Our forebears built and paid for this wonderful railway heritage and handed it on to us ; we couldn’t even maintain it and keep it going. No wonder our manufacturing base has nearly disappeared.

Never knew train rail was that flexible - like big lengths of half cooked spaghetti...

Great shot of the South Steyne at 5:07 onwards! I'm glad it's still around but not for long unless they get help restoring it and an accessible berth.

its so fascinating how so much of the station has changed and yet stayed the same. brilliant footage showcasing a time from before i was born!

Not one European car on the road… 😅

Great video I'm from Nyngan and surrounding places it brings back great memories that track would be great for a rail cart thanks

Sadly I've never seen the film - Aussie films only very, very rarely appear on Brit TV for some odd reason. My suspicion is that these two lovelies provided the most believable performances in the movie.......

Great memories! In 1992 I was working as a Surface Movement Control (Apron) air traffic controller in the small control tower at the end of the international finger. Bit like a traffic cop, especially when SIMOPS was introduced. One of my favourite ATC jobs!

Despite all the condemnation of the ASGs they were a revolution. A necessary product of the time. And the IDEA behind it would have done a far better job than the "standardisation" that we are currently doing. Its intent was to increase the haulage power on 3' 6" gauge tracks. Making 4' 8.5" the standard was to increase the size and weight of trains. But by far the most common gauge in Australia WAS 3'6" so it would have been logical to make THAT the standard gauge. Which would have been very sensible if trains of equivalent size and weight could be carried on those tracks. Enter the ASG. Potentially a game changer.

I love the footage of Marino and Hallett cove after 0:51. Hardly any houses and lots of farmland. You can see Cove Rd in the footage.

I rode the Diesel Trains from Melbourne > Foster every School Holidays 1965 to 1971. 4 hours trip. Sad the line was shut down. Foster Station often won the Prize for best kept Station in that era.

The long trains of wooden cars at the begining might have been the Warragul school trains which were discontinued in the late ‘70s because the kids were trashing the cars. I worked in the Edication Department and saw the 4” file on the topic. There was an outcry about replacing them with buses. The VR tried to encourage free travel for 4 teachers but could only get 2.

Very entertaining thank you! Subscribed.

I done a walk of the accident area about fours years back at the crossing at Violet Town, very sad even today. The Southern Aurora Museum at Violet Town well worth a visit.

Thanks for that Gary, interesting

❤Australian congratulations turistic ❤.

I lived at Mannahill and Yunta. The standardisation killed off so many of the small towns on the Broken Hill line and they have been demolished or abandoned. Mannahill has a population of 7, Yunta is surviving but the likes of Nackara, OodlaWirra, Olary and Mingary are gone .. sad but true, as are the transhipment yards and workshops at Terowie.

What a beautiful loco. Loved these "mountain class" engines. Always did the Adelaide > Mt Lofty / Belair runs Mon to Fridays, at about 17:45 >18:00. I used to admire them from my house as they ran the hills.

I miss those days at Spencer St including the auditable chime when trains were arriving or departing

Is the Garret burning brown coal? smoke is dirty(more impurities.)

Awesome

Its pretty impressive that those victorian old wooden boxes managed to survive long enough to serve 80s kids especially with the shinkansen already in service for a few decade I love the early 1900s look of these taits

Very interesting 😮

Great footage of a bygone era. What stood out to me were the smoking sections in the carriages and seeing passengers hanging out of some windows 😄

I lived in South Yarra & these guys trundled past 24 hours a day with briquettes. A fantastic array of well preserved history. Thank you!! How stupid to totally remove electric service to the Valley.... especially more than ever now as it would have been so appropriate....and smart. 😢

Love it 1:40

At St.Kilda end conmected seamlessly with Middle Brighton Buslines bus - you could even buy a combined rail & bus ticket (this was 60's & 70's !)

Return it to it's former glory & run tourist trains.

so don't use line anymore a waste build it then remove

why are they pulling up the line

At about 7:30 it crosses the original south rd crossing which is still there but now a bike track. A new car bridge over Pedlers creek was finished that year and is about to be demolished.

Beethoven's 6th or Pastoral symphony would've been more appropriate for this bucolic setting, particularly the part of the 1st movement where they're leaving the city. Like Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody and Piano Man I always hope to never ever hear the 5th ever again. Besides, it's hardly his best - subjectively of course. I suppose it could've been Mozart's Turkish Rondo or Beethoven's utterly dreadful Fur Elise Muzak style, ergh ergh ergh. Excuse me while I go and sick up.....

Cool so Orbost was last stop? And went all the way Melbourne?

When was loco scrapped ❓

you’d ask the station master how long is the next train and he’d close one eye and say “oooh - about seven carriages”.

Great to see this , Love the old way of doing things.

Derail Valley locomotive

every week or so, two E class shunters were exchanged.

Hey whats the name of the song?

Who made the stupid decision to cut down those wires? Imagine how good the service to Traralgon could be today if it was still electrified. Although Sprinters are pretty quick, they are still diesel powered. Something the government keeps telling us is WE have to cut fossil fuel use, but they had the infrastructure already in place for electric and dismantled it. No foresight.

The closure was an orchestrated closure closely following Australia signing on to “The Lima Peru Accord”. From 1973 onwards was the destruction of rail infrastructure and manufacturing within Australia by a co-ordinated effort between the Left Wing Socialist Unions and Government. We can see the ongoing fruits and continued attacks upon the farmers, people of the bush and the Australian people in general, working towards (against the peoples will) to this dystopian new world order.

I lived in the Bourke area for nearly 20yrs the line was closed in 1991

Randomly stumbling across a KZbin video originally filmed in the year I was born as well as spot on with the dates in July that I currently book when I travel to Tassie! It jogged some early childhood memories from the tail end of the 90's when I would see family come/go at Station Pier on this ship. The girl in this video should totally remake her home made video tour when the new Spirit of Tasmania IV & V launches this year. What a wholesome and happy watch, this video was!

WOW👍

I stowed away in the Oriana on her second voyage. From Sydney to Auckland. That was way back in the early 1960’s. It was quite an adventure but I made it without problems. Those were the days.

Hexham please, don't leave the H out. I lived there for the first 21 years of my life, great memories of all the rail activities. Two brothers worked for GovtbRail, Max as a driver and Brian in many departments Activity with coal boats supplying Sydney power at Mortlake. J & A Brown had the Stockrington and later the John Brown Hetton Bellbird had the Mortlake Bank and Pelton Bank and f inally the Hexham Bank , all loaded at Hexham

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How special is this. Rip to the men lost in the coal mine.

The only big setback we had was removal of trains to many towns and regional centres I love this wonderful footage though

Watching a W class pass under the bridge and then seeing a dog box pass overhead is iconic Melbourne footage. This looks alright for being an old 8mm.