4K cab view - Sydney Light Rail L3 Kingsford Line Circular Quay to Juniors Kingsford, NSW Australia

4K cab view footage of the entire Circular Quay to Juniors Kingsford section of Australia's Sydney Light Rail L3 Kingsford line, which opened in April 2020.
The line starts at Circular Quay third gauge (above-ground collection), switches to overhead wire collection at Town Hall, passes through an underground tunnel just before Moore Park and arrives at the end of the line at Kingsford Junior, the bus facing transfer station.
The day was an interesting ride with a friendly driver.
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[@stephanburgess654]

I can't believe the tram system is back in Sydney. So well done.

[@cappaahiru]

車輛がカッコよく、街並みも綺麗ですね。 季節感もすばらしい。 日本も新しいトラムが出来るので期待大です。

[@Wooooofffff]

00😊😊😊😊

[@AmbientWalking]

There's always something amazing to watch on your channel. It brightens my day to travel with you. Thanks so much!

[@metricstormtrooper]

Nice to see light rail in my old home town But it painfully slow, doesn't seem to have any priority over the cars . It's good to see the units double banked though, they could seriously shift a LOT of passengers.

[@RobertMurphy-sx8lc]

The units double-banked doesn't seem necessary off-peak. Surely this could be changed to suit the time of day/weekday?

[@rowead]

Goes fast enough. The first part of George Street is very busy with pedestrians .

[@rmoz2729]

Packed on a cricket run from Central to the SCG (stop just after the tunnel).

[@woohooboy]

Who on Earth wants to be on a mode on public transport that is SO slow. I caught this very service earlier this year and was not impressed. You can see from this video how "fast" it is........ Sorry I don't have time as a commuter to be on a form of transportation that has an average speed of less than 35km per hour. The route only picks up speed once the tram gets beyond Surry Hills. Thanks but no thanks.

[@liennen5868]

@@woohooboy Yeah, looks like a glorified travelator.

[@hitoshiym]

地下を走るトラムがあるなんて正直びっくりしました!😮

[@jamesfrench7299]

Sub surface. Cut and cover method.

[@dirkfernengel749]

​@@jamesfrench7299❤9

[@N--T]

プロメトロとかシュタットバーンなど、中心部では地下になるトラムは欧米には結構ある。

[@akaidensya2000]

車両が先進的でかっこいい。 日本にも商業エリアを貫く路面電車あればいいのにな…

[@7416P]

日本だと本格的な地下鉄じゃないと捌けなぐらい人が乗るので…

[@男海-f6m]

人が多過ぎるから無理

[@stephensydenstricker8416]

paw patrol;

[@on_noji]

この路線の始発駅から16:30くらいまでは近郊鉄道とほぼ同じ区間を走ってます。 14:30くらいから右に見えるのがシドニー・セントラル駅。15:20あたりで上を走ってる電車がタウンホールあたりから地下を走ってます。 うまいこと遠近分離が図られてますね。

[@soti5646]

初めまして、やっぱ海外ってこういうライトレールとかトラムが似合いますよね、それにしても途中に有った中心部みたいなとこを専用軌道で走るのは凄いです

[@williamstringer6519]

What a wonderful laid-back impression of what I call a tram, in stately progress through a large city, with people wandering around the CBD at a leisurely pace in beautiful sunshine. It is an enviable example for citizens of more frenetic cities around the globe.

[@AustNRail]

Yes agreed, it is a slow piece of crap that pales to the third largest tram network that occupied previously the same space and was built at 1% of the cost this monstrosity.

[@williamstringer6519]

@@AustNRail I am intrigued by your comment. Why is it crap? My only memory of the Sydney tram system, as an eighty-year-old occasional visitor to Sydney was from the old days when Sydney even had those rather small double deck busses as well as charming trams including the whimsically entitled "toast racks". I feel obliged to mention Melbourne here, as it has the largest tram system in the world, which I find very impressive.

[@louiscypher4186]

@@williamstringer6519 Because it costs shit tonnes, took yonks to build and despite being given the right of way it's slower then the bus used to take. In fact it cost so much more money then they said it would that they cut bus services to justify the cost. So we paid more money for a slower service just because trams are currently "hip" and in a decade or two we'll be forking out billions again to replace the electrical equipment. They could have made this route a dedicated bus lane for a fraction of the price in half the time and achieved higher speeds. Also the fact they call it "light rail" is cringe and deserves to be hated simply for following yanky terminology.

[@williamstringer6519]

@@louiscypher4186 Thank you for the information. It is too easy for me to sit here in Toowoomba and have opinions on things I know nothing about. Clearly things are never as straightforward as they appear. My affection for trams dates back to my childhood when Brisbane used to have them. Anyway, Melbourne seems to have made a success of them.

[@ulfw]

Why is it going so slowly? It's often barely faster than walking.

[@雪見だいふく-w4m]

Great to see more videos about trains in Australia! Looking forward for more!

[@Tokkaitoku]

おぉ...! シャレオツな街の雰囲気にスマートな低床者が上手く溶け込んでいますね...

[@robertlewis7237]

thank you for sharing the ride on trams as been 1983 last see Kingsford with my grand mother live

[@jess.hawkins]

The track geometry at the terminal station at the start of the video is really pleasing!

[@SenbaMasaki]

非常に気になりますが、水たまりができるくらいの雨でも電気が取り出せるのですかね。ショートさせないようにどうやってるのか、今ひとつ理解が追いついてません。不思議なシステムの印象です。

[@BobJnekins]

The electricity is generated from the overhead cables, which you will see at the beginning. The tram only collects energy for a bit of time, before lowering the pantograph. So to answer your question, no, as the rails don’t contain any electricity, and the wires are safely protected

[@njz1]

@@BobJnekinsThis is actually not true for the city section of the L2/L3, which run on a unique system of third rail electrification, and is visible as the metal bit between the tracks in the beginning. This then swaps at town hall station, where the trams put up their pantographs to collect overhead power. To answer the initial question, I think there is some sort of electrical protection to allow them to work in rain, although I think it is designed in a way that large puddles are unable to form due to drainage and the design of the surrounding area.

[@ぐっさん環状]

10両編成の路面電車って凄い！ 日本だとせいぜい３両編成 ほとんどの都市だと１両か２両編成の路面電車ばかり

[@Mine-s8b]

広島の路面電車は5両編成ですよ！

[@ぐっさん環状]

@@Mine-s8b それでは広島の路面電車が日本最長ですね？ 路面電車王国の広島はまるでヨーロッパの都市みたいに見えてきます(笑)

[@nickclark2278]

Thank you for documenting the seamless light rail to bus interchange at the end

[@javierguidounicaud6621]

Thank you for this video showing a tram cab ride in the streets of Sydney. It was a very nice walk in a splendid sunny day.

[@simplesimon2802]

Its great to see the tramway 'in action', not least because I'm in London UK and cannot get to see it for myself. But, the speed limits look like something out of a dystopian horror film ... so slow ... no wonder journeys often take longer than the buses (as per other comments) and the tramway has not been performing as well as it really should be. More than anything else the one thing that will make the system more enticing is for all speed limits around the system to be at least 10km/h higher - in some places even more!

[@Croz89]

Honestly the speed limit in the tunnel should be at least 50 and probably 60.

[@simplesimon2802]

@@Croz89 is that miles per hour or kilometers per hour ?

[@Croz89]

@@simplesimon2802 km/h.

[@simplesimon2802]

@@Croz89 in that case 50 is somewhat slow and 60 mediocre - I suppose that the tramway is fully unsignaled / line of sight; otherwise even higher speed limits would seem reasonable

[@Croz89]

@@simplesimon2802 For the tunnel with those curves, a reduced speed would probably be necessary, though I think the current speed is still too slow. The traffic separated sections could have block signalling for higher speeds with boom gates at crossings, that's what is done in many light rail systems throughout the world, though it depends on the frequency of the trams.

[@HunterKutz]

I know overhead cantilevers are cheaper and easier to manage. But this looks so much better without a spaghetti of wires above the road!

[@sellier-bellot22]

Long trams compared to our trams over here !!!🥸

[@山口拓哉-i1y]

地下を走る路面電車って、日本では滋賀県の京阪京津線のみ‼️

[@dominicdisano5937]

At 9:15 the power seems to switch to overhead catenary lines from a power line in the street? I’ve never seen something like that before! Very Cool!

[@Roadrunnerz45]

yes this was alstom's own design and technology i understand. normally they use battery as done in newcastle and will be done in parramatta.

[@TM.88tXtwnym]

日本もこういうの、目指してほしいけれど。

[@mountainous_port]

God sydney has a beautiful CBD!

[@pikakas]

集電方式を切り替えている理由はどうしてだろう・・？ ゆくゆくは全区間が地上集電になるのかな？

[@kenjiyoshida4114]

9:50のTown Hall駅で、第三軌条の集電方式から架線集電方式への切り替えが発生しているんですね。 ライトレールでこの方式を使っているところは、他にはあるのかな？

[@ashismitra1512]

Rio de Janeiro, Dubai

[@gregessex1851]

If the only thing it did was force cars out of George Street and give it back to people, then it is worth the price.

[@marceloorangesomniere]

As placas estão em inglês. O nomes das estações também. Já vi esse tipo de trem ou monotrilho de rua em Houston ... A questão que queria entender é quem copiou quem nessas construções.

[@FoxInFlame]

It's interesting how there's no spider web of cables above! Maybe it's different between trams and light rails, but in Zurich, all trams source electricity from cables in the air, so junctions are very messy. How is safety guaranteed with the electricity sourced from the ground (presumably from the middle rail?)

[@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042]

It doesn't turn on unless the tram is on top of it

[@TheSsalty]

Afaik the teams run wirefree though the CBD, before they go back to regular pantograph operations past Central. Pretty sure this is only true of the L2 and L3 lines, the Urbos 3 (L1 line) is different in many different ways

[@williamchirgwin8754]

Hello Fox, the construction of the light rail in Sydney cost a fortune, more than it should have and took far longer to build than expected. It has two sources of electric power supply. The below electrical cost the tax payers far more per kilometre, for superficial reasons, not practical, it was installed. Sydney had the largest tram network in the world up to around 1962, the then corrupt government shut it all down over night, an autocratic political decision that has had terrible results up to now. It is great to get just a small part of the tram network back after so many years, it makes sense for so many people. It is a shame it terminates at Kingfordsmith (on Anzac Parade), the tram used to go all the way to La Perouse along Anzac parade once. Melbourne kept their tram system, which is now the largest in the world today.

[@野良の三毛猫]

😢第3軌道😢😮😅

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

Inductive power, The presence of the tram activates the power transfer, otherwise the power is off. You can thank Nikola Tesla for that one.

[@e655umeno]

日本の路面電車と比較するとかなり低速運転なので速達性は求められておらず市街地抜けても制限速度が変わってないように見えたので立ち位置としてはあくまで歩きたくない人向けって感じなんですかね？？

[@tomv3361]

Awfully slow. Even walking is faster than this.

[@いち私有宗教家]

これは横断歩道とかで、歩行者が感電することはないのだろうか？

[@transportvlogs2841]

Great light rail video. Yy know the driver who let you in the cab?

[@fernandocifuentes9258]

27:14 Cars should have had a red light... Public transit always must be a priority!

[@Kurotake7829]

地下を走るトラムって，海外でたまに見かけるみたいね。

[@keichan5339]

日本にもたくさん路面電車が あるけど海外の路面電車は地下の トンネル走るなんてすごいかも 日本も京都と滋賀の京阪京津線に トンネルがあるとは知らなかったです。

[@underground_e]

It looks really nice, but i can‘t understand why this tram line is SO SLOW

[@Kiwitrailchannel]

I have a question about the light rail: Are the trams driveless or are they physicaly droven?

[@quarkcypher]

They have drivers.

[@fredashay]

There's no overhead wires on part of the route; how does it get power? It would be too dangerous to have high voltage on the rails. Does it use battery on the parts where there's no wires?

[@TheLostProbe]

it uses a third rail system developed by Alstom that is separated into chunks and each chunk is only activated when a tram passes over

[@ten20060520]

かっこいい。。。

[@rajTrondhjem10]

How does the tram run without overhead lines at the start of the video? 🤔

[@Just_aRand0mPlayer]

Some parts are third rail

[@dwikyadriansyah3853]

The tram is powered by what? Is it battery or electric?

[@simplesimon2802]

electric - overhead wires (mostly) and a roadway power supply system in the city centre - the electric 'track' is split in to short sections and these are only energised when the tram is travelling above and special safety systems double check that the power is off afterwards.. The system is very safe - I've actually walked on the tracks when there were no trams about, albeit in the first city to use this power supply system - Bordeaux, in France

[@Banjo_Tails]

It's still too slow. A bus could have covered this route in about 15 mins if this was a dedicated busway lane instead of the rails. There needs to be more barriers to prevent people just crossing anywhere, and have dedicated crossings for pedestrians in the city area.

[@mountainous_port]

This is a good argument about low floor city buses. Singapore uses them instead of trams because they are faster and has more flexibility. But trams are just so appealing, smooth ride and its fix tracks makes the pedestrian feel safer than the unpredictable wheels.

[@avarielhr]

From what I've seen, the buses don't have the capacity for this amount of passengers. And would probably not be significantly faster. But the speed needs to be higher in any way, for sure.

[@TheLostProbe]

Sydney needs to do what Melbourne did years ago with tram safety advertisements that likened trams to a rhino on a skateboard. a big, heavy thing moving fast on a fixed path "if a rhinoceros on a giant skateboard was heading your way, you'd want to move out of the way, wouldn't you? well guess what, a tram weighs as much as 30 rhinos so it's not something you want to get hit by" tram-pedestrian collisions decreased by something like 40% after that campaign was put in place

[@peterpika]

they are linked in 10 cars for service now? wow, that's super long

[@二宮健一-z3u]

こんなに長い路面電車が許せるのが驚き！

[@geoffk8996]

They need the extra capacity during peak hours.

[@Thomas1980]

Fantastic!!!

[@ヤクルト400-v9k]

動画冒頭歩いてる人いますけど、感電しないんですか？

[@MrPanda._.]

The third rail only turns on when the tram is over it, so people don't get electrocuted if they walk over it.

[@Mattia_98]

It still amazes me how slow Sydney trams are

[@handoko2020]

Slow as compared to what? There is speed limit in place thus why the light rail cannot go too fast and also it allows track to be crossed by pedestrians.

[@christill]

You might as well walk in the downtown area.

[@RobertMurphy-sx8lc]

Yes, the speed definitely needs looking at.

[@louiscypher4186]

@@RobertMurphy-sx8lc And now you see why we got rid of trams in the first place. You can't have the shared plaza's, pedestrian right of ways and surface level stations in such short distances without slowing the trams down. As it is look how many idiots went to walk out in front of the tram. The fact that clowns want these things automated is hilarious.

[@Santiago-lb5md]

Tokyo could benefit from some trams like these

[@valiant8730]

Tokyo had them in the past, now only one line exists.

[@TheLostProbe]

Tokyo is too populated for trams. you need a metro if you want to transport all those people around

[@christiand8243]

Beautiful!

[@YukiCessna88]

アナウンスは315系と同じですかね

[@sr1760]

チャイムが脳トレの正解音みたいですね。

[@PutlerXLO]

Incredible speed :)

[@thefesoden4183]

What’s the speed?

[@monkunderground4244]

Спасибо, интересно. Только от радужных флагов в самом начале напрягся...

[@Emilien-hy3sy]

Incredibly slow and inefficient, they should come to Europe to see how you build a tram...

[@qjtvaddict]

Anglophones can’t build lol

[@chiefinlasvegas]

If this video can be edited and a small map added in the lower right corner showing a moving blip as each station is reached, that would be great.

[@mxr572]

these low floor multi car trams are slow as molasses. cross city must take a day to reach.

[@ashismitra1512]

Mostly along old tram route which was foolishly closed in 1961

[@RenaldoEpps]

love the pride flags

[@辻くろしお]

Osaka Metro中央線から近鉄奈良線の直通列車もこのように出せるのか・・・

[@ともりーるライン]

普通鉄道や高速鉄道は日本が圧倒的に発達してるけど、次世代交通システムのLRTやBRTの導入はまだまだ海外に遅れを取ってる印象あるね。 専用レーンを走るBRTなんかはもっと日本に取り入れて欲しいな。

[@qjtvaddict]

You don’t need LRT trust me

[@RoboJules]

I've seen glaciers that are faster than this.

[@celebrityrog]

1 month ago, pride flags are up, people are in summer wear, but its WINTER in Australia at that time, so.... Y'all having a heat wave?

[@michaelibk418]

What a noisy train but Sydney is such a beautiful city👍

[@ブラックコーヒー-v4s]

【海外トラム】真ん中に車輪(タイヤ)ある？

[@kyosho2020]

併結運転するトラム初めて見た

[@matthewwhitted9179]

I see no overhead wires so is the middle rail for the Power.

[@magnotoledo962]

is there San francisco?

[@Konata]

Is Australia

[@gold3084]

We have had this for decades here in Melbourne. Sydney should of never got rid of their trams.

[@西島浩-n8q]

これ、どこのトラムだろう？

[@SAISON-so3zh]

【概要欄】にオーストラリアのシドニーと書いてますよ！。

[@西島浩-n8q]

サムネイルの場面に地下を走るところがあったので、シドニートラムにも地下区間があるのですね…

[@SAISON-so3zh]

@@西島浩-n8q 反応してくださりありがとうございます！。実僕も地下区間があるのは知らず、電化方式が二つ混在しているのは知っていました。 ここで『第三軌条』として触れられているのは『イノレール式APS』と呼ばれるもので、ウィキで調べましたがアルストムで開発されてボルドーの事例が有名です。（ずいぶん前にLRTの本で見た）ほかに何都市か採用されていて基本は中心地など景観に配慮したい場所で第三軌条終電をして郊外では架線集電らしいです。ただ、2016年に開業したブラジルのリオデジャネイロの路面電車では全区間APSらしいです。

[@fredashay]

Can you buy hay at Haymarket?

[@geoffk8996]

Not for over 100 years.

[@パラオ重工]

迷列車案件だけど判断が良かったため超成功した鉄道

[@ronaldodesousadias711]

Qual a Cidade... I am Brasil...🇧🇷

[@apachelego]

Sydney, Austrália

[@TheShue777]

自転車のタイヤが嵌らないかなｗ

[@Akumuu]

Alstom Citadis 302 ?

[@TheLostProbe]

Citadis X05

[@MichaelBeeny]

Looks painfully slow.

[@rdgameing7]

我们的生活也是如此的丰富多彩啊哈哈我也是很喜欢的呢我也是看到了这个火爆的节目了我们都已经看到了这个😢

[@toshiyuki885]

まるでドイツのようである。それにしてもデザインが京阪や近鉄っぽいような・・・

[@kerosene4751]

That is one slow-arse train.

[@TheUnamusaito]

ドアを閉めときかな JRの防護無線の音とそっくり

[@MarceloMalakias]

Sistema igual ao do Rio, sem catenária.

[@harrygoldun5779]

Snail rail. Reckon a snail is faster though!!

[@andrewmelbournetransport]

tbh it is pretty slow idk why he going so slow either tho limit was 40 half the time probs bc of idiots walking on tracks

[@harrygoldun5779]

@@andrewmelbournetransport and that's the problem with turning an entire street in to a walkway. Trams have to slow down for folks with no clue about their surroundings, face planted in their phones.

[@andrewmelbournetransport]

@@harrygoldun5779 like trams go there when they say look left and right before crossing road this is why

[@qjtvaddict]

The downtown segment is the problem the L1 and L3 should be combined and the segment to quay dropped and surrendered to buses

[@crapmalls]

Slow af rail

[@dimongamaliy]

Всім привіт із України! Що це за місто і країна? У вас так гарно! Дуже цікаво дивитися на міста в інших країнах.

[@quarkcypher]

Сідней, Австралія. Населення Сіднея перевищує п'ять мільйонів людей. Я використовував перекладач, щоб набрати це.

[@radanju3]

I'm watching an Aussie video from the United States with comments in Chinese. How much more -diverse- *_confusing_* can this get?

[@qjtvaddict]

The B1 bus should takeover the slow useless segment in downtown 😂😂😂

[@Chelocool]

Caminando llego mas rapido

[@quarkcypher]

Muy divertido. He recorrido ese camino. El tranvía es un poco más rápido.🤣I used google translator. Greetings from Australia.

[@SailorMoonFan92]

What's the point? Faster to walk lol

[@joelk4751]

Why don't people get electrocuted when they step on the 3rd rail?

[@rowead]

It's only powered on under the tram.

[@m0istl0la97]

@@rowead that is super advanced wtf

[@tomkent4656]

It's overhead-powered, surely.

[@Banjo_Tails]

@@tomkent4656 in some places. but the third rail, as seen clearly in the video and with no wires above, is what is powering the tram.

[@Tatsuhiko_Ikeda]

この第三軌条の上を歩いてよく感電しないよなあ！靴を履いてるから問題無い程度の電圧なのか？ ポイントでレールのどちらかとショートしないのは、ポイント付近は給電してないからだろうが。

[@catv666888]

台灣高雄市相同的輕軌系統

[@Konata]

還真的是

[@Konata]

不過沒有串聯

[@WhiteNeko.]

雪梨採用架空線與地面送電 不過高雄是全線用電池

[@takanx9801]

ボルドーの路面電車と同じ方式だろうか。

[@МирВесь-ю6ф]

...не зависимо от количества вагонов это трамвай..

[@qjtvaddict]

Some places should just not even try to build trams lol

[@Konata]

9:22 架空電纜模式

[@10元大將]

tooooooo slowly

[@leatherman88ch]

❤️❤️❤️🏳️‍🌈

[@kazuyoshitanomura7956]

海外．やはり。ろけいしょんがいい。ｊｐ。かなわない。。。

[@dingshidenrailways]

Very slow😮