Shunts And Docks Across The Network
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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In this video, we discuss what a dock is and what a shunt is. A pivotal aspect of train operation across the network every single day. Hope you enjoy the video!
This guy makes awesome videos, can’t we all just appreciate!
Thanks so much!!
Ooooooh. So thats why the Thomas and friends had the words "Shunting Tracks!" It all makes sense now. They're Shunting to a different track!
Wow. I have watched that show soo much since I was little and my long lasting question has been answered.
Thankyou for showing me the way of Shunting.
Haha, your welcome
I was just at Berwick station today and thinking about your video with the shunt and redock process you showed when Comengs were back running on the line a month and a half ago. Crazy how coincidental that is.
Ahhhh forgot I took that. Would have been a suitable clip for the video to show the whole process! Freaky too it came to mind
@@StrayaTrains I was wondering why you didn't put it in the video. So that's why. Yeah, shame. But nothing to be done now. Still a good video as always though.
The recent Steamrail run had some interesting shunting at glen Waverley when an engine's breaks had an issue.
Interesting
Mordialloc used to have an extra track that ran through the car park and past the water tower and using a set of wooden gates hardly used. One day in the late ‘70s there was a shunters strike and country carsets were stabled in various sidings around Melbourne. In Mordialloc there were 3 cars stored on this car park track, the cars were an AS, BS and a wooden carriage. Around this time there were various bricquette sidings which were shunted by an E class and one time an L class. Usually the consist was 1 to 3 GYs and a ZL van.
One day a down train struck a car at Mentone and stayed there all afternoon. The following trains with passengers were shunted onto the up line at Cheltenham and ran at low speed to Mordialloc which I understand was called “wrong line working”. This procedure used a pilotman which is a person with a piece of paper who acted like a staff and no trains can proceed without him. Those were the days where signal boxes at Cheltenham and Mordialloc were manned and a wrong line order could be issued. Next to impossible these days.
Another unusual event occurred at Mordialloc on the second last down train. There was night bridge works where the wooden trestle bridge over Mordialloc Creek was being replaced by a new bridge. There were no more down trains around 11pm so the overhead was switched off on the up track only.
However they forgot about the practice at the time where down trains would cross over to the up platform so only one platform was used late at night, the overhead had been cut off and the train coasted to a stop on the up platform with no lights. The passengers exited and those continuing to Frankston had to walk to the down platform where the last down train arrived as normal. Presumably the stalled train had to wait all night until the overhead was turned on in the morning.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Idk how to describe the high capacity metro train very well, it’s cool in a way that is hard to explain
Interesting stuff. Is the term dock perhaps a Victorian railways term? 🤔 Shunting is obvious common railway terminology but I’ve never heard of dock in this context (more in relation to railways that go to loading and shipping docks) and Google didn’t really find anything either. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_rail_transport_terms
Guess being in Vic, never knew dock wasn't a normal term. There you go!
@@StrayaTrains Ha. Well I wasn’t sure that perhaps I’d just missed something either. 😂
Great explanation! :D
Thanks!
You forgot the scenic siding on top of the Eastern Freeway, where we can point in laugh at people stuck in traffic jam
Lol, yes
Loving these videos, I managed to catch 69M today💀
Cheers. Lol
Have you managed to get to the new Ringwood East station yet? It opened on Monday.
Not yet. Will likely visit once Croydon is open
@@StrayaTrains Oh, good idea. That way you can do both at once. I don't know why they didn't just complete both and open them at the same time. Maybe because they're on two separate skyrail sections?
Great video as always.
I'm visiting Melbourne in a couple of days (I live in the UK, but I'm visiting family in QLD and I've wanted to see Melbourne's transport system for a few years now), and I was wondering if there are any specific things/places you'd recommend? Mainly for transport spotting, but anything really.
I'm only there for a couple of days, but I'm hoping to see as much as I can!
Always depends what you are after! Can't go wrong at Flinders Street for suburban trains. If you want more of a mix of locos. Would be worth trying stations like West Footscray, Albion or Williams Landing. Hope you enjoy your time here!
The lilydale line was just recently 100% level crossing free. That’s important right?
Very cool milestone for the LXRP
Hey straya, a few days ago i was on Glen Waverley line to flinders Street but it ended up on the northern group platform four. do u know why is it like that? The service is not taking passengers afterwards.
Most likely a shunt!
@@StrayaTrains Oh yeah, it might return to burnly sidings cuz i saw a lot of not taking passenger display in platform 4
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what type of trains will the northern-frankston, cross city-sandringham, sunshine-dandenong lines have when the new rostering happens
New rostering recently happened
@@StrayaTrains so basically that siemens will be on the sandringham line fully except peak hours where a fair few comengs run
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what's your favourite comeng set. mine is 507m-1104t-508m
517M/529M!
@@StrayaTrains thats an alstom stage 1. i feel sorry for that set that it is scrapped. fun fact about the set. 1117t was previously supposed to be an edi but then 533m was burnt out so for reconfiguration 1117t was the last unrefurbished carriage that was refurbished into an alstom to replace damaged 1109t. 533m and 1109t are unfortunately scrapped at ballarat. why wouldn't some later tread break alstom comengs be stage 2?
Mine is 518M-1126T-551M
400m
@@StrayaTrains also 637M-1169T-638M as i caught RVB both sides and it sounded nice
7:00 Xtrap at sunbury?
Indeed
@@StrayaTrains But what was it doing at Sunbury?
Xtraps normally don't run to Sunbury
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