Indian Pacific - New Livery!

Hi all!

Just a quick one today.

Last Wednesday i decided to head on over to platforms 1-3 at Central station to have a look at the Indian Pacific and noticed loco NR25 freshly painted in the new MkV Indian Pacific Livery.

I’ll add another couple of photo’s below.

Cheers for reading!

NIF (Mariuyng) D Sets Not to Enter Service Until Late 2024

Sydney’s new fleet of Intercity Trains known as Mariyung, D Set or NIF (New Intercity Fleet) have had a rough trot.

With over 80 sets currently in Australia not one has entered service.

There are a number of safety issues that need to be rectified including the need for modifications to make the train suitable for Driver & Guard operation.

At this stage the trains are driver operated only until these modifications are complete.

A link to the news video will be added below.

https://youtu.be/Ha148Tb4CYs

In this video you will see and hear in detail what’s happening with these trains.

It is also made clear that these trains are getting the modifications needed and will not enter service until the later part of 2024.

A good thing in a way right?

More time with our V Sets 😁

These trains are way behind schedule due to the precious government making the silly choice to make them driver only.

They were meant to enter service on the:

Central Coast & Newcastle Line in 2019

Blue Mountains Line in 2020

South Coast Line in 2021

The colossal amount of sets here are stored throughout the network at places including

Broadmeadow Yard

Sulphide Junction

Wollongong Yard

Lithgow Yard

Lithgow Loco

Enfield Yard

Chullora Scrap Yard (my personal favourite)

The costs are crazy too!

Storage is exceeding the 10’s of Millions

Modifications will cost nearly a quarter of a Billion!

The modifications, understandably will take a while but at least the ball is finally rolling.

Cheers for reading 😊

Sydney Central Station - New and Improved Platform Numbering

New and improved platform numbering has been added to the newly opened Central Walk at Sydney Central Railway Station.

The Central Walk is a new passageway (spine) that connects passengers to nearly all platforms at Central Station.

When the Central Walk opened the platform numbers were small corflute signs.

The new and large numbers have been added on the Central Walk near escalators up to platforms 16 & 17, 18 & 19, 20 & 21 and 22 & 23.

More Queensland Videos Coming to Sydney Trains Vlogs

Hi everyone!

As some of you may have noticed, there has been a few Queensland Rail videos uploaded to Sydney Trains Vlogs.

This was from a recent trip at the end of June to the beginning of July.

I am going back to Brisbane around the end of July to see family however i will be filming a few videos as well.

If you would like to see the Queensland Rail videos that are on Sydney Trains Vlogs please visit the playlist link below:

Queensland Rail Vlogs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-OFdIVf0YcbWh9aO2HGziH9gP7693HA9

Thank you for reading.

Be sure to check out my other blog posts.

5,000 Subscribers reached!!

Hi everyone and thank you for reading another STV Blog.

As some of you may have noticed over the past week I have reached 5,000 Subscribers.
I would like to thank you all for watching and subscribing to Sydney Trains Vlogs.
When I first started filming for this channel I never thought I would reach 100 subscribers let alone 5,000!

Because of your continued support it has given me reason to expand STV to Queensland and Victoria with other states such as South Australia and Western Australia coming once I reach 7,500+ subscribers.

If you would like to share my channel link on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit etc the link is below:
www.youtube.com/sydneytrainsvlogs

Stay tuned for more Blogs.
Thank you for reading.

Phil,
Sydney Trains Vlogs

New STV Instagram Account!

Typed on Sunday 3rd April 2016

New STV Instagram Account!

Hi all and welcome to another Sydney Trains Vlogs Blog.

I have started a new Instagram account due to a couple of issues.

I have started a new account so that these isses won't come up again.

This account will be bigger and better than ever!

The account will feature photo's of Trains, Trams, Planes, Ferries and more!

To follow the new Sydney Trains Vlogs Instagram you can find me @sydney_trains_vlogs_youtube

Or use the link below: https://www.instagram.com/sydney_trains_vlogs_youtube/

I post photo's frequently!

By frequently i mean about more than 1 a day.

Thank you all for reading another STV Blog.

Im looking forward to seeing you all on Instagram.

Phil,

Sydney Trains Vlogs.