Wife and I were at Tarraleah only 2 weeks ago. Thankfully the road to the town is now tar. Its a pretty town. We will stay there next time.

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My Grandparents (Max and Wendy) were tram drivers/conductors at Malvern depot

I caught a Train from Laidley once while my car was being repaired. It nearly took two hours to get to South Brisbane Station to get to work and two hours to get back home again. What an adventure. 😂

Very Nice Film you made, I missed photo and Video in 1986 to 1992, that time. I take same old trains everyday to work years. Some parent don't let children take red old train to school daily because dangerous due door not close automatic, children can fall off while train moving parent force children to take very slow Bus from school to home bus stop until 1992 red trains scrapped. If travel to Gosford, all V set trains had automatic door closed since 1970 to 1975's. Government Rail has install electric door on the some single deck trains to keep safe since 1977.

All those rural lines have now gone. None remain. Turned into cycle and walking tracks. How sad.

Did the woman come back and get the dog

The start of a great decade of change: the Sydney train fleet went all double decker, the great population change ramped up to full speed and of course Australia got roundabouts on every corner and then internet, cell phones and cable telly by the end of the decade. Australia was still a great county in the 80's

Brings back memories when I worked the trains to Cunnamulla and Quilpie stop over in the quarters. But alas no trains to Cunnamulla and the odd stock train to Quilpie progress they call it.

great video, most modern day train crew would run a mile at the thought of old school shunting :)

Thanks a lot! Good memories👏👏👏👏👏

Best C class look right there

Nice....... But explain to me how this wasn't a 1/2 car sprinter or DRC prior set... has me confused. The service probably should be been an A.. The b must've been surplus? Today we have 2/3 car sprinters from Southern cross to Seymour, but why these aren't 3 car VLO sets is...

Just stumbled on the best video I have seen in ages! !

Thank you! ☆☆☆☆☆

Brings back memories of working in Williamstown in the ‘80s. If I remember correctly there was a Williamstown pier station for the dockyard.

This is it right here

I know it wasn't all roses but people seemed a lot more laid back back then.

The guy driving the train looks like Chopper Read!!!!!

Notice how the 'Steely' is taking slabs of steel instead of the coils!!!!!

4:09 The cabra days. 1992 n Johnny Newman was to be assassinated 2 years later in 94.'First n only political assassination in Australias history.

1992 geez a long long time ago

I miss the 1990s in Sydney,in 1991,I was so fortunate to be able to ride these trains before they would be retired,i lovely how the stations were all being repainted,station signs all colour coded,safety and security was also being ramped up during 1991 and beyond,I miss everything about city rail and sadly it has all now gone,haven't returned to Sydney in many years,however the memories fill forever have a very special place in my heart.❤

Back when things had "Made in Australia" on them.

Such a great window into the 90's urban rail scene. So much variety back then, love it! Thanks for posting.

You can tell who has not quite let go of the 1980's yet in this video, looking at some of the people, its 1992 but some still are proudly keeping the mullet haircut :D

The south line between Colebrook and Ryndaston tunnel is the toughest section of railway in Australia. Very underrated for train enthusiast in Australia to record.

Great video and a lovely tribute at the end, back in the days when the railways still served small communities. The axe was already starting to fall on these branch lines as successive state Labor governments from Wayne Goss right up to the present day have systematically set about destroying our regional rail system.

I was just 14 when this video was made

The stations had signs big enough to actually read as you went past.

was called 7A90, when I did it in 1987, it ran twice a week, forget which, Mondays and Thursdays. When I travelled on it, someone torched the railway camp at Gelaro. We paused there on the way back, the driver said nobody was not to touch anything because the Arson Squad were on their way from Brisbane. First time I saw a crime scene before the police.

Great memories, I was on it a few weeks before it ceased operation. We never got the return journey because loco 1750 derailed on the Newcastle Range still have the photo hanging on the wall, Thanks Ted

Even the city loop stations looked quite different back then as they did recently get renovated as a part of the metro tunnel project.

Real classic outback north Queensland branch line working, well done Ted, you should offer it to the TV network in QLD for rebroadcast. Old hook couplings and spoke wheeled rolling stock in 1991, relics from the steam era. Most enjoyable, thank you Ted.

Thanks for sharing, some good footage and good music too...........

I haven't ever been to that part of the world yet. But gee it reminded me of going to work with Dad in the 80's in Cloncurry. What an absolute dream job it was back then, no one looking over your shoulder. Enough time to show the terrorists the points of interest that would never be seen except for the local knowledge. I joined the job because my Dad took me to work on these engines and here I am having driven 1770 some 30 odd year later. Thanks for the nostalgia Ted.

Hi Ted fantastic video brings backs memories when the railroad was owned by the state government and not privatised. Still using an older hook and buffers on the older wagons and more modern knuckle couplers as well on the same train 😊😊😊😊

Can you one day do a low flying drone following the old formation from Ledgewood to Tullendeena Hill. The down to Tullendeena and and overlay with Google earth or Tasmap topographic 1in 100000. To show the orginal easement. One of the most interesting civil railway engineering sections in Australia? Maybe follow the whole North East back to Coldwater Creek?

Excellent photography. Colebrook to Ryndaston tunnel would have to be one of the toughest or the toughest sections of railway in Australia. Many 1 in 40 grades and 100 metre radius curves. The geometry has not changed in 150 years. Going from 200 ton trains 500feet long hauled by steam to 3000 tonnes 3/4 kilometer long.

Just brilliant!

came for the trains, stayed for the electronica

I'm something of a committed Alco*holic. This is just the hit I needed! Excellent footage. Beautiful scenery. You need to pay respect to the builders of these northern NSW lines when you watch these clips. A massive engineering undertaking with valleys to cross and cuttings. Thanks for sharing😃😃😃😃👍👍👍👍

It's a great video,

I knew you were heading towards Regents Park. Lidcombe over looking Olympic Drive. 4 years by train Berala to Birrong for high school, then train to central to attend TAFE to do my trade. Good memories.

It's cute in the days when people cared about Victorian railways.

Thomas the tank engine moves faster.

Just fix up the line make it longer to go to langwarrin and other neglected areas.speed things up a bit.people need to get to melbourne in an efficient manner.its not the 1900s.the government needs to spend more money on bloody railways.

this is great quality for a VHS! im guessing it must've been run at a faster speed haha. really fun bit of history to watch

Must be the most torturous section on railway in Australia. 120 curves between CAMPANIA (bottom of the hill) and Ryndaston (KP 72.2) tunnel 31kilometers. 1 in 40 and 1 in 44 grades for about 14km. Colbrook to Ryndaston tunnel 11 km average 1in 40 with 11× 100 meter radius curves' the tightest minimum radius design for 3ft 6inch track.

I had a look in this train yesterday 😊 it's sp awesome to actually see it going in this video!!! Love it