Cab ride: Sutherland to Royal National Park | Z2.111 emergency brake | Sydney Tramway Museum, Loftus

[@railfanworld]

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[@danefilander6306]

Absolutely awesome video.

[@railfanworld]

Thank you very much!

[@spacyorspicy]

This video is the best! I love these tram! YOU ARE THE BEST MATE!

[@railfanworld]

Thank you so much, mate!

[@spacyorspicy]

@@railfanworld Your welcome but what kind of tram was it?

[@railfanworld]

A Z2.111 tram from Melbourne

[@spacyorspicy]

@@railfanworld Also I haven't been in that train before.. But I have been in Melbourne. Were you on the tram?

[@railfanworld]

@@spacyorspicy Yes, I have another tram video about the City Circle in Melbourne, please have a look!

[@DarkMarcLP]

OMG! You can even see the MOTHER putting something on the track at 11:20 in the distance. This just makes me speechless...

[@railfanworld]

Indeed. Their excuse was "we thought the railway line was not in use anymore".

[@PeterArnold1969]

@@railfanworld Not good enough. The Park rangers should have been notified.

[@donbon4204]

TYPICAL HOUSO BOGAN FAMILY

[@neilforbes416]

Oh you beauty! Sydney Tramway Museum has its trams running ALL THE WAY from Sutherland Terminus to the Royal National Park! Gives me extra incentive to get down there! Hopefully this month! YIPPPEEEEE!!!!!

[@railfanworld]

It's indeed so nice to travel the entire route. I have been to Loftus before back in 2017, but I don't think they already had the extension to Sutherland.

[@neilforbes416]

@@railfanworld But is it the entire route? I rode it on my last visit and on the outward run towards Sutherland, the tram ran only a short distance past the military base entrance, about the same distance as you showed from the starting point of your video to the gates of the military base. I thought the tram tracks ran much further than that.

[@railfanworld]

I saw on their website they want to extend it further into Sutherland, but I have no idea where they are with those plans...

[@neilforbes416]

@@railfanworld The first couple of times I visited, the trams would only go as far as the gates of the military base. On my last visit, they went just a bit further, to the point where your video starts, still not all the way to the Sutherland terminus. I guess my comment of 19 hours earlier may have been "jumping the gun" a bit, ay?

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@neilforbes416 yeah your getting ahead of yourself by over taking us move to another lane haha

[@JayJayGamerOfficial]

Now I know what team line you are talking about, it crosses the princess highway near engadine. I use to cross that rail crossing while going to school when I lived there

[@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042]

That thing can stop fast when it wants to.

[@railfanworld]

It sure can!

[@ThomasNing]

not exactly a great speed to stop from :D

[@flamingfrancis]

@@ThomasNing Regsrdless of the speed it is clearly enough to do some serious damage especially to the youngster that can be heard during the trip.

[@neilforbes416]

Come to think of it, the tram did not start at Sutherland terminus, rather, just beyond the military base. My last video there, I shot the run out to the military base and just beyond, then back to the museum/depot then out to the Royal National Park and return. They were running the Brisbane "Phoenix" tram #548 and W2-class tram #249 on the day I was last there. #249 was painted up as if it had been a Canberra tram, but in that day, Canberra did not have trams. It's only recently that Canberra did acquire a tramway system, as shown in one of your last videos.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

Neil Forbes interesting

[@CLASHROYALE-mn5wj]

Yes

[@neilforbes416]

4:22 NOW we're at Pitt Street! Right outside the museum itself!

[@railfanworld]

Again, it's the same street according to Google Maps...

[@neilforbes416]

@@railfanworld I think Google has got it wrong here! A driveway into students' parking lot can not be considered a street.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@neilforbes416 depends the year of google maps must had alterations since then

[@neilforbes416]

@@youtubeviewer7030 Perhaps so! I've paid three visits to the Sydney Tramway Museum. On arriving at Loftus railway station(platform closest to museum) you walk off the platform and down to your left(tapping off with your Opal card as you go) which brings you to Pitt Street. Follow the street as it slopes down to the corner where it meets the Old Princes Highway(Rawson Avenue). Turn to your right and there are the gates of the Museum, right in front of you.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@neilforbes416 have a look at google maps to see if you are spot on and yes i mentioned this in another post

[@PeterArnold1969]

Do the signals at The Princes Highway level crossing have to be activated by the driver, because I didn't see it happen straight away.

[@kellielogan1183]

12:34

[@neilforbes416]

2:26 That wasn't Pitt Street, it was the entrance to the Sydney Institute(Dept of Technical & Further Education) Pitt Street intersects with the Old Princes Highway right outside the museum's gates!

[@railfanworld]

I got the name of the street from Google Maps, so that means Google is wrong or you are wrong, haha :)

[@neilforbes416]

@@railfanworld The entrance to the Sydney Institute isn't a street, as such, it's a driveway into a car park. Pitt Street(proper) brings you from near the Loftus railway station, down a slight slope between the Sydney Tramway Museum(on your right) and the Sydney Institute(on your left).

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@neilforbes416 ok proper name is loftus TAFE im hoping you are going by google maps have a look at it it will give you a better idea neil

[@neilforbes416]

@@youtubeviewer7030 As you get closer to Pitt Street, Loftus after alighting the train, there is a sign just inside the fence that shows this campus of the Department of Technical & Further Education to be also known as the "Sydney Institute". I'm going on what I saw with my own eyes(not someone else's LOL). That's where that Gerard Henderson spends a lot of his time, or should I say, wastes a lot of their time! He's on ABC's "Insiders" every now and then. usually on the same couch as David Marr, former host of ABC's "Media Watch". Whatever the subject, David Marr always has the better of the argument over Gerard Henderson.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

Neil Forbes I have to check it out on google maps

[@gregorygherkins1884]

What type of tram is this?

[@railfanworld]

That's a Melbourne Z-class tram, you can find more about this on railfanworld.com/photos/australia/tram/rolling-stock/melbourne-z-class-tram

[@gregorygherkins1884]

@@railfanworld Oic, the route I live right next to uses only Z3 type trams, I can sometimes feel them rock the place as they make a turn