Train Driver's View: Diamond Valley Railway!

[@Taitset]

For more info on The Diamond Valley Railway, head to their website: www.dvr.com.au/ Here's the main video about the railway: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rorIgaxoi7yHp6M My explainer on Victorian signalling: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2e2pn-Orc1pgtE Enjoy watching these videos? Consider supporting the channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/Taitset

[@forthbrdge6162]

The second half of this video should be sold as a boxed set with your signaling video. It turns the theoretical to the practical. Love it!

[@Taitset]

Yes I was thinking that! I'll have to add a link from that one.

[@silvesterpeel5379]

​@Taitset before watching your videos, I had a basic understanding of signalling. But when I saw your introduction and this cab view it made it all click thank you.

[@Taitset]

@@silvesterpeel5379 That's good to hear!

[@Techno-Universal]

11:54 The cutout to the left was used during the public Halloween night run events and they would most frequently put a purple UV fluorescent tube light in that space to make white things glow! They also had one in the other tunnel by what I remember! :)

[@Techno-Universal]

27:54 The good old tunnel screamer! Even I did this as a kid in the 2000s! :)

[@Taitset]

Haha yes, I can remember it from my childhood too

[@kippen64]

I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit hole. After getting to the end of one of your videos, I find myself clicking on another video to watch.

[@v1rotait23]

Wonderful! Takes me back to between 2001 and 2006 when my family of 2, then 3 kids would come here most Sundays to ride the trains when they were all very little. They have all grown up now. one day I will come back. Thanks for the ride backwards and around a different unusual route. The best 7-1/4" railway anywhere!

[@Sandddsss]

I have always loved the diamond valley railway ever since I was a little child. It’s good to see it still running today

[@funk44]

Pete Smith doing the announcements is the icing on the cake

[@Taitset]

I was wondering who that was!!

[@emdB67]

@t yes, he really needed to add his old signature line "Pete Smith speaking" to the end of the announcement, didn't he? 🤣

[@rossmiller8814]

I can’t hear his voice without hearing “Saaaale of the Century”

[@milkymoocowmoo]

@@rossmiller8814 that or the old bits he did on the Martin/Molloy radio show!

[@Techno-Universal]

5:32 The second track near the tunnel there was added more recently with it being completed in 2015-2016 by what I remember! :)

[@Techno-Universal]

8:18 The swinging crossing light at this crossing was originally located at the next crossing along the line to the right of the train and was abandoned there in a non working state for quite some time but it was working in the 2000s! :)

[@kieranstravels]

The B Class looks very accurate indeed! It was extremely cool of the railway to take you the opposite way to usual. Great video.

[@Techno-Universal]

The B class tram is apparently privately owned by one of the volunteers by what I last heard but could have been donated to the railway more recently! There’s also two of them as originally a pair of them were built in the late 1980s/early 1990s and often both B class trams are run together as a single train! :)

[@Taitset]

It's still privately owned I believe! If there's a second one it must be normally kept somewhere else, certainly just the one there during my visit and I've never seen a second.

[@Techno-Universal]

@@Taitset Yeah the other one could have been on tour at an event or operating at another miniature railway at the time you visited but it could have also been at the owner’s personal workshop! It’s also really interesting seeing both units operating together which they generally do when both are operational at the Diamond Valley Railway which is quite a rare occurrence! :)

[@Techno-Universal]

I also got to drive a train there under supervision in 2017 as I had a friend who was volunteering there back then who invited me to try driving a train on a Saturday which is not a public running day! It was also quite easy as I was driving one of their hydraulic locomotives that only had two cars connected with one being a passenger carriage and the back one being a small guards van! :)

[@tammyintiaras]

We love your channel ! Thank you again ! 😘

[@FromtheWindowSeat]

Somehow I never knew about this miniature railway. 😝 Fantastic video Martin! Super keen to visit when I’m in Melbourne next. 👌

[@True_NOON]

7:45 Scale speed of the 03 broadie runaway

[@rogerwhittle2078]

I've known about the Diamond Valley Railway for many years, even though I've never been to Australia - perhaps one day? However, I have a couple of questions relating to a particular locomotive, which, had the myths and rumours been true, would have suited the DVR wonderfully well. And the major question? Have you ever heard of a live steam locomotive called 'William Jeffers? The Jeffers is or was a 10 1/4" gauge 4-8-8-4 mostly scale replica of a Union Pacific 'Big Boy' (I think 4008?) It was built in Britain and ran on the Dobwalls Railway park and belonged to John Southern. When Dobwalls closed in 2006 all or most of the locos (all beautiful, hard working replicas) were sold and some (including 4008) were intermittently used on a farm somewhere in Britain. That's when the rumours started and one of the most prevalent was that the William Jeffers had been shipped to Australia and would run on the Diamond Valley Railway. So far, so good. From then on - nothing. Can you confirm or deny that the Jeffers went to the DVR? If not, where did it go? If it did, why do we not see it as a featured loco on your beautiful railway? Locomotives of that gauge and scale do not get built or even owned by individuals and are so valuable, they don't get forgotten in barns. Or do they? Otherwise, a great video and I love the DVR already, Great vlog.

[@emdB67]

I've seen the loco in the workshop at DVR. Here's a video of it running at DVR 12 years ago. By the way, it's 7¼" gauge, not 10¼". 😉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpixlpWlYrare9E

[@Taitset]

Very interesting, I've never seen it! Not still there as far as I'm aware, unless it's hiding under a very big tarp somewhere.

[@emdB67]

@@TaitsetI've searched for my photos of the "William Jeffers" Big Boy loco in road 9 of the workshop. They were taken in October 2011. The Ex Dobwalls Amtrak E7A-E7B set were parked behind it. I've also seen the Centennial diesel there on a different visit. They're privately owned I believe, but I've not heard anything about them recently either. I'm sure someone who knows more shall comment at some point.

[@gharkun]

martin have you seen the kerrisdale railway? big fan of the videos. keep it up

[@Taitset]

I haven't been up there, it's something I've been meaning to do for a while though!

[@SleepyAdrian]

Great video as always Martin! I was wondering if there is a route map of the entire railway anywhere, as I find it VERY confusing! 😂 SECOND edit: 5:10 is one of my old primary school friends 😂

[@Taitset]

Yep there's on one their website!

[@yangliu128]

Just check the other video, at 4:02

[@mintaka57]

Wow ♥

[@justinwright4833]

Why was the tram going the opposite way to normal running?

[@Taitset]

Just so we could film this!

[@justinwright4833]

@@Taitset oh thats pretty cool of them to allow that

[@Taitset]

@@justinwright4833 Yes they were very generous with their time!

[@ЛЬВИНИ]

...Nice video, likes from me...

[@hypercomms2001]

What was the purpose of the third rail in the tunnel?

[@Taitset]

It's a check rail, stops the a train continuing into the tunnel wall if it derails.

[@hypercomms2001]

@@Taitset specificallu how does it work: are there guides under the train for this third rail that will capture this rail?

[@Taitset]

@@hypercomms2001 When a train derails it's going to go one way or the other- once the wheels are off the rails they'll be running along the sleepers. To go further to the side, the wheels would then have to climb over the check rail.

[@phillip1604]

Very cool! What is the maximum permitted speed on the railway? Seems a bit fast (albeit might be the design of the camera angles)

[@Taitset]

It is surprisingly fast! I'm not sure exactly, but I'd say around 15-20km/h.

[@phillip1604]

@@Taitset oh cool! Gonna blame the camera angle then coz I thought it was even faster :D

[@sammao1208]

15km/h

[@Taitset]

@@sammao1208 Thankyou!

[@TheLostProbe]

@@phillip1604 when a camera is moving close to the ground, it appears faster than it actually is. there may be a name for this effect but I'm not sure

[@johnplampin7274]

It appears that a semaphore pointing down means proceed. Isn't that contrary to normal?

[@Taitset]

Semaphores can be either upper or lower quadrant - on both types, horizontal is stop. Lower quadrant semaphores tip down for 'proceed.' They are also found in the UK's great western region.

[@johnplampin7274]

@@Taitset i dimly recall reading long ago about some accidents in the UK that resulted from snow forcing the arm down, which back then meant proceed. So they were changed to arm up to proceed, arm down to stop. I guess it is more complicated!

[@Taitset]

@@johnplampin7274 Yes I've heard of that too! Our lower quadrants have a counterweight, so if they 'fall' they fall up. We also don't have the snow problem here luckily!

[@emdB67]

@@TaitsetI seem to recall reading somewhere that the (almost) central pivot of the somersault arm (as also used by the VR) was to get around that very problem. Not really an issue here, but I've always thought they looked cool. :)

[@Taitset]

@@emdB67 Yes that too! They also just look really good. :)

[@tamworthtrainnut285]

The Tamworth Miniature Railway is located next to the Tamworth Regional Botanical Gardens in Tamworth NSW 2340