Did the Blue Mountains trip recently and whilst old style, they provide an extremely comfortable ride. I'd choose a ride on a V set compared to the wobbly Metro any day of the year
Whilst I applaud your enthusiasm to keep the V sets, as a driver of them, I can tell you that the poor old girls are starting to fail due to decisions made some years ago. Parts are no longer available to repair them and cannibalisation of sets to keep others running is the order of the day. It is a pity but that is the reality. Love driving them as they ride so well. You know you are actually driving a train in a V set. This also applied to S, K and C sets.
We should protest that 40 plus year old carriages are still in use in a first world country. We want a modern efficient service with modern rolling stock. Australian made would be better still.
The v set the train of my childhood, so many memories on the v set catching them from Narara, Gosford, Point Claire and Woy Woy. One point v sets dominated the Newcastle and Central coast line. Weekends would be v sets. My memory of my train trip I remember was me with my nan waiting for the train at Cowan station on a wet rainy day and got on a candy livery v set. It’s going to feel weird when there gone, not hearing that hum on the intercity platforms in a few years. Great video Phil, your one of the reasons why myself and many others got into train spotting
Thanks for the video. I came to Australia in 1977. One day in 1977, we had a school science excursion to Dangar Island on the Hawkesbury River near Brooklyn Station. We caught the old red rattler at Chatswood to Hornsby. Then we got on one of these V set trains. It was a great experience for it felt like one is in an adventure. Even after more than 45 years now, I still have this sensation I am going to somewhere exciting just be on one of these V set trains. The seatings are great hugging ones body ok. The 2x2 seat arrangements have that express train feel. One of the teachers made a comment to another teacher that the carriages look great and the fare was a bargain. Modern day carriages never give me the sense of discovery. The advanced features aren't that exciting in many ways. I will try to catch these V set carriages on weekdays for fun as that they only operate on Central Coast/Newcastle services on weekdays- I live near Hornsby. I will miss them when they are all gone. It's one of the earliest fond memories of Australia and Sydeny for me as a teen migrant all those decades ago.
I last rode a V Set in Jan 2002 to watch the Superbowl with a friend in Woy Woy. It had olive green seats and fake wood panels on the side walls. It was comfortable, quiet and had real "country train" feel.
The first time I got in a V set was traveling home to the Blue Mountains with my family in the mid 80s after a day at Manly. We got on and I asked my Dad if he have spent extra money and got us some first class tickets (I didn't know such a thing didn't exist, I was just a little kid). Compared to the old U sets and the suburban stock at the time, it felt like we were transported to the future. For years after that, I would always look on the timetable and make sure I aimed for air-con services, which meant V set. I still have to pinch myself that I get to travel in the same type of trains that my Dad did when he commuted in the 80s. In a world where I feel so many things aren't as good as they were in my Dad's day, it's great that the V sets give that that little bit of comfort (both physically and figuratively). They're going soon, which is sad. But boy did this legend get a good run!
Im from Newcastle so I can still enjoy them while they’re still with us, 2025 will likely see the end of a great era unfortunately, hopefully they will preserve a few sets and be good to see each preserved set with it’s different liveries over the years from the iconic blue goose, candy, city decker and current liveries would be really cool.
Excellent video brings back memories i was a driver till the late 80's how i miss the job plus i hear now all your training is mainly done on a simulator it me 6 years to become a class 5 driver now they are horizontal lift jockeys as we used to call E.T.R drivers and Eveleigh eventually left Delec and went to Flemington E.T.R
It's been a long time since I've been on any Sydney train, many times have I traveled the line from Central to Tuggerah (and even further). Thanks for the memory - even if, in my head the seats are the wrong colour. If ever you get a chance I'd love to see a video from a red rattler - but I suppose I'm dreaming with this one.
I preferred the orange and yellow interior over the original green. Clearly the person responsible for the purple was colourblind.. lol I’ll miss the comfortable V sets on the longer trips down south to Wollongong, or up the mountains to Katoomba. rip V Sets
Comeng also had a factory in Melbourne (Dandenong South). Most of those Melbourne Comeng sets are still in service to this day, albeit with a lot of refurbishments over the lifetime of them!
Caught these old trains on the Newcastle to Sydney line many times between 2009 and 2020..at first they were quite an exciting experience for me since I'd rarely travelled on trains in my earlier years..I always tried to grab those single seats but there was always a lot of competition.
😮 I have decided that Central to Epping as you are doing is a far more pleasant way to go after my recent " sardine can" peak hour experience on the Metro where I suspect that I might have caught a minor respiratory infection . That journey was reminiscent of images of the New York subway or those of Tokyo ! Having said that ,it is very encouraging to see that the Sydney Metro appears to be such a spectacular Success ! It will be sad to see the demise of the " DIM DITs" as I call them . On one occasion , I was on a Blue Mountains train of more recent vintage, and actually thought that it was a suburban carriage until I noticed the toilet !
Still a nice train from the inside , large windows , good interior lighting , comfortable reversible purple seats , storage racks , air conditioning toilets Downside ..noisy if near the exit doors , no digital screen showing next destination Some passengers disrespect seating & talk in the designated quiet carriages
I used to live in the Sutherland Shire and would catch a bus then the train from Caringbah to Sutherland station and switch platforms where the train from Woolongong would stop. The next stop was Hurstville and finally Central station. Just 2 stops! Plus you had a toilet and a very cold water fountain. And it had fewer people too! I don't know if it was against the rules back in the 1970s-80s, but it was certainly quicker than the standard 'express' service from Cronulla to Central. It was particularly slow coming into Sutherland station from Caringbah due to the single, sharply curved track and high embankment. I think that's all changed since I left Sydney in the mid 1980s. Parry's Milk bar at Caringbah station closed. I see Simple Simon's Pies on the other side of the entrance to Caringbah station is still operating. How I long for their steak and onion or curry pie made with Keenan's Curry Powder (that yellow powder in the orange/red tin), a staple in any 1960s-1970s home. All made in the bakery. Nostalgia is a strange thing, and I think I'd be disappointed if I ever went back. It's like the saying 'Never meet your idol as they're bound to disappoint you'.
I love the V sets. Just so comfortable. And maybe the fact they blast by so many stations. I’m awfully concerned the replacement “Mariyung” sets are going to be uncomfortable, sterile, horrible things. Unless I’m missing something they look like M/A/B sets with adjusted seating/amenity but little else. Not fit for intercity purposes. Pretty sure they lack the reversible seating - that’s going to be real fun on the 2hr train rides 😒 A fitting representation of modern Sydney and the modern Gov’s that run them. Bare minimum, all business, zero character, zero F’s given.
If they used the same seating on the mariyungs as korea's intercity train (ITX, Which is what it is based off of and made by same manufacturer) It would be super duper comfortable which I can confirm having travelled on the ITX to the end of the line once, super good padding and facilities
Th V sets were so comfortable. I remember the massive works they had to do upgrading the tracks so they could fit the new replacements i no longer live in Sydney and miss the rail network.
@@RailDoesTravel My other concern though is lighting. The V sets, in part to their older design no doubt, have dim lighting and the small, tinted windows which help insulate you from the outside. Carpet helps too. They’re extremely cosy. There is nothing worse than stepping onto an M/A/B set, and you’ve got GIANT windows. And if you don’t have a tonne of sunlight, you’re getting absolutely blasted with about 6 billion lumens of very “cool” blue-white light for your entire trip home. It’s terrible, it’s fatiguing, especially when you’re tired and/or on a winters night. The V sets have set a high standard and their incredible longevity only adds to that.
@@rakeau As a fellow V Set fan I can agree with that, I love the smaller windows and the dim lighting, and many modern trains have that too. I wish sydney would follow suit
Do you know when the new trains are coming in I’m on the central coast and my son is a train nut we catch trains from Wyong to Gosford and back when we go to watch the a-league and when we do go to Sydney
I will deeply miss these old gems. The new ones dont inspire much happy travels, the seats look ugly and uncomfortable and with only half facing forward and not able to change direction its going to be horrid for those of us well outside the metropolitan area. They should have at minimum had reversible seating on the new cars
Although the majority of these trains entered service in the late 1970s , there was still a considerable amount of older rolling stock in use . I recall travelling to Katoomba in a carriage with opening windows and retractable shutters. Whether these were the same type involved in the Granville disaster , which, I believe were of wooden construction , I couldn't say , and how much better the V sets would have fared in this situation , one can only speculate. Another point in relation to the V sets is that the interurban lines were not electrified to the extent that they are today when the V sets were introduced . ( Newcastle and Illawarra ).
It should be pointed out the V-set was a bespoke design, intentionally narrower than other standard rolling stock. This was done to allow it to fit the tunnels beyond Helensburgh and Mt Victoria (ten tunnel deviation) where other train types cannot fit. Whilst many appreciate the reversible seating, the 3x2 configuration resulted in very narrow seats unbecoming to those of significant girth. Also not to be missed will be the malfunctioning doors, requiring humans to manually open on every occasion.
Thank you for pointing out that the V sets are narrower than other rolling stock . This would account for the persistent ' mind the gap ' message at EVERY station . This also begs the question as to whether the replacement trains will be narrower as well , or were alterations since made to the tunnels , which would be difficult . When the Illawarra line was electrified , apparently vertical modifications were made to the tunnels to accommodate the overhead wiring due to insufficient clearance .
@@murraykitson1436 The new D-set fleet to replace the V’s are standard width and are not narrower. This saved time by allowing them to go straight to procurement for an off-the-shelf design. They are in fact modifying the tunnels to accommodate these trains: milling the walls to make the tunnels wider, track slewing, mods to the overhead catenary and signals.
@Anon-fv9ee Excellent news , and thank you because this is the type of detailed information that I don't come across often without a great deal of searching . It is a shame that this sort of standardization is not applicable to the Western Airport Metro line .
I miss the days when the V-sets ran on the South Coast line 🥲 I used to get the train between Albion Park and North Wollongong to go to TAFE and my volunteering gig at a local op shop, between 2008 and 2011, and I caught quite a few V-sets during that time before the H-sets came into service. I also remember accidentally leaving bags of lollies from the lolly shop that used to be at Central on the V-sets when I was a kid after trips to Sydney 😅 I'm both looking forward to and dreading the Mariyung sets coming into service - the H-sets are horribly uncomfortable and leave me with a sore backside after travelling from Unanderra to Central, so it'll be good to see them go just for that. But I really don't like the non-reversible seats on the D-sets, and I especially dislike that the 10-car sets are divided as 6+4 - it looks so uneven and makes me feel very uncomfortable. 😕
Do you mean the Royal National Park station? That's not near Bundeena, and it's also not fully abandoned, the Loftus Tram Museum run hourly services there on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Outsourcing the building of trains, ferries and trams overseas has shown that we should never do that again. Trying to go for the cheaper deal only lead to higher costs to fix lower quality product.
Except for one not really small thing, the trains *DO NOT* run to Newcastle anymore! They stop short of their destination, at that *UGLY MONSTROSITY* at Wickham!
Don't want to get critical to Phil, but… Remember that community post you did 3 years ago? "For those who like Railway related videos please check out my other channel and Subscribe! :)" Then why are you posting train content of clearly not abandoned trains, to the point even doing STV things? Like vlogging trains. I know it's your channel, and it's your rules, but something to point out.
I have explained too many times that Abandoned Oz has expanded… Again.. Abandoned Oz is about exploring Australia’s Abandonments 👉🏼and👈🏼 history. V Sets are part of Australia’s history
As a kid growing up in the Blue Mountains, this was our childhood.❤
Did the Blue Mountains trip recently and whilst old style, they provide an extremely comfortable ride. I'd choose a ride on a V set compared to the wobbly Metro any day of the year
they may be ugly but they are definitely comfortable!
The Metro may wobble but unlike the V-Sets, it's reliable and on-time.
We should protest to keep these V-sets on track
I'm down for that
hell yeah
Whilst I applaud your enthusiasm to keep the V sets, as a driver of them, I can tell you that the poor old girls are starting to fail due to decisions made some years ago. Parts are no longer available to repair them and cannibalisation of sets to keep others running is the order of the day. It is a pity but that is the reality. Love driving them as they ride so well. You know you are actually driving a train in a V set. This also applied to S, K and C sets.
We should protest that 40 plus year old carriages are still in use in a first world country. We want a modern efficient service with modern rolling stock. Australian made would be better still.
I loved those trains. Going on them to go down the South Coast as a kid in the 90's was pure joy.
Awesome video mate. Trains in Sydney don't get any more iconic than these beautiful V sets in my opinion, it'll definitely be sad to see them go!
The v set the train of my childhood, so many memories on the v set catching them from Narara, Gosford, Point Claire and Woy Woy. One point v sets dominated the Newcastle and Central coast line. Weekends would be v sets. My memory of my train trip I remember was me with my nan waiting for the train at Cowan station on a wet rainy day and got on a candy livery v set. It’s going to feel weird when there gone, not hearing that hum on the intercity platforms in a few years. Great video Phil, your one of the reasons why myself and many others got into train spotting
The best trains that were ever built in NSW.
Agreed!
No wonder they stopped making trains in NSW if they were the best
@@AbandonedOZu sound like phil
@@nickshen2318 he is phil
@TrainandfnffanAswellasro-xc9ex oh
Thanks for the video.
I came to Australia in 1977.
One day in 1977, we had a school science excursion to Dangar Island on the Hawkesbury River near Brooklyn Station.
We caught the old red rattler at Chatswood to Hornsby. Then we got on one of these V set trains.
It was a great experience for it felt like one is in an adventure. Even after more than 45 years now, I still have this sensation I am going to somewhere exciting just be on one of these V set trains.
The seatings are great hugging ones body ok. The 2x2 seat arrangements have that express train feel.
One of the teachers made a comment to another teacher that the carriages look great and the fare was a bargain.
Modern day carriages never give me the sense of discovery. The advanced features aren't that exciting in many ways.
I will try to catch these V set carriages on weekdays for fun as that they only operate on Central Coast/Newcastle services on weekdays- I live near Hornsby.
I will miss them when they are all gone. It's one of the earliest fond memories of Australia and Sydeny for me as a teen migrant all those decades ago.
A nice little video thanks for the memories I drove the v set for years first at Eveleigh then years at Lithgow a great train.
Travelled short distances round Sydney on a three day visit in 2014. Really liked them, even in the rush hour!
Rail enthusiast from S. Island, NZ.
Ver Comfortable Train i loved the Journey to Newcastle the View over Kuringai and waters along the Trip
I last rode a V Set in Jan 2002 to watch the Superbowl with a friend in Woy Woy. It had olive green seats and fake wood panels on the side walls. It was comfortable, quiet and had real "country train" feel.
Thank you for this vid.
So many memories and so many early mornings from the Mountains with my discman 🤣
The first time I got in a V set was traveling home to the Blue Mountains with my family in the mid 80s after a day at Manly. We got on and I asked my Dad if he have spent extra money and got us some first class tickets (I didn't know such a thing didn't exist, I was just a little kid). Compared to the old U sets and the suburban stock at the time, it felt like we were transported to the future. For years after that, I would always look on the timetable and make sure I aimed for air-con services, which meant V set.
I still have to pinch myself that I get to travel in the same type of trains that my Dad did when he commuted in the 80s. In a world where I feel so many things aren't as good as they were in my Dad's day, it's great that the V sets give that that little bit of comfort (both physically and figuratively). They're going soon, which is sad. But boy did this legend get a good run!
Hopefully Sydney Trains keeps some V sets for heritage use
It is a practice to retain a couple of sets of classes after retirement
Im from Newcastle so I can still enjoy them while they’re still with us, 2025 will likely see the end of a great era unfortunately, hopefully they will preserve a few sets and be good to see each preserved set with it’s different liveries over the years from the iconic blue goose, candy, city decker and current liveries would be really cool.
Nooo V sets are so nostalgic for me, I'll miss these 😢
Excellent video brings back memories i was a driver till the late 80's how i miss the job plus i hear now all your training is mainly done on a simulator it me 6 years to become a class 5 driver now they are horizontal lift jockeys as we used to call E.T.R drivers and Eveleigh eventually left Delec and went to Flemington E.T.R
We really enjoyed this video. Thanks!
It's been a long time since I've been on any Sydney train, many times have I traveled the line from Central to Tuggerah (and even further). Thanks for the memory - even if, in my head the seats are the wrong colour. If ever you get a chance I'd love to see a video from a red rattler - but I suppose I'm dreaming with this one.
I preferred the orange and yellow interior over the original green.
Clearly the person responsible for the purple was colourblind.. lol
I’ll miss the comfortable V sets on the longer trips down south to Wollongong, or up the mountains to Katoomba.
rip V Sets
Comeng also had a factory in Melbourne (Dandenong South). Most of those Melbourne Comeng sets are still in service to this day, albeit with a lot of refurbishments over the lifetime of them!
Oh no, the V sets are my favourite trains. I’m visiting Sydney next week so I’ll make sure to enjoy my last time on them.
Caught these old trains on the Newcastle to Sydney line many times between 2009 and 2020..at first they were quite an exciting experience for me since I'd rarely travelled on trains in my earlier years..I always tried to grab those single seats but there was always a lot of competition.
😮 I have decided that Central to Epping as you are doing is a far more pleasant way to go after my recent " sardine can" peak hour experience on the Metro where I suspect that I might have caught a minor respiratory infection . That journey was reminiscent of images of the New York subway or those of Tokyo ! Having said that ,it is very encouraging to see that the Sydney Metro appears to be such a spectacular Success ! It will be sad to see the demise of the " DIM DITs" as I call them . On one occasion , I was on a Blue Mountains train of more recent vintage, and actually thought that it was a suburban carriage until I noticed the toilet !
Still a nice train from the inside , large windows , good interior lighting , comfortable reversible purple seats , storage racks , air conditioning toilets
Downside ..noisy if near the exit doors , no digital screen showing next destination
Some passengers disrespect seating & talk in the designated quiet carriages
Man these trains are comfy
I love this channel 😊❤
Cheers!
Hopefully when the v sets are retired and one train is kept for heritage sake. They return it to the original green and wood grain interior.
I actually preferred the orange and yellow interior. Clearly the person responsible for the purple was colourblind.. lol
Hopefully they keep a Camshaft and a Chopper set, along with DET9216 - the contura conference car
@@Richy.Boi. ahh of course, forgot the orange and yellow. Didn’t the seat have some kind of tartan pattern in the fabric?
@@cameronwilson8561 yup it did
They are going to. But what I and some people want is at least one camshaft and one chopper set preserved.
I used to live in the Sutherland Shire and would catch a bus then the train from Caringbah to Sutherland station and switch platforms where the train from Woolongong would stop. The next stop was Hurstville and finally Central station. Just 2 stops! Plus you had a toilet and a very cold water fountain. And it had fewer people too! I don't know if it was against the rules back in the 1970s-80s, but it was certainly quicker than the standard 'express' service from Cronulla to Central. It was particularly slow coming into Sutherland station from Caringbah due to the single, sharply curved track and high embankment.
I think that's all changed since I left Sydney in the mid 1980s. Parry's Milk bar at Caringbah station closed. I see Simple Simon's Pies on the other side of the entrance to Caringbah station is still operating. How I long for their steak and onion or curry pie made with Keenan's Curry Powder (that yellow powder in the orange/red tin), a staple in any 1960s-1970s home. All made in the bakery.
Nostalgia is a strange thing, and I think I'd be disappointed if I ever went back. It's like the saying 'Never meet your idol as they're bound to disappoint you'.
I love the V sets. Just so comfortable. And maybe the fact they blast by so many stations.
I’m awfully concerned the replacement “Mariyung” sets are going to be uncomfortable, sterile, horrible things. Unless I’m missing something they look like M/A/B sets with adjusted seating/amenity but little else. Not fit for intercity purposes. Pretty sure they lack the reversible seating - that’s going to be real fun on the 2hr train rides 😒 A fitting representation of modern Sydney and the modern Gov’s that run them. Bare minimum, all business, zero character, zero F’s given.
If they used the same seating on the mariyungs as korea's intercity train (ITX, Which is what it is based off of and made by same manufacturer) It would be super duper comfortable which I can confirm having travelled on the ITX to the end of the line once, super good padding and facilities
Th V sets were so comfortable. I remember the massive works they had to do upgrading the tracks so they could fit the new replacements i no longer live in Sydney and miss the rail network.
@@RailDoesTravel My other concern though is lighting. The V sets, in part to their older design no doubt, have dim lighting and the small, tinted windows which help insulate you from the outside. Carpet helps too. They’re extremely cosy.
There is nothing worse than stepping onto an M/A/B set, and you’ve got GIANT windows. And if you don’t have a tonne of sunlight, you’re getting absolutely blasted with about 6 billion lumens of very “cool” blue-white light for your entire trip home. It’s terrible, it’s fatiguing, especially when you’re tired and/or on a winters night.
The V sets have set a high standard and their incredible longevity only adds to that.
@@rakeau As a fellow V Set fan I can agree with that, I love the smaller windows and the dim lighting, and many modern trains have that too. I wish sydney would follow suit
The NIFs are going to have some very big shoes to fill
Do you know when the new trains are coming in I’m on the central coast and my son is a train nut we catch trains from Wyong to Gosford and back when we go to watch the a-league and when we do go to Sydney
I will deeply miss these old gems. The new ones dont inspire much happy travels, the seats look ugly and uncomfortable and with only half facing forward and not able to change direction its going to be horrid for those of us well outside the metropolitan area. They should have at minimum had reversible seating on the new cars
These and h sets are the most beautiful trains in sydney
Although the majority of these trains entered service in the late 1970s , there was still a considerable amount of older rolling stock in use . I recall travelling to Katoomba in a carriage with opening windows and retractable shutters. Whether these were the same type involved in the Granville disaster , which, I believe were of wooden construction , I couldn't say , and how much better the V sets would have fared in this situation , one can only speculate. Another point in relation to the V sets is that the interurban lines were not electrified to the extent that they are today when the V sets were introduced . ( Newcastle and Illawarra ).
Definitely going to miss the reversible seats.
It should be pointed out the V-set was a bespoke design, intentionally narrower than other standard rolling stock. This was done to allow it to fit the tunnels beyond Helensburgh and Mt Victoria (ten tunnel deviation) where other train types cannot fit.
Whilst many appreciate the reversible seating, the 3x2 configuration resulted in very narrow seats unbecoming to those of significant girth.
Also not to be missed will be the malfunctioning doors, requiring humans to manually open on every occasion.
Thank you for pointing out that the V sets are narrower than other rolling stock . This would account for the persistent ' mind the gap ' message at EVERY station . This also begs the question as to whether the replacement trains will be narrower as well , or were alterations since made to the tunnels , which would be difficult . When the Illawarra line was electrified , apparently vertical modifications were made to the tunnels to accommodate the overhead wiring due to insufficient clearance .
@@murraykitson1436 The new D-set fleet to replace the V’s are standard width and are not narrower. This saved time by allowing them to go straight to procurement for an off-the-shelf design. They are in fact modifying the tunnels to accommodate these trains: milling the walls to make the tunnels wider, track slewing, mods to the overhead catenary and signals.
@Anon-fv9ee Excellent news , and thank you because this is the type of detailed information that I don't come across often without a great deal of searching . It is a shame that this sort of standardization is not applicable to the Western Airport Metro line .
I love the smell of the v sets when there slowing down if u get what I mean
I'm all sad now. I hope they keep at least two sets maintained and in service.
Have they already withdrawn? And retired some V sets
I miss the days when the V-sets ran on the South Coast line 🥲 I used to get the train between Albion Park and North Wollongong to go to TAFE and my volunteering gig at a local op shop, between 2008 and 2011, and I caught quite a few V-sets during that time before the H-sets came into service. I also remember accidentally leaving bags of lollies from the lolly shop that used to be at Central on the V-sets when I was a kid after trips to Sydney 😅 I'm both looking forward to and dreading the Mariyung sets coming into service - the H-sets are horribly uncomfortable and leave me with a sore backside after travelling from Unanderra to Central, so it'll be good to see them go just for that. But I really don't like the non-reversible seats on the D-sets, and I especially dislike that the 10-car sets are divided as 6+4 - it looks so uneven and makes me feel very uncomfortable. 😕
something tells me the speed the nsw government works the V sets will be here a fair bit longer.
Have you done a vid of the abandoned railway station and line at Bundeena? My older siblings lived there and showed it to me a few years ago
Never been trains to Bundeena. It has a bus service from Sutherland and a ferry to and from Cronulla.
Do you mean the Royal National Park station? That's not near Bundeena, and it's also not fully abandoned, the Loftus Tram Museum run hourly services there on Wednesdays and Sundays.
@@ziggybadans yes that one,
@@ktipuss it heads that way , lol. I say Bundeena as in that direction,
What is happening with the NIF Trains any news on when they will be operating with passengers?
Would you mind sending us a link to your rail channel? Thanks
@sydneytrainsvlogs
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Only intercity double deck EMUs currently in the world from that era.
Outsourcing the building of trains, ferries and trams overseas has shown that we should never do that again. Trying to go for the cheaper deal only lead to higher costs to fix lower quality product.
0:52 The final batch of V sets entered service in 1989, not 1977 (the oldest cars in service are from 1977 tho)
Yes that’s what i meant.
The first batch from 1970 and the others from 1977 onwards :)
Old but Comfy train
When will they stop running these V sets please.
None have been retired as of yet.
Farewell to the Blue Goose’s
You sound like Phil
Except for one not really small thing, the trains *DO NOT* run to Newcastle anymore! They stop short of their destination, at that *UGLY MONSTROSITY* at Wickham!
The station with a massive "roof" that doesn't keep the rain of your head- a real "edgy" design, top marks to the architect!
@@AphonenewNew If that 'roof' isn't protecting a would=be passenger from inclement weather then the architect should've got his arse kicked!
@neilforbes416 It just looks like a roof- pretty trusses for pigeons to sit on and shit on you!
@@AphonenewNew LOL Yeah!
good fun for the eshays to pop
Don't want to get critical to Phil, but…
Remember that community post you did 3 years ago?
"For those who like Railway related videos please check out my other channel and Subscribe! :)"
Then why are you posting train content of clearly not abandoned trains, to the point even doing STV things? Like vlogging trains.
I know it's your channel, and it's your rules, but something to point out.
Yeah, I have to agree there. Like abandoned stations, yes. But "abandoned" trains?
It’s explained in the video..
Abandoned Oz has expanded to include things with historic meaning and the V Sets being retired is just that.
I have explained too many times that Abandoned Oz has expanded…
Again.. Abandoned Oz is about exploring Australia’s Abandonments 👉🏼and👈🏼 history.
V Sets are part of Australia’s history
Any idea what will happen to the stock would be handy to buy some for refurb
@@AbandonedOZ Fair enough then, so what about change the channel name slightly to Abandoned OZ (And History).