Location: Melbourne
channel 9 said there going to keep a set preserved. do you think there will be any hitachi runs lets say within the 5 year period?
yes, if people push PTV
Hitachi spotting
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
yes, if people push PTV
hitachi69
Locomotive Driver
yes, if people push PTV
it's cause the trip on the day was quite good, we were pretty much allowed to hang outside the windows, mind you I spoke to a member who said that they tested how far someone could stay outside the window and it was headlength, anything after that was too dangerous he wreckons which was pretty cool. sticking the head outside the window through the loop was probably the highlight of the day, not to mention the train thrashing going and returning from sunbury, you could smell the trains undercarriqe burning from the thrashing the driver gave which I found quite funny. I would love to go again and even though it was 2 days ago any future runs put my name down haha I'm in, it's way too early to figure whats going to happen etc what set will be kept etc but I hope within 5 years we can go on it once again, time to create a petition I guess
oh and btw bring some police along next time with tazers etc to get those no hopers who think they are cool by going around ruining peoples days, I honestly wish the driver opened the doors so the people could have sorted them out I just wished
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
oh and btw bring some police along next time with tazers etc to get those no hopers who think they are cool by going around ruining peoples days, I honestly wish the driver opened the doors so the people could have sorted them out I just wished
LOL
And bring some AO's And PSO's
2025
Station Master
probably the highlight of the day, not to mention the train thrashing going and returning from sunbury, you could smell the trains undercarriqe burning from the thrashing the driver gave which I found quite funny.
I think it was the brakes burning on the slow down between Sunbury and Water Gardens. On the day I think the train was travelling faster from Craigieburn first thing in the morning. That seemed very fast but the rest of the day we were close to other surburban trains up front. A good day travelling around apart from the taggers in Clifton Hill and Essendon.
ljayvee6
Locomotive Fireman
Location: Near the Apm Siding
I think it was the brakes burning on the slow down between Sunbury and Water Gardens. On the day I think the train was travelling faster from Craigieburn first thing in the morning. That seemed very fast but the rest of the day we were close to other surburban trains up front. A good day travelling around apart from the taggers in Clifton Hill and Essendon.
Yep.
bomberswarm2
Locomotive Driver
I remember a couple of years ago when catching the trains in morning and evening peak on Werribee Line, whenever I caught a Hitatchi it was always the same one, and it was distinctive.
It was Motor-Trailer, then motor, however this was facing the wrong way, the nose towards a passenger car, then a correct motor, then trailer-motor.
1. What train was this?
2. How did it end up with carriages the wrong way around, considering there is no turntable on the network?
3. Where is it now, and did they fix it?
It was Motor-Trailer, then motor, however this was facing the wrong way, the nose towards a passenger car, then a correct motor, then trailer-motor.
1. What train was this?
2. How did it end up with carriages the wrong way around, considering there is no turntable on the network?
3. Where is it now, and did they fix it?
Bogong
Chief Commissioner
Location: Essendon Aerodrome circa 1980
2. How did it end up with carriages the wrong way around, considering there is no turntable on the network?
2. Any train from the suburbs that runs around the city loop ends up facing in the opposite direction when it heads back.
So trains (and their carriages) change direction several times a day. The only time a driver of a city loop train has to change to a cab at the other end of the train is at the suburban terminus.
merlin
Chief Commissioner
Location: North East Adelaide
I remember a couple of years ago when catching the trains in morning and evening peak on Werribee Line, whenever I caught a Hitatchi it was always the same one, and it was distinctive.
It was Motor-Trailer, then motor, however this was facing the wrong way, the nose towards a passenger car, then a correct motor, then trailer-motor.
1. What train was this?
2. How did it end up with carriages the wrong way around, considering there is no turntable on the network?
3. Where is it now, and did they fix it?
You're referring to a D car... http://www.pjv101.net/cd/pages/c116m.htm
search RP they've been discussed a few times. http://www.railpage.com.au/f-p509423.htm
http://www.vicsig.net/index.php?page=suburban§ion=rollingstock&traintype=Hitachi&hitachi=article
don_dunstan
Minister for Railways
Location: Adelaide proud
it's cause the trip on the day was quite good, we were pretty much allowed to hang outside the windows, mind you I spoke to a member who said that they tested how far someone could stay outside the window and it was headlength, anything after that was too dangerous he wreckons which was pretty cool.
This was (unfortunately) why the push to ban them from regular service network was hastened.
In addition to under-floor rust and ageing issues we are no longer allowed to provide opportunities where idiots might injure themselves in the manner that you've just described. Because of the lack of CCTV the Hitachis unfortunately became a moving target for people seeking to disrupt our train system with vandalism and unfortunately there was more than one incident where one of these half-wits also smashed their heads on a line-side structure while the train was in motion.
I was actually living in the West when an incident exactly like that happened at my local station involving a Hitachi; the vandal in question had just finished using his texta in the carriage and stuck his head outside for some fresh air. He subsequently got a massive head injury from a signal pole that would probably have meant a nursing home for the rest of his life; it's quite sad that someone young completely ruined their life for a few minutes of thrills. The other sad part is that the government would have had to compensate him for at least seven figures for life-long care because it happened on their property.
So for some reason we had trains with opening windows for 160+ years that now have to be banned because people in the 21st century are too stupid to safely use them.
bomberswarm2
Locomotive Driver
2. Any train from the suburbs that runs around the city loop ends up facing in the opposite direction when it heads back.
So trains (and their carriages) change direction several times a day. The only time a driver of a city loop train has to change to a cab at the other end of the train is at the suburban terminus.
What?
Bills_Billboards
Chief Commissioner
What?
pretty simple to work out train leaves outer suburban terminus travels into the city goes around the loop and returns to the same outer terinus hence reversing the train completly . The train is driven from the same end for the full return trip
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
Rumor that a hitachi ran a 12:00PM Hurstbridge On the day of White Night
mattylovestrains
Train Controller
Rumor that a hitachi ran a 12:00PM Hurstbridge On the first day of White Night
White night was only one day
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
Did any hear a hitachi On the craigieburn line tonight
it may have passed kensington at around 6:25
it may have passed kensington at around 6:25
mattylovestrains
Train Controller
Did any hear a hitachi On the craigieburn line tonight
it may have passed kensington at around 6:25
May have been 288M-1979T-287M-274M-1909T-273M going to Newport
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
May have been 288M-1979T-287M-274M-1909T-273M going to Newport
WTF? Now i want more info
mattylovestrains
Train Controller
WTF? Now i want more info
That's just an assumption, it went back to the Craigieburn sidings after the tour, but I doubt it would stay there forever.
GvhftrKijl
Locomotive Driver
Location: ERD
No Hitachi movements to Newport took place last night - I was out that way this morning and didn't see anything in either the sidings or the workshops.
railblogger
Chief Commissioner
Location: At the back of the train, quitely doing exactly what you'd expect.
Could it have gone back to Elecrail?
Bills_Billboards
Chief Commissioner
The Craigieburn Hitachi is still in the sme place its been for a while now , Sighted at around 8pm 10/7/14
Bill
Bill
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
The Craigieburn Hitachi is still in the sme place its been for a while now , Sighted at around 8pm 10/7/14
Bill
thanks, the horn must have being a comeng
Raichase
Captain Rant!
Location: Sydney, NSW
Might be worth keeping the thread confined to "sightings" and not "magical ghost trains"?
GvhftrKijl
Locomotive Driver
Location: ERD
Looks like the consist stored at Craigieburn is being moved to the Newport graveyard.
X'Trapolis-904M
Deputy Commissioner
Location: Melbourne
Looks like the consist stored at Craigieburn is being moved to the Newport graveyard.
If I can I will go to Newport to have a look
bomberswarm2
Locomotive Driver
As per my earlier thread, I saw a set heading to southern cross (not loop) at 2:45 this afternoon. I will upload footage and photo within the hour, when I return home.
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