Last Train to Waubra 1960s

[@PaulinesPastimes]

Wonderful shaky, grainy footage of an Australian country branch line in the summer heat. So evocative of a time gone by. Almost brought me to tears. Thank you for the video.

[@stephenkennedy5630]

In 1962 it was going to waubra & Clunes every wednesday to pick up Hay only about 5trucks at 1 time

[@jessesands4099]

This is wonderful footage! Steam Locomotives as well! There was a Railway Line to Waubra Racecourse as well!😉🚂🚃🚃🛤️🏇

[@bushranger51]

I was a kid at the time, and dad took us over from Maryborough, on the day, At the time It had no meaning to me, as I wasn't as terribly interested in Victorian steam trains as I am today, so this old footage has brought back memories

[@hieronymusbosch9421]

Thanks so much for making this publicly available. I would loved to have lived during this period and experienced these things myself. These videos are the closest I can get unfortunately.

[@jessesands4099]

Great Historic Railway Footage of the Waubra Railway Line in the 1960s!🤗🚆🚃🛤️🥔🥔

[@reidgck]

That was a really hot day too. About 37 or 38, or over 100 in the old scale

[@CGT867]

I never got there - so thanks for sharing.

[@michealproboscas3979]

Also may visit the town to see where or if there are any remains of the line.

[@ChrisGuiver]

Thank You for publishing - I really enjoyed it :)

[@darylcheshire1618]

I assume the rear car was Yarra, in recent times you aren’t allowed to ride on the end platform when attached to a loco. First time I rode on the end platform was after leaving Healesville behind a K, then it entered a tunnel...

[@reidgck]

Yes that was the Parlour car Yarra. In those times it was taken for granted that it was on most steam tour trains. We used to ride it regularly on the end platform regardless of it being behind the locomotive or on the end of the train. When it was behind a coal burning steam locomotive, often much soot and ash landed on the platform which was then crunched into the floor. That maybe is why since the carriage was restored they close the end platform now.

[@darylcheshire1618]

reidgck I wondered if it was for “safety” or about obscuring the view of those seated in the car. I have a lovely slide of the K running tender first from Yarram and you can see the front of the loco from inside Yarra. Might have been K190 in green livery.

[@reidgck]

@@darylcheshire1618 Authoritarians inflict illegitimate influence these days by instilling paranoia to foster their dictatorship as is being widely seen now. But anyway, the Yarra Car has traveled lots of places it can no longer go because many lines have been pulled up and others have been gauge converted. It has certainly been to the pulled up line location of Yarram quite a few times so you are probably lright.

[@jonnawyatt]

@@reidgck We need to allow natural selection to do its thing.

[@kspokesphotographyandvideo4190]

Lovely video! Where is the old station platform located in Waubra?

[@garynewton1263]

Oh Waubra, I saw this place on the Victorian UHF CB repeater list. Ch 7 repeater. Is it north west of Ballarat?

[@stephenkennedy5630]

It went past our property gillies st not sure when the queen went to the Dowling Forest Racecourse.

[@michealproboscas3979]

Time for to save up and by a few go scale models of the j class steamers and recreate history in model form .waaaaauuuubra

[@cliffleigh7450]

What was the Overland doing there in daylight?

[@reidgck]

It was running late. Very late. The Overland used to be referred to by many as the Overdue. Don't know why it was so late. The weather was very hot that day.

[@mebeasensei]

Don’t know much about the pulling power of steam vs diesel, but would a J class be something like a T class diesel power wise? Were Ks bigger or more powerful or the other way around, or were they just designed for different purposes?

[@reidgck]

Generally, the T class diesels replaced the J and K class steam probably their pulling power was about the same but steam has different characteristics to diesels, Diesels generally pull better at low speed and steam pulls better wirh some speed up. The K, J and N class steam had similar driving wheels, piston stroke and boiler pressure but the boilers were different with the N having the bigger and longer boiler and a wider fire grate facilitated by the pony truck beneath the cab which meant more steam could be produced and so the loco could pull more without running out of steam on the grades. The J class were similar to the K mechanically but the boilers were high to be above the frames so as to be able to be converted to standard gauge easily. J 512 was running around with K class driving wheels and the K in a park at Mildura has a mixture of K and J driving wheels. With diesels people generall looked at the power an engine could produce to classify it but there were other factors kike the gear ratio between the traction motor gears and the driving axle gears. The Ts had a limit of 60 miles per hour and the Ys which had converted bogies from scrapped swingdoor trains were limited to 40 MPH. So there are many factors to consider not the leas of which is the condition of steam boilers and the skills or otherwise of the fireman. .

[@mebeasensei]

reidgck wow, nice response. As a kid Dad told me that steam loco engineers and fireman were really skilled and earned respect for it.

[@reidgck]

Yes,and when they changed to diesels,their hard working in keeping the train running was not necessary.They got it relatively easy.They had a seat to sit on and admire the scenery. They still called them firemen though. I meant to mention above that the bigger the wheel diameter of a steam loco's driving wheels, the more speed it could attain. But this speed was at the expense of pulling power.but once a steam locomotive got speed up there was no stopping it. In some places the new diesels could not keep up established schedules designed for steam loco hauled passenger train running, .

[@mebeasensei]

reidgck so would it be fair enough to assume that diesels had better initial acceleration, more responsive speed control including braking, than their steam counterparts and were for frequent stopping and starting. Sort of like electric has this advantage over diesel?

[@reidgck]

@@mebeasensei There is a rough sort of comparison to what you have worked out at kzbin.info/www/bejne/enjbZqmkgqxqaqc R class steam vs Spirit of Progress. The bigger diesel locomotives generally had dynamic brakes too, the traction motors are able to turned into generators and their output was fed into a bank of resistors on the roof and a big fan blew the generated heat away. The T class did not have this setup except for T413 which worked on the private 3ft 6in Fyansford cement railway at Geelong. When the quarry closed the VR attained T413 and gauge converted it but the dynamic brake was left in place which made it a bit different from the other Ts.

[@xr6lad]

As a record, while Interesting it’s useless as a historic record with absolutely no indication of where you are on any part of the track; particularly the Waubra section, other than obviously Ballarat.

[@Stephen-dc3og]

"Thanks" Henry Bolte.(Not.).