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[EARLY VIDEO] A video about Wondabyne!
🕑 Added 2024-07-08 05:02:14 +0000 UTCHi everyone, as promised - here is my third NSW video for the year, this time looking at the tiny request stop of Wondabyne! As alluded to in the video, this is a location that has been covered by many, many youtubers before - including myself (this one will replace my older video with no narration). However I suspect it will still be a new topic to much of my very Melbourne-heavy audience. I've visited Wondabyne something like 8ish times since I first went there in 2010, with most of those trips being focused on still photography. All the motion footage in this video was taken over two trips in 2019 (the sunny ones) & 2024 (the cloudy ones).
Hope you enjoy it!
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Comments
Taitset
That's really cool, I'd love to go there at night one day!
Zave the XPT and the Xplorer and the V Set andβ¦
Omg I love this station. I regularly take the 3:44am service from Central to Wondabyne to experience it at night, and my god it is so beautiful (lots of mosquitoes tho). Also happy that my Patreon name updated at the end of the video π.
Taitset
Here's a photo showing Glenferrie after the line was elevated just before electrification, around 1918/19, which would be when those stations were built: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2821605964579024&set=a.847084425364531 It appears they were in fact built with the third platform already in place (or at least mostly in place). Also an unusual picture of a Y class steam loco on a suburban train (normally a goods loco).
Taitset
Hmm yes that's a very good question! Hawthorn has an explanation - it already had three platforms, with Platform 3 being for the Kew line. As for Auburn and Glenferrie, the only explanation I can think of is that the original platforms were the parallel ones (today's 2 and 3), and the third track was added around the back forming the island platforms, which meant no new buildings were required. However the large shelters on the island platforms definitely look like they were designed for an island. So either they were built with the triplication in mind surprisingly early, or there were changes done in the 60s which carefully replicated the style (that seems quite unlikely to me). Will definitely have to do a bit more looking into this!
Taitset
Thankyou, yes I woke up this morning to a few messages about it. Very exciting!
Shane Baker
i was just reading tom scottβs weekly newsletter and saw a familiar name! congrats on the feature of the broady runaway video!
Wilton Deany
Amazing video Martin, I had no idea about this stop as a Victorian, and as a fellow bushwalking-train enthusiast I'll absolutely have to visit Wondabyne when I get the chance! I have a suggestion for a video on a topic I've recently become quiet curious about but haven't found much info online. I recently learned that the line to box-hill was triplicated in the 1960. I always assumed it was much earlier than that since I associate stations such as Hawthorn and Auburn with their gorgeous 19th century heritage designs. I assume this means the designers at the time went to great efforts to integrate the original architecture into the upgrades, and I would love to learn more about how they looked originally. When walking around Swinburne uni I also noticed provision for a fourth track has been left on the south side of the rail bridges in the area, which lead me to Marcus Wong's amazing (as usual) blog post on triplication to Ringwood and possible future quadruplication to Camberwell. I wonder if these hypothetical future projects would be able to incorporate the original heritage of these stations to the same degree. Ringwood group's status as Melbourne's second busiest train line, while still containing so much 19th century infrastructure, makes it very interesting! I'm sure one-day you'll do a longform video on these lines, but that seems quite daunting! Thanks again for the excellent content.
Max Johansson
I remember thinking your line description videos spent a long time (not in a bad way!) describing the plants and landscapes along the lines, so you being an outdoorsman doesnβt surprise me. Itβs fascinating how close Sydney is to nature, and how easy it is to access that nature without a car - wish you could say the same for most Swedish cities!
Taitset
Interestingly it varies a bit at other request stops, at Zig Zag there's a green paddle thing you hold up, and instructions to use a 'lamp' at night, but there's no lamp there.
Taitset
Haha maybe one day if I'm feeling brave!
Chris Reardon
Oh boy, can't wait til you make the trip to Darnick π
1Mixtercook
Fun and unexpected video that I found funny and describtive. Edit: We need this requesting stop feture in melbourne and in the rest of sydney. (Esspetially on Vline and NSW Trainlink where some a lot of stations donβt need the train to stop when no one will be boarding the train anyway.
Lachlan
Great video, I really enjoyed it! As someone who lives in Sydney. Wondabyne is one of the stations I want to go to at some point. Edit: I knew that you needed to tell the guard when you were going there, but I didn't know how he get back on the train. Interesting that they use hand signals for it
