Exploring the Abandoned Mornington Railway! Baxter-Moorooduc (With Special Tourist Railway Trip!)

[@aussiesith]

Walking the abandoned part of the Mornington Railway, you can see just how much work the volunteers of this society has in front of them. They are planning to go across Moorooduc hwy to Baxter but they need the volunteers and the money to help once they get the clearance to start.

[@Victorian_steam]

Massive project !!

[@michaelhall8586]

Very nice. I wish they would bring it back

[@Victorian_steam]

Maybe one day!

[@NickxCharlie4life]

That train whistle can be heard from my house in Mount Eliza every Sunday the railway runs past the footy ovals. I hope that one day it gets converted into a metro line from Baxter that eventually connects up to Frankston in the future.

[@Victorian_steam]

Awesome to hear a whistle in the distance !! And there are plans !

[@macdouglas1087]

I use to play on the K163 when it was at jubilee park, so good they got it running again

[@Victorian_steam]

That’s an awesome memory!

[@graemebrowne1463]

The Train Of Knowledge ... wow ... I went on that in 1974 for a week long trip around Central Victoria with the rest of Form 1 ( year 7).

[@Victorian_steam]

Amazing!!

[@acesretroonline]

Getting more of these railways back connected to the main line is where it's at. People can catch the special trains out to wherever from the station at Frankston or Lilydale, etc. Metro can run the odd train a few times a day like to Stony point. Wouldn't be bad. Edit: Even from Southern Cross. Like a day trip out somewhere.

[@Victorian_steam]

Absolutely!! Would be great!

[@acesretroonline]

@@Victorian_steam I don't know why they insist on having miles of track separating them from the main line. It's like they think the government will just swoop in and take it, give someone else the rent or whatever.

[@schembrichild8265]

Have u gone to Walhalla? There’s a railway station there and my parents Lolly shop :)

[@Victorian_steam]

I haven’t yet! Will be visiting the Walhalla railway in a future video!

[@BJPCameron]

Walhalla is a beautiful and fascinating place ❤

[@eprohoda]

Howdy?! gorgeous video-work~take care!

[@Victorian_steam]

Thank you!!!!

[@Bradleystrains]

Cool video mate. Awesome you both got to have a ride on the line too. Will be great to see the day that cars fully restored 😁

[@Victorian_steam]

Thank you!!!

[@NicholassTrainChannel]

Awesome video man! So much history about that line. So cool you got to ride in State Car 2 before its opened to the public! would like to ride it once its open to the public.

[@Victorian_steam]

Cheers!! Yeah was a surreal experience

[@paulstubbs7678]

I've seen a few vids of people making rail carts and running them on disused lines, that line is the only one I know of near me, however I didn't know it was that overgrown etc.

[@Victorian_steam]

Very overgrown!

[@thex-wing]

Another great video mate well done knowledge well done as well

[@Victorian_steam]

Thank you !!!

[@traintracktrekker3401]

Wow that ride looked amazing I love the mornington railway Always riding and always walking

[@Victorian_steam]

It was an experience I’ll never forget!

[@paulphotios3920]

The main infrastructure on the morningron peninsula was done by for the military in the late 1880s The line to baxter from melbourne was built to service the langwarrin army camp😂. The mornington train line was built to service Balcombe army camp and the line to hastings and Cerberus was for the navy base. Water for these bases was supplied from the tarago reservior at neerim south to devil bend reservior at mooroduc. These pipelines reservations are still used today to supply water to the Peninsula. Refer to the first victorian mounted rifles (minty calder)

[@Victorian_steam]

Some awesome history down there

[@paulphotios3920]

​@@Victorian_steamthat reference to the firstvictorian mounted rifles is a book written by winty Calder. She was a historian and gives full references in the back of book. One reference is to an article in a newspaper from 1880s. I looked up the reference in the state library and the front page was the headline the Russians are coming with details of the planned railway. I got a copy of the page. Used to often run into bill parkin on the train from the city to Frankston. I gave the photo copy to bill who put it on display on his desk at vline. Ran into bill a few years later and he looked a bit frazzled. What's the matter bill? Well they have me working on the feasibility of electrifying the line to Cranbourne. Um bill you are the mayor of Cranbourne? Yes and it is a bit dificult. Bill passed away a few years ago.

[@RS-rj5sh]

Not exactly true. The Mornington train line opened in 1880 odd. Balcombe Army Camp did not open until WW2, 1940. The train line was there decades before the Army inhabited Balcombe Camp.

[@mrK163]

Here’s a fact - when Vicroads laid the surface of Frankston Flinders rd and removed most of the crossings equipment, it was done without Victrack’s knowledge.

[@Victorian_steam]

Very interesting!!

[@jordanevans2122]

This was a blast, thank you bro 🙌

[@Victorian_steam]

No worries brother !! Cheers for coming !

[@bradleytrevaskiss9843]

thanks bud , nice vid

[@Victorian_steam]

Cheers !!!

[@jasonptan]

Hi there i enjoyed watching your railway history videos and i like your model railway set that got active railways and a disused track just like the real life disused train tracks/ as a 7 year old in late 1981 i saw the INNER CIRCLE RAILWAY and early 1984 as a 10 year old kid i saw them removed the tracks at Nicholson Street in North Fitzroy

[@Victorian_steam]

Cheers!! Must’ve been great to see those lines!!

[@MalcolmMarks-c6k]

MELVILLE was the power car on the Train of Mknowledge. The train consisted,,,.😅of Sleeping cars ,diining car a.nd shower car

[@Victorian_steam]

@@MalcolmMarks-c6k a very cool carriage !

[@gregthompson3274]

Was thinking of checking this out,but after seeing the blackberries, I don't feel like doing battle with them. A recent subscriber,as a rail enthusiast, enjoys your explorations of these abandoned rail lines,sadly 😔,of which there are many in Victoria

[@Victorian_steam]

Cheers mate! Enjoy the channel!!

[@lespecsman]

They need 67 thousand sleepers to reopen this section to where the Steam train departs from

[@Victorian_steam]

A fair bit !

[@bradwilliams1691]

They must have some sort of plan in mind for opening up another section as there is a shit load of concrete sleepers stacked at thier Moorooduc site.

[@jimhiggon4696]

My man thank you so so much for this video. Did you find out much info about what's happening with the start of the line if they are are gonna start to clear it out and get it ready for use?

[@Victorian_steam]

Thank you!! And there is progress being made but can’t confirm !

[@jimhiggon4696]

@@Victorian_steam would love to see all that come back to life since our train system in struggling as it is and since from mornington onwards has nothing a train line out there would be handy as

[@MalcolmMarks-c6k]

Not a telephone line but a telegraph line

[@Victorian_steam]

@@MalcolmMarks-c6k cheers!

[@jackmcdonald479]

Why dont you guys make a portable railcar and ride some of these lines

[@Victorian_steam]

Would love to! Sadly our abandoned lines are pretty bad condition, would barely make it a hundred metres without the line being completely covered In bushes

[@bradallen8909]

Citylink? It’s Peninsula Link.

[@Victorian_steam]

Cheers !

[@bradallen8909]

@@Victorian_steam No worries mate, cheers for the great video!

[@Victorian_steam]

@@bradallen8909 thanks for watching !!