Driver’s View K Set Tour April 2023 Rhodes - Toongabbie. Run by HET. 

As for Clyburn, it was only ever and employees platform and I think the various work places adjacent to it eventually were removed so the need for the station disappeared. As for the disconnection of the Carlingford line, that was to remove the need for the diamond crossing there. I think the point work remains but it will go sooner or later. The last I heard track still existed and connected as far as Parramatta Road and was being used for the storage of track maintenance machines.

@@tressteleg1 I was fully aware that it was strictly a railway employees station / platform only but I can certainly remember passing by it on the train (back when it was there and in use) many years ago.

I did in fact get off there, semi-legally as I was visiting the late Arthur Perry who was working in a railways automatic telephone exchange there. I guess a certain number of Trains regularly stopped there anyway.

Yes, I knew nothing about that underpass all those various tracks around the back of Flemington. Certainly a great revelation.

It certainly was. I do hope that one day somebody organises a freight line tour again.. Never managed to go one. That would be educational.

The problem for HET is that some freight lines have been de-electrified, such as those which parallel the Bankstown line for a while. Silly decision to scrap the electric locos but I suspect that the privatised freight operators could not be bothered changing between electric and diesel at the end of the wires Newcastle and Lithgow.

@@tressteleg1 Just do a rail motor tour of the freight lines then. That would be great. I agree with you on the electric loco saga for Sydney. Still think that this was a major mistake. Particularly at Newcastle. However I am the first to admit I don't have sufficien tinformation to model the numbers effectively to prove my hunch. Was never quite clear why some freight lines in NSW are not electrified if only to provide redundancy for the total network..

Don’t think I hadn’t considered a rail motor tour of the freight lines. I have some photographs I took on such a tour many years ago. The only problem in this case is that HET is an electric train society so doesn’t own any rail motors. That society is at Patterson. It certainly is a stupid idea to run diesel locomotives for many km under electric wires, but QR is no better. They had some general-purpose electric locomotives, the 3900 type but these were pinched by the coal lines many years ago and never given back when they got more electric logos for those lines. And we’re talking many hundreds of kilometres of diesel under wires.

I don’t expect that any passenger services normally go this way, but maybe empty car movements to Flemington sheds or more likely freight heading from the north to the west or maybe even in that opposite direction.

I should have mentioned that there may be specials from the northern lines to Olympic Park but not living in Sydney I’m not terribly familiar with it. Also in my Ropes Creek video you will see that the curve used to be double track from North Strathfield towards Homebush.

@@tressteleg1 i thought it was double track around that curve years ago when i was a kid and i remember catching a train to olympic park from hornsby years ago to go to the easter show the train went to strathfield then reversed direction to head out to olympic park

This is the link which will show you what that curve was like in 1986. From memory you will see it in the first few minutes. As for your Easter show train reversing at Strathfield, this may have been to pick up extra people from there, also it’s possible that at that time for any reason the tracks may have been considered unfit for passenger trains, a situation which sometimes exists on freight - only lines. Driver's View Ropes Creek Line ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HQC2A-faLpA.html

Yes I checked it yesterday and refreshed my memory that the curve used to be double track. Possibly there once was a Gosford to Parramatta service but not living in Sydney I would not know.

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Mercifully beaucoup, Monsieur. Il-y-a beaucoup plus à suivre plus tard

Yes, that has always been a contentious matter - people who get the pics and video but pay nothing towards the cost of hiring the train - HET members excluded from this comment….

Part 2 and more have not even been looked at yet, let alone processed. I should have said that the tour was run by HET (Historic Electric Traction.) Most on board were society members. Check out their website. Membership is not that expensive and you will hear of every tour, many for members only.

@@tressteleg1 There were other places mentioned in the video like Schofields and Hornsby. These were the destinations that I was referring to as being in Part 2. That for elaborating on which organisation was running the tour.

I have not even looked at the rest of the video, but the tour did occupy much of the day so there could be 4 more parts before we finish. From memory Schofields and into Hornsby car sheds (outside) were reached before going back to Strathfield.

Well my view numbers (making money which is donated to rail museums) is down this month so I am trying to boost it. Normally still only one per week unless I know the topic won’t be very popular.

If you are referring to that underpass and the various tracks behind Flemington car sheds, I also had no idea it was like this.

Well there was a small number of girls/ladies on this tour. I don’t know your situation, but if you ever would like to be part of the ‘boy’s club’ and be accepted as such, if you are in Sydney and have time to spare on occasional Wednesdays or Sundays, you could join HET and help out at Redfern. There are plenty of jobs to do restoring vintage electric trains, some jobs messy, others somewhat cleaner. In due course I will be presenting a video of a typical day at Redfern and there was at least one lady active there.

Unfortunately it’s hard to shut them up. In fact, there was not a large number of people on the tour, just spread around and talking loudly. In a few places where the talking was very noisy, I did substitute better sounds from elsewhere on that part of the journey.

@@tressteleg1 I only want to hear the traction sounds as the air con in the Ks drowns it out in the passenger compartment. This time we have endless talk. Occasional musings or remarks are fine to me, but many people can't go through life with any length of silence with others around for fear of being 'boring'. Good video though.

I also wish that they weren’t there yabbering, but you can’t tell people to piss off and shut up unfortunately. Hopefully other legs of the journey will have less vocal interference.

I did not have enough time to watch the whole video, but I really don’t know what your question is. If it refers to some point in the video, next time include the time point in the video where your question takes place.