17232 жыл бұрын
Great video, will you be doing more updates?
@B10Mman Жыл бұрын
Yes I will. The second set of points is the new Mt Pleasant branch line.
@neilgrayson1723 Жыл бұрын
@@B10Mman thank you. I got some photos of it but can only drive so far ☺️
@Mattb812 жыл бұрын
Was that the voice of Greg H on approach to Berry?
@michaelsnedden67583 жыл бұрын
Was it just the single 81 on this day or a pair
@michaelsnedden67583 жыл бұрын
Can you do Ulan line please. I was hoping someone would do the dunedoo line but all good
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
Hi Michael, I'm recovering from shoulder surgery at present, I've given myself 6 months to recover and get fit to pass their fitness assessment.
@michaelsnedden67583 жыл бұрын
@@B10Mman when ur up and about n in tip top shape I'll look forward to watching more 81's
@michaelsnedden67583 жыл бұрын
Great video. My whole family worked on the railways in new South Wales. From my grand father to my dad working at Auburn station. I love the 81's they are a great sounding locomotive. Brute strength also. I was having a cab ride from Campbelltown to Yass we were on a Steel train with a 81 n 422. Well the 422 failed but the 81 was crawling around 5kph lifting the dead 422 n the 30 wagons of steel. The driver was told to continue on to the next loop if he can. We did but took two hour's. Proud of the 81 to 81's
@nathanpike37183 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an 81 class loco.
@michaelclement13373 жыл бұрын
Does the electrification still end at Kiama?
@eol688963 жыл бұрын
How many drivers get to be rostered on the 81's.
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
2 man crew, on PN trains in NSW on the mainline. Could be a combo of driver - second person or driver - driver.
@paulmontagner63603 жыл бұрын
I remember working on the track between the to short tunnels had to drive a huge wheel loader through the southern tunnel to get where the track needed replacing removed alot of the balast for the new sleepers then a train load of balast was brought in from the Kiama direction you can see the newer balast in this video ! Used to travel on this line when living in Nowra 4 years ago moved to highlands now
@tonymccarthy67133 жыл бұрын
The scenery is very lush near the coast in this area. What a stark contrast to the west coast from Perth to Geralton in WA.
@trainspottingsa53893 жыл бұрын
Hey Mike, I was wondering if you could do me a favor. I'm doing a project for high school where I have to interview someone who works as my dream job, that being a driver for Pacific National. I was just wondering if I could ask you a few questions about working on the rails. I fully understand if you're not interested.
@Rosshenderson3 жыл бұрын
Love to see one going down into manildra to the old milk factory end of the line
@gregb36743 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video. I have caught the pax service to/from Bomaderry on many occasions. Can you tell me.... what do they do with Manildra's flour once arriving Bomaderry. You mentioned in an earlier post, there is a starch and ethanol plant down there. Whats happens and where does that stuff go to after that? And what other goods are rail freighted to/from Bomaderry. Thanks mate
@lyleelliott37203 жыл бұрын
0:40 if you see this at night. You're fucked
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
Who likes to comment on themselves hahahahahahaha me
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
It s sooooooo dark
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
Well it is dark in the middle of the night on that stretch of track with no lights to illuminate it.
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
👁🦵👄👁👁🦿🦾👀🦿🦾🦾💪💪
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
I have a lot of hay fever this year better leave it to global warming
Yes, there is. Where the new overhead bridge at Gerringong is, that used to be a level crossing (Fern St). The next is a dirt crossing at Bailey's St Toolijooa, the Sharpes Lane and Harley Hill Road, just before Berry there is Galls Lane and then Prince Alfred St/Wharf Rd that runs from the Princes Hwy (Queen St) to Broughton Creek that turns into Coolangatta Rd to Coolangatta/Shoalhaven Heads.
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
Oh spooky
@jeffkitney393 жыл бұрын
That's not berry station
@glenbrown30114 жыл бұрын
What's the loco you were driving? 81?
@jamesfrench72994 жыл бұрын
Single tracks are beautiful. The tunnels are just wow!! The scenery in the south coast does NSW proud. Much nicer than the north.
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
It depends on where in the north you go? If you hug the coast, it's beautiful and my last trips out to Ulan and Gunnedah were great too and they were in March and April 2020.
@anthonyloft32772 жыл бұрын
Cresent head, Hat Head, South West Rocks and so on surely you’re joking 🇦🇺
@jamesfrench72992 жыл бұрын
But they aren't as accessible as the south coast.
@peterbrown19684 жыл бұрын
kiama is my old hometown. im a dick head me moved to Lithgow New South Wales we will be moving back there one day soon. at Gerringong I see a new bridge when did they build that looks good
@sinkers4 жыл бұрын
Loved this for all the reasons given above. I relax each day with drivers cabin videos from Manchester and surrounds and out of Bergen. The Swiss and French do it with innovations too. Brilliant to see NSW regional glimpses from the driver. IS
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ian, I'm glad that you liked my video.
@davidjohnston75124 жыл бұрын
Why so slow?
@JB-re6lx4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! Two thumbs down? Two villages are missing their idiots.
@B10Mman4 жыл бұрын
Hi Jenny, you can't please everyone, I've been signed off as a driver in the Hunter Valley, stay tuned for some Hunter Valley cab rides in the not too distant future.
@trainluva55733 жыл бұрын
@@B10Mman there was already 2 around the Hunter, 1 was to Pelton & 1 was to Teralba Borehole until they got taken down
@jasonfelix74384 жыл бұрын
Never realised this part of Australia was so green and lush!
@NextbotExpert3 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
Not always, Jason. I've seen it brown too.
@julianbristow47935 жыл бұрын
Hey, mate! Riding down under and out back! It was a wonderful and adventurous journey!👍🏻
@fordlandau5 жыл бұрын
Line surveyed and built in the 1880s. Still useful today ! John Whitton was an engineering genius.
@jamesfrench72993 жыл бұрын
Meadowbank Bridge and Como Bridge John Whitton was responsible? Far out!!
@nrlsparkle90975 жыл бұрын
i drive this train
@B10Mman5 жыл бұрын
Somehow, I don't think so!
@torpaninternational83515 жыл бұрын
Very picturesque , however , as always I note the discarded rail beside the track. If one could pick up all this discarded rail for recycling one would be very financially secure.
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
The railways aren't the fastest when it comes to picking up used rail or fasteners from trackside regardless of the price of scrap steel which right now Jan 2021 is $100 to $300 per tonne. Most of the time they take it to places and have it ultrasound tested for reuse elsewhere.
@ruger204gwb5 жыл бұрын
In the late sixty's I travelled from Woy Woy to Chullora (Elcar) to work
@jamesbaker96776 жыл бұрын
The farmland and scenery here is breathtaking. Australia is so beautiful. This is just out of Sydney. Amazing!
@15sixmedia5 жыл бұрын
james baker Enjoy it whole it lasts, sadly it’ll more than likely be gone one day.
@B10Mman3 жыл бұрын
The thing with that idea is, you need a favourable government with a member of their own party there to push the issue. The only drawback is the Omega Tunnels, I haven't heard of any plans of replacing them, we can only run standard containers down there as hicube containers are too high for standard wagons through the tunnels. It would be a good line to duplicate BUT in saying that, it will lose it's single line charm. It did lose some of it's character when they replaced the Electric Staff Working to Rail Vehicle Detection (RVD). We got a staff at Kiama and had to sink it at Berry and pull a new staff at Berry and give it in Bomaderry. same process when in the up direction.