Love the use of the silos as a screen backdrop

👍🏻 great stuff

Australia's loss of its rural railway lines is nothing short of tragic. Not only were / are they part of our history, they ought to be maintained as an integral part of our transportation infrastructure.

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I did enjoy your video. I think I may of ridden a steam train back in the 70s out to Penfiield & back to Adelaide.

Lived in ethelton as a lad in the 60s and 70s. Could see the station from the end of my street. Every now and then a steam train used to go past. I miss that semaphore line

Great video Mike. It's such a shame we've lost so many regional rail lines over the years. Imagine if we still had them.

Great video, the railway bridge at Yacka might be the last major bridge on the line left after Balaklava with rails still placed on it.

This town has a very similar town layout to Murrayville Victoria. Every time I visit it , I get vibes from Murrayville. Another fantastic video Mike 😊

Excellent mate, lived nearby for many years and remember the sheds full of mushroom boxes, which were also home to a local homeless couple. Haven't seen them for many years now but when the sheds went they had a few different spots they'd sleep.

Gee so many memories of my teenage years. My parents had the Mannahill Store from 1964 >1969 and I did my apprenticeship at Yunta, with A.E. Sherriff. Loved my time there and the characters and personalities amongst the SAR workers, station hands, the Highways Dept gangs that were involved in the Barrier Highway reconstruction, You know, that whilst these were great times, sadly they ended the life of the little towns along the way. Just mere memories and little remnants remain of them now and they and those wonderful people that lived and worked there, are just gone. In my apprenticeship days, one of the jobs I had to do, was to cart sand, cement, water, fuel, shutters and all sorts of material, to both Egan and Manning Constructions, whom built several of the bridges between Mannahill and Yunta.

Nice share buddy the rail yard were looking cool 🔥🔥

Love your work. Keep it up!

Nice camera work!😁

Great vid

Almost got a bird strike!

They used to have an old Melbourne tram with a generator on the back and do short trips to the end of the line and back. The steam engine had just had a new boiler installed and was being tested. Brings back lots of memories for me.

My father Richard (Dick) Martin and a group of volunteers were working to start restoring this line I think back in the late 80's early 90's when I think the guy who owned all the rolling stock plus the engines (Keith Jones I think) tried to take all the line over and start up a tourist train. I think he went bankrupt and result is all the stuff stored at Dorrigo. Total shame as its all scrap now.

Great stuff, thanks Mike. Something you haven't mentioned is that not only is the Goolwa to Pt Elliot rail line the first in SA (1854) it is the first steel rail line anywhere in Australia (beating out the Sydney to Paramatta line (1855) which is often quoted as being the first.

Nice vid, Its been quite a few years since we were over there, I never got to explore the railway, we were kind of hugging the coast and didn't venture much to the inland towns. We were staying in Adelaide and just did the odd day trip here and there. We did take a ride on the Granite Island horse drawn tram kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKHYnat-Z7iBZ9E (sorry about the quality, video tape days) and had a good look around there. We didn't see any rail activity when we were there, maybe it was not running. As we have no children we tend to take our holidays just after all the little ones go back to school, whilst this does make for a quieter experience and easier on accommodation/caravan sites, it does mean some tourist activities are not running. Unfortunately we are now in our sixties and the wife has a wheelie walker, meaning a lot of this is now impractical.

7:50 love your lens cleaning technique.

I wonder if they have added the high water mark on the rail bridge ,of the flood a few years ago

REALLY COOL

that warf area used to be chock full of rail lines and rail car storage in the 70's,, me and my brother used to walk through there to go fishing , sometimes they would leave gaps in the wagons, other times we had to climb through them. they left the doors open,, that came in handy when it started raining .never got told off for being there , we just stayed out the way when they were shunting wagons.. we moved from murray bridge december 1979.

Definitely the clearest water i've ever seen in there.

You should’ve been at the airport!

Haven't been on the Captain Proud in yonks, used to love the poker nights onboard back in the day.

I went to the Fringe show. It was great and we got a talk from the owner!

Something I have always liked about Railways. The amazing amount of work that goes into to building Railway lines that seem to go on forever. The amount of work involved is an amazing piece of work. Of course Railway lines compare well to the amazing Highways we take for granted as we travel from one place to the next. It's only when you watch a video like this that you can take some time to see the work that has taken place over many years to make this all happen👍👍

Brilliant video, looking forward to the next one, love the history 👏 well done

Thanks for your so original series. This video is exceptional.

very, very nicely done, what a wonderful piece of work

Thanks Mike awesome vid.

Sorry I missed everyone. I thought you were on Thursday night (tonight) AAARGH. Sleeps hill was certainly really interesting.

Good video. Very interesting history.

As always, very interesting.

Keep up the great work 👍 👏 ❤

As a teenager during the 1980's I would often explore the area near to and surrounding Dry Creek Railway Station. I remember noticing a small dilapidated structure with a warning sign simply saying DANGER EXPLOSIVES. This was somewhere along the track to Port Adelaide. I went back a few years later to have another look but couldn't locate it.

Nice work, nothing better than the old tunnels and bridges. Cheers.

I have still photos from within the tunnel if you are interested. I was part of a group who were invited to view the tunnels.

If you follow the trail over to the main line, you can access the sleeps hill track that way too. It also gives you a trail to get to the concrete abutment that was between the two viaducts. I agree walking down to the old tunnel is fun but the climb back out can be torture. Great video as always, Mike

Good to see this spot again. A few decades ago when my knees were still good for it, rode a mountain bike in on the Shepherds Hill track to reach the tunnel entrance. Old railway wheels and axles in the scrub below the tunnel.

The bike memorial in Haulbry is for a local kid who rode off road bike racing who had a lot going for him, smart, popular and he was someone who had the energy of 10 kids! Unfortunately, one day during a session he crashed, leaving him in an unfortunate state.

Love seeing local stuff, keep em coming mate. I'm a Gawler local.

Too bad the run from Strath to Goolwa is closed to passengers atm

Love the history so much going on and yet we are blind ,we can’t see a thing …These old places warms my soul and mind ,we have to preserve them at all cost ..Thanx for taking time to show us cheers ❤️🙏👍🦘🇦🇺🧌

I remember going into these tunnels in 1991 or 1992, when they were being used as mushroom farms. I’d never seen so many mushrooms in one place before.

I can’t see Dorrigo ever getting up. Dorrigo is a tin foil hat area (ok, that may be a tad biased as my ex is from there), so they’re more worried about fluoride in the water (actual sign I saw in a cafe there) than getting this museum up.