Driver's Eye View (New Zealand) - Takapau to Palmerston North via the Manawatū Gorge
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- In this video we return to our train having enjoyed lunch and wine tasting at the “Oruawharo Homestead”. This time the lead engine is DB class locomotive No.1254 with 1955 vintage General Motors diesel locomotive No.DA1410 assisting.
Passengers were transported by bus to “Silver Fern Farms” sidings where the special excursion train, the “Hawkes Bay Wine and Food by Rail” was waiting to take passengers back to Paekakariki with intermediate stops for passengers wishing to alight closer to home. We ease out of the sidings onto the Gisbourne Line (PNGL) heading back towards Palmerston North via the Manawatū Gorge.
The Manawatū Gorge is no longer traversed by road due to a severe landslip that closed the road to all traffic, with no likelihood of it ever opening again, today the gorge can only be seen from the railway or river itself. The first part of the journey to Woodville passes through rolling hills with lofty viaducts carrying the tracks high above numerous river valleys, shortly after Woodville we enter the gorge where our driver cautiously eases his train along a ledge cut into steep gorge side and over a succession bridges high above the river with breath taking views of the gorge fore and aft. As we leave the gorge we pass the construction site for the new bridge that will carry State Highway 3 on a new route avoiding the gorge. Finally we join the electrified North Island Main Trunk for the last few kilometers of our journey into Palmerston North. Please look out for the next part of this trip - Palmerston North to Paekākāriki.
If you'd like to know more about Steam Incorporated and the awesome excursions they run, please click on this link - www.steaminc.org.nz/
Maps at 00:50 & 00:58 - OpenRailwayMap - Use of the 'OpenRailwayMap' mark is licenced by the OpenStreetMap Foundation
Track Gauge - 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Seeing the greenery is good, hearing the tracks adds to it. : )
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the sights and sounds 😊.
Pleistocene railway line. Wooden sleepers when practically no advanced country uses them (they are made of concrete).
A fantastic and picturesque rides this day. The goats were lucky! The weather is great, interesting to gaze at. Thank Tim for the film this day. Cheers Tim! 🇦🇺🙂👍🇺🇸
Hello Martin, New Zealand is a beautiful country and was pleased to see the sheep make it to safety. Thankfully it didn't rain, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. All the best. Tim 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Always do, and always will. Hello to mom, and see you on the next, Tim! 🇦🇺🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸
@@martinmarsola6477 Cheers Martin, I'll pass your kind regards onto Mom 😊.
Loved your previous tour of Manawatu and enjoying this one too. Beautiful! Thanks Tim
Hello Anna, there aren't many passenger trains through the gorge, maybe 2 or 3 a year. It's one of my favourite NZ train rides and I always try to time my visits to coincide with one of them. I'm glad you enjoyed the ride.
Another masterpiece of a video.... One thing that I'm happy to note after watching this video; is that the sheep/lambs trespassing onto the railway in NZ are every bit as dull as those who used to trespass onto the railway on my patch in South Wales UK... I simply lost count of how many sheep/lambs (unintentionally) went under the wheels of my train & thus failed to make it to the dinnerplate in my 40 years of driving trains... Now happily retired...
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride, sheep tend to be a bit daft wherever they happen to live. The scenery in this part of New Zealand is similar to Wales as is the weather. I guess the sheep that perished under the wheels of your train didn't go to waste, it’s surprising how quickly the carcasses get stripped by other animals. I hope you are making the most of your retirement.
Love it!! thanks for taking us along for the ride.😊👍👍👍
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride 😊.
what a journey,thank you for sharing this video ;-)
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it 😊.
Nice work as usual 😊
Hello Andrew, you are lucky to have such awesome scenery on your doorstep. I've been following your progress with Tehachapi loop, you've certainly done a lot since I last visited, it's looking really good 😊.
DBR 1254 has done a lot of kms since being restored.
Been on a number of excursions with it up front, my favourite being the Raurimu triple header GVR/ Steam Incorporated over a year back.
I'd love to have seen that triple header on the Raurimu Spiral, it must have been an awesome experience, fortunately a number of people posted videos of it. Steam Incorporated does a good job promoting and running excursions to places no longer served by regular passenger trains.
Great upload.. Cheers😊
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 certainly I did 😊
THERE ARE SHEEP AT 48:03 THIS IS SO CUTE
I'm glad they made it to safety 🐑🐑🐑🐑.
Foarte frumos!❤
Mă bucur că ți-a plăcut călătoria.
Tim says it in the description, but for those interested the road (SH3) in the Gorge permanently closed in April 2017 due to multiple slips. Originally they were going to clear it and re-open as normal but due to constant ground movement, work was stopped in July 2017 and the decision to close it indefinitely was made. Now it's left for mother nature to reclaim. You can see at 1:30:30 the new expressway in the hills currently under construction to bypass it (and then 1:49:30 for the other end). I went on it for my work late last year to do some testing and one thing I can say is it's quite steep! I think it's supposed to open mid next year. Will be a blessing because that Saddle pass alternative is a nightmare!
Thank you for the extra information about SH3, especially the less obvious end of the works at 1:30:30
🥸Enjoyable !!! At the end we had some speed too !!! LOL
The sheep chase at 48:00 is so suspenseful, great content!
I almost had a heart attack.
The sheep made it to safety this time, I'm glad you enjoyed the ride.
on the left a wall, on the right a fence.
I guess they thought about big wings 😅
@@siegmars.450I've heard people say "pigs might fly one day" maybe it should be changed to "sheep might fly one day".
Hi Tim! Have two beers and enjoy the video👍. Man nehme zwei Bier 🍻 zu sich und genieße das Video. Best regards from Hans and Cheers 🍻🇦🇹.
Hello Hans, two beers whilst watching the beautiful New Zealand countryside pass by. It's hard to think of a nicer way to relax and reflect on the better things in life 🍻🍻😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 That's so right words 😊.
Interesting video.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Witaj, Tim. Dla mnie to bardzo dziwna trasa.😀Dziękuję, pozdrawiam.
26:45 impressive long viadukt!
44:44 nice green landscape
The beautiful green landscape and the lofty viaducts make this one of my favourite New Zealand train rides😊.
video yang bagus dan pemandangan yang indah good video and beautiful view
Halo dan terima kasih, saya senang Anda menikmati videonya
Great driver
He was a nice guy and he was kind enough to allow me to mount a camera on his locomotive.
Once passing the level crossing the train picked up the pace, you've overtaken the snails! LOL😆
and its not even a..........Tin Hare 😆
@@Mediawatcher2023 A "tun hiere"!, Do they offer feeds of "fush & chups?" LOL😁
@@neilforbes416 and not forgetting pituto cukes 😄
Very nice creat the video, thanks
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video 😊
I am astonished about the wide gravel surface.
Till now I thought that the lower needs of gravel is one reason for narrow gauges.
But compared with our normal gauge I can‘t see a difference.. 🤔
The ballast serves a number of functions including drainage as well as holding the track in position. It rains a lot in New Zealand, maybe that has something to do with the generous ballast shoulders, hopefully someone who actually knows the answer will reply.
Nice videos
Thank you 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 very good
As ovelhas à frente do comboio estariam a treinar-se para alguma maratona? Parabéns ao maquinista pela sua paciência!
As ovelhas tiveram muita sorte de escapar com vida, graças à vigilância do condutor.
Hello my friend good video
Hello, I hope you enjoyed the video.
Palavras para quê simplesmente lindo demais
É uma parte linda do mundo, estou feliz que você tenha gostado do vídeo 😊.
Geez, leaving Takapau, I thought I spotted a couple of snails fly past! One had an 'S' on its shell, pretending to be a racer...... yeah, you know where I'm going with this..... I saw it and said *Look at that S-car go!* LOL 😂
#neilforbes416 Y e s i t w a s v e r y s l o w .
Hello Neil, the train gave passengers plenty of time to appreciate the scenery, oh and the snails.
@@Timsvideochannel1 LOL😁
If those sheep appeared on the line in the UK the whole network would grind to a halt.
1:00:00 Stairs Street? Watch your step! LOL😄
@Neil.forbes416 or it would cost you a trip 😆
@neilforbes416 yes a trip of a lifetime lol
Nice good beautiful anari iron and from Pakistan❤😊🎉
Hello, it's nice to hear from Pakistan, I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😊.
Hi Tim, It's great to be back in NZ where it always looks so green cheers Bob.🍺🐄🐄🐄
Hello Bob, New Zealand is like Wales - If it's not raining, it has just stopped or it is about to start raining. Both places are also beautiful and the sheep outnumber the people 🐏🐑🌧☔.
@@Timsvideochannel1 We love there butter & cheese "Mainland" we buy it all the time.🧀🐄🐄❤
@@robertcoleman4861I buy New Zealand lamb (up to 6 months old) and Anchor Butter because European lamb (up to 2 years old) is best described as mutton and good quality European butter is very expensive, Anchor butter is a better choice. New Zealand wine is way better than similarly priced French wine 😉.
How many km?
About 80 km
Clouds look like CGI
There were plenty of them, thankfully it didn’t rain.
أمنيتي ان ازور نيو زيلاند وهي التي تقع في أقصي الجنوب الشرقي للكرة الأرضية / مصطفى عبدالرحيم / مصر / الأقصر
أتمنى أن تزورها يومًا ما، فهي بلد جميل
You can hear the quality of the train rails from the noise: New Zealand is fine. Greece is terrible lol
The tracks on New Zealand's main lines is generally good, unfortunately it has lost most of its branch lines and secondary routes.
跟台灣鐵鐵局先前使用的機車頭外型相同
世界上許多火車要么在美國製造，要么在世界各地獲得許可製造 - GEC 或 GMC/EMD。我認為這就是為什麼無論你在世界的哪個地方，它們的外觀都很相似。
4 cutsie hobbits on adventure
They were hobbits in sheep’s clothing.
Your videos are too contrasty: we lose the vision of clouds and shadows.
To avoid this, it is important to
- DO NOT USE the default setting, especially with Gopro, but the flat profile (never "natural" or "gopro)
- Set the exposure correction to -1.5 or -1.0, in flat profile, it will be brighter than in Gopro color profile, and in addition, we will have the clouds in the sky correctly rendered (rule which has remained unchanged since the slide from the 1960s)
- Check that you are importing, in the case of 8-bit Gopro's rush, the complete profile (PC color, not TV color !), for exemple the VLC software does not know how to read the PC-color and does not render the video as original , but more contrasted and clipped and can cause you to miss this error because you only see part of the values and may believe that the lack of dynamic is due to a small sensor, without ever seeing what your camera is capable of .
Almost 9 out of 10 videos or even more are of low quality due to lack of knowledge of these essentials. One thing is certain: you should NEVER stay on the default settings, they are more and more influenced by Instagram or story videos, and not adapted to the landscape.
Sincerely.
Thank you for the advice, I'll save and print your comment to give some of your suggestions a go.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I've known your channel for years, it's quite rare to see the southern hemisphere from the trains.
@@JeanThevenetI have to travel on chartered or special trains in New Zealand and Australia to obtain forward facing videos. Its not easy to get permission from the national rail operators.
@@Timsvideochannel1
Yes, I imagine that it will be more and more complicated with the arrival of artificial intelligence and other reasons to be wary of all types of images. We're making the most of it while we still can!
@@JeanThevenet CGI is being used more and more these days, soon the only images we will be able to trust will be those we see with our own eyes.
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Здравей, радвам се, че пътуването ти хареса 😊.
Nice videos
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 thanks