👍👍😊

@@ava.4150 Yes a is added to the route number whenever the route is altered for any reason. The driver will tell you if necessary. Don’t forget d = depot for trams heading there. The regular Luna Park detour no longer exists.

@@peterausfranken Basically yes, and even more so ‘bush’ in the past when overhead wires were held up with wooden poles, and at quieter times a single Tait power car ran up and down the line between Eltham and Hurstbridge. It would still probably handle the loadings at those times.

@@cristos58 👍😊 glad you like the removal of stationary times!

@@frankbanner8572 I grew up in Sydney when the real trams were running, was a Melbourne tram driver 1988 - 94 and now live on the Gold Coast. A train driver provides the video material. As for this line, I suspect that especially the outer areas of this line has sparse population (not many houses in what we see) so spending more money on the line is not going to win many votes. Any attempt to move or otherwise disturb the butterfly colony will be harshly resisted. Sure, start up a protected butterfly habitat, but don’t touch this colony. Knowing what NIMBYs are like, they would probably protest any attempts to move away any trees - and then complain when a bushfire destroys the railway.

@@peejay1981 I agree, but improving roads for motorists wins votes, easing curves, who would notice or care besides a small number of train passengers? And it would cost heaps.

@@kerrijohnstone7588 Unfortunately monorails are built and designed by particular companies and consequently are patented so nobody else can copy. The design might be adopted by a couple of cities here and there, and that’s about all. So with no new sales likely, the company loses interest in the project, stops making spare parts, and the operator is stuck with a line with no spare parts and no permission for anyone else to help out. That’s why they shut. That applied to both Sydney and the Gold Coast.

@@pgchase4578043026 it’s nice to hear that you enjoy your visits to Melbourne and elsewhere thanks to my videos. As for train speeds, Melbourne has always been a fairly leisurely jog along railway. Sydney where I grew up the trains used to be driven essentially as fast as they could go. Since then, a lot of running time has been added and I believe this is to help ensure getting good “on time” figures. Having so much time, it’s almost impossible to run late, but they still manage to do that sometimes.. Good for the politicians, not so good for the worn out public just wanting to get home from work.

Melbourne certainly spends a lot of time under cloud when nearby areas see sunshine. However I don’t expect they’ll be moving it any time soon!

Melbourne and clouds, Melbourne and rain, Melbourne and 4 seasons on one Day - has a tradition 😂

@@peterausfranken Yes and this video shows it. The second part includes rain, after such a perfect start.

@@tressteleg1 Melbourne weather at it's best😉

@@peterausfranken That is why I live in Qld now.

@@pierreinthavong181 👍😊

@@TheUnlabeledXtrapolis 👍👍👍

@@frankbanner8572 I did read Wikipedia about these butterflies and it makes interesting reading. While captive breeding would be desirable, I don’t think anyone involved in the field under any circumstances would condone altering that colony from where and how it is now. If the present track layout out near the end limits a needed increase in train frequency, the double track could resume a short distance further out from the butterflies. Maybe the government just saw a good way to save some money. The old single track rail bridge is also protected against change. It was only thanks to a commenter a few weeks ago that I learnt about the butterflies so added it to the video.

@@hilarybadger1231 Oh well, hopefully this video helps bring back memories. At least the station building remains, whatever purpose it is put to.

@@tressteleg1it certainly does!

@@hilarybadger1231 😊👍👍

I took a look and it is quite an awkward situation. While a bridge would be nice, rather difficult to do on a steep hill. Maybe something can be done to improve it. I can see how the cars would block the crossing buses in the peak. Maybe a section of red road with big white crossed lines with a sign ‘Keep Clear’ on the ground.

@@tressteleg1 yes. They made some improvements both north and south of the bridge with the new storage area and bus lane since my time. I'll always remember going past all those cars stationary in peak time, like the take the hint. On some occasions the bus was hardly full.

@@Roadrunnerz45 Some people can never be convinced to use public transport no matter how good it is.

@@hypercomms2001 I took scenes around the station when there early this year and will wait and see what scenes our driver has taken when I get his latest batch of scenes next year.

@@ava.4150 😀😀👍👍

@@FishplateFilms Glad you liked it. Swanston and Elizabeth Sts, Collins and Flinders Sts, as well got Bs. Bourke St is only E class. Good Luck for the weather!

@@tressteleg1 Thank you ! Catching up with my Nephew before getting the Overland to Adelaide and up to Stirling. I'll finally be able to wear the coats I have ....LOL

@@FishplateFilms 👍😊

@@mce_AU Due to a lot of unwanted chatter, I had to substitute sound from other parts of the video and unfortunately some of it included the gong which was not really appropriate when we heard it.

@@tressteleg1 OK no problems.

@@mce_AU 👍😊

@@ceciltagg In earlier times, especially at weekends passenger traffic to cemeteries was rather brisk. Sydney had a line into Rookwood cemetery and there was a special station in there. There was another in Newcastle I think to Sandgate. Whether the Upfield line originally ended at the cemetery or whether it always went further, I don’t quite know.

@@scottyerkes1867 😊👍

@@peterausfranken You have tricked me a little bit by changing your name here, but mention of your Melbourne visit made it clear to me. I was looking forward to hearing a little report from you about the Melbourne holiday, so I am still wondering what are the main points that come to mind. Obviously the virtual disappearance of W class would have to be a major change.

@@tressteleg1 My visit in Melbourne was nice. To the trams. The A, B, C, D und E Class where new for me. The D Class are from Siemens and run also in germany. The E Class have a smooth ride. The W Class is an iconic tram and my favorit Weather was nice and l visited a lot of places. Melbourne has changed a lot in over 40 years, but that is everywhere.

@@peterausfranken Thanks for that little report. I did not realise that you had not seen the A-Class at least. Anyway I hope you had some nice rides on them and the new trams, for better or worse. While the W class look much the same as ever, unfortunately the controls are now all electronic and it seems that some of the new drivers have not been taught how to drive them very well. It’s good that the weather was nice.

@@tressteleg1 The A Class trams started as i left Melbourne. Some tram tracks in Melbourne are in poor conditions. At my time streets like Swanson Street where only for cars. For trains there where the red rattlers, the Harris (blue) trains and the Hitachi trains.

@peterausfranken I looked it up, and the A class trams first appeared in 1984. I moved to Melbourne late 1987, and remember having a tour on A 300 soon after. Road traffic was removed from Swanson Street around 1992 and since then the footpaths have widened and other improvements made. Especially over the last 10 years, a lot of track in poor condition has been replaced and overall the ride is much smoother these days. However junctions and other point work often remains noisy and cause the trams to bounce around sometimes. Hopefully in 2026 you will have plenty of time. It takes quite a while to ride some of the longer lines.

@@firstfreeone there was a fair bit of unwanted chatter after the Grand Union so I had to replace the sound with reasonably similar sound from elsewhere. Unfortunately it resulted in a gong at weird places.

@@tressteleg1 I understand, Sir.

@@firstfreeone 👍

@@DungeonBuses I’m glad you appreciate the risk. I thought something could have come from Management but in the 8 years of doing Melbourne train videos, I have never heard from Officialdom. I know that some tram Driver Trainers use my videos to help their students. Maybe the trains are the same so they don’t want mine to stop.

@@tressteleg1This is just my opinion, but if I were a tram or train trainer or trainee, I think these videos would help a lot with the training, and I think they put less work on the trainers, if people watched these videos before applying for the job. 😂 Also, hoping to see something about this with the Siemens or X’Trapolis, but I know they can’t do HCMT’s or the X’Trapolis 2 trains, if it ever gets built, because of the camera, which is a bit of a shame, but most of us are still grateful for the trains the driver can do 😊.

@@DungeonBuses Yes I quite agree with you. Just whether my videos are used by trainees, officially or otherwise, is something I don’t know. Nobody has said anything in Comments to me.

@@tressteleg1I’m sure you’ll get some soon, especially if you post these types of videos, and if I ever become a train driver in Melbourne, I already know these videos will help a ton.

@@DungeonBuses 👍😊

@@stepfordclass730 Right? Yes, and if you watched my video at 18:20 you will see that I wrote that.

@@shanejohnson4898 Yes it was an exciting time to be living there.

@@ZiminerPlaysXPW ???

Maybe that was part of the purchase contract for a certain period of time. Wait and see how long that remains true.

@@becibabe7364 in general, the old stations were much easier to get to the platform.

@@openbaarvervoer.6883 Thanks. I’m pleased you like the video. When the line was extended from the Hospital to Helensvale Rail in 2018, I thought that 80 may be permitted, but it is not. Maybe the trams cannot go faster, maybe they don’t trust 100% low floor trams with fixed bogies to safely run that fast. Nevertheless 70 is faster than any Melbourne tram (60 is the limit, so is Berlin much to the annoyance of my driver friend there). 70 is also used in Canberra, but only 60 in Adelaide. The L1 in Sydney did have a section of 80 through a tunnel but for a few reasons (or excuses) that is no longer permitted. Are the trams on your 80k line 100% low floor and with or without swivelling bogies? Only Melbourne has swivelling on their E class, but still only 60. Incidentally I took video of Netherlands trams in the 1980s and early 90s, but have never published any.

Ik heb geen idee. Ik ben niet trambestuurder. Ik reed als passagier en bekeek de video. Als jij wilt, kan ik jou een link naar de video sturen. Dit is gewoon de titel van de video. HTM RandstadRail 34 Den Haag De Savornin Lohmanplein - Lansingerland-Zoetermeer | 2023😊 I have no idea. I am not a tram driver. I rode as a passenger and watched the video. If you want, I can send you a link to the video. This is just the title of the video. HTM RandstadRail 34 Den Haag De Savornin Lohmanplein - Lansingerland-Zoetermeer | 2023🚈🧭🌏

Het hogesnelheidsgedeelte van de weg in de video begint op de vijfentwintigste minuut van de video. The high-speed portion of the way in the video begins at the twenty-fifth minute of the video.🛫😇

@@openbaarvervoer.6883 I entered your title into RU-vid search and got several results, all around 53 minutes. I will check at least one of them in due course but as preparing my own videos takes quite a bit of time - the one you watched on the new GC trams, took very much longer than expected - I don’t have much time to watch videos of other people. I did try searching whether your trams have swivelling bogies, but it does seem they don’t, but it is not made clear anywhere I looked.

@openbaarvervoer.6883 I just watched this very short video, and if you watch the centre section bogies, you can see they clearly rotate, or at least straighten up coming off the curve so presumably the end bogies also swivel which would make those trams more suitable for the faster speed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1TUwj4rVO3o.htmlfeature=shared

@@sandrafowler6717 Agreed, especially with regard to the need to change trains at Caulfield, one of the most awkward stations to change platforms which requires touching off, leaving the station and then touching on again for the new platform. Unfortunately it’s much too late for a rethink on South Yarra. I’m not sure the tunnel even goes under that station so it’s not gonna be moved now. As for the regional train service, it will continue to be as it is - crawling along behind an all stations train as far as Pakenham. That’s the reason for the signals on that line turning themselves on and off according to which train is coming next. Those country trains need the signals showing, and they do, while the Metro Trains require no signal showing.

@@Thebibs Just in the warmer weather? Winter mornings would be chilly up there.

@@bandittrainz401 I presume you are referring to their older brothers, 01 - 18 😊

@@tressteleg1 yes. They have the yellow priority seats, unlike the newer ones. I remember seeing a poster for it.

@@bandittrainz401 😊👍

@@Clynikal Yes they did all seem nice and clean, not that I ever recall seeing them looking like they had not seen a wash for ages. The fact that TV cameras would be everywhere may have helped as well.

@@wence25games89 Yes they certainly are quiet! I meant to mention it in the video but forgot in the rush to publish it. I will have to check the noise levels of video taken inside trams when new 10 years ago.

@@derhampaul2182 Yes sadly it closed down some time ago. I tend to think that the entry charges were somehow mismanaged, maybe amounts other things. Sadly a lot of things from our younger days disappear for me reason or another. I think someone earlier said that a police station now occupies some of the site.

Maybe in your eyes, but nobody familiar with it calls it anything but a tram, while official signs here and there call them TRAM.

The original station building is being restored at the Lilydale campus of Box Hill TAFE and will then be relocated to Tarrawarra on the Healesville heritage railway .

I hope you saw the response kindly sent by John Phillips who lives in the region.

@@johnphillips592 Ah, that's great to hear. Thanks for the info 🙂

Let me guess - you’ve never ridden it because it is stupid. Maybe you will be surprised to hear that in the 2022/3 year, the tram carried 10.4 million passengers compared with ALL bus routes combined carrying just 11.6 million. The best bus route carried a little over 2 million. Last weekend for the Gold Coast marathon, trams were running every six minutes from 4 am and often were packed full. You would need several buses with several drivers just to equal the capacity of one tram. They would not be up to it.

@@tressteleg1 I think the biggest argument for trams is the fact that they do carry more passengers than busses ever could! I think people like this commenter are not interested in facts anyway! They are born negative!!

@@brianmcdonald6519 You are probably right. He did not reply about whether he has ever used it.

@@markaylott1780 For several reasons. If the tram ended where it reached the tram line, a new station would have to be built for people to transfer. Apparently it was little extra cost (above a new station) to run the trams parallel. The trains only run every 30 minutes which would not match a tram every 7.5 minutes which would leave people stranded as the major shopping centre and a number of bus routes are also passenger generators. Having a second station only a few km from another would delay the trains with no advantage.

I did explain the differences internally on the video.

@@pierreinthavong181 👍😊

@@johncross1041 I suppose you are lucky that at least scraps of the original system are still in operation along with a couple of new or rehabilitated stretches.

@@tressteleg1 very true. They have a line setup for people to take rides on for nostalgia which is really nice.

@@johncross1041 That is interesting. For that service, do they run any old PCCs or something even older?

@@tressteleg1 yes they have some restored Pcc cars and have a mile track or so, been years since I was there. very cool

@@peterelvery No. As paper tickets are also sold from the ticket vending machines, I think they’re using the word ticket to also include cards. You certainly don’t need both.

In essence, yes. The driver has to set the reverser to Off, and lock the controller and take his unlocking key to the other end. Things like head and tail lights must also be changed as well as the destinations.

I think that it is most unfortunate that the last remaining examples of what had essentially been unique Melbourne whistles have been removed and replaced by rather mundane ordinary sounding whistles.