The legendary Tony Eid’s home along with Andrew the gobble dog.

Chullora, better known as the Bermuda Triangle back in the day.

Ford Mustang Man spent nearly his whole career in the box. The day it closed. He retired. I would done the same. Watching trains and cars all day. Dream job. 👍

Did a few shifts at North Box with Mark Forrest. Spent more time in South Box.

Looks like Strathfield Box to me. Yet the reporter keeps referring to Ashfield?

Rest in peace uncle len, missing you every day

Excellent video. I remember riding those trains back in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sigway characters: Seagull, Mister Magoo and Newtown Jack/'Newtown' (Machine Shop), Alf Randall and Curly Price (Foundry), Charlie Mead (Blacksmiths), The Looking Glass (Mr Hill), &c, &c ...................

Wonder where these people are now

The father worked in the Campbelltown box back in the late 60's & 70s at the time it was the most modern bbow in the country all push button

Is any of the infrastructure of this line left?

Voiceover is Taylor Owynns (annocer of Waratah A and B sets, and platform annocers)

At Enfield we had a shunting job all around chullora daily. Nice little video.

Lever cloth please pook 🎉

Signalman Chriss Burden seen on video and sounds like Paul Clasing (cannot remember how to spell his name) speaking the commentary. Both have since passed on, Chriss in 2016 and Paul I think was in 2018.

5:18 After this point, the Elcar branch separates from the Chullora Industrial Branch line, which continues on straight ahead from the camera’s POV. This spot is somewhat visible on Google Maps satellite imagery and is where the tracks were removed after Elcar was demolished. On the left are present day Yana Badu Wetlands (previously known as Chullora Wetlands), and the train continues on through the present day Volkswagen property, Muir Road, then PFD Food Services. The furthest extent of the Elcar branch and adjacent sidings beyond the camera’s vantage point at the Elcar platform is the narrow triangular bit of land beyond the Cooks River that splits the Bluescope Steel property from Veolia’s property. Historical aerial photos (earlier comments have the nsw.gov link) should show it pretty clearly.

Thank you Ian, I still remember my visit to Sydenham, the high security fence and drab looking building made it look like a "prison" but a great team inside, lot of slap stick, wise cracks, taking the piss and banter. Is it still running today or was it absorbed into ROC and ARTC?👌

Nearly 0930hrs on the wall clock, morning peak is over back then, been in that box a few times in mid 1980's. Similar layout to Sydenham Box. Enjoyed that Ian, thank you for posting.👌

Nice short clip Ian, a few work mates lived in "Peyton Place" I last heard the railways sold it off sometime back? I remember there was a homeless man living in the old closed signal box too, been demolished by now I guess.

No shortage of "spare" levers in that box, so no real need for two lever cloths...😁

Was this film taken in 2016? Or was that when the video was put onto KZbin?

I think they pulled down the 1,500VDC overhead on that line? Chullora box, Enfield North & Enfield South signal boxes are all part of history now. Drivers voice sounded like old Ken from Lithgow. Looked like "Dr" Chris Gormleys white Commodore in DELEC carpark! Some memories in that video!

Really enjoyed your video, pity it wasn't longer, do you have any more signal box operations video? I posted one on Lithgow Yard Box in operation about a year back, one of the last surviving boxes in NSW.

The red flats at the start, on the left are just off the Hume Hway, 17 seconds in you can see a sawtooth roof on a large building, in the distance in the left top of the frame, that is the Boiler Shop where the trains first stops. Behind the Boiler Shop is the Diesel Annexe, I finished my time there and worked as a fitter for nearly a decade in the 1980s, we reconditioned Alco and GM 2000hp diesel electric locomotive engines. There were hundreds of people working in the Annexe and BoShops in those days. On your right at the first stop is Rookwood Cemetery.

I remember when the Chullora Apprentice workshops opened. I was an apprentice there. Berowra to Chullora by train. Long day. Picked up the old Diesel/Electric from Newcastle. By the time you got to Strathfield, you sometimes had to climb out the window to get off the train.

Thanks for uploading this. Great days of cityrail!

What really gets me about this is that it looks like you're riding through country paddocks. No apartments, major industrial buildings etc to be seen. Really does feel like a whole different era of what Sydney looked like.

Awesome video. In a lot of ways I wish the railway was still like this.

Happy days, who was doing the cometary?

Tut, tut, tut...no hand cloth for the lever handles?

I never knew there was a signal box at Bankstown but I've never been to this station to have seen it anyway. Apparently, there was a David Jones store out there in those days so it is more of a go-to destination than anywhere on the East Hills line. Interesting footage here, back in the days of timber sleepers and Beclawat windows prior to continuous welded rail, clickety-clack. I thought that there would be so few points in this area it could all be controlled from Punchbowl Car Sidings Box or Sefton Park Junction Box. There is some kind of goods siding east of the platform though that is shown in a January 1978 photo in the Historical Survey Of The Punchbowl Maintenence Centre book by Ray Love and Stephen Halgren that you should still be able to pick up from the ARHS bookshop. Heaps of track diagrams, technical details, and plenty of black-and-white historical photos of the line all the way back to Erskineville plus one from Central in 1922 with the Eastern Car Shed still standing.

4632 was one of the last engines to receive the candy livery, and the only 46 class to receive a red roof.

As a station assistant I was moved to Bankstown in late 1997 or early 1998, the signal box had ceased operation by then. About a year later I went to Sydenham as a SPI operator...

Never made it to Bankstown signal box, did see most while I did my apprenticeship with the SRA in Signals and Telecommunications. Great memories of being Signal electrician at Hornsby for a few years.

More diamonds than the King of England.

Wow! Never noticed the Tangara running wrong road at 2:08. Would that have been due to the same reason as the Metropolitan Freight Line diversions? What are "STN diversions", anyway? Cheers.

Honest news reporting….what a treat in 2023. Great to see a young Darryl Dunne

Thanks for posting this. Can’t wait to see a new promotional video of Sydney Transport Corp Link in 2023. The least we could get is new livery.

Great video. So the box was located in between the Up Illa Local and the Down East Hills? - Matt Barnes

Is this train a *Red Rattler* H depot assignment? As today a H is a H-Set AKA Oscar!

That first four-car set looked out of place in this sector at the time and traveling on the Illawarra local lines it could have been a City Circle service as trains with this external City Rail paint job didn't turn up on this line until 1992. Thanks for the peek inside this box that was once surrounded by factories with Frankie J. Holden doing a great job on the leavers there.

Too video. Any idea what happened to the pistol grip portion of the frame?

Sold newspapers on the station 1963

Candy Perfection 👌

Absolute perfection, x2 👌

The second train looks like the Moss Vale or is it Goulburn passenger train deviated away from the Main South during trackwork? It would have been good to see country trains like this on the Illawarra more often instead of those bland 1971 Tulloch and 1950s Budd Cars. Good job filming these scenes from the Aztec sand and gravel quarry sidings Ian.

Thanks for uploading this this is real cool.

A fascinating slice of history. I love the old red rattlers.

Looked like a very young and clean cut Alan Watson at 2.24 mark? He was last in a corporate "hidey-hole" at Penrith station around 2019...Good old railway corporate propaganda video, Joseph Goebels would be proud! Good rib tickler though, thanks SRA.

Now that looks complicated