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! :)

Sydney Light Rail - Alstom Trams replacing cracked CAF Urbos 3 Fleet

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.

Current Chopper C Set Scrap Status

Current Chopper C Set Scrap Status

Updated:

9am - 14/5/2021

 C1 - Standby Set

C2 - Scrapped

C3 - Flemington Maintenance Centre (status unknown)

C4 - Scrapped

C5 - Standby Set

C6 - At Chullora for Scrap

C7 - At Chullora for Scrap

C8 - At Chullora for Scrap

C9 - At Maintrain

C10 - At Chullora for Scrap

C11 - 2 cars saved and at Fire + Rescue Orchard Hills - other 2 cars scrapped

C12 - At Chullora for Scrap

C13 - Scrapped

C14 - Scrapped

New York City Subway R32 Cars Retired

Hi all!

From 1964 to 1965 the Budd Company build 600 stainless steel subway cars for the New York City Subway.

These cars were known as the R32 and R32A type.

They were also known as “Brightliners”.

The R32 cars were numbered 3350 to 3649 and the R32A cars were numbered 3650 to 3949.

As of the night of 1/11/2020 New York time the remaining R32’s were retired from regular passenger service.

Some may be seen out on movie trains.

I dare say some will be kept for heritage trains.

I have heard some have been stored so that if they really really need them they can use them however that’s doubtful as more of the new R179 fleet enter service.

The photo provided shows a trains made of R32 type cars on a C line train at Fulton Street station on 28/5/2019.

For videos on the R32 cars and much more please visit this playlist of videos filmed by me on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-OFdIVf0YcabCNgG3tcgVU0tQDHvZo7j

More new Series 2 Waratah B Sets On The Way!

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone is staying safe during these crazy times.

A friend sent me some interesting photo’s of the first of the second batch of Series 2 Waratah B Sets at the CRRC ChangChun Railway Vehicles Company in China.

We will be getting 17 new sets which will be numbered B25 through to B41.

These photo’s mainly show B25 however in one photo we see another set in the background which at a guess is B26.

Here are some interior photo’s.

Photo credit: CRRC Chanchun Railway Vehicles Company
By the looks of things we will see the first of the new sets in Australia ready for testing in the coming weeks.

Thank you for reading.

Sydney Light Rail: L3 Kingsford Line Now Open

Hi all.

The final piece to to the Sydney CBD & South East Light Rail Project is now open.

The L3 Kingsford Line includes stops at E.S Marks, Kensington, UNSW Anzac Parade, Kingsford and ends at Juniors Kingsford.

Trams run from Juniors Kingsford right into Circular Quay.

Passengers in Kingsford wishing to travel to Randwick via Tram need to change to the L2 line at Moore Park.

Thank you for reading!

Remember to #stayhome and stay safe.

Phil,

Sydney Trains Vlogs.