Riding thru the Dandenong Ranges with me horse for a friend, we start up Upwey way, finish at the other end, da da da da da. Song, circa 1969. Takes me back to younger days. Great video! Riverina, NSW.
Living on the other side of the planet is a odd thing haha. By the way, I noticed your videos won't go to a higher resolution than 720p, is that intended?
720 is the processing setting I chose. Even so the video for that ride was almost 2 GB, plenty enough to upload. The videos from UA-cam almost always look better when streamed to a big TV compared with computer or tablet. Nothing is weirder than flying out of Sydney on Friday afternoon, and arriving in LA……On Friday afternoon! Coming home, the day after you leave LA simply does not exist and you arrive the second day after.
awesome video. I love watching from the drivers point of view as I passenger the "normal" view gets boring but this is fun. These help during covid lockdowns too (as I type this we are not in one now but still love to watch anyway LOL ) Also from 16:19 to 17:45 aka new Bayswater station I was hoping to ride with that view via being a passenger but sadly have not gotten around it oops my bad but now i have seen it and love it thank you. 👍😁😁😁
I’m pleased that you like it. On Friday the new one will be about the Coburg and Moreland skyrail project but you may not be as familiar with that line. Anyway it’s nice to keep people occupied with these especially when their mobility is limited.
A great look at my old home town Melbourne 👍. In the years when i lived in Melbourne we visited about 3 times Puffing Billy and a train ride from Flinders Sreet to Belgrave was a much have - at the best with a Red Rattler 👍😉
I can’t say I had noticed a those signs and had to look up the meaning. They indicate the driver should cut off power and coast. If this link opens, it will explain this and other lineside signposts. www.victorianrailways.net/signaling/curveboard/signs.html
@@tressteleg1 , found it! i bet a lot of your regular viewers will find www.victorianrailways.net to be a very interesting site. there's more there than just the meaning of signs. ta for that.
I guess you must be in the Eastern time zone of the USA. I’m pleased you like my videos. Next week you will see the SFO tram that now lives in Sydney. 😊
@@tressteleg1 This second bet is right, I'm in Brazil! Lived in Melbourne for 13 months and really enjoy the city, so I try to keep in touch with people in Australia as much as I can. Your videos, especially the driver view ones, make me nostalgic. Tks!
All good. Your time in Melbourne explains a lot, although you would not want to be there at the moment because the entire state is in lockdown because of Covid. All but supermarkets, chemists, petrol stations and a few other businesses are closed. It was your Spanish style name that gave me the clue about your other possible location. Also the time zone was incorrect by one hour for eastern USA.
@@tressteleg1 hahaha people used to recognise where I came from because of that. Would prefer Australia over the US for living long-term because you guys are much more PT-oriented, which is something I value. I hope to see Melbourne back on track in the next couple of weeks and your videos showing the progress on level crossing removals :)
@@Chris-by8eh Train drivers rely wholly on the signal box setting up the road correctly. Generally it is not possible to set up conflicting train movements.
I'm curious as to why the stanchions from Ringwood to Bayswater are from the late 70s to early 80s era?. Were the tracks not duplicated at that point? From Bayswater to upper Ferntree Gully and even up to Belgrave the stanchions are just about all from the 50s era. Or is it just that they needed to replace them due to defects?
I have no exact information but Melbourne tends to replace things only when they really have to. And as you should know, Upper Ferntree Gully to Belgrave was only change to broad gauge and electrified around 1962 so you will get a mix of mast technology from that.
Most likely reason for no duplication is it's not really necessary (due to the lower population of the area) and even if it was, trying to do so in that terrain would be incredily difficult for not much gain. Since there are only two stations between Upper Ftg and Belgrave, the trains can easily time it to meet at Upwey. During my time in Japan, I lived along a small branch line which was duplicated up to a point, and then became a single track for the last four stations, with the middle one being a meeting point for the trains. Terrain there was also quite challenging for duplication and unnecessary due to the low patronage of that particular section.
I would expect that the single track quite easily handles the loadings right at the end of that line. From memory there are two platforms at the terminus so if things got a bit busy, one train could depart immediately that the next one arrives in the other platform. And it certainly would not be easy install a second track.
Upper Ferntree Gully and Lilydale were indeed electrified in the 1920s but the double track with lattice structures only existed as far as Ringwood with a few in the yards at Upper Ferntree Gully (see 8:15) and Lilydale. The remainder were single track sections using wooden poles. Track duplication was done in odd sections with Bayswater to Ferntree Gully completed in 1957 (hence the Gippsland style stanchions here apart from the newer grade separations). Ringwood to Bayswater was not done until 1982 hence the galvanised single track structures of that were used in this section, except at Heathmont station itself.
I’m pleased that you like them. You will find at least one Packenham line video in here. In a few weeks I will continue this predawn run to Pakenham. The train then runs all stations.
Riding thru the Dandenong Ranges with me horse for a friend, we start up Upwey way, finish at the other end, da da da da da. Song, circa 1969. Takes me back to younger days. Great video! Riverina, NSW.
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Your videos are the best way to start my Friday mornings 😎
And as you wrote those words, I was finishing my Friday evening meal 😊
Living on the other side of the planet is a odd thing haha. By the way, I noticed your videos won't go to a higher resolution than 720p, is that intended?
720 is the processing setting I chose. Even so the video for that ride was almost 2 GB, plenty enough to upload. The videos from UA-cam almost always look better when streamed to a big TV compared with computer or tablet.
Nothing is weirder than flying out of Sydney on Friday afternoon, and arriving in LA……On Friday afternoon! Coming home, the day after you leave LA simply does not exist and you arrive the second day after.
love this, takes me way back in time ;)
awesome video. I love watching from the drivers point of view as I passenger the "normal" view gets boring but this is fun. These help during covid lockdowns too (as I type this we are not in one now but still love to watch anyway LOL )
Also from 16:19 to 17:45 aka new Bayswater station I was hoping to ride with that view via being a passenger but sadly have not gotten around it oops my bad but now i have seen it and love it thank you. 👍😁😁😁
I’m pleased that you like it. On Friday the new one will be about the Coburg and Moreland skyrail project but you may not be as familiar with that line. Anyway it’s nice to keep people occupied with these especially when their mobility is limited.
A great look at my old home town Melbourne 👍. In the years when i lived in Melbourne we visited about 3 times Puffing Billy and a train ride from Flinders Sreet to Belgrave was a much have - at the best with a Red Rattler 👍😉
I just realised that Heatherdale station is in a gradient :ooo
I watched your videos and it was awesome!
😊👍. You will find a lot more similar rides in this playlist. Driver's View Trains Melbourne
ua-cam.com/play/PLLtOIHp49XNDtaNr2H41P2th0S56s6bIH.html
tressteleg1 ok! Will do
the black circle with 2 white rectangles sign at 5:08,12:16 and28:21. what do they mean? i don't think i've ever seen them before.
I can’t say I had noticed a those signs and had to look up the meaning. They indicate the driver should cut off power and coast. If this link opens, it will explain this and other lineside signposts. www.victorianrailways.net/signaling/curveboard/signs.html
@@tressteleg1 , found it! i bet a lot of your regular viewers will find www.victorianrailways.net to be a very interesting site. there's more there than just the meaning of signs. ta for that.
@@vsvnrg3263 👍
Friday means funday for me 'cause I know there will be a great tressteleg video to watch! (I'm 13 hours behind you guys). Awesome video!
I guess you must be in the Eastern time zone of the USA. I’m pleased you like my videos. Next week you will see the SFO tram that now lives in Sydney. 😊
Or South America somewhere 👍
@@tressteleg1 This second bet is right, I'm in Brazil! Lived in Melbourne for 13 months and really enjoy the city, so I try to keep in touch with people in Australia as much as I can. Your videos, especially the driver view ones, make me nostalgic. Tks!
All good. Your time in Melbourne explains a lot, although you would not want to be there at the moment because the entire state is in lockdown because of Covid. All but supermarkets, chemists, petrol stations and a few other businesses are closed.
It was your Spanish style name that gave me the clue about your other possible location. Also the time zone was incorrect by one hour for eastern USA.
@@tressteleg1 hahaha people used to recognise where I came from because of that. Would prefer Australia over the US for living long-term because you guys are much more PT-oriented, which is something I value.
I hope to see Melbourne back on track in the next couple of weeks and your videos showing the progress on level crossing removals :)
How do you know back in 2016 that the ringwood station the tracks would be turning to the left and not right and hit the train on the right ?
@@Chris-by8eh Train drivers rely wholly on the signal box setting up the road correctly. Generally it is not possible to set up conflicting train movements.
I'm curious as to why the stanchions from Ringwood to Bayswater are from the late 70s to early 80s era?. Were the tracks not duplicated at that point? From Bayswater to upper Ferntree Gully and even up to Belgrave the stanchions are just about all from the 50s era. Or is it just that they needed to replace them due to defects?
I have no exact information but Melbourne tends to replace things only when they really have to. And as you should know, Upper Ferntree Gully to Belgrave was only change to broad gauge and electrified around 1962 so you will get a mix of mast technology from that.
Most likely reason for no duplication is it's not really necessary (due to the lower population of the area) and even if it was, trying to do so in that terrain would be incredily difficult for not much gain. Since there are only two stations between Upper Ftg and Belgrave, the trains can easily time it to meet at Upwey.
During my time in Japan, I lived along a small branch line which was duplicated up to a point, and then became a single track for the last four stations, with the middle one being a meeting point for the trains. Terrain there was also quite challenging for duplication and unnecessary due to the low patronage of that particular section.
I would expect that the single track quite easily handles the loadings right at the end of that line. From memory there are two platforms at the terminus so if things got a bit busy, one train could depart immediately that the next one arrives in the other platform. And it certainly would not be easy install a second track.
Upper Ferntree Gully and Lilydale were indeed electrified in the 1920s but the double track with lattice structures only existed as far as Ringwood with a few in the yards at Upper Ferntree Gully (see 8:15) and Lilydale. The remainder were single track sections using wooden poles.
Track duplication was done in odd sections with Bayswater to Ferntree Gully completed in 1957 (hence the Gippsland style stanchions here apart from the newer grade separations). Ringwood to Bayswater was not done until 1982 hence the galvanised single track structures of that were used in this section, except at Heathmont station itself.
Thanks for those extra details.
They sell a lot of spray cans out this way i see which ends up on everything.
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Hey. Like your videos! Can you please film Berwick Station to Yarraman Station?
I’m pleased that you like them. You will find at least one Packenham line video in here. In a few weeks I will continue this predawn run to Pakenham. The train then runs all stations.
@@tressteleg1 huh?
Oops. Here is the link.
Melbourne - Driver's View Trains
ua-cam.com/play/PLLtOIHp49XNDtaNr2H41P2th0S56s6bIH.html
@@tressteleg1 thanks!
Great video! :)
NICE
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