Please make a video on the mono rail 🙏. love your vids

Great vid! Thanks!

Sydney needs more Tways to feed to train stations

Busses are much faster down Parramatta road. Reducing busses in favour of trams would make my daily commute twice as long.

Absolutely no reason why an eastern suburbs light rail could not be mined under the city and then head out up Oxford street and then either join up with the eastern suburbs line at Bondi junction to Bondi or head further north linking double bay, rose bay etc….

I'd rather have the old timber trams doing the run than the light rail as they would make a great tourist attraction!!! But apparently the Muppets of the state government don't realise that???

What about the convict powred trams?

roses are red, violets are blue, trains, trams and buses come in all sorts of hue ;) my playlist #2 is about transportaion

Fantastic video! Thanks! Did the trams stop at Woollahra?

Excellent video. I remember when the tunnels were used as a car park.

Perth has teased light rail so much, even until now. I wish We could do what sydney did and put them back in

I went to Parramatta from Dundas last weekend to buy some guitar strings. Left home at 1pm and got back home at 1:30 😮

i am so glad that you agreed with me the difference between light rail and trams Neil Forbes gets very confused at times between the two.

So what?? We've got fkng world class SYDNEY METRO which many states and countries would only fkng HOPE. Stop complaining and don't take things for granted, appreciated what we've got.

Mona's wall of carn'ts is a bit rugged.

Rebuilding destroyed heritage buildings is a waste of funds. Why can't they spend our taxes on hospital beds instead?

Went and saw it yesterday, lovely bike ride alongside. I’m so glad you got that video of the gates opening!! Especially seeing your origin story of the Eastern Suburbs line opening, being the same age as you, it was one or two “rail mania” eras ago. This current era really is the best one 50 years either side, I’d speculate.

Another place for the smarties and poli friends to get their snout in the trough

Can hardly wait to use it! Parramatta is big enough to deserve infrastructure like this

i'm hearing tourner de la vide somewhere in the background 🎶 literally a metal snail ya got here 🐌 👍

please avoid filiming people

So Parramatta has light rail now wonderful

It’s so good to hear the cheers for proper light rail. Something we won’t have in Brisbane with our fancy bendy buses.

Great video. Many thanks Marty.

Its nice how people still turn out to see things like this.

My son and I waited till around 9am to hop onboard at Fennell Street. Only went to Westfields but I was happy to see how nice the light rail went. Thanks for posting, Marty.

GDay - Its great to see a modern lightrail system operating in Sydney finally...Its decades overdue!

Hi Marty, thanks for sharing this excellent video. I rode on the Parramatta Park Museum steam trams several times during the 1970s and my last visit there was in 1983. Also, my dad actually rode on one of the Parramatta steam trams heading to the wharf in about 1941. The light rail conversion there reminds me a lot of the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines down here, which are light rail tram lines previously converted from train lines. You were at the opening of the Eastern Suburbs Railway?? Wow!! So was I, though I am not sure if I saw the very first train. Hey, you should have given me a wave!!! LOL. Incidentally, when I was very young, my dad took me to the newly opened Circular Quay Station. I remember seeing some teenagers sliding down the hand rail areas of the escalators. Anyway, take care. Rob in Melbourne Australia.

Congrats to everyone who helped build this new infrastructure for Parramatta and surrounds!

I wonder why they didn't use the new trams like the ones in Sydney.

A short video on the potential expansion to Newcastle light rail would be great. I think Newcastle in the next few decades is poised for major growth especially with the talk of fast rail to Sydney.

They really should work out way of connecting to Epping, giving connection to heavy rail and metro

Can't wait to try this out next time I visit Parra!

10:50 I was at the opening of the Eastern Suburbs Line with my parents and brother in 1979. I remember it well. The only other inaugural I’ve been on was the first Canberra-Sydney Xplorer in 1993 (?).

Since we are really getting into improved transport infrastructure, we need to concentrate on HOW we build them, where we build them and the experience for commuters. The construction period is enormously destructive and deadly for anyone, particularly businesses unlucky to be in the way of the overly long and mostly late construction times. They are being built in some very odd and inconvenient locations by people I am almost certain will never use them. The stations do not integrate well with or add to their neighbourhoods. They are almost universally dull, and dead, often with difficult or restricted access that slows down the journey. There is no life, no bustle, no community, no social interaction, no personality around the waiting areas. A result of the engineers who design the infrastructure. One thing I notice is despite there are hundreds if not thousands of poles and other essential structures there does not seem to be any attempt at design for mass manufactured efficiency with style. The shelters are suitably boring and sanitised but everything else is weld jobs and a lot of stuff just to make it stay up, not much else. That and a heck of a lot of unattractive carbon generating concrete.

Will it extend to Epping?

Never imagined ever seeing this...

That Carlingford line whilst historical seemed pointless and they just never started developing from industrial into residential or mixed. I hope the tram changes that. A lot of wasted land when we have a housing shortage. I think that extension will be a good one....... Also called it Melrose Place and use to live a few streets away.

Made it in at the start as an extra in the blue shirt! It was a fantastic day for Parramatta, and a fantastic day for Public Transport and the revival of trams which are desperately needed! I love all the work you do describing the old tram lines in detail! It helps me a lot with the stuff I do! And it’s given me a few extra bushwalks to do on old tram lines! Thanks again, Matthew

Gee Jo Haylon was already in the tram leaving the depot….

HOW DUMB ARE YOU? HOW CAN A STATION BURN DOWN IN 2016 AND BE REBUILT IN 2007?

they should have extend to Epping! Going just to Carlingford is just ok if it was extended to Epping metro that would been the best option.

6:17 wow it hasn’t really changed a lot in the area

Thanks Marty for the very informative journey of yours. Keep doing more videos

Is that Jo Haylen on the tram leaving the depot

Wow, thanks for putting this together for us, great stuff. It's great we have an opportunity to celebrate another tram line in Sydney.

Hang on did I get this right? You said "my mother took me to the opening of the Eastern Suburbs Railway back in 1979....", does that mean you are easily past 50 or close to 60? No way you dont sound that old.

had no idea this was finally running lol good to know!

I can see myself in the video! It was very exciting to ride the first service.

Nicely done