Drivers eye view, Albury to Southern Cross, Dec 2023 

[ x ] ... Another nice, pleasant journey! Liked the sheep in the meadow!! Thanks for sharing ... stay safe, warm, and posting more! [Greetings from Tucson]

Love these videos mate I actually watch the full video love them !!! U should do more longer videos like these

Great video. Big changes at Wangaratta since your video. Platform 2 construction has started, opposite platform 1. Signal gantry is gone, the little dock platform and tin sheds gone. Green St Overpass has been demolished and is currently being rebuilt.

I just noticed on your channel I can now go from Horsham to Albury via Melbourne 😊

So much has changed since I was last in the area in January 1993. It's almost disheartening to see what is left of Albury, let alone the Wodonga bypass.

It’s a shame they didn’t upgrade the line for 160km/h running from the start, but I suppose it’s better than before. It will be interesting to see what’s next for the north east line and V/Line, perhaps even more services and greater duplication?

30:08 Pity the passengers at Springhurst, someone forgot to tell them the train was arriving on platform one. 😮 Clearly see them hurriedly scrambling to the correct platform, I'm sure hoping they all made it aboard in time. 🙂

You could’ve just filming it at the start at Albury station and then took the horn because that’s why I always do

@2:00:00 ..and the tracks spread apart. With a really long and rather abandoned siding alongside the track being followed. It strongly suggests that that is the original SG alignment, and the other route is the first alignment. @2:01:11 And narrowing down to one track entering Seymour, but with room for another on the BG bridge. Yeah. Definitely need some gauge conversion and rationalization here (preferably with more than two tracks). @2:01:30 Wowzers, is that yard a mess! Gauge conversion can't reach Shepperton soon enough. @2:02:02 You can tell by the curvature where they just forced a single extra SG track in. Straighten this, please! Just convert the main platforms to dual-gauge and you can re-connect the station with the surrounding neighborhood. (and not have a curved platform impairing handicapped accessibility) Not to mention keeping giant double-stack freights from being quite so close to people's houses. @2:03:51 Two single track parallel lines. :facepalm: This is something worthy of BR or the US. One four-track railway, please! @2:04:45 Well, at least they did SOMETHING once they were clear of the Goulburn River. @2:07:07 The lines up towards Mansfield and Alexandria would be interesting and possibly worthy to re-open. @2:07:16 Tallarook should be one gauge, with four tracks and local platforms (repeat this formula all the way south). @2:07:32 See? Four tracks. Not that hard. @2:08:04 And what they do with those bridges is going to be interesting. @2:09:10 Mr. Signal, I'm afraid your going to need to move. @2:17:00 What's that branching off on the left? Where did that line go? @2:19:03 You know, it's not often that you just see a four-track unelectrified main line gliding through hills nowadays. @2:19:30 Sing it again, folks! Unnecessary Complications! Caused by multiple gauges. :sigh: Just one switch onto a local track. Followed by some crossovers. No expensive and all-but-useless diamonds. @2:21:00 A newer alignment, built with only one track. What will they do with the regauging? Move everything onto one alignment and abandon the older one, like they should? @2:23:04 Up and down. Up and down. It's hard for me to tell, which is maintaining easier grades? And which has better curves? Does it vary? Is it always the SG line? @2:25:00 Given the way the line peaks and dips at Wandong, could they just cut through the hill to eliminate the grades and the grade crossing?

I think it's time for everything north of craigieburn to be converted to SG. The line north to tocumwal could then connect in to the old NSW system to open up more rail freight possibilities. The line from Toolamba to Echucha could also be SG'd and all the lines north of there that feed in to NSW which could then also hook up to some NSW lines.

Any way you could add a compass rose to the screen to show which direction train is travelling?

Siding @ 0:50 and Bridge @ 1:06-future double tracking for Inland Rail? @14:36 that's the bridge that they just just lowered the track under. They did an amazing job. If you didn't know any better, you would have a hard time noticing it. It's really been blended smoothly into the landscape.

Can the Vlocitys do 160kmh if the lines were upgraded, and do these trains have odometers? They must rake up some miles.

What are they planning at Chiltern station? They seem to be trying to fix the various instances of track cutting off one side of a town-will they rectify that there and in Barnawatha? @25:37, what train was THAT? Too short to be the Overland (let alone the Indian-Pacific), not an XPT, running on Standard Gauge.... I've got nothing. @30:00 Why do the tracks separate and deviate at Springhurst? Seems a lot for one little bridge, and it cuts off the station from one side of the town. Alas, poor Bowser, we knew ye not, for not a trace remains of the once-great King of Koopas. @41:00 That's a fair number of wooden bridges you got there. Might be nice if somebody replaced them before routing a bunch of double-stacks along that corridor. @43:42 Did the platform at Wangaratta used to extend further north where that curbing is under the plants? I see that the first of the footbridges is down. Poor thing. But the pedestrian underpass is well underway. And it looks like work to remove the cut has begun by shifting all passenger services on to the original line. Did the narrow gauge run along Norton Street? @45:20 Oooh. That's going to be close, getting the clearances under that bridge at Green Street. Maybe they can raise the tracks up, and then extend the elevation over Sisely Street, which looks rather major to be having a grade crossing on such a busy line. @46:50 Okay, so we're going to stay reverse running. That's fine. Just goes to show the flexibility of reverse signalling. Always handy to have, all lines should equip it. @52:20 The tracks pull apart, probably due to the original standard gauge being built on a slightly straighter alignment while the converted broad gauge didn't get the curve improved. Is that something that will be fixed? @53:25 Poor Glenrowan. It really does deserve to have its station reopen. Preferably with a replica of the second station built on the Up track! (or would that be the down track? CURSE YOU, REVERSE RUNNING!!!!) @53:29 I see London, I see France, I see improved grade clearance. (why did that randomly pop into my head when I saw the new bridge replacing the old one?) Man, old bridge is looking old. @1:00:00 Why so slow? (seemingly random slowdown is random) @1:02:00 Were you trying to pay respects to Winton? @1:06:40 Things Inland Rail will accomplish: 1) Improving connection and simplifying junction with Yarrawonga/Oaklands Line. Yup. Its definitely worthwhile. @1:08:28 Fare thee well, Reverse Running. We knew ye greatly. @1:08:32 WOODEN BRIDGES!!!! FEAR THE WOODEN BRIDGES!!!! Neither of those bridges look particularly ready to handle whats coming. Are they slated for replacement? @1:12:29 Oooh! Looks like a wooden bridge is going to get replaced~~!

It would be better if you also show the actual speed of the train

noice journey Vic Rail certainly keeps the track in good order so would your day be - clock on at dept prepare the train take to S/C run out to Albury NSW (what stop for lunch) then drive the train back to S/C so one journey would more or less be for all of your shift? Do you do the same next day or do you have a roster of different journeys to make over the working week? (yeah I am nosey)

2:28:08 the XPT Derailment zone

people going to bendigo please change at seymour

That's standard 4ft 81/2" track? Victorian highway engineers need to learn how to build roads like this VLine high speed track.

Wat time did the train depart albury and arr southern cross

@3:53 the former wodonga rail line Now known as Cudgewa-Wodonga Rail Trail cycle way.

@1:15:00 A track deviation at the site of Baddaginnie. Will that get straightened? Will the town see its station restored? Only time will tell. (and the planners. don't forget the planners) @1:20:40 Okay.... Random sidings on the north side of Violet Town are random. @1:21:50 A moment of silence please for the victims of the Southern Aurora tragedy. And for the cancellation of a train that should be restored. @1:22:00 Will they straighten out this little mess of a re-alignment too? Seems like some unnecessary curvature (interrupted by a Disney+ Taylor Swift ad-is my computer trying to tell me something?). @1:28:39 I'm hilariously pro-train, but unfortunately, even I can't see Balmattum station getting reopened any time soon. All that there is is a kink that needs to be straightened. Also, for some reason, Google Maps labels the station "Lascelles". Does anybody know what that is about? @1:32:30 And into the soon-to-be-much-improved Euroa. That's certainly going to look much better when its done. And with a better alignment, too! @1:37:42 Kink New, Creighton Boogaloo. Alas, another station that really can't justify being reopened. @1:41:00 And the long way around at Longwood. Now there's a station that might be worth reopening. Especially if it has straight tracks that are easy for platforms (hint, hint). @1:45:00 Do you think that it might be possible to unlock Locksley's potential? With improved track and reopened station? @1:47:00 Alas, we bemoan the loss of Monea, which has no reason to return. @1:50:36 That's the old station building on the left at Avenel, isn't it? Hmmm. What to do, what to do. Something should be done about straightening the tracks and providing a more coherent station, with better facilities. And now is the time, while there is a lot of other construction ongoing. @1:55:47 Why is there a place with an Indian name in rural Australia? Urban, I can kind of understand (immigrants and Empire and all that), but rural? There must be some interesting story there. Reopening looks unfortunately iffy. Its not quite there, but there is potential for growth in the future as an extension of the more commuter-oriented services from Seymour. In the meantime, somebody might want to do something about that track spread. @1:57:00 When the Seymour line is eventually converted to standard gauge, will they remove the third track here, convert to a three-track main line, or just have a single track alongside double track or what? Mangalore is just over 75 minutes from Southern Cross, and electrification and a more direct routing would cut that time down, so it might be worth looking at four tracks just to have more commuter-oriented service. @1:59:38 And here's another bridge that will need to be replaced.

Will the Shepparton line actually see 160 kph speeds or is that just a line’s design standard ?.

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3hr 13 mins... thats 40 mins quicker then the up journey is timetabled to... you didnt speed it up 😂

Wodonga is classified as a City………township is a tad insulting.