Sydney Trains Vlog 2288: Happy New Year 2024/2025 - The Year to Come

[@meerabains-866]

Happy new year Phil/and great video I’m at the new years fireworks 💥 🎇 🎆 🧨!

[@TANSW1]

Happy New Year’s Eve and Happy New Year everyone! The end of 2024… :( and the arrival of 2025:)

[@jdelark6428]

Happy New Year to you too, Mr Trains Correspondent 😅. Looking forward to more of your reporting in future.

[@civities]

Happy Early New Year Phil! :)

[@debmacklin4661]

Thanks for the video s happy new year 2025

[@bset_yt]

Happy New Year Phil!

[@tamworthtrainnut285]

17:58 You can also change trains at Strathfield for intercity BMT trains to Mt Victoria, Bathurst, Katoomba, Springwood and Lithgow, CCN services to Gosford, Wyong and Newcastle Interchange as well as regional XPT trains to Dubbo, Grafton, Casino and Brisbane as well as regional Xplorer trains to Broken Hill, Armidale and Moree

[@sydneytrainsvlogs]

It’s a great interchange, Strathfield :)

[@johndwilson6111]

Thanks for a lot of good quality videos. Now to do some riding myself. 😊

[@lyndsaysmith]

this year has been an exciting one for sydney trains 100% also hope you have a great 2025 as well phil :)

[@Syd_plane_and_train_spotter777]

Happy New Year to you Phil

[@robertmainerd7145]

Another great year of videos.. thank you Phil, and well done. Looking forward to more great stuff in 2025. HNY.

[@brianbuzzen]

Happy New Year and special thanks for a great year of STV and Abandoned Oz, cheers !

[@ForTheBirbs]

Thanks for all your great videos of the past year, Phil! Wishing you and partner a great 2025. Cheers

[@sydneytrainsvlogs]

Thank you mate! We had a great NYE. Thank you for being a loyal mate and viewer :)

[@ForTheBirbs]

@sydneytrainsvlogs thanks Phil! Means a lot! We need to catch up over a coffee sometime.

[@KimboACP]

Happy New Year Phil can't wait to see what you bring in 2025. Happy New Year everybody🎉

[@MrAnsairDude]

Happy new year Phil awesome video

[@BruceLaing-f7t]

Happy New Year, Phil.

[@pan-jin3098]

Happy New Year Phil and everyone ❤🎉🎆🎇💖

[@DanielLefko-wj1dx]

Happy new year Phil hope you have a good one catch ya later mate.

[@dset-j8f]

Happy new Eve Sydney trains.❤

[@dasnolonger]

happy new year Phil. Thanks for all that you do for the Transit community 🙏

[@transportvlogs]

Happy New Year Phil :) 🎉🎊🎆

[@rdgameing7]

Happy new year all❤😂🎉

[@sydneytrainsvlogs]

Happy New Year :)

[@tranmere292]

Those announcements were so goo I thought they were recordings at first but I think they were a real human guard. Very articulate and informative - they should all be like that. All the best Phil for the new year and your terrific coverage of NSW train developments. I don't know how you do it while keeping up a job as well.

[@TransitSydney]

The announcements were all wrong - bro said T6 and T7 is at Strathfield and also said T9 doesn’t stop at Burwood

[@shantamorshed594]

Happy New Year Phil

[@TANSW1]

0:51 What are the orange barriers for?

[@petercollins939]

Happy New Year to you mate 🎉🎉🚉🚞🚋👍👍👍

[@王琛炜]

Happy New year

[@MatthewHarkness556]

Happy New Year Phil 🎉🎉🎆🎇

[@Jaydenstrainvlogs]

Happy new year phil

[@tacitdionysus3220]

Thanks for all your informative clips during the year and looking forward to more of the same in 25. Having an aviation background, I'm quite excited about the WSI Airport Metro. It has some unique features to explore. For example: It is the first automated 'Light Metro' in Australia (3-4 car), in the similar vein to Copenhagen Metro, Vancouver Skytrain and London DLR; which means it's optimised for high frequency in less heavily populated areas, which is probably a pretty good match for not only an Airport Shuttle, but ultimately a north-south spine serving development up and down greater Western Sydney. There will be 12 Siemens Inspiro 3 car trains delivered for the initial service. The stage one line is 23 km long (only 1 km shorter than Metro West) with 6 stations. About a 28-30 minutes run in each direction sounds about right, so quite doable with 10-12 trains running to deliver the initial frequency of every 6 minutes in each direction. The initial peak capacity is quoted as 7740 per hour each way, which sounds about right for 12 x 3 car trains. As traffic increases, additional trains could be acquired to double the frequency, lifting peak capacity to over 15,000 each way. Add another car to form 4 car trains (which the stations are designed for) lifts it to over 20,000. My understanding is the system has the capability to run up to every two minutes if needed. So its capacity is actually surprisingly high; a case of "Don't worry about the length, feel the frequency!" It's controversial in that it runs on 25KvAC power, but I think that's a good decision. It means it only probably needs about 2 transformer feeders, instead of the 8-10 needed if it was 1500vDC. It quite a premium product, but cheaper than, say, Sydney Trains that would need much bigger stations, tunnels and heavier wiring/supports. My understanding is Metro West and any future HSR will also be 25KvAC. The M1 probably only retains 1500vDC as it touches existing Sydney Trains lines quite closely in places. There was reference to it being 'wider' in a federal (funding related) document, but Sydney Metro seems to imply all fit on all metros (albeit unintentionally). It could be something silly like Sydney Trains/Metros are a bit wider than many worldwide metros (3.035 compared with 2.65 to 2.95m), so maybe we are just getting a (3.035) 'wider option' model from Siemens. On day one, I'll be the dude with the tape measure. Forgive the ramble, but you've got to earn all those coffees somehow.

[@kevinreed-e4f]

All the best for 2025 Phil.

[@hamwank]

Hi Phil Happy New Year and thanks for the informative vid, it was interesting to learn about the extension of the XPTs they have served very well. I am looking forward to seeing the new CAF fleet on the Northern Tablelands Explorer services. By the way how good was that Guard!!

[@PaulsTrainVlogs]

2025 marks the 10th Anniversary of Paul's Train Vlogs

[@henryt7049]

Happy New Year Eve and Happy New Year as well 🎉🥳🎆

[@aaronfarlow9927]

Preserved

[@AntonioCorbelli]

Hello Phil did you see the fireworks 🎆🎇 bye.... 2024 :( Hello! 2025! Lets hope 2025 is a good year! Thank you for all your filming and videos and everything I love your videos I'm a very very big fan 🤩

[@sydneytrainsvlogs]

Hey there! :) I saw the fireworks on TV but not in person this year. 2025 will be a better year for all :) No worries! Thank you so much for watching and for your appreciation 😊

[@TANSW1]

have central platforms 12-14 opened? And has all other closed platforms opened yet?

[@aaronfarlow9927]

Hi Phil you do some v set saving for cars

[@jdouble-l19978]

Happy New Year, Phil and hope for a new union EA agreement very soon! Like may I ask are they negotiating again?

[@thomastrehy677]

happy new year Phil you watching the fireworks?

[@peterd4429]

Happy New year Sydney trains vlogs in 2025 the Bankstown line will reopen as a driverless train line

[@TANSW1]

Why are there no trains on the CCN?

[@ec7152]

did you travel on the metro on New years eve when the front and back areas of the trains were closed off?

[@drecion1]

Is it me or does the new underground concourse area smell a bit stale or moldy? Maybe my sense of smell is just sensitive to this type of thing, but it’s just something I have noticed.

[@jack2453]

Hmm. So you're saying that the metro is faster but you are taking the T9 because you get a seat?

[@DoofusStudios]

Who is here in 2025

[@Australiantrainsvlogs4145]

Happy New Year Phil!

[@TANSW1]

have central platforms 12-14 opened? And has all other closed platforms opened yet?

[@Randomsydneytrains]

Happy new year

[@BTVBrendansTransportVlogs]

Happy New Year Phil!

[@sydneytrainsvlogs]

Happy New Year!

[@CaptainsChannel58]

Happy New year Phil 🎉🎉