Carrot & Spud - The New PHC Class Locomotives

Typed on: Tuesday 1st March 2016

Hi everyone.

Today i want to talk about the new PHC Class loco's i was talking about in the previous Blog.

If you want to know all the info then please check out the previous Blog called Farewell C Classes or C Class Farewell.

I want to show you all a few photo's of Carrot and Spud.

Photo below: PHC001 (Carrot).

Photo below: PHC002 (Spud).

The photo below shows Carrot & Spud making their way into UGL Broadmeadow after a morning of testing to Maitland/Telarah and back.

These new loco's will be on the Sandgate to Port Botany and return runs 4190 & 1491 in early March this year.

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Catch you all later!

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.

Farewell C Classes

Typed on: Tuesday 1st March 2016

Hi all.

Today i want to talk about the last days of the C Classes on 4190 and 1491 runs.

For those who don't know what these runs are, they are the Crawfords runs.

4190 - Sandgate to Port Botany

1491 - Port Botany to Sandgate

In early March 2016 the C Classes will be taken off these runs and replaced with PHC Classes.. The PHC Classes are C44aci model locomotives.

There will be 2 PHC Class loco's. They also have funky names!

PHC001 (Carrot)

PHC002 (Spud)

In the next blog ill be talking about the new loco's.

Pictures will be included.

Thank you all for reading another STV Blog.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.

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.

Retired VarioTrams

Typed on: Tuesday 1st March 2016

Retired VarioTrams:

Last weekend i went for a drive to take photo's of the 6 VarioTrams stored at an undisclosed location.

VarioTrams 2101, 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105 & 2107 are stored here. (Not in this order).

2106 was scrapped a while ago due to a derailment at Glebe.

When Sydney's Light Rail network was extended from Lilyfield to Dulwich Hill we had Urbos 2 Trams on loan from Spain for the increased number of trams needed.

They were numbered 2108-2111.

These trams were sent back to Spain once some of the New Urbos 3 trams were delivered.

Unfortunately i never got a photo of an Urbos 2 tram.

The Vario's were retired in mid 2015 and all replaced with the new Urbos 3 Trams as seen in the photo below.

Im dissapointed with the Vario's being retired seeing they are so young.

Oh well, you can't avoid change i guess.

We have 12 Urbos 3 Trams numbered 2112 - 2124 except 2113.

Apparently 2113 was skipped because it would bring bad luck to passengers travelling to The Star Casino.

When the new Sydney City Light Rail opens we will have new Citadis X05 Trams.

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Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.

A Splash of Colour

Wednesday 17th February 2016

G'day everyone and welcome to another STV Blog.

Today i want to show you a few photos of mine ive been tampering with.

Making them black and white and giving them a splash of colour!

Lets get started!

Photo 1: SSR Classes leading a BGSY Grain wagons south through Meadowbank.

Photo 2: T4 & Y2 next to eachother at Cronulla.

T4 was with T107 preparing to depart for Bondi Junction.

Y2 was doing some Digital Train Radio System (DTRS) testing.

Photo 3: A row of trains at Central Sydney Terminal.

Photo 4: Making the poles and hand rails stand out on Tangara car D6141.

Photo 5: Red Signals at the Sydney end of Cronulla station.

Photo 6: A Tangara on Platform 25 at Central.

Photo 7: An Epping bound Waratah arrives into Platform 2 at Meadowbank.

Photo 8: Some BGSY Grain wagons at Cockle Creek.

Photo 9: Lady Northcott at Circular Quay.

Photo 10: A Sydney Explorer sightseeing bus at Pyrmont Bay.

Photo 11: The lone speed sign.

This speed sign reading "80" is located where tracks use to be near Newcastle Station.

Photo 12: Oscar Set H23 passing through the peaceful and beautiful Wondabyne Station on a service to Hamilton/Newcastle.

Photo 13: A red flower with a V Set in the background at Hazelbrook Station in the Blue Mountains.

Photo 14: Track Inspection Vehicle MTPV2 passes through Cockle Creek Station headed towards Hamilton.

Photo 15: A Blue Sydney Metro Wristband with the Cherrybrook Station Box & Construction in the background.

Photo 16: The Sydney XPT returning from Grafton passes through Cockle Creek.

I hope you all enjoyed these photo's.

Ill do some more over the next few days and ill make another Blog out of them.

What one did you like best?

Let me know in the comments.

Thank you all for reading.

See you in the next Blog.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.

ATP Oscars Return To Service

Wednesday 17th February 2016

Hi everyone and welcome to another STV Blog.

Today i want to talk about ATP Oscar Sets H4 & H5 (shown below).

H4 below.

H5 below.

The photo's above show Oscar sets H4 & H5 at Central with their pantographs down.

These Oscars have been ATP Testing for a couple of years.

It appears that they are ready to return to service.

ATP stands for Automatic Train Protection.

I will post an update Blog one i confirm that they are returning to service.

Thanks for reading.

Keep checking back for more Blogs.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.

The Old Videos Playlist

Tuesday 16th February 2016

Hi everyone and welcome to another STV Blog.

Today i want to talk about the Old Videos Playlist i have on YouTube (link is below).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-OFdIVf0Ycas2n93dxH82vRFNNISf0Bp

The old videos has 97 videos taken back in 2009-2010 with a Nokia C3.

These videos are really bad quality haha.

In this list of videos you will find the prototype Waratah under test.

A semi derailed S Set over my back fence of the house i use to live in.

G Sets, which are now T Sets numbered T100 and over.

S Sets that have now been scrapped.

S111 & S147 for example.

A01 when it was under test before it returned to China for modification.

Plus much more.

Thank you all for reading.

I hope to see you next time on another STV Blog.

Phil, Sydney Trains Vlogs.