THE FINAL TRAIN EVER - The Very Last Trains On The T3 Bankstown Line!

[@tsetstransport]

Audio within the first minute may be a little stuffy due to some copyright issues. :) Hope you all enjoyed the video and a big farewell to the Bankstown Line!

[@TatumLambourne]

Your crazy to go in the rain at night

[@mt-mg7tt]

Thanks for the video! it was nice to hear the special tooting at Sydenham. I desperately wanted to ride the last 2 trains (even had planned to X trains at St Peters), but very heavy rain at Lithgow delayed me at the last minute. With our absurd 2-hourly timetable it was too late after 7:30pm. I did do it last week when we all thought it was finishing between Bankstown and Campsie. Great historic photos at the end!

[@NiffyYT]

Nice video of the last ever train. I have lived on this line for my entire life. Over these 15 years, it has brought me unexpected happiness, linking me to friends and the heart of Sydney. I have taken the SWL buses and they just don't have the magic the T3 brought me. It will be missed and forever have a place in our hearts.

[@MainTransportvlogs]

Ye same I also lived on T3 Bankstown line for rest of my live and sad how trains are gone forever and T3 is magic for me

[@Bus908merrylands]

Brian, I been Living on the Bankstown line since 2018💀

[@WhatIsThisPuzzle]

The date the Bankstown line is closed is coincidentally the same date Epping Chatswood rail link was closed for conversion.

[@Gary-vv5gt]

Couldn’t make it, was on Sunday night (Monday morning) and I had work. Luckily was able to make it to that ecrl line train back in the 2017 or something, was Saturday night (Sunday morning to be more precise) and I lived in artamon so that helps. Was a t set lol and the bus ride back home (292 I think), someone puked on the way to Epping and had to ride a puke smelt bus…. Amusing time back then…. Probs don’t have the same energy to pull of this stuff anymore, particularly if I have work next day or whatever tbh

[@gth042]

I wonder if there's a photo gallery of what these stops looked like in years past. I'm glad you guys have such infrastructure and are so involved in it. ...To reduce glare against windows, I've had luck making light baffles out of black foam. In the US, we have inexpensive pipe insulation made of a particularly matte neoprene. ✂A snip of that gives a nice ring that's easily attached with two-sided tape. Cheers y-all, from North Carolina, US!

[@nswtrainsvlogs]

Thank you for this video Elliot it was very sad to see the line close but felt good knowing that something better is definitely on the way. Yes it’ll take time but it’ll definitely be worth it. Thanks for spending half your night out recording this footage for us. Keep up the great work 😊😊

[@marksearle6222]

Great visual documentation by you (and your fellow youtubers) to help preserve these historic moments in time! You are a very dedicated lot - much appreciated by this train enthusiast.

[@jackscanlon8123]

Farewell Bankstown Line, I watched trains go past when i was 4 years old and now I will never see it again

[@MainTransportvlogs]

Thank you so much for all these videos Before the Bankstown line is converted to metro

[@Biiri-oc8ti]

Transitioning to an Automated Rail System is truly an awesome prospect. Ending the Era of Manned Rail Cars, a history making piece of rail nostalgia that will be gone once the Metro begins operation.

[@MainTransportvlogs]

Thank you so much man for filming this last train trip ever before no more train services for t3 Bankstown line.

[@RGC198]

Excellent video. Being originally from Marrickville, I have been following this closure with great interest. I moved from my Marrickville home down here to Melbourne in mid 1981, though I have a lot of fond memories of traveling along this line. It is interesting that in many cases of any public transport closure it often rains. I suppose that is something that adds to the occasion. My last trip on the Bankstown line was when my family and I visited Sydney back in early 2000. While we were in Sydney, we looked up the old house where we used to live.

[@Australiaballyt13]

rip T3 bankstown 1895-2024😔

[@universe00047]

@@Australiaballyt13 underrated comment

[@robertmcfadyen9156]

My sister at St Peters didn't like the closure news .

[@sydneywaratahasets]

I’m still crying from this day that is actually over for the Bankstown line as I’ve had many memories on it and now it’s converting into Sydney metro. Great video Elliot keep it up. 👍 😢

[@GreatAussieDrives]

Awesome to see so many enthusiasts there to see off the last train. Great video mate!

[@edwardleecaliforniausa]

That would be a good time during the last moment of the new metro southwest line and that im excited

[@DanielKing-dk5nr]

I still remember when I saw the Tangarra for the first time 1990 at Waverton. Finishing my day at school, went to Waverton platform and saw that front slant coming in, looked so futurisitc, and we finally had air con in the trains. From the red rattlers, to the silver trains to that was a big achievement. These driverless trains now are horrible, they needed to keep the upstairs and downstairs with seats facing backwards and forwards not just on the sides.

[@RussellAdams-z6e]

Haven't caught a bankstown train for 50 years...my last day of school. In those days the local practical joke was; usually school kids would ring from a phone-box & ask "Are you on the Bankstown line" & then answer "Well you better get off, coz the trains coming". It was a simpler, more innocent time!

[@robertmcfadyen9156]

I saw Matthew and Jenper when K71 and K95 went to Liverpool from Sydenham on the Friday evening on which I travelled . I was upstairs at Birrong and saw you again on Sunday evening .

[@nickcarter997]

Great vid guys! Bit sad to. Last train for a year... maybe two! Love it!

[@nightowldickson]

The metro conversion will be well worth it. Just having the platform screen doors alone will improve platform safety for all commuters. Reduced station dwell times, more consistent and reliable service, fewer trains having to loop through city circle reducing congestion and less flow on delays.

[@gregquan5647]

I honestly love you train geeks! :D I wish I were there with you guys. I love the excitement and appreciation you guys all show for transport. I've watched stuff all of you boys have put out - keep it up!

[@jdouble-l19978]

I travel on the Bankstown line a lot as a child and I even have some relatives living along the line (some even formerly) at places like Bankstown, Marrickville and Yagoona (I know Yagoona is not part of the metro). So this will be an emotional thing for me. But at least the line isn't gone forever.

[@cgfreed3]

You guys are historians. Thanks for work

[@maxkonto1]

Watching this instead of editing my videos on the Bankstown line. 😭

[@TheRealMillennium]

Your pfp is so similar to t sets

[@maxkonto1]

@@TheRealMillennium Because TsetsTransport made it for me.

[@mark123655]

End of an era, but the start of much better services (in anout 12 months) for those on the former T3 stations.

[@avatar5991]

I wonder if anyone remained on the train after it left Bankstown, and if so what kind of announcements were made by the train driver?

[@MrAnsairDude]

Thanks for this amazing video mate!

[@lukejefferson-r9m]

long live T3 Bankstown line and thankyou for your 129 years of service to the people of sydney and sydney trains. we wont forget you

[@pm110978]

Thanks for the memories 😢

[@Gary-vv5gt]

Man this give me memories of riding the last ecrl cityrail trains prior to metro conversion…. Was lucky was on Sat night/sun morning and I live near the line back then. Couldn’t make it Bankstown as I had work… (could have asked work for a few jobs in that area as I’m contact with manager of that depot and done previous work there) for a run there on Monday and snooze in the car, but it’s would be far too weird to ask haha. And snoozing in that area in a car when people can see you would be sketchy… Think my last trip on t3 line was crashing at a friend of a friend place back in 2012 in a s set lol, friend puked and passed out

[@EricYu1]

I will miss it all the memory’s I made at the T3

[@IsraelsChannel-ee5bk]

New T6 Line Train ! 🤩

[@TrainFan621]

Such a memorial event

[@tedes72]

I don’t know why you wouldn’t want the metro. It eases the congestion across the rail network

[@BigBlueMan118]

Yeah it seems like a lot of train nerds are more interested in being able to run a steam train on it or whether it "feels" like an authentic railway experience than whether it actually does a good job of moving people and improving people's lives.

[@tompang5296]

@@BigBlueMan118 Yep, agreed. I'm a train nerd myself - there would be a space where these types of train nerds are able to experience the joy of an "authentic railway experience", but they need to understand that they can't do it at the expense of the purpose of mass transit. I assume that they may run heritage steam train services on branch lines once every few months to a year that won't disrupt the network.

[@BigBlueMan118]

@@tompang5296 yeh and I dont see the problem with railfanning over the Metro, it is fast and effective, it fills up with people and it goes where you want it to go. I know lots of people on the Northwest that love the Metro and take it way more than they would have if it had been suburban rail.

[@tompang5296]

@@BigBlueMan118 I'm actually a bullet train and MTR railfan (so sydney metro falls neatly in), but I find that generally we aren't the "face" of the railfan community - far from it. We're underrepresented compared to the "face", which imo seems to be the steam train/heritage railfans.

[@Bus908merrylands]

Nice video we will now have a moment of silence of the T3 Bankstown, 1895-2024. And hello T6 Bankstown 💀

[@levitationofflames]

poop line

[@roshnisiwakoti7461]

Goodbye Bankstown line. I miss you so much.😢😢😢😢😭😭

[@boqianwu1485]

Thank you T3 Bankstown Line😭

[@roshnisiwakoti7461]

Goodbye and farewell T3 Bankstown line and truly the end of era.😢😭😭

[@RedBeanPlayzYT]

We will miss the t3 line ❤️

[@TimChuma]

Heard nothing about this in Melbourne until I saw the news about it closing online. The new train line will be an underground one if I am understanding it? Will they sell off the land above it to cover costs?

[@DeannoPlaysMC]

It’s simply a conversion of an existing suburban line to metro standards using the exact same corridor

[@TomHommus]

Its not over though its just being upgraded for metro. Its not like the line will disappear. Was it over for Epping to Chatswood? Nope and we're all better for it

[@SomeoneIsBreathing.]

Downgraded, when it is complete you will need to catch 3 trains to get from Marrickville to Cabramatta😬

[@TomHommus]

@@SomeoneIsBreathing. How many people want to go from Marrickville to Cabramatta? The issue here is that the train frequency is rubbish. There should be a frequent service so that interchange doesn't cost that much. The metro has 5 mins frequency in the offpeak - this is what the train network should aim for so that people who do interchanges are not inconvenienced. And the 3 interchanges, 4 car (half size) Bankstown train platform you can blame on the restore inner west line lobby group. Originally there was meant to be a direct service from Bankstown to Liverpool but I guess people like you didn't lobby hard enough so the inner west lobby group won out.

[@BigBlueMan118]

@@TomHommus Yep - correct on all points!

[@jack2453]

​@@SomeoneIsBreathing......but only one to get from Bankstown to Epping.

[@SomeoneIsBreathing.]

@@TomHommus So basically all the Vietnamese grandmas would disagree with you. Stations like Cabramatta, Bankstown, Campsie and Marrickville are all major cultural hubs and the T3 connected them all. It’s kinda obvious that you won’t ever be able to catch a first train to Cabramatta from Marrickville anymore but the least they could do is make a line from Bankstown to Liverpool which you stated but wdym “people like me” should have begged for this, it isn’t that hard to see how important the T3 line was. People like you only see the accessibility it is to get to the city but hate to break it to you people have a life that doesn’t revolve around work only.

[@brianb8516]

Metros are trains, and will return hopefully, next year. The T6 is not a "brand new line", it is rebranding of an existing line.

[@archerhuszar6988]

0:28 going to where my dad lives!

[@TuNguyen-po2zs]

sad, because the bankstown line have been around for along time

[@Train_Mate]

Wow this is deep

[@levitationofflames]

you guys actually bothered to take the very last train on the bankstown line at 11:30 pm RIP T3 bankstown line 1895 - 2024 😔

[@UltimaSpark50]

Are they seriously not bringing back direct City Bankstown via Lidcombe services, even temporarily? Because that definitely existed when I was younger.

[@ray2208aus]

The issue is lack of available train paths between Lidcombe and city as there will be at least 4 trains per hour from Liverpool to the city via regents park plus trains via Granville from parramatta and leppington. There’s also the at grade junction at lidcombe which could lead to congestion during delays. They have opted for a shuttle between Bankstown and lidcombe instead. There’s also no direct Bankstown to Liverpool service due to challenges in timetabling services across a triangle junction at Birrong/Sefton/, regents park. Finally, Bankstown can currently turn back trains westbound from one platform unless a new crossover is installed over the siding. Typically, Sydney trains terminate 4 trains per hour from av single platform (obviously exceptions to this, eg bondi junction.

[@hubertalistair9404]

Can't wait for Bankstown reopening as T6 (hopefully someone films T6 and T3 to CBD by just changing at regents park cos it's easier)😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jaydenstrainvlog-m8w]

Are you at the expo in am I might see you there if your here

[@BTVBrendansTransportVlogs]

R.I.P

[@glendarob]

Does anybody know what's happening to the freight line along the ex-T3 corridor?

[@InevitableMe]

It will continue operating as a freight line, without any change.

[@jacksmart3616]

Nice rip

[@seththompson-fq6vk]

It so sad the Bankstown line closed

[@AndyAussie]

It's good you guys showed Birrong and Yagoona. After the metro the line will potentially be pulled up.

[@BigBlueMan118]

That was only ever an option listed in an obscure strategy document, it was never Policy and never likely.

[@mt-mg7tt]

As this video says, there WILL be a train service between Bankstown and Lidcombe, the T6, which will be useful in various ways. I think (perhaps naively), that even the most thick-headed of decision-makers, would hesitate to piss off people so much, as to close off that section. Hmm, you could even run trains out west from there via the Berala-Auburn diversion, but of course that would be using it like a network ;-) .

[@TomHommus]

​@@mt-mg7ttconvert that part to metro as well and connect it with Revesby That would provide a nice north south connection. Currently it's a pain to go from south to north and vice versa. This would make a huge difference.

[@mt-mg7tt]

@@TomHommus Sorry, I'm not sure which part you mean. Lidcombe - Berala ..(?).. Revesby? Some kind of N-S line could be useful, and interchange with HR at both ends and connect with the Bankstown metro.

[@TomHommus]

@@mt-mg7tt yes something like Lidcombe Regents Park berala Birrong Yagoona Bankstown possibly one more station in the middle to Revesby. Currently it's a pain to go anywhere along this route because of the missing link between Revesby and Bankstown

[@NicolasDuong-m5w]

I wish they didn’t have to convert the Bankstown line. I’m also wondering what the point of what is going to be the new T3 line

[@MainTransportvlogs]

@@NicolasDuong-m5w so people that lives in between Lidcombe and Liverpool via Sefton and regents park still have direct train services to and from city that usually goes via Bankstown will instead go via Strathfield

[@andrewtailby4364]

Philis bucket was down the back of that lidcombe to central service lets hope you didnt run into the muppet

[@gerardostransportvlogsofficial]

What time did this happen?

[@OzzieCarwashes]

monday morning sept 30

[@ethanfang7927]

well at least im not going to school now

[@TheVoyagersTrainsAndThings]

What is even happening to this line ?? the information on wikipedia i dont understand 😕😕

[@InevitableMe]

It is being converted to a driverless metro line.

[@matheuswolters3448]

The line between Sydenham and Bankstown stations are being converted into a driverless metro line. The other half of the line between Bankstown, Lidcombe and Liverpool will still be provided by heavy rail double decker trains though

[@TheVoyagersTrainsAndThings]

So how is this line closing, it is being converted to driverless trains, technically it is open right ?

[@InevitableMe]

@@TheVoyagersTrainsAndThings It will be closed for 12 months for conversion, assuming there are no construction delays.

[@jack2453]

End of an era sure. Worth marking and getting nostalgic etc. But I'm finding this 'last ever train' stuff rather disingenuous/silly. When it becomes art of M1, the things riding the line will certainly be trains. They may go to slightly different destinations and look a bit different but service patterns and rolling stock on this line has changed several times in my lifetime.

[@Muhammad_dawud]

they closed the lakemba station end of on era but we have more coming so dont be sad

[@Nolanstransportvlogs]

TSETSTRANSPORT are you alive you didn’t breathe at Bankstown

[@evangiles4403]

It's not closed they are fixing up the platforms for the metro

[@MainTransportvlogs]

True

[@angelaturra74]

Way Closed T3 Bankstown this NEWS ??? For ? ?? from Melbourne

[@TomHommus]

Train to rapid transit conversion

[@pm110978]

😢😢😢

[@WGAFAH]

why exactly are they converting the t3 to metro

[@OzzieCarwashes]

some say that increased property developmen especially conversion of houses and industrial areas to apartmentst along the line as metro is more frequent than existing rail services will then address sydney's housing shortages.

[@lachd2261]

To take the Bankstown line off the city circle

[@tsetstransport]

@@lachd2261 yet the T3 line is still on the City Circle

[@BigBlueMan118]

@@tsetstransport the problem wasn't there being a T3 service feeding trains into the Inner West Locals track pair and round the City Circle at all, the problem was the Bankstown Line feeding 8 trains per hour into the Illawarra Line track pair between Sydenhan and Erskineville and then those dividing into the City Circle on both sides. This forced really awkward moves on the tracks between Hurstville and Erskineville/Redfern, and took capacity away from the Airport & South Line particularly as well as the Inner West corridor. Removing Bankstown fixes a lot of these problems, running the Liverpool-Regents Park-Inner West service isnt ideal but is also not that bad. Also running a Bankstown-Lidcombe shuttle T6 service using 4-car Milleniums allows more rolling stock to be allocated where its needed (T4, T5).

[@mt-mg7tt]

@@BigBlueMan118 Yes, interesting and I understand re the traffic, but mightn't it have been possible just to terminate at Sydenham, where transfers to many other trains and metros are possible? That way you'd still be using the metro's capabilities to the City and North Shore, and it wouldn't deprive the HR network of flexibility. I like that T6 will happen, at least.

[@jackokill]

Great Video Elliot!