6-CAR A-SERIES Running to YANCHEP with MALE Announcer

[@CJTheAllrounder]

Male announcer to Yanchep, a the rarest of all realities. We never saw it coming until today!! I am still gobsmacked

[@TheBurt007]

It was good to meet you again Mark! Happy to oblige to the boys request to put Yanchep on the front for the photo opportunity👍 Glad you enjoyed the trip. Regards. Brett.

[@TransportofPerth]

Thanks for everything! It was a really fun trip!

[@minxythemerciless]

I was the engineer who designed and built the station announcement system in around 1994. At the same time a technician got his mate at sonshine fm to record the train announcements with a male voice. Over time my female voice model (Hi Cindy!) became prevalent. The latest train male voice is completely new and likely an AI voice.

[@TransportofPerth]

Is that female voice you talk about the old one heard in this video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHqkqJiZgpVrosU)? I know the name of the modern announcer is Miranda Miller. Yeah it's cool the new male announcements too and really good if it is really AI.

[@CJTheAllrounder]

It had to have been AI

[@minxythemerciless]

@@TransportofPerth The train voice sounds a bit more Australian than Cindy. The current female station voice is closer to the original with a slight hint of an English background. I heard somewhere that the current station voice is also AI but I can't pick it. What I am happy about is my script and announcement timings and script variations are still being used with minor alterations some 30 years later.

[@shinjiman0]

@@TransportofPerthit’s door closing announcement didn’t update on the B and C series, only can hear on the A series, that means the door closing announcement of the B and C series were the original one since they are get into the service.

[@TransportofPerth]

@@minxythemerciless Ah you were talking about the station ones ok! That certainly is cool that they are still using what you wrote. Cool that you're commenting here. Any idea why at the new stations is only says which platform a train will depart from and now how many minutes until it will?

[@ThebusofdoomFSX]

A six-car A Series to Yanchep? Now that is exciting! Nice catch!

[@6726Justin]

I’m not into trains but I love your enthusiasm in general, you’ve made me smile

[@AmarokGamingYT]

White amarok spotted at 0:10 middle lane, my goal is to find amaroks in ya vids I'm a car enthusiast/expert (BTW Congrats on 3k subs bro keep this fine content going)

[@CLeungistravelling]

Surprise surprise!! I didn't think I would see a 6 car A series until today

[@karlgalway7605]

What a great time to be alive. I really felt it when you said that

[@AussieTrainVlogger]

WOW what a surprise! Never would have thought there would be an 6 car a series, crazy.

[@mrtechyyboi8835]

Such a rare occasion! We can always rely on you to get these things!

[@AFLandTPgirl]

This is the first time I’ve seen 3 A series trains combined together running on the yanchep line

[@t1northshore]

10/10 horn, also congrats on 3K!

[@Clippy56]

that is actually crazy that male voice worked on the extension. if that works, hopefully it will work on all the other new metronet lines

[@David-cg7rq]

Such passion! 😳 And to think I used to have that level passion (kinda) for articulated buses along Beaufort St!! 😅

[@gitgit1995]

It's like 2012 and 2013 again, they used to run them all the time until they got the extra trains!

[@JamesParadiso]

Was that the b series trains they were waiting more stock on

[@jamesclarke8564]

I had heard from my mates at Transperth (a long time ago) that you couldn't couple more than two trains sets together for safety reasons. Yet I've seen more two sets coupled together in other countries, and now I know it's possible to do it with the A-sets. Great catch.

[@Cadeeen]

I saw the six car a series in the nowergup depot this morning, it looks super cool. Yesterday one of the b series said it was terminating at butler and the driver had to announce it was wrong lol. Quite cool to hear it after the extension and might’ve got a rare video of it too.

[@trainandbus123Perth]

Watch it later because I have school now, but this is an absolute must-watch for me (Bob sent some other clips earlier and yesterday)

[@calvinnguyen7059]

Same I've never seen 3 A series train together ever

[@diamondshark1965]

Wat a great sight mark👍

[@gitgit1995]

I remember when Butler opened they had to get an extra 15 b series and when Aubin Grove opened they got an extra 2 b series. So whos to say with the new stations opening they probably need extra trains still hence using the a series again.

[@sgbuses]

There's a good chance the original male announcer (with some age since) was recalled to re-record the lines. Both announcers were paid per project rather than by royalties, so that means Transperth could keep them for as long as they liked. The story went that Yanchep was actually predictable and possible with the original old male announcer because the announcers were asked to read out all the possible suburb names and whatever on the map that may be on a future extension. The difficult one was actually "Elizabeth Quay" because that name change really more or less came out of nowhere, but was still possible if this was recorded after 2012! Maybe someone could write to Transperth and ask them to put male voices on B-Series and C-Series trains as well so that we have some diversity on the network.

[@CJTheAllrounder]

There’s a lot of theories with the announcement systems, however I feel it’s AI for some of it such as the Bayswater announcement for the male voice. That announcement sounds so computerised. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen for the Thornlie Cockburn Link and even Ellenbrook Line as it is definitely possible they may run A series on it

[@CJTheAllrounder]

If only we could hear the A series male announcer on the Mandurah Line beyond Cockburn

[@TOMSTRAINVLOGS]

That is crazy that they are now running a series to yanchep and the Butler, Alkimos, Eglinton, Yanchep. Announcements for male had to be mashed in lol 😂

[@CJTheAllrounder]

They could’ve used AI technology for the announcements which is what I reckon happened

[@TOMSTRAINVLOGS]

Probably but idk

[@Perthtrains134]

How would you know this is coming! Great catch!

[@TransportofPerth]

@@Perthtrains134 People in my Discord server had already spotted it before I got on.

[@atomixgamess]

Such a rare occasion!!

[@Bortalis4053]

Did a double take when I saw this yesterday!

[@Tpbusandtrainguy]

6 car A series looks so cool!

[@CJTheAllrounder]

It was just spectacular

[@Tpbusandtrainguy]

@@CJTheAllrounder A spectacular chance.

[@thats2000]

i saw myself in the video lol, i was at the whitfords siding

[@An_Average_Brock]

That driver at the end seemed amazing!

[@TransportofPerth]

He was! I commended him in the description.

[@An_Average_Brock]

@@TransportofPerth Nice!

[@TheBurt007]

@@TransportofPerth Thank you 👍

[@EatYummyNoodles]

Wait ayyy I always go near Stir.ing station seeing the construction,the ramp and bridge is almost read

[@Atom_gun]

Now I know who the guy standing recording the train at Whitfords a couple of days ago in the rain is xD

[@TransportofPerth]

@@Atom_gun Haven't been recording around there any time recently. There are hundreds of other people it could have been.

[@northern_perth_trains]

Clarkson K patterns are still occurring, i noticed yesterday when i was at joondalup station in the morning

[@jontytheswiftie22]

Yeah they were using predominantly C Series for these I caught one up to Clarkson the other day

[@TransportofPerth]

They only run in the non-peak direction. All trains in the peak direction will run full line so even trains that come out of the depot in the afternoon as a K pattern (like this A-series), will then run a full service towards the end of peak.

[@northern_perth_trains]

@@TransportofPerth ahhhh okay too easy

[@hugoAUSSIE]

i missed another event ;-;

[@iainhughes4630]

Awesome vid mate!! And even more awesome getting male announcements - may not happen again! I guess that’s one benefit of the Armadale line shutdown! On a completely unrelated topic has an a series ever been in passenger service all the way to Mandurah. The gap after warnbro would be epic if it did!!

[@TransportofPerth]

I think it did for special events in like 2012-2014 but other than that in never really went down there.

[@iainhughes4630]

@@TransportofPerthah okay I assume u don’t have footage of that

[@TransportofPerth]

@@iainhughes4630 Yeah no I've just seen some photos online.

[@coconut_gamer4735]

3 A series trains is a very appropriate video to coincide with 3k subscribers lol :)

[@TransportofPerth]

@@coconut_gamer4735 Yes that's true!

[@PerthTrainAndBus]

Maybe when they were testing a 6 car A series on the yanchep extension they were planning on using it if they needed to.

[@CJTheAllrounder]

Good job you managed to get a photo at Yanchep with “YANCHEP” still on the desto lol. I was just a tad too slow…

[@TransportofPerth]

Were you not at the front when we asked the driver to put it up again to take the photos?

[@CJTheAllrounder]

@@TransportofPerthI missed it lol

[@CJTheAllrounder]

@@TransportofPerthThe announcements for Butler and Yanchep though were so good

[@ThePlaystation60]

Why did it still say Butler instead of Yanchep? 2:59.

[@TransportofPerth]

@@ThePlaystation60 They never changed they annoucement...

[@OdysseyRoblox]

Thats Crazy!

[@hamwank]

Love the noise of the A series

[@peterdavies1679]

How do you know when/where to find certain trains? I’ve been wanting to see the c series but don’t know where it’s going to be 😅

[@TransportofPerth]

@@peterdavies1679 This train was spotted by people on my Discord server. The C-series can be easily found by going on live train times on the Transperth website (www.transperth.wa.gov.au/Timetables/Live-Train-Times?) and looking which train is marked as being "0 cars".

[@peterdavies1679]

@@TransportofPerth I’m not sure if it’s working for me, I just spotted it on the yanchep line but all the trains on that website for the yanchep line say 6 cars rather than 0

[@TransportofPerth]

@@peterdavies1679 Hm maybe they've fixed it now since it shouldn't really say 0 in the first place. It was like that for a long time though. Oh well things have just gotten a lot harder to find it now then...

[@peterdavies1679]

@@TransportofPerth shame, I guess I’ll just have to cross my fingers that I find it again!

[@shinjiman0]

Seems they’ve likely pre-recorded all of those announcements for Thornlie Cockburn Link and Ellenbrook Line already besides of Yanchep Line Extension 😛

[@CJTheAllrounder]

It would’ve been done with the use of AI

[@TheDragonFire123]

I doubt they had that much foresight; text-to-speech seems like a more reasonable theory, but we'll never know unless Transperth somehow comments. One thing's for sure; I hope the C series brings him back as much as the A series did as well.

[@alexanyanEVN]

Love from Armenia

[@angusphotographyperth]

What is beyond yanchep? Is there a slidngs?

[@TransportofPerth]

@@angusphotographyperth Yes just some stow roads.

[@simtrucking]

its been a while

[@Kcritchett87]

Is the c-series that had the issue running now? And are they still running scheduled operations like the other trains or was that just for the Yanchep line opening? Oh, and is 131 on the network and? And is set 132 built yet?

[@TransportofPerth]

@@Kcritchett87 Yes to everything.

[@Kcritchett87]

@@TransportofPerthbut I emailed transperth and they said it’s still used for driver training. Although i did see two on Thursday, but not at the same time. One heading to Yanchep at 12:55pm and one heading to Perth underground at 3 And I asked that question after I saw ‘em

[@TransportofPerth]

@@Kcritchett87 All three having been running normal scheduled W patterns each weekday. In fact, one of them breaking down was the whole reason this A-series ran in the first place because they are so short on Bs now.

[@Kcritchett87]

Do you mean they only go to Cockburn or Whitfords? And what about on weekends? Do they do scheduled operations then? And what do you mean by “they are so short on Bs now”?

[@TransportofPerth]

@@Kcritchett87 Yes on weekdays only between Cockburn and Whitfords. Weekends they do full like but usually just one. I'm saying that with the extension almost all B-series are being used or cleaned in weekday peak so they rely on the other trains a lot.

[@An_Average_Brock]

IS THIS A FIRST IN HISTORY!?

[@An_Average_Brock]

Red signal? 1:47

[@TransportofPerth]

6-Car A-series ran a few times before for events where they required capacity for bikes even down in Mandurah and also on Friday it did a Mandurah Line W pattern but it is definitely extremely rare especially all the way to Yanchep.

[@An_Average_Brock]

@@TransportofPerth Cool! Nice to know that we’ve had triple trains running in Perth!

[@kaynemcclelland318]

I thought it wasnt possible?

[@055f00]

Its always been possible, but the A-Series trains have generally been used less on the Joondalup/Mandurah Lines due to their lower top speed (110km/h on a 130km/h line) and risk of overheating when operating at top speed.

[@TheOscars16]

is this normal now? or is it a one time thing

[@TransportofPerth]

Read the description, for now it's claimed as a one time thing although I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes normal.

[@CJTheAllrounder]

@@TransportofPerthNow we just need the miracle of them running to Mandurah to complete it!