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The XPT is lower geared than the British 125, so it was never going to match it for speed.

Wish we had high speed rail or something...

With the class divide M-Train did not cover toorak, the toorak station is in Armadale, once you cross Malvern road you are in toorak. Heyington (very accessible station) is in toorak. However the stations between South Yarra - Malvern are very affluent areas. (Goes for all stonnington suburbs lol). As someone who lives in those areas I have discovered the names are very deceiving.

I believe the E-class trams have buttons that operate the same as the HCMTs (it might be a different class of tram, I'm not quite sure), which was quite frustrating for me the first time a used one as I missed my stop repeatedly trying to press the button when it was presumably on cooldown.

guys we need the tilt tait set

RAAAHHHHHH XPT MENTIONED 🚄🚄🚄🚄🚄🚄🚄WTF IS AN ON TIME SERVICE ⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Wonderful! Takes me back to between 2001 and 2006 when my family of 2, then 3 kids would come here most Sundays to ride the trains when they were all very little. They have all grown up now. one day I will come back. Thanks for the ride backwards and around a different unusual route. The best 7-1/4" railway anywhere!

210 on narrow guage rail that impressive and presumably also a really rough ride.

Suddenly a dead pigeon.

i wonder if we can just, [insert jet train].

taitset, what are your thoughts on a sandringham to antarctica extension?

NSW just doesn't get HSR. UP THE MAROONS!!!

Nice

The Electric Tilt Train is my favourite Australian train!

Its weird that the top operating speed for an Australian train is on narrow gauge tracks rather than on the broad/standard gauge track. Usually, trains operate more quickly on wider gauges so...

Surely theirs somewhere in Australia they can get an XPT upto 125mph. Or is it a flaw with the train design itself ?

in perth, we dont have any express trains

I like how the electrical engineer included a cute little loop on the X-trap power distribution cables. 😉

Does the common rail need to be replaced more frequently?

I always thought they were satanic death cult symbols 😜

Great video!! One thing to mention at Camberwell is in some cases off peak that platform 2 is a dedicated alamein detraining platform. All down trains use the points and use platform 3 so it makes it easier to interchange to alamein I suppose rather than having to cross the bridge. Naturally its a completely different arrangement during peak hour with all lines going to the city and many trains speeding through camberwell! Open to correction ofc

Am I the only one who noticed that Coldstream is set on the Hitachi at 17:05? Is this an Easter egg or something, cause the station has been closed since the 80s??

I still miss the seats of the hitachi's so much padding. I feel like i remember the comengs having the same seats when i was a kid, but i dont know if thats misremembering or not

Who else had a plastic school pass?

wait . what. Old train tickets collectable!!! no way !!!!! I never would have in a million years guessed that this was a thing. Hence, I would have thrown out hundreds ~ maybe thousands of these tickets. lol

“We don’t traditionally like to learn from other states” 😂😂😂

I find it ironic that Melbourne's public transport network is privatised to private companies partly owned by foreign governments. Metro Trains Melbourne majority-owned by MTR Corporation which itself is majority-owned by Hong Kong Government. And Yarra Trams operated by Keolis Downer which is half-owned by Keolis of which is jointly owned by the SNCF, French national railway company owned by the French government, and an investment fund of the Canadian provncial government of Quebec.

There were also small ones that had limited options- like north wollongong - where you could get only the tickets for selected south coast line and city. You had to buy a ticket at the other end of your trip if you went beyond central.

I was really curious about the trains out side japan. It’s really different in here.

I don't think those are T classes at 16:50, they would be X or XR?

11:25 Richmond station looks a lot different now: shelters now cover the entire platform and the exit towards John Cain Arena is undercover too.

The irony with the Overland is the same issues are now being faced with the IP in Perth. Because Our state government's METRONET wants to increase trains on the already overcrowded Midland/Airport and soon to be Ellenbrook line, they're kicking the IP out from East Perth Terminal... the station that they built SPECIFICALLY FOR THE INDIAN PACIFIC! and instead, they're making it terminate at Kewdale freight depot, and bussing passengers into town... To be fair, one would immediately say that the Midland line currently does not have the capacity on it's dual-track route before they went and opened the Airport line, and the only logical way to increase capacity is to build a third or fourth line adjacent to the current one to sustain the trains, which currently is not possible due to the embankments the route covers are surrounded by roads at either end...

nah perth is best

You should talk about the W series train

Never forget the old paper tickets! Those machines were like an early form of pokies for some of us Sydney kids. Put money in, get a colourful card in return and end up somewhere random 😅.

Actually I’ve got a question, how come with most M-T-M sets the numbers of the trailer cars seemingly go way higher than motor cars despite being outnumbered 2-1?

My dad always refered to them (and comengs) as silver trains. Obviously as opposed to the Harris trains and red rattlers.

You put a lot of effort into making this video, thank you.

I used to make my own each week, in photoshop and print them out and just show them at the gates. Saved thousands each year

perth trains run really different to melbourne in terms of whistles, literally the only time they get whistled is when kids wave to the train going into a station

What sbout Wondabyne to Woy Woy Single?

Thanks for the vid dude. Great work.

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Unfortunately, NZ's obsession with business and capitalism for decades has ruined infrastructure including trains due to cancellations. The service is abysmal.

My life is now complete!

I've been on the vline trains a lot both the Sprinter and VLocity. I vaguely remember the N sets

Living on the Craigieburn line, I'll be glad to eventually see the Comeng trains replaced with modern ones like others on the network.

Best trains ever!!

A well-timed upload, seeing as I was just in Melbourne. Regarding the driving trailer in the middle of the Tait EMU, I thought that was confusing, especially after seeing the preserved set on the Sunbury Line last weekend. My favourite Melbourne EMU is easily the Comeng. That's because I generally prefer older trains to new ones, and the Comeng's traction motor sound is great. I guess the one thing I don't like or understand about these units is the fact that you have to pull the doors open rather than pressing a button. In any case, by favourite Comeng coach is 352M, and my second favourite Melbourne EMU is the refurbished Harris.

So thats where tait set comes from