NSW Trainlink XPLORER – Newcastle to Tamworth (review)

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1. Good review! 👌 Definitely keen to try this route one day.

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2. I thought those trains don't stop at newcastle?

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3. Nice video mate! This remind me of my very first train experience in Australia- Armidale to Sydney.

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4. Nicely done clip. Couple of minor technical things. Unless they've changed fairly recently the hot meals aren't microwaved, they're heated; which is why there'e about an hour between ordering and getting them. Also every carriage on the XPL has its own engine, so the sound level would be about the same in all. 

   One time I travelled to Armidale there was a blind person with a dog on the train. I was very impressed at how the crew looked after them; even having toilet trays or a grassed area (with 'privacy') set up for the dog at each stop for when it needed to go.

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5. 4 hours with someone sitting next to you is easy. Try doing it on the 2 overnight trains back to back for about 10 hours (Mel – Syd) and then 14 hours (Syd – Bris) Nice video btw.

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6. Forgot to ask before, where did you find the cab view footage

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7. Was it Hexham you reached 153?

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8. The Xplorer train you were on was a 5 car set (3 cars+2 cars), the Armidale Xplorer consists of Car A (first class), Car B (Economy) and Car D (Economy) and the Moree Xplorer consists of Car E (first class) and Car F (Economy)

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9. Was the driver as slow as i am mate?

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10. Great video! 😁

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11. Nice vid mate! I’m not a fan of the morning commute but this is soothing 👌

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12. Nice video, saw your post on one of the FB groups, minor correction, all of the Xplorer carriages are power cars including the EB intermediate carriages, i.e. each carriage would have an engine. Yes I do agree first class is only slightly better, also with better recline (especially great if no one is sitting behind you) and usually with less crying babies. I went on it a few years ago and there’s sometimes a bit of squeakiness coming from between the carriages (not sure what it’s called exactly), quite horrible on some of the sets, it just kept on squeaking the whole way.

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