Taitset

[EARLY VIDEO] Walking down Elizabeth St in the rain!

Hi everyone, here's another chilled out walking video in the CBD, this time done in the rain just for something different! This was actually recorded back in October, it just took me a while to get around to doing anything with it. Enjoy!

[EARLY VIDEO] Express running in Melbourne

There's still *just* time for one more video for 2023! This is one of those ones that's been slowly coming together for ages, was abandoned a few times, and finally came together over the last week. Some of the footage was taken just yesterday. Happy new year! 

[EARLY VIDEO] The G class tram mockup!

Hi everyone, this is probably a personal record for fast production, as I only filmed this 6 days ago. This is the tour of the G class tram mockup, which is in a big shed in Tullamarine. Enjoy!

A little update, and a new tram!

Hi everyone, I'm currently running a bit behind where I'd like to be in terms of video production, and the next one is still going to take a little while to complete. This time of year is where my day job gets really hectic, so my free time to work on the channel will be limited for the next few weeks.

However, I did get to do something cool today! I got a surprise invite to visit the prototype for the new G class tram, which is located in a big warehouse in the northern suburbs. It's ...

[EARLY VIDEO] Bus Replacements in Melbourne!

Hi everyone, this is one that's been very slowly coming together since October last year, inspired by a lot of frustrating experiences on replacement busses during the big Hurstbridge line occupations we've had recently. A lot of this was written from notes made while I was sitting on the busses, or stuck waiting for them! Hope you enjoy it.

[EARLY VIDEO] The 20,000 subscribers Q&A!

Hi everyone, here it is - my first ever Q&A video! This was actually quite fun, I basically just sat down with the questions and they prompted me to talk for an hour and a half. It's totally unscripted and uncut, which is very different to what I'm used to! The footage is a walk through the city between two of my favorite train watching locations, filmed just yesterday. Despite being the longest video I've ever uploaded, the production time on this was actually pretty quick because of it'...

October channel update!

Hi everyone, just a quick update for what I'm working on at the moment!

Firstly, thanks to everyone who sent in a question for the Q&A - I got about 130 questions all up, and there are some really good ones in there! I have recorded the audio of me answering them all (some similar ones grouped together), and it's going to be very long-form - probably around 90 minutes. However it won't take long to produce as I am basically just talking through it all 'live,' so the...

20,000 subscribers Q&A video

Hi everyone, as promised, I have decided to follow youtube tradition and make a Q&A video to celebrate the channel rolling over 20,000 subscribers. I'm just about to put a public post calling out for questions on the YouTube community tab, but if you don't want to get lost in the crowd feel free to ask any questions you might have on this post instead!

I will most likely answer the questions over the top of a first-person walking video, as that will be pretty easy to produce and b...

[EARLY VIDEO] Melbourne suburban train distribution

Hi everyone! This video is aimed a little bit more at a general audience than usual - People often ask me why you only see certain types of trains running on certain lines, and this is a quick run-through of why that is. It also leads into looking at how having older trains on your line isn't necessarily a bad thing. Also: Some of you may have noticed that the channel rolled over 20,000 subscribers a few days ago! As mentioned previously I will be doing some kind of Q&A type thing as per ...

[Updated video] Victorian Fare Explainer

Hi everyone, this is just an updated version of the video I made about PTV fares about a year ago. I don't plan on getting in the habit of replacing old videos (because that way lies madness), but this one had a few changes I felt had to be made.
-I altered probably around 1/3 of the script, and re-recorded the entire voiceover.
-Slightly altered my criticism of the Free Tram Zone
-Added a bit at the end about V/line, specifically the regional fare cap

The old version will st...

[EARLY VIDEO] The Broadmeadows Runaway!

It's finally here! This one ended up being a huge project. It posed an interesting challenge of illustrating, given there are very few visual records of the actual event. This was greatly assisted by my mate Alexander Jamieson (some of you may know him as Melbournesparks on youtube, with the G scale garden tramway). After just a small suggestion from me, he went to a lot of effort recreating scenes for this video in Open Rails, the open-source version of Train Simulator. The Comeng model alre...

Next video almost ready to roll!

Hi everyone, just wanted to provide an extra update seeing as it's been a bit longer between videos than usual. I've just spent the last week away from the computer (and internet, and phone reception) enjoying my other major interest: camping and bushwalking with my family. The Broadmeadows runaway video is like 95% finished - it's taken a bit longer than usual partly because it's fairly complicated, but also because I've got some elements for it being created by a friend of mine, so I'm wait...

August channel update

Hello everyone! Just a bit of an update on what I'm working on the moment, and how the channel's going as a whole.

As usual I've got a few things in the pipeline - I've probably got 5 or 6 videos with relatively complete scripts, but it's often the last bit of finishing them off that takes the longest. Sometimes I put a lot of time into a script, then decide it isn't working for me and abandon it - but then I will often come back to them a few months la...

[EARLY VIDEO] St Kilda Trams [2 of 2]

St Kilda tram video No.2! The first one was a general explainer on routes in the area etc, while this one is the latest installment in my real-time walking series, also in St Kilda. Both will go live to public around the same time on Wednesday night Melbourne time. Enjoy!

[EARLY VIDEO] St Kilda Trams [1 of 2]

Good evening everyone, tonight I'm posting not one, but two videos about trams in St Kilda! This first one is a general explainer about routes in the area, covering some unusual features and the distribution of tram types etc. The second video is the next installment in my real-time walking series, also in St Kilda. Both will go live to public around the same time on Wednesday night Melbourne time. Enjoy!

[EARLY VIDEO] Victorian signalling explainer!

Hi everyone, this one's been a long time coming - it's basically a modern remake of the silent signalling explainer I uploaded 4 years ago. They are quite different, so the old one will remain live, at least for now. This one goes into a lot more detail beyond just explaining the signal aspects, and uses a lot more diagrams and stuff. One thing to note: at the end of the video I mention that CBTC will be operating 'soon,' and then there's a text correction saying that the first stage has just...

[EARLY VIDEO] A frosty winter bike ride!

Hi everyone, this is a bit of a deviation in-between normal content - I recorded this video yesterday morning, riding my bike from Hurstbridge station to the Eltham trestle bridge along the Diamond Creek Trail. While this isn't really about trains, quite a few do appear along the way, and I think this trail is a really cool example of an excellent piece of pedestrian/cycling infrastructure that makes the surrounding public transport more usable. When I lived in Eltham I always used part of th...

A few updates and things!

Hi everyone, first up - the FSS clock video has been doing quite well, and certainly attracting a bit more of a general-public audience than usual, which is what I had hoped! The thing I like doing most on this channel is pointing out interesting things that are part of people's everyday lives which they don't normally notice, and the clocks are certainly that. There have been two people in the comments who have spotted themselves in the timelapses, and maybe three or four pe...

[EARLY VIDEO] The Flinders Street clocks!

Hi everyone, this is a bit of a surprise video - I hadn't mentioned in any of my previous updates, because I only got the idea for it like two weeks ago and have smashed it out since then. had a bit of fun with this, because I realised most people don't know much about the clocks, despite them being such a major landmark, and something you can study in plain public view!

Also, for something completely different, this video prominently features some music made by my brother Cian towards...

[EARLY VIDEO] Tait tour around Melbourne!

Hi everyone, I know I said like literally two days ago that I didn't know what video would be next, but then I spontaneously made this - a collection of footage and images I took on the Steamrail members' special that ran last Sunday. This tour was just like the ones they used to run in the early 2000s, visiting a range of destinations around the network over an entire day.
Fun fact: There was an impromptu meeting of Australian rail youtubers on this trip: I met up with Will James and Pan...

[EARLY VIDEO] Rainy night cab ride!

Hello everyone, as promised - a winter night cab ride on the Hurstbridge line from Clifton Hill to Rosanna! You can hear the X'trap doing it's characteristic slipping and sliding on the wet rails in many places. I'll let you in on a little secret about this video - to protect the privacy of those chatting in the cab, the audio has been 100% replaced by recordings I made from the passenger saloon on two other trips over the same section, in the same conditions. There was a lot of splicing invo...

Quick channel update!

Hi everyone, first things first - I have been absolutely blown away by the positive reception the Hurstbridge line video has received. I really, really thought this would be for a pretty niche audience, but it's been up 3 days and already clocked over 10k views. Remarkably, about 35% of people are watching the full 40 minutes. The average watch time of most youtube videos is often less than 5 minutes, so this is really quite amazing. This video took about 7 months to produce (in lots of short...

[EARLY VIDEO] A huge video about the Hurstbridge line!

Hi everyone, I finally got this one finished! This video started off as a very simple idea of just talking through the features of the Hurstbridge line one by one - I know this line very well, and I thought it wouldn't take at all long to throw it all together.. that was in October last year! It's definitely been the highest-effort video I've made so far, despite being on a pretty niche topic (next-most effort would have been the Overland video, which also took a lot of work). Anyway, hope yo...

[EARLY VIDEO] Photographing Melbourne's transport from the air!

Hello patrons! Here is my latest video, taking a close look at some shots I took out of a helicopter 10 years ago. I recommend watching this one on a large display if you can. Enjoy!

Next video almost here!

Hi everyone, my next video is going to be a showcase of photos I took back in 2013, when I briefly had a job taking pictures out of helicopters. This is going to be very different to other stuff I've made, and I think it's quite fun! I was *so* close to posting it here tonight, but then I spotted a small error with it.. and then I spotted another.. so decided to re-upload. By the time I've fixed the problem, rendered it out again, re-uploaded and copied across all the extra info it will proba...

[EARLY VIDEO] Train whistles in Victoria!

Hi everyone, early video time! This one's a bit of an opinion piece, and one I've had in the back of mind for a very long time. It's a look at how much trains whistle in Victoria compared to other parts of the world, and some suggestions about how I think the rules could be improved. Enjoy!

Welcome, and a channel update!

Hi everyone, I just wanted to extend a warm welcome to you all - my first Patreon members! I'm really thrilled to see people joining over the past few days, setting up this page has been a long time coming, and it feels great to have it finally up and running. 

Here is a random behind the scenes picture from last year, taken just as I was about to record the audio for the Southern Cross/North Melbourne diagram video. That's my brother Cian setting ...

[EARLY VIDEO] Another Walk Through Melbourne!

Hi everyone, this is the sequel to the Melbourne walking video I put up a couple of months back. I filmed this not long after the first one, but I wanted to spread out their release dates a bit, so I don't plan on making this one go public for another few weeks, and at least one other video will probably go 'out of order' before this one. Enjoy!

Look, Taitset is now on Patreon!

Hi everyone, and welcome to my Patreon! I've only just started this page, but moving forward I will be aiming to post regular behind the scenes videos: These will cover a range of things, some will be the back story behind a specific video, and some will be more broad about the channel and my process.. Let me know if there's anything you want to know, and I will definitely consider it! (Behind the scenes videos will be viewable to all but the bottom membership tier). As well as bonus content,...