Exploring BATHURST on a day trip by TRAIN!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- This week, I decide to take a train ride to check out a place I’ve never been to before, Bathurst. On a random day off, and having never been there before, I decided to catch the XPT from Sydney and take a little look around.
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Filmed: 25th June 2024
Departure: Sydney, Central Station.
Arrival: Bathurst Station
Cost: AUD$25.18 Each way.
Duration: 3.5 hours, each way
Class: Economy
Tickets: transportnsw.info
I'd say meeting the random street cat is a big win. Now I have to go just for that
You can catch a train from central to westmead and there 2 per day will be a train nick named the Bathurst bullet it will go along the bmt line and form a kid card it was 3.61 and adult was 6.13 (opal). It was an interesting train line going though some stunning country, ps Bathurst local
The “medieval castle” is the Bathurst hospital. There are also other cool castle type buildings including Stannies the Catholic boy High school and Abercrombie house, a Victorian Tudor style stately home with an incredible history.
Stannies is quite an impressive building. Some nice old buildings also at the two Scots All Saints campuses (both schools merged a few years back).
millions of people know bathurst for the road that goes around the top of the mountain , very cool to see someone show the town !
Great video! However you could have gotten the NSW train link coach from Lithgow using your opal card or catch the Bathurst bullet they both would be around $7
Way too early for me, this worked much better for timing. Just my thought though!
The cat rolling around behind him at 5:23…
I'm glad you went into The Victoria. Every time you showed the train station, I was going, "Walk across the road!" My family and I had dinner at The Victoria when we visited Bathurst at the end of last year. The food was fantastic and the jug of Aperol Spritz led to much merriment. Would definitely do again.
I like the friendly local that you met. 😺
Yeah, it came running up to me to say hi, so friendly 🤣
Thank You Sharing 😊
That was a good video of Bathurst. You’ve covered a lot in one day. I tend rely at the tourist information centres or maps for advice instead of this ‘you should’ve went there’ lol
You certainly took the better option, IMO. The Bathurst Bullet, an Xplorer class DMU, has terrible timings for a day trip from Sydney, and is also quite uncomfortable, IMO. Not only is it noisy when climbing, the joys of DMUs, it uses cramped and hard commuter style seating, which might be ok for within Sydney itself, but very uncomfortable for over 3 hours. The Endeavour DMUs, similar to what's used for the Canberra service, would have been better IMO. At least they have a cafe and XPT style seating, even if the rolling stock is the same. My nearest station is Tarana :) The 'castle' is the old Bathurst Hospital. It's now used as the hospital outpatients clinic, with the modern hospital next door. Whilst I'm not in Bathurst itself, it's a lovely place. I suggest coming back in spring, outside race time of course, and visit Tremain's Mill, which you would seem to have walked past, it's next to the pub you had your beer :)
Bathurst has a Winter Festival every year in July which is a rather nice
Hey Josh, what a great quick review of a Bathurst day trip. Don't worry that you may have missed a thing or two I thoroughly enjoyed it. Cheers and a BIG thumbs up.
Thanks for that!
Great idea, keep 'em coming... Thanks
Thanks, will do!
I've stayed at The Victoria many times on my travels. Top hotel!
Great video. You need to do many more like that one! Bathurst looks good. Have never been there either.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure about this one, I was trying something new and not so sure how it would turn out or be received 🙂
Hey Josh great short video 📹. I like to wander at my own pace especially if it's my first time at a place. Looking forward to going Bathurst sometime too 😊 I didn't know you had to purchase tickets on the Transport website 😮
I was born in the area , excellent review and your right its a great place to visit.
Did this about 2 weeks ago on the XPT. Had a hire car, the only way to get around for any longer than a day. Stayed 3 nights at the Rydges on the track. Bloody brilliant!
Sir I thank you for your video! I followed your path to Bathurst last weekend by XPT and enjoyed the journey very much. Please make more videos like this 👍🏻 ❤
Glad you had a good time!
Also Annie’s Ice cream !!!! With some pretty average ice cream
The building you said looked like a medieval castle was Our old hospital built 1800's replaced in 2007, still used as a teaching hib
Interesting way to spend a day. Nice video to show Bathurst is more than the V8 track
Excellent video, very well put together and enjoyable to watch. New sub also in Sydney.
Thanks, appreciate it!
one street south of the station is Reckless Brewing, far more interesting than the Victoria
You definitely went to a lot of the more interesting places.
There's one place you missed and it was Annie's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlour, they make some of the best Ice Cream.
Next time, you should do a tour of Abercrombie House,if you have time, its probably a little far out of town to walk to(maybe 5kms), but a short taxi ride will get ya there cheap enough, and also a lap around Mount Panorama in a taxi would be money well spent, if you're into V8 racing
I came to the conclusion before I left that I would need to miss the out of town things (except the motor racing museum, that was closed). I have always planned on stopping properly with a car one day, so I will leave those for when I pass back through there!
I love your videos
thanks good video keep em coming
Im actually going to orange in September, and part of the journey is stopping in Bathurst
Uber / Taxi 15 minutes $25. Train 200km for $25. Bathurst looks beautiful.
The steam locomotive is Ben Chifley's, the steam engine driver who rose to be Prime Minister.
Great Video Josh! Bathurst is a beautiful place
yes please
The (probably apocryphal) story is that Bathurst Courthouse is so grand because, when it was being built, the Colonial Office accidentally sent the plans for an impressive Imperial courthouse intended for the jewel in the crown, India, instead of the more modest design intended for a small country town in New South Wales. As I say, probably not true, but a fun story nevertheless.
Similar to the story about the huge Maryborough Railway Station in Victoria, rumour was that it was meant to be Spencer Street Station but the Minister of Railways lived in Maryborough and pushed for it to be built there. Maryborough was intended to be a major regional town but that went to Bendigo.
I believe the original plans were sent to Bathurst ,NSW, instead of Bathurst in South Africa ..which kind of ,makes more sense
That 'castle' building in the distance is the hospital
Looks like lots to do in what I thought was a small country town!
Over 40 thousand residents. That's pretty big for a country town
It passes by Liftgow
Yeh do more!
I'll have to check out Bathurst next time I'm in Australia.
Dubbo next time 🤣 it is 6 hours so bit long for a day trip
The architecture in bathurst is amazing. The only problem is that a lot of the roads outside are dirt roads, but are visible on google maps, which thinks it dirt roads and asphalt roads the same. Luckily you did not go by car
All the main roads and particularly the Great Western Highway and the Bells Line of Road (alternative to the GWH over the Blue Mountains) are fully sealed, good quality roads with excellent scenery stops available along the way and quicker than the train if driving without any stops. Plus, driving by car gives more options for exploring around the Bathurst area within the time available for your visit.
By car it’s just 5 minutes from the Bathurst CBD to the Pit Straight/Conrod Straight corner of the Mount Panorama race track and the nearby National Motor Racing Museum. From that corner you can drive either around the track clockwise (reverse to the race-direction) up Conrod Straight via The Chase and visit the Bathurst Goldfields or alternatively, from the Conrod/Pit Straight corner you can turn right to go past the pits and then turn up Mountain Straight in the race direction (anti-clockwise) for a picnic and the views at the top of the mountain.
a day trip to dubbo will be good for you next time on the xpt
Great Video as always, but why didn’t you take the Bathurst Bullet if I might ask?
In bathurst fossil museum, i decided to by a $100 dinosaur fossil, and still have it
The Building at 4:25 is the hospital
Bathurst
what about the Bathurst Bullet?
Hold on.... I WAS ON THAT TRAINNNN
Wagga next?
just saying, you could’ve taken the mt victoria service and changed there for a bathurst service and you can use the opal card.
Even Goulburn is about the same distance
@@MitchellBPYao cool. thanks
Please speak slower Josh. Some words are difficult to catch. Love your videos and I loved Bathurst when I did an overnight stopover there. Keep them coming.
Enjoyed video but please stop speeding things up all the time, like trains coming in and out of stations. Thanks
You have $258 each way in your subtitles🫣😳
I don’t make the subtitles, it’s done automatically from UA-cam 🙃