Here in Melbourne, we also used to have a railway station for the dead (it’s actually still around tho) it’s Faulkner railway station on the upfield line and it was used to carry morgue trains to the cemetery that was right next door :>

2:20 how did they get the gun to Canberra? How did it fit through the tunnels?

One minute in, the background music is too loud, I'm out. Why do so many informative videos do this?

This proposal could have provided much needed employment for demobbed troops and stood us in a better state of readiness in 1939. We might have been producing all that ordnance and transport we had to import at that time.

Walter and his penchant for circles. 25 years here working in my trade, driving in circles. I've cursed him most days.

When I was a teenager in the mid 70s, a small portion of this railway remained hidden behind the Canberra Technical College. It ran among the trees between the parking area and Amaroo Street. I went to Campbell High and we used to come this way when walking from the school to the Olympic Pool.

What have you done with Jago? Great video

Very interesting thanks. I suppose the need for electric locomotives was because steam locomotives were considered to be too much of a fire risk in a munitions yard.

Now Andrew Barr is spending truckloads of our taxes on a white elephant that is grinding along at glacial pace that won't have Canberra covered till after we all die

There's government priorities for you. They could waste time and massive resource's to bring that stupid gun back to Australia, but not the troops senselessly murdered in Europe.

This is a great video. I think the photo of the timber and ash platform is actually a reverse (mirror) image. The buildings in the background were on Mort St, and the platform was south east of these. I've seen this picture elsewhere the other way around (as if the photographer was looking northwards). I included a wide shot of downtown Canberra in the 1930s on the Canberra Railway Station wiki entry, where the platform is visible just 'outside' the Sydney Building. If we had a southbound pic of the platform, we should see the Sydney building on the right hand side - on the far side of the rail route.

The water supply reservoir for the Molonglo Camp is still on the hill in the trees cnr of Canberra Ave and Newcastle St.

I have the drawings for the original Trackfast.

What ever happened to the ‘Government Siding’ behind Yallorn Street? Is it still Government owned? The museum is not Brambles, it is Bill Cleary’s place next door.

i went metal detecting there yesterday for 6 hours and all the artifacts i left in a neat pile. if you have a museum i strongly suggest you collect the artifacts i found. i found an old hand crank and an 1800s padlock among other things. all i collect is the coins.

Where's the Garrett? >:-(

This stuff needs to be part of mental health treatment Brilliant ❤❤❤ Add public toilets for historical background, please. #MHLivingHistoryLeapyear2024

This disjointed report left out the far more important points that this was a German rail gun captured by the Australian diggers in the final turning of the WW1 stalemate under Sir John Monash. Far more significant in world history than the concentration on barely used internment camps etc.

Very informative. Where does one find a map of the ACT and surrounds dis-used rail lines?

Backing music is too loud. It's difficult to hear the spoken word. Stopped watching.

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Thankyou. Most informative and well presented. 👍

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An excellent video, very interesting and professionally produced. One point however- the shameful dismantling of the Amiens Gun by the Department of Defence was not undertaken during the Second World War, but much later. I can remember the complete Gun parked at the edge of the station on Wentworth Avenue in the early 1960s.

That sounds very tempting.

That's my old motor good 👍 to see running again.

This animation is a spectacular look into Canberra's rail history!

So was 1210 originally numbered 120, or is that a typo?

Is 1210 going to get restored and returned back to service?

Need to grab one of those posters

Great,but it disgusts me that so much of our rail history has been wiped out forever.

What is the condition for Loco 3016? Just a bit curious.

Maybe a video on the Canberra Monaro Express service could cover the whole lost railway and still be 'local'?

Found a timetable from 1962, showing Tuggeranong station was serviced by the Canberra Monaro Express (Mon-Sat) once each direction and the Cooma Mail Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat evening northbound/ Tue, Thu, Fri, Sun southbound. Journey Tuggeranong to Queanbeyan was 16 mins and 77mins to Cooma

I'm not sure there would be much recorded history, but would be great to have a film that covered Royalla and Williamsdale stations too - as they are right on the border.

I've found a Canberra Times news article on Trove (13/1/76) noting that Tuggeranong railway station officially closed on February 8, 1976. It was one of five stations closed on the Bombala line by the NSW Public Transport Commission, along with Colinton, Bukalong, Bunyan and Chakola.

Tuggeranong Ted

Love this series, great video as always! I'd love to see an episode on the "tramway" that Canberra had in the early 2000s with the R and W trams. I kind of miss the old livery that R1 2001 had.

It's interesting that the tracks never got lifted. Were they left to continue a delineation of the ACT/NSW border?

Great to see the history of rail in Canberra and especially Tuggeranong. Can you do a series on planned railway lines never built in Canberra?

An interesting video, I certainly didn't know that the railway actually extended past the current station. Thanks for the lesson 😎👍

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.

Where is Bork? Is it anywhere near Bourke? 🙂

So a city that was completely planned and built in the modern era didn’t preserve a railway corridor into the city 🥲 interesting

A pity they didn't have the foresight to combine quarrying and infrastructure development by cutting a new more direct and faster railway line into the ACT as a tunnel on the northside of the Molonglo, past the Airport and into the City.

Part of the Canberra Planners' unfailing obsession with destroying public transport. Because they _don't use it._ ACT Planning has not met a car park it didn't like! Any green space is only temporary until it can be replaced with broken bitumen, weeds and metres.

Really interesting video series, thank you for these! I would love to know more about the Tuggeranong railway station that closed in the mid-70s and the planned rail line to the planned Tuggeranong Arsenal.

Great video. I've always wondered why there were so many tracks

It is so ironic looking at how the NCA celebrates Griffin and modern Canberra but ignore how great our city could have been if we actually built it to specification. Oh how one imagines what this city would look like.