21 Minutes. All the new track and termini in the Docklands region that were built over the last 25 or so years have always been a mystery to me so this series may help make the matter clearer for everyone.
Well, what a revelation west of Spencer Street is. I knew there was development, but was astounded at the extent, and at the tramway penetration. Thanks very much for the enlightement. I loved hearing the Roller being tooted at Exhibition Street.
Another great ride Sir! Always enjoy a trip to Melbourne , my favourite city in Australia. If only Brisbane had kept it's trams?? I'm yet to ride the Gold Coast ones. The rigid chassis on trams always gets me...seems like a step backwards and as you say they ride very different and also hunt more on straight track...so I've been told? Give me bogies /trucks any day.! Thanks for the trip. Cheers Gregg.
I usually ride the Gold Coast line once or twice a week and while I agree that fixed wheels assemblies are a poor choice of design, I believe that here the ride is acceptable. The near perfect tram priority at traffic lights is the real winner compared with other tram lines here. 😊
The Parliament Railway Station Stope 10 is a unique tram stop though. This is the first time I saw one. Where passengers will have to cross the street and the road pavement is raised acting as a platform.
Yes I think that was the first one in Melbourne. They are springing up in different places now, including the last section of Nicholson Street on the 96. You might like to watch this short video which shows Victoria Street Richmond where cars are allowed to use both the ramp and street level roadway through the platform. Victoria St Melbourne New Tram Track ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i559VzMuSlI.html
Wise man! 18+ tonnes with no ability to swerve and weaker brakes than your car, you know who the boss is. Some fools don’t. I hit plenty of cars over the years 😊
Love this tram ride video's! When was this filmed? Just recently? It looks like summertime, but it should be winter now there. We will have I think our last day with over 30 degr C tomorrow (sat 31st of August, which has already begun since it is 0:27 now here). Next week might even go below 20 degr C and some rain, so a bit of autumn.
I usually put in the date but forgot. Last summer, most Docklands scenes taken on a Sunday. I prefer Gold Coast winter weather. Few maximums Under 20°. Some days have been close to 30° this winter. Already 23° and sunny at 10am today 😊
@@tressteleg1 What? 30° C in winter? Incredible. Then summer is even hotter I guess. We cracked the 40° C mark for the first time this summer. And I think due to the climate change we will do more often in the future.
Marc van der Linden True, but 30° in winter is rather rare. But 25° tops occur most winters for a day or 2. When you live near the Tropics, the differences between summer and winter, shortest and longest days, is less and less the further you go north. In the tropics you don’t really get summer or winter. Summer months are the Wet Season, Winter the dry season with a lot of sunny days. We get a blend of hot summers, cold winters and wet summers and dry winters. Melbourne is much more likely to get 40° in summer than me. Some summers, none at all for us. But more humid. I know your few hot days were a record, but only because the wind chose to bring up warm air from African deserts. Not because the sun was hotter than usual.
Marc van der Linden There is a mountain range running the full length of the east coast. Its highest peaks, not high by European standards, are in the region near the Victorian and New South Wales border. Most winters, but certainly not all, the snow falls are adequate for skiing. Nevertheless no towns or cities of any size in Australia are affected by enough snow to cause problems. In fact Melbourne and Hobart would be the only places where a light dusting of snow is ever encountered.
Totally wrong there, I have to say. Most of my Docklands scenes were taken on a Sunday when all the offices in that area were shut. Peak hours in any of our cities have any road going anywhere choked with cars.
1 km east of the Docklands is Melbourne city centre. Thriving and alive with people 7 days a week. But due to parking limits, most would have arrived by tram or train.
Honestly, this area is mostly offices, literally just north of here is a tonne of Asian buffet places that are always full of tourists. I do agree about the ghost town bit. If you keep going north to the wheel, you'll note that most of that shopping centre is practically closed. Been a few times, it's a tourist trap that is expensive and crap. Then again, the city circle tram is pretty much junk, always completely packed full of tourists who don't realise there are much better ways of getting where they need to go. Stinking hot from the crush factor.
it seems to be a slip back in time to build a tram with a single axle under it. are all axles under it single or are there bogies as well? does the designer still have a job designing trams?
Except for E class, worldwide nearly all 100% low floor trams are 4 wheel trams (1880s style) connected together by hanging unwheeled sections. Not good.
@@tressteleg1 , is the e tram floor just as low as single axle trams which may, of course, indicate design laziness. do you have any videos of tram underneaths in your expansive back-catalogue for me to peruse?
They all have to be about the same height to match the standard platform height. About the only underfloor equipment I have is the one to deal with maintenance of the underfloor equipment of a W. I forget its exact name. Paranoia over safety and all sorts of other things makes it next to impossible to get under a tram these days. Someone else on RU-vid may have video taken under a low floor tram.
Maybe a stupid question, but how are the routes/points controlled, ig are they run like the trains from a central control centre(s) or from the trams themselves via wireless/bluetooth connectivity.. Haven't seen any videos explaining this. Cheers for the great information absolutely love it.
I explained this to somebody else recently. A radio transmitter under the tram cabin permanently sends out a radio signal to activate traffic lights and set points to the straight. A driver can put out a different radio signal to go left, or another to go right and these change the points.
You may have noticed that drivers stop at every facing point. That is so they should look at the point blades and make sure that the equipment has not failed, or that they have not mucked it up themselves.
@@tressteleg1 I recall an incident in the early 1990's when a route 75 tram I was on went straight ahead at Camberwell Junction, instead of veering right. Luckily, there was a crossover not far away where the tram then "reversed" back to Camberwell Depot , crossed over again and then proceeded on it's correct route . :)
The yellow sign at D17 for drivers (which side to open doors) was incorrect. It showed left side, should be for right side. Somebody made a mistake. LOL.
These were not the streets I remember as a kid. The streets of m beloved Melbourne were different in the 60s-70s, full of cars and busy people going about, here and there, up and down, until after 1980 when the State Government decided to change the streets, remove old Yarra River bridges (I forgot the bames but i do recall the bridge where Alan Coffey Motors used to be before the changes forced to relocate to Dandenong), including changing the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines for trams, closing many streets and turning then into concrete jungles to make way to the now Westgate Fwy. Cars in some streets were removed ending the park-and-shop, or just passing by and admiring the great historical buildings of old buildings,, and only trams were allowed. The many changes that have occurred in the last 50 years has made me shake my head in disbelief, so much so I now have a habit of shaking it even for nothing.
@@tressteleg1 For worse, I'd say. We no longer could go to Footscray via Footscray Road because they closed it and built the curved Charles Crimes bridge and redirected the traffic to go through Wurundjery Way and past the footy stadium, then left and then right into Footscray Road. What a shitty road plan that has frustrated many motorists since it opened, especially at footy seasons. They changed everything of historical importance at the docks, now called Newquay. In LA (California) similar changes had occurred at their old docks, turning them into a tourist attraction but the original street are intact and preserved, just like our Beaconsfield Parade from Port Melbourne to St. Kilda and The Esplanade, continuing right along Marine Parade and ending up to Mordialloc. But in the Docklands, it's a mess.
Unfortunately that happens dozens of times each day. But just as long as it does not make the driver late for meal break of going home, you just get used to and ignore it.
As far as the map is concerned, I suppose it is the latest version. If you watch my video of Drivers View route 30 you will see more information on the stadium name. The latest version of the timetable for that route taken off the Internet still shows the name that expired 12 months ago.
Hello Rio! The city of Melbourne does have the world’s biggest tramway (most tracks) and also a large suburban electric railway. Sydney’s electric train network is bigger. 😊
