@@griffonboi The good thing is Northern in the UK still have the same PIDs on the british rail class 333 sets. They're above the doors and still have the original voice
I would find that unlikely given new the newest Siemens hit the network in 2005 while the newest X Trap was rolled out in 2020. To retire the X Traps first would mean they would be retiring trains up to 15 years younger than the Siemens fleet.
I am pretty sure the reason for the difference in voice before the upgrade was because M>Train had a different voice actor to Connex. During the concord program, Connex switched out M>Train recordings on the EDI Comeng with the Connex ones for compatibility reasons(probably something to do with audio file names and audio consistency between Comengs). Because Metro took everything over from Connex they decided to keep the Connex voice actor. However because the Siemens never ran outside of former M>Train territory, there was no reason to replace the existing recordings.
I think they were still updated on the Siemens from the orginal M-Train voice at some stage, as I remember in the early years of the Siemens fleet the voice used to be British and would announce the stations as: "Now approaching Flinders Street Station" compared to "Now arriving at Flinders Street" Check out the video below that shows the original Siemens announcements. Just ignore the North Melbourne and Keilor Plains announcement, because I'm pretty sure that was from a later update. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZmQ8jMdANq8.html
This is very sad as the Siemens had rather unique announcements IMO. Hope you managed to get any you were missing for your announcement vids before they were all upgraded. Thanks for putting this together to pay tribute to the end of an era for Melbourne's train fleet.
In an alternate world where M-Train hadn't failed as an operator, we would have a lot more of these on the network and they possibly would have become the dominant train over the X'Trapolis, as M-Train did cover more of the network as a whole during the split.
I've been checking VICSIG a few times a week. One by one, the Siemens Nexas trains received upgrades and it made me feel uneasy. Thank you to the Siemens fleet for your great service.
There should be a TTS app with the Siemens voice. Imagine hearing custom stations and stations that have never been serviced by this fleet in a Siemens tone, like the Burnley group lines
Siemens Nexus are definitely my favourite train on the network. Very smooth ride, loved the PIDs both old and new, and sizeable windowsills to rest your elbows on.
Lucky you can't see anymore of the old PIDS system destination board with green flip-dot until 2023. All Siemens Nexas have now received the 2022 PIDS system upgrade. As of August 2023 (743M-2522T-744M and 817M-2559T-818M) was the last train to be upgraded the 2022 PIDS system.
I on the odd occasion, on seeing the displays totally up the creek, said 'glad there is no steering wheel, as the driver has no idea where he is going'
I got really excited, thinking, hoping you were saying the Proportional-integral-derivative controller loop had finally been upgraded on the trains' motors. It would be really easy to fix the speed controller so there wasn't that horrible jerk on all of the carriages, and their couplings, every single time the train reached its set speed. I'm not even an electrical engineer and I could consult for them at budget rates, just to get rid of that uncomfortable jerk. Come on, it's not 1999 anymore!
still really not understand why upgrading the pid could be that confusing and non-unified, as like as southern cross/flinders street station's display verses all other stations' it might be having a different contractor to work with, but why not upgrade the as similar interface as the de-syncing speakers but way better graphic Comeng new PID system, but instead swapped with an "HD" 2-color display with sydney-styled 3 tone chime with no valid reasons
Today. My mum was going to Gowrie from Brunswick Station and a man has put a Caution Sign between the doors. He could of damaged the doors. He wanted to get off at Batman. The doors was closing on his head 😂😂😂. Then he pushed the doors open and just sweared the f word Edit: it was a Siemens Nexas
Eh good riddance imo. The new displays are much more legible then the old ones. I don’t care about Siemens trains. only times that I’ve had trains break on me have been with them (one broke on the way to Sandringham, one broke between Fawkner and Gowrie) Imo they are stupid trains to keep running in Melbourne. They should have been withdrawn a long time ago and turned into V-Line carriages or something more useful.
