Sydney Trains Vlogs: January 2022

On Sunday 9th January i was out and about in Sydney’s City.

For some reason i checked NextThere to see if anything abnormal was going to pass Circular Quay in the coming hours.

Sure enough a V Set was shown in the list of trains!

So i walked up to Circular Quay to wait for the V Set.

I filmed a number of trains while waiting. About 40 minutes after arriving, there it was, set V14 arrived into Platform 1 bound for Katoomba.

Here’s the video if you want to check it out!

Cheers for reading! :)

On the night of Monday 17th January 2022 two more Mariyung D Sets were transferred from Inner Harbour to Eveleigh.

The new sets are D24 and D124 and were delivered behind locomotive 8049.

The video linked below features the transfer of these sets plus a few other trains at Erskineville station.

We now officially have enough D Sets in Australia to wipe out the V Set fleet.

However this may not happen for some time due to some unresolved issues.

Cheers for reading! :)

In mid/late 2021 cracks were found in Sydney’s CAF Urbos 3 Tram Fleet.

The Urbos 3 trams ran the L1 Inner West Light Rail Line until these cracks were found.

All of the Urbos 3 fleet were pulled from service meaning the closure of the L1 line for approx an announced 18 months with buses replacing trams.

In late 2021 a solution was discovered.

The L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford Light Rail Lines use Alstom Citadis X05 trams.

The solution is to use some of the Citadis X05 fleet on the L1 line.

Some alterations had to be made as the Citadis X05 fleet leave a gap between the tram and the platform at L1 stops.

The Citadis X05 fleet should start taking passengers along the L1 line in the first quarter of 2022.

These trams will run until the Urbos fleet have been repaired.

The Urbos fleet were transferred to Randwick Light Rail Depot for storage and future repair.

This video shows a couple of Citadis X05 units on the L1 Inner West Line.

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