Interesting view of a piece of country i know well yet it's a route i have never followed! I love picton, I have always imagined spending my last years there! thanks for sharing
That was fun, especially when you started up the hill and the motors amped up. You can tell its a solid work horse. More please. Thanks from Las Vegas.
@@raymondwelsh6028 Is that the same for passenger trains? I thought they would have British HST sets capable of 130 MPH. I wouldn't feel very stable on narrow gauge!
The NZ mainline network is in cape gauge. The same mainline gauge used in Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, most other former British colonies in Africa, and in the Australian states of Tasmania, Queensland, and Western Australia. The maximum speed on the NZ mainline is 120km/h (~75mph in backward units). Although most trains rarely go much faster than 90km/h. So yeah I can’t imagine trains going over 200km/h on the NZ network either. I can’t imagine why anyone would.
@@shhmule I don’t mean to be rude. But where would you ever get the idea that now-retired 50 year old HST units used in some country on the other side of the world would ever be used in NZ?! We barely have any intercity passenger rail services. Population base is low and political leadership has been pro-automobile for 50 years.
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This is so incredibly beautiful. Isn’t our planet stunning, truly?
Interesting view of a piece of country i know well yet it's a route i have never followed! I love picton, I have always imagined spending my last years there! thanks for sharing
That was fun, especially when you started up the hill and the motors amped up. You can tell its a solid work horse. More please. Thanks from Las Vegas.
Thank you
Great video. Thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it
great to be seeing your videos again, really enjoyed your coal train journeys and dialoge
Thanks
Simply awesome!
cheers
Great to see you back with some new footage here! Great vid this one, excellent quality.
cheers
That track guage looks dangerously narrow. Upgrade to broad guage (1676mm).
Enjoyed that John 👍
Thanks Paddy
Nice to see you again bro..
cheers
Wow thats so fun
Cheers
Mate have you lost the beard
reduced it to a goaty, it don't have much colour these days apart from grey
That rail gauge looks unusually narrow! I can't imagine travelling at 130 MPH on that narrow rail.
All of New Zealand is 3 foot 6 inch guage. Rarely a speed of 60 mph is met or even exceeded.🇦🇺
@@raymondwelsh6028 Is that the same for passenger trains? I thought they would have British HST sets capable of 130 MPH. I wouldn't feel very stable on narrow gauge!
@@shhmule they do have an excellent series of train sets and excellent services but speed is a bit limited.🇦🇺
The NZ mainline network is in cape gauge. The same mainline gauge used in Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, most other former British colonies in Africa, and in the Australian states of Tasmania, Queensland, and Western Australia.
The maximum speed on the NZ mainline is 120km/h (~75mph in backward units). Although most trains rarely go much faster than 90km/h.
So yeah I can’t imagine trains going over 200km/h on the NZ network either. I can’t imagine why anyone would.
@@shhmule I don’t mean to be rude. But where would you ever get the idea that now-retired 50 year old HST units used in some country on the other side of the world would ever be used in NZ?!
We barely have any intercity passenger rail services. Population base is low and political leadership has been pro-automobile for 50 years.
Hear that brake whine. I enjoyed your WC vids, did you transfer when the coal work started to wind down?
Yes i did, spent 3 yrs in Picton, but now back home in Westport
@ 7:12 isn't that a SPAD? (Signal passed at danger)
Or does the signal aspect mean ignore danger? 🤔
short range yellow light below the A and B units is a low speed indication
Are those narrow gauge rails?
yes 3ft 6in or 1067mm