Camden Line Last Days

[@blastermaster2383]

Being from Camden myself & still living there , it’s unreal to think that Camden had a train back then & doesn’t today .You would think it would be the other way around . I’ve looked at all the Camden line rail history & quizzed old fellows I worked with in the local coal industry who lived the era of the Camden line & learned a lot about it . Fascinating stuff .

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

The end of "Pansy"..... To quote a line from an Iris Dement song... *"...and you know the sun's setting fast...* *It's just like they say...nothing good ever lasts"*

[@paulusintas8627]

This is absolutely precious footage. Thanks SO MUCH!!

[@StephenPieri]

Fantastic to see that after all these years there is still great footage of this iconic line, thanks so much for sharing

[@phillipberger5919]

My mother used to take this train to work. Kenny Hill is the 1:19 grade. In winter, it could take a couple of goes to get over. Great filming. Camden was a great place to grow up.

[@jamesnicholaswest7036]

My now 73 year old heart is broken watching this. I travelled to Campbelltown on this train at the start and end of the school term when I was a boarder in what in those days was known as St.John's college. My parents also when they came to visit me. Dear train, Requiscat in Pacem 😢😢.

[@dunxy]

Beautiful, great quality for the format. Old footage like this really makes me sad, not all progress is good...

[@denisblades1375]

Love the double exposure at the end!

[@michaelhatton2477]

From what I've been told it was completely by accident. But it works so well as an artistic choice imo.

[@380130]

If it is supposed to be artistic, I found it more distracting and would rather of seen the raw footage underneath, but the rest is gold, thanks for posting@@michaelhatton2477

[@jindera1]

That train took me to and from hospital a number of times. A family friend, Don Selby, was a fireman on that train for many years.

[@jimmynswgr]

Excellent footage.

[@josecarlospoggian149]

Beautiful thanks a lot 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@nicksheridan588]

Loved it!

[@394824]

My parents had a VW beetle CPB631 and we were living in Cobbitty then. I remember seeing the last trip of the train from that car at Kenny Hill

[@KenR208]

Such a score thats been chosen to accompany this footage, it's like the Leonard Coen track for a by-gone 'steam' Very good image for 8mm also!

[@tharakadamsarademattanpiti4012]

lovely video.another sad story

[@davidmason7765]

Amazing

[@PaulMagyar]

Just superb...

[@gregmorley1997]

Never got to ride it but my father worked for NSWGR at Campbelltown and had several rides on it ( including to last day) , now they're trying to hook a line to Campbelltown from the new airport line

[@smitajky]

I was a little curious about the train. I knew of it but wasn't from NSW. Then I was captivated by the sombre piano. Looking further I saw so much more of what we have lost. People hanging out of open doors and windows. Photo stops. Jumping off the train when not at a platform. Even while still moving. Dressed up for the occasion. I recently went on a steam excursion and how different it is. Freedom is what we have lost. Not just the trains or the lines or the steam engines. Something so much more. I also noted wryly how the majority of those in this clip are now dead.

[@androidemulator6952]

Everyone responsible for their own safety...and having a whale of a time . Lost times ';)

[@Alan-zi4or]

Stunning and moving footage - thank you - such a shame we have lost so many rail lines

[@garyquelch888]

Excellent historical filming

[@robertthomson1587]

Fascinating history!

[@394824]

The stations of the cross are visible at the Franciscan monastery on the way down the hill to Campbelltown at 6.40

[@Steven_Rowe]

It seems funny now that train photographers back in the day believed that somehow having a cine camera or 35mm camera was a passport to wander onto the tracks The good old daze(days)

[@simonf8902]

Now all covered in urban sprawl.

[@andgate2000]

Theirs a house and big trees behind the smoke at 6.21-6.30...there still there.

[@ALITISA78]

To think there was a trainline there. Modern day we have no trains going to Narellan and Camden

[@Tracertme]

I assume this is Liverpool Australia based on Google algorithms…

[@michaelhatton2477]

Campbelltown - Camden

[@billking13]

I believe a section of this line had a 1 in 19 grade.

[@blastermaster2383]

It did mate , out at Kenny Hill .

[@MargaretCampbell583]

Was this taken in the fifties?

[@michaelhatton2477]

1963

[@harrycallahan9069]

People in power with no foresight shutting everything down. Didn't they realise the population of Sydney would grow ???