Videos and Images of Trains

[Pilot]

I was on this train last night.

Made sure it was all clean ready for the morning.
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What a heap! I don't miss my days of travelling on Northern 150s to/from school every day!

Instead I'm now on Voyagers, so not much better, although today's example (220018 working 1V45 0703 Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads) is particularly clean on the front, with no left over marks from the old Virgin badge.

Sadly the WiFi is so poor the picture won't attach!

Edit: Now with picture!

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[GarryG]

Was a level crossing accident in South Australia, Australia on New Years eve. A truck failed to stop at a level crossing that has warning lights flashing and a freight train collected it. Both train crews was killed and truck drive walked away with a few minor injuries. As can see by one of these images the truck driver would have a good view whats coming. Truck driver from Queensland where freight trains don't travel as fast. But where accident happened the freight trains can do 115 km per hour.

[dol422]

Was a level crossing accident in South Australia, Australia on New Years eve. A truck failed to stop at a level crossing that has warning lights flashing and a freight train collected it. Both train crews was killed and truck drive walked away with a few minor injuries. As can see by one of these images the truck driver would have a good view whats coming. Truck driver from Queensland where freight trains don't travel as fast. But where accident happened the freight trains can do 115 km per hour.

He should be in the ground, not the poor train crew who couldn't stop for him. Tragic.

[CTarana45]

A New York Central Mountain Locomotive!

Christopher Tarana

[GarryG]

A few videos I taken recently.

A Oscar H-set departing Cockle Creek Station towards Sydney and passes a V-Set coming the other way non-stop Newcastle bound.

Cockle Creek H-Set Up & V-set Down 006.MP4

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Pacific national Intermodal passing Cockle Creek heading to Brisbane, Queensland.

1314 Cockle Creek PN Intermodal with NR60 and 8143 022.MP4

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Track Inspection Vehicle testing the track for defects.

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[JohnFranklin523]

Recently I had been to Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria for the 31st International Mathematical Competition for University Students. It was a small but lovely city. And I also went some trainspotting. Here is an EMU 31.000 departing from Blagoevgrad at 2024-08-06 1420 (local time UTC+03) to its destination Sofia. The train number is REG 50112. There are many graffitis. The video has been compressed a little to be uploaded on the forums.

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[GarryG]

Some videos I took recently.
New locomotives that will be hauling flour wagons from Manildra to Nowra.

1326 Manildra Man Locos 006 and 007 Down Cockle Creek.MP4

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The box cars are carry paper.

1244 SCT Freight Down Cockle Creek.MP4

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These passenger trains at moment train drivers and guards ready to enter service after Christmas. They can operate as 4, 6 or 10 car sets. Known as Mariyung. Some also call then NIFF Sets.

1217 D-Set 6 cars Up Cockle Creek.MP4

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[Muzzly]

Just a nice train.

[dol422]

Just a nice train.

What was the reason for its design?

[ebla71]

What was the reason for its design?

This is the Japanese Twilight Express Mizukaze - a luxury sleeping-car excursion train operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and what you see here is one of the observation cars with an open balcony. There are two of them at each end of the train and the cab for the train driver is above the balcony, as in the Dutch "Koplooper" trains (although these commuter trains are a tiny bit less luxury, of course )

[Pyoro]

Bit of a quick visit to the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen ... it's basically a bunch of tracks and sheds next to the (still in normal use) Nördlingen station. You can just wander around as you like and look at everything currently parked anywhere accessible. And then there's even more stuff parked sorta nearby but less accessible. Good enough to sorta see but not in detail.

Interesting they don't just do the "usual" historic tourist trains but also for example provide cargo service with some of their diesel engines for nearby industries. Very much a working railway club that's also a museum and maintains some track and does some passenger and freight service ... ^^#

[Pyoro]

Nördlingen is a bit of a tourist destination anyway (preserved historical city in a really nice landscape) but if you're into trains it's definitely a nice bonus

[GarryG]

The Old and the new. The 1st train you see is called a V-Set and these are being scrapped in coming years as they old. The next train you see if the video is known as a D-Set also called a Mariyung which is aboriginal for Emu. This will replace the V-Sets as crews are trained to use them.

[GarryG]

Some videos I took last week.

A coal train.

Awaba 1539 CA14 Coal Down.MP4

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A intermodal (containers) train

Awaba 1551 3BS5 PN IM Up NR56 & 29.MP4

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And the new EMU that has started to operate between Sydney and Newcastle. Called a Mariyung which is aboriginal for emu.

Cockle Creek 1448 D44 and D43 Up.MP4

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[GarryG]

Some DMU's that operate from Newcastle to Maitland, Dungog and Scone.
This one is called a Hunter.

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This one called a Endeavor

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[Kuma Bear]

Bit of a quick visit to the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen ... it's basically a bunch of tracks and sheds next to the (still in normal use) Nördlingen station. You can just wander around as you like and look at everything currently parked anywhere accessible. And then there's even more stuff parked sorta nearby but less accessible. Good enough to sorta see but not in detail.

Interesting they don't just do the "usual" historic tourist trains but also for example provide cargo service with some of their diesel engines for nearby industries. Very much a working railway club that's also a museum and maintains some track and does some passenger and freight service ... ^^#

I plan to be in Munich for a month or 2 come august . i did not know of the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen. will make plans to go see it. Thank you so much for your post.

[Pyoro]

I plan to be in Munich for a month or 2 come august . i did not know of the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen. will make plans to go see it. Thank you so much for your post.

Cool If you are into that sorta thing; Munich itself isn't much of a railway Mecca as such (although of course there's plenty of other nice things here); but it does have the Verkehrsmuseum (transportation museum; also has cars etc.) that's a branch of the Deutsche Museum. Otherwise there's the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nuremberg nearby and then yeah definitely Nördlingen. Both Nördlingen and Nuremberg are a bit of a day trip from Munich of course but as both cities are quite nice they are worth visiting anyway.

There's also a bunch of heritage railways in the area if that's your cup of tea. Nördlingen sometimes does steam train journeys to Munich actually ^^#

Of course you can also just go watch trains in the natural environment in and around Munich. I was actually at the marshalling yard last Sunday (I'm sure I've posted some pics from there before):

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[GarryG]

Nice seeing you guys putting videos and photos here to see what things are like in your countries. Usually if do a search on internet for trains of countries usually show a tourist point of view. But here is far better as we get a train watchers point of view. So much better.

Here a few videos I took past few days.
This at a place called Awaba where see one of the new suburban Mariyung train and a XPT train. Mariyung is aboriginal for emu. The XPT is travelling from Sydney to Grafton.

Awaba 1357 Mariyung and NT35 XPT.MP4

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This is at a place called Cockle Creek and known as a Xplorer. It is 2 sets combined. the 2 cars are from Moree and the other cars are from Armidale. They joing the train at Werris Creek before conintuning to Sydney.

Cockle Creek 1511 NP24 Xplorer up.MP4

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This is at Fassifern of a empty grain train heading to Parkes. It unloaded over night as a place called Carrington near Newcastle.

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[JohnFranklin523]

Some random heritage railway -- there are pretty many in the UK

[GarryG]

A few videos I took on Thursday 27th March 2025.

The 1st 2 provide passenger services between Newcastle, Maitland, Dungog and Scone.

Maud Street 0913 Hunter Up.MP4

Called a Hunter

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Maud Street 1014 Endevour Up.MP4

Called a Endevour

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The 3rd is 3 rail motors 100 years old providing a charted service Newcastle to Dungog.

Maud Street 1044 CPH1 CPH3 CPH7 down.MP4

Called CPH rail motors

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