See how Melbourne Wakes Up! Melbourne Tram Driver View Night Network Route 96

[@katefromaust5627]

Such a different take early in the morning. Absolutely awesome work, as always! Thank you so much for letting us take the ride along with you, when we can't be there in person :))) So very much appreciated!

[@Schony747]

No worries. Thanks for always watching.

[@mrsbrillhart247]

These tram videos are great…I am putting a vacation to Melbourne on my bucket list because I have never rode a tram before and Melbourne looks like a beautiful city to visit!

[@Schony747]

Yep both good reasons to visit Melbourne

[@katefromaust5627]

Good stuff!! Love Melbourne's trams.

[@Schony747]

Thanks Kate! I'm surprised you haven't looked at this one. Or maybe you have and you really like it.

[@katefromaust5627]

@@Schony747 I have probably looked at it several times!! I was busy looking at some old stuff I have saved the other night & have obviously looked at this one again. Definitely one of my favourites :-)

[@Brucetiki1]

You're becoming one of my favourite You Tube channels. Love riding along the trams like this, and this trip is probably my favourite of them all - from the somewhat eerieness of the light rail track to Crown where you wouldn't think it was 4:00am back the quietness back out of the CBD again. Great vid.

[@beagle7622]

I love Melbourne about 5am. Melbourne as a city is the victim of bad planning ,it’s a mess once traffic hits but at 5 it’s fantastic.I drove taxis as a student always finishing about 5.Always loved knocking off.

[@paulmurray8766]

i realy enjoyed watching this vidio thank you for this posting just awesome

[@craigpayne5500]

Brilliant video

[@Schony747]

Thanks for coming for a ride

[@ruthstansfield4405]

very relaxing to sit back and go for the ride, thanks

[@Schony747]

It is at that time of the morning anyway! Thanks for riding with me.

[@stephenpowell5912]

An Interesting way to see Melbourne City at Night or day ,Take the Tram ,Been there 7 yrs ago in 2011 to see a Cousin of my Mum's R I P Myra Somerville .Great Video of a Great Tram Network in a Great City.

[@Schony747]

Thanks. I enjoy putting these together.

[@MelbourneOldFashioned]

Hey Schony! Another great video....and I may just be doing this run myself one day! Fingers crossed DING DING

[@Schony747]

Fingers crossed for you as well. Hope to see you at Southbank one day!

[@MrMKH2010]

A fantastic video for my collection. Cheers from St. Louis, Missouri USA

[@Schony747]

Thanks! I hope you enjoy the rest.

[@MrPete1966]

Aah, my beautiful, long-missed Melbourne. Thanks for this, Schony!

[@Schony747]

+Peter Taylor Thanks for looking again. I'm sure you will be interested in my latest route 24 as well.

[@tramvinicyus2]

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIihhh Fitzroy Road..!!!!! at 07.17 tram turns left...my first Backpacker in 2004-5 was on the right corner ..The Coffee Palace in Grey Street (another street with trams during 50s). Instead route 16 goes straight on..and the 96's light road until 1987 was the railway of St. Kilda Train...Ho many wonderful memories...Melby...my Melby...I'll come back...I must come back...(from Rome)

[@Schony747]

+Tramvinicyus The old coffee palace. I'm assuming it's still there in some form.

[@Abranches77]

Lovely video!.

[@Schony747]

Thanks for riding.

[@TheNatasha66]

Quite a bit of traffic in the city on an early Sunday morning in Melbourne - great video!❤🚃❤

[@Schony747]

The City itself is so much more alive these days. Over the last few years, the City of Melbourne has brought in some iniatives that has seen people comnig back to the City in droves.

[@MrMKH2010]

One of my favorites, Brenden.

[@DanaMackstormdog94]

Superbly done!

[@Schony747]

Thanks. Make sure you look at the rest.

[@DanaMackstormdog94]

Will you do more of these?

[@russellanderson3298]

Shony, good to see you driving the "Coffee Cup Express" .... lol......well done mate.

[@Schony747]

Thanks. Hard work but good fun.

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

great video Schony747 :)

[@Schony747]

Thanks Mate 😀😀

[@Railway_Cat]

Lovely video. Melbourne looks beautiful. Hope you'll be able to film every route on the network eventually!

[@Schony747]

Great. Another fan of my driver views. I can't get everything but I've got a few more in the pipeline.

[@Bobrogers99]

Fascinating! With so many sets of switches (points) to go through, have you ever encountered one incorrectly set, sending you off in the wrong direction? These videos are a wonderful way to acquaint a visitor or new resident with such a beautiful city. Thank you for creating them and posting them here.

[@Schony747]

Thanks for watching the views. Drivera set their own points. Drivers rules and regulations state drivers stop at facing points to ensure the tracks are set for the right direction. However some trams do go the wrong way!

[@adolfhelmet6]

great video, go me lost in the CBD temporarily, but very interesting. Thanks matey.

[@Schony747]

Excellent. I hope you enjoy the other views as well.

[@Maurice-Navel]

Downtown Melbourne is already quite awake! (or STILL awake) Lots of taxis, too.

[@Schony747]

It's amazing how many people you still see walking the streets at 1am on a weekday even. It was very different 5 years ago.

[@Geno2733]

Good video. I always wanted to see a POV from the driver's stance. I'd like to see some of the controls, though.

[@Schony747]

Thanks for watching the video. Controls are a bit more difficult as most of my work is filmed from the front of the controls.

[@maxischew514]

Schony747 go pro head camera pointed at the controls?

[@iankemp73]

Changed a bit since i lived in St Kilda. 1960-63.

[@Schony747]

It's changed a lot since I've been driving 96 for 17 years

[@bryan3550]

Simply brilliant work, as ever. How do you get away with it?

[@Schony747]

There is nothing to get away with. Yarra Trams are aware of my work and as long as I'm not actually using the recorder or being destracted while driving they are ok with it.

[@bryan3550]

Wow, that's great! Dare I suggest they are an Enlightened Employer?

[@MrPete1966]

Gotta love an employer who sees the big picture. Not only allowing an employee's creative desires be expressed, but also seeing the PR / marketing aspect of it as well. Great work, Yarra Trams!

[@danthefryingpan963]

I went on one of these trams last year. They stop very suddenly which rocks the whole tram about uncomfortably, Adelaide;s flexity classics are amazing.

[@max-_-6352]

DanTheFryingPan you probably rode a different tram class, older ones tend to be less smooth.

[@MediaChannel2901]

Hadir menyimak kawan

[@Schony747]

And come for a ride as well!

[@robertm.4516]

Have you or can you do a video of you taking a tram out of the depot to the main line? I think it would be nice to see how they look like.

[@Schony747]

+Robert M. Try this one from Kew Depot. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6qYZ4mchaiJn7M

[@robertm.4516]

Schony747 thanks.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Is that all the taxis queueing up to go on duty 18:40? Or perhaps knocking off from the night shift.

[@s125ish]

AndreiTupolev waiting to into crown casino

[@leomarino6493]

why why schoney why are your videos so good

[@Schony747]

+weeblestomper The video camera does all Of The work.

[@damianchung2952]

Hi schony huge fan of your tram videos, do you think you can do one in a c class from east Brunswick to st kilda? It would be awesome going along my school route In my favourite tram

[@Schony747]

OK. I'll try and sort out a C2 ride for you. I've got one from 2005 in a C1

[@MyDiesel101]

Amazing video Schony. Thank You! Melbourne looks beautiful at night! How late do the Trams run in Melbourne?

[@Schony747]

Eugene Kosinski Generally the last full tram service leaves the CBD just after midnight Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 1130pm on a Sunday and 1am Friday and Saturday. Routes 19, 75, 86, 969 67 and 109 run 24 hours Friday and Saturday as a part of the Melbourne Public Transport Night Network.

[@MyDiesel101]

Thank You very much! Will You be affected by the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Construction, in regards to the routes that you operate on? We need similar investment in our transit systems, here in the States.It's long over due. By the way the Yarra Tram website is amazing.

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

The new North Melbourne, Parkville and Anzac stations and the entrances to the tunnels will be built using a construction technique known as cut and cover. metrotunnel.vic.gov.au/construction/domain/traffic-changes-st-kilda-road

[@stevenhyunhthecoolgamer3685]

HI schony

[@Schony747]

Hi

[@s125ish]

Nice video. Some taxis now silver in Victoria?

[@Schony747]

I'm not sure what the go is there. I can understand silver for silver top taxis. I'm just assuming the government don't really care about colour schemes any more.

[@MrPete1966]

Aren't the silver ones Business Class? I remember when I was still living there, Jeff changed them all to yellow but the Business Class / Silver Service were a different colour

[@MrPete1966]

Red light at Acland Street. Who'd have thought?!

[@jayalif1044]

at stations like albert park do trains journey on these

[@Schony747]

Trains to St Kilda finished in 1987 when trams took over running the service. The stations survive and now trams pass by.

[@patrickmacrae7854]

Hey schony!! this is a fantastic video,well all or your videos are fantastic haha, but i especially love your tram route view videos is that turnout track at middle park still in use?

[@Schony747]

The crossover id normally used for Grand Prix and on the odd very late running tram or delay.

[@chrisl2694]

Is it hard to drive a tram mate? Always wondered what it’s like 👍

[@Schony747]

The easy bit is driving the tram. The hard bit is anticipating what cars, pedestrians and cyclists will do in front of the tram.

[@steve1reg]

This is a lot of activity for 4am! But you say only a few trams operate around the clock, and only on Friday & Saturday. No line is 24/7? Four of Toronto's streetcars are 24 hours, along with about 15 bus routes. Of course, that's a bigger city.

[@josephkarl2061]

52:05 almost a Grand Union...

[@garydavo07]

Noticed the progression lantern at the bottom of Bourke st wasn’t working. Tram left the stop and then stops at king st. For a red light . Why not wait for more passengers at Bourke. When are YARRA teams going to fix this problem?

[@Schony747]

It's not going to be fixed. The progression light caused more problems than good. You wait for the light to come up, then close the doors, then get complaints that people were left behind. You wait for people then miss the light. Either way you can't win.

[@AndreiTupolev]

That's another of those routes that uses old heavy rail track, isn't it? Are the trams fitted with in-cab signalling, or Is it all just line of sight?

[@Schony747]

Line of sight and conventional traffic and tram t lights.

[@junglejamesie]

Was Malcolm the driver?

[@Schony747]

That's what they call me 😀😀

[@dallelassaad5883]

How do i get to ivanhoe & hindenberg

[@VictorianTransportSpotter]

Train

[@Bobrogers99]

Watching this video again I have a couple of observations: (1) I'm surprised at the hundreds of taxis on the streets at that hour. Are they all in the process of distributing themselves around the city? (2) The automated announcements, notably in the CBD, are a bit tardy. They say "The next stop is..." when you are already there. Overall, I'd suggest that the announcement say "THIS stop is...".

[@Schony747]

There are so many taxis as Uber has had a large effect on their business. I agree with you on the announcements. They are too close to the stop. It's what we have to work with. Anything else will require a software upgrade.

[@BenjiCollier]

Do the trams use Call-loops to select signals and change facing points or is it set by a dispatch center?

[@Schony747]

T lights are activated by induction loops like cars. There is a bell shaped transponder under the tram which helps there. Auto points also have a transponder and drivers select the direction with a point selector switch on the drivers panel.

[@maxischew514]

Do the trams have hi beam?

[@Schony747]

All trams have high beam except the W class.

[@michaeluzice6307]

why are there birds making noise when its dark?

[@Schony747]

No idea. I would say becasue it's an hour before daylight and everything is waking up!

[@youtubeviewer7030]

@@Schony747 body clock they wake before the dawn all birds do

[@djtec669]

No high beam on the light rail

[@Schony747]

The high beams may have been on when I was driving. The backlight from the passenger saloon through the front window makes it harder to see out the front even with the headlights on high beam or not.

[@Schony747]

I've just loomat the video and the hig beams were probably on. They don't work that well.

[@roadwolf2]

The high beams would be pointless for most of the route anyway due to streetlights I’d imagine

[@jamesmcfarlane2677]

I believe the government had to seize the footage at 9:13 due to alien anomaly/security concerns.

[@Schony747]

Probably why the camera blurred as well. 😀😀

[@andrewreed1329]

Bring back the st Kilda train line with a tunnel to flinders, trams are so slow and full of stops, lots of waiting at traffic lights

[@Schony747]

That's never going to happen. Some people like the tram, others see it as short sighted.

[@bashartr4652]

I love this city , can anyone send an invitation to come 💙

[@bashartr4652]

@@MetroManMelbourne thank you Mate , I hope soon 🙏

[@benos4x4adventures49]

Melbournian city

[@Schony747]

Yea and a pretty good view to drive around in

[@michaeluzice6307]

probably

[@sharannadeeproyroy6211]

the past of kolkata