Queensland by Rail | Part 8 - Rail Museum + XPT to Sydney
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- In this episode I pay a visit to the Ipswich North Workshops Rail Museum. After seeing a variety of trains in the museum, it was time to ride a real train again. This time I was leaving Queensland and heading to Sydney. My train was of course an XPT: another train that might not be around in 5 years time. The difference in travelling by train in Queensland compared to New South Wales was very apparent: no designated intermediate points where passengers can stretch their legs. We were lucky enough to stop briefly at Dungog as we were running ahead of schedule, but this is not common practice. This combined with less comfort than I had become used to in QLD meant that it was the least enjoyable of all my trains in Queensland. However, that does not mean it was all bad, as I enjoyed the scenery as always and appreciated the unexpected photo-stop.
There will be one more episode in the series documenting a mini-trip I did in NSW as well as the XPT from Sydney back to Melbourne. For all the Queenslanders who have joined the channel through this series, I want to thank you for your continued support. I really do hope to be back.
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Looks great
21:22 was just short of Kagaru bridge. 23:00 Tamrookum
7:04 YUM!
At the end of a grand adventure, finishing and heading for home is a sad time. That is just as true for the viewers of this series as it may have been for the maker. However, filling the last day with interest (the Ipswich visit for Floyd) softens the blow: action to the end. That is a site to which he has beaten me: my visit was in 1968, when it was a thriving railway workshop. Most of the full-size equipment which we saw there I had seen in action on QR and cane lines. Along the way south, we got a glimpse of the island-platform brick building at Casino. Before the ~1960 Brisbane Limited Express, that was the breakfast stop (northbound) and dinner stop (southbound): 22-25 minutes for a main meal. My vivid memory of 1956 is being fearful that the train would leave without us, still eating half of a main breakfast bacon & egg serve (shared with my brother). My wiser parents knew that it wouldn't. On the one time when I travelled home via Wallangarra, out of money and out of film, the diesel on the interstate 'express' was replaced with steam at Toowoomba. By sacrificing most meals to Melbourne, I was able to buy an extra film and get the coverage. As I type, I still have the photos, with hunger pangs forgotten decades ago.
Boys and their toys i’m glad you had a great day 😁
Haha thanks
Great captures, Floyd, I enjoyed it :) Good to get a look at the XPT- that’s probably the next train I’ll be riding on, after the Overland. Great to see Les too! It’s unusual to see him so prominently on the other side of the camera. Top chaps 👍
Thanks! Yes usually I’m in front of the camera and he’s behind but now the roles are reversed!
A very nice one again, nice museum and good too see you and Les having fun there lol
Haha thanks yes we made the most of our time
Awesome! Yet another train I'd like to go on. Thanks to covid ,we'll,Sydney siders not wanting to lockdown and still wanting to sneak into our free state with their pestilence, I hope it becomes open again to catch this train. Doesn't look that long ago,could you share prices kind Sir ?
Yeah this was all a little over two years ago. Prices haven’t changed to my knowledge. You can look it up on the NSW Trainlink website but from memory it was about $80 one way.
The Workshop museum is pretty good. You should head to Adelaide and visit the Port Dock Railway museum, that certainly used to be better than the Workshop. For a train that has Express in its name the XP certainly stops a lot lol! XPT runs through some great country.
Yeah it isn’t that fast of a train! But yeah nice scenery.
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Very interesting video. The guys at COMENG (actually it may not exist now) won't be too pleased about you saying that the XPT is a downgraded version of the UK IC125 !!
I guess you are referring to the lower design speed 160 km/h (99.4 mph). This was a result of the power car electric traction motors having to be lower geared than the UK train due to the larger gradients on the Australian routes. If interested checkout `XPT by Comeng' (3 videos) here on YT.