A V Set at Circular Quay!?

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!

https://youtu.be/UMEuKnasAyI

Cheers for reading! :)

More New Mariyung Trains Delivered for Sydney

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! :)

The Return of V40

Typed on: Tuesday 1st March 2016

The Return of V40:

In 2015 V40 & V48 were involved in a collision in Mount Victoria Yard on the Blue Mountains Line causing damage to the fiberglass fronts on DJM8113 (V48) & DKM8144 (V40).

The 2 good cars were taken off each set and they formed V48.

DJM8113 & DKM8144 (with attached trailer cars) formed V40 and were sent to UGL Unipart for major repairs to the fibreglass fronts.

Here's a photo of V40 repaired.. Good as new.

Put it this way.. After the accident V40 has 2 of V48's cars and vise versa and thats how it will stay.

Out of the 8 cars 2 good cars from V40 and 2 good cars from V48 formed the new V48 and returned to service almost immediately while the bad cars from V40 & 48 formed the new V40.

I hope im making sense with this! Lol

Thank you all for reading another STV Blog.

See you all next time.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.