A winter channel update!

Hi everyone, it's a very cold wet week here in Melbourne! Here's a random photo I took a couple of weeks ago in similar conditions, of K153 climbing out of Upper Ferntree Gully hauling the 4 car Tait on a Ringwood-Belgrave shuttle. I spent most of the day out in the weather and had to do some systematic drying out of camera gear later on!

I'm expecting a bit of a gap before the next video - I haven't got much done over the past fortnight due to one of my kids having some surgery (tonsils & adenoids out - fairly routine, but quite a long recovery), so I've obviously been focusing on that, and had several nights of very little sleep.

On the other hand - over the past couple of days I've had a chance to get stuck into it again, and am pleased to say the Werribee/Williamstown line video is coming along quite rapidly. I started writing it two months ago, and today have finished the basic bones of the script - I've got to the end of the line geographically, and next will be going back through and filling out more details. Often if there's something I need to research I just skip past it and type something like [remember to come back to this]. Then the process will start of working out what images and footage I have already (quite a bit I hope) and what I need to go out and get. It's very hard to say how far off the final product will be, but it's certainly progressing a LOT faster than the previous two in this series. Also, despite not being yet complete, the script already has a higher word count than either of the previous two, so I fully expect this video to be closer to an hour in length.

Finally, I'm sure most of you know who Tom Scott is - British youtuber of some 6.4 million subscribers. Tom has a weekly email newsletter (which wouldn't go to all 6.4m, but it must still be quite a lot), in which he has a segment 'What have I found on youtube this week?' Well, last week the 'thing he had found on youtube' was my Broadmeadows runaway video, and he wrote a paragraph complimenting the video, especially the extensive use of my own imagery. The video had a noticeable spike in views that day of around 2,500 above what it would normally get, and it was certainly very nice to know that it had caught the eye of someone like Tom!

Thank you as always for your ongoing support, the increasing number of people signing up here is really what's keeping this channel viable, and it's a huge encouragement to continue putting the effort in to these videos.

~Martin