Melbourne Trains-Southern Cross 4

Friday 18 December 2009, Southern Cross (Spencer St) station, Melbourne: owing to a bushfire that had burnt out signals near Gerogery in southern NSW, the XPT from Sydney, supposed to leave for Sydney at 0830, did not arrive till 0930. So while waiting for the train, I was able to film the broad-gauge action at Southern Cross: A, N, P & Y class, Vlocity and other railcars.

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[horizonstaraus]

Thanks.

Sydney Central is much less interesting (to me). There are lots of boring electric intercity sets, and the Xplorer/ Endeavour railcars are bland. XPTs are photogenic but just run in & out.

The beauty of Spencer St is that so many trains are locomotive-hauled and require shunting, there is such variety of diesel motive power, the Vlocity sets are pretty, the yard is wide open and the carriage sheds so close.

[ben7k]

Great series of videos. Even though it's my home town, I'm surprised by how busy Southern Cross seems at this hour of the day.

Any chance of a similar series from Central in Sydney ?

RE 100th Vlocity carriage, I read somewhere the other day that the Vlocity is the most numerous DMU in Australia ever. Not bad considering how small (less than 20 2 car sets from memory) the original order was 10 years ago.