THE NULLARBOR - TRANS AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY PART TWO

[@robertstuart9703]

I worked at Cook and Reid in the 60s relaying new rail and on the old Ghan Railway Line at Edwards Creek (dodge city)😎

[@6726Justin]

Super to watch thanks heaps 👌

[@Kelstar77]

Thanks for that , my dad was born at Cook in 1952

[@antonioaraujo3029]

Parabéns belo vídeo. 🇧🇷

[@johnhirtle4300]

The interior of Australia is mind boggling - seemingly endless, flat and featureless - a recipe for insanity 🤠

[@lauriekibblewhite]

I guess insanity for some, and nirvana for others. Crossing the Nullarbor from West to East on the train, you see this line start to appear on the horizon, that slowly gets thicker, until you suddenly find yourself running through sand dunes, and that's Ooldea. It's a fascinating place (Australia's interior that is). Cheers, Laurie

[@johnhirtle4300]

@@lauriekibblewhite Thank you M8. Cheers!

[@aussiedrifter]

G'day Laurie, Mate I have really enjoyed these two videos it's a trip I hope to make myself sooner rather than later. Also I would like to definitely do the Great central road & as much of the original old Eyre highway. Safe Travels Mate, Steve.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Thanks Steve. The Great Central Road is slowly being bitumenised. I haven't been there since 2007, but my son recently did it in 2015. Check out his video of the trip. We are putting more of his stuff up as we process it. Maybe subscribe to his channel. Cheers mate. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3Ldl6aQoKxjj9U

[@aussiedrifter]

@@lauriekibblewhite Shall do Laurie thanks' Mate.

[@samueljesse2179]

I used to live in Rawlinna in the 1970's before it was concrete sleepers. One of the cattle stations (Seemore Downs) was run by Ron Absalom uncle of the famous Jack Absalom who died a few years ago. Rawlinna had a bank post office hospital, general store, fuel depot, primary school, met Office, cinema, institute (pub) . The post office bank was actually robbed by 2 outsiders from Port Augusta, some of the fettlers walked south of Rawlinna to try and make it to Cooklebiddy to buy booze and perished out in the bush, after they got lost and died of dehydration. Rawlinna was almost destroyed by Skylab, I remember as a kid collecting bits and pieces of the space station , we put them in acrylic moulds and made paper weights from the various parts, now worth a fortune on eBay in the US. We had a blow hole in our backyard and on the hottest of days in the summer cool air would rush up from deep underground like an air-conditioner. I noticed you didn't mention about the Naretha parrot found only at Naretha and most probably extinct now.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Thanks for that. The Naretha Bluebonnet, first found in 1921 apparently. I have to admit that this is the first that I have heard about it. I'd suggest there's an awful lot we didn't cover, probably because we didn't know. There is less and less remaining of Rawlinna these days ... the school has now also been dismantled I believe. Unfortunately, many of places are now just names on a map. Thanks for dropping by. Cheers, Laurie.

[@desmondnewell5955]

Just saw video by Trevor pallant, taken before yours and showed Ziggy's hut made of sleepers. Quite a feat building that. Cheers mate.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

We were on the train in 2007 when I saw it. It flashed past and I hoped I had captured it. Looking at it now, it was quite a substantial dwelling. It's a pity the authorities didn't see its value as folk history and leave it there, but they don't. I believe the overturned carriages at Bates have also now been cleared away. You can see Ziggys Castle flash past at 9.04 in this video (taken well before I got serious about it :-) ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/onzWhXSao6yVZ6s Thanks for dropping by Desmond. Cheers, Laurie.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Thanks for the heads up Desmond. Just had a look, and yep, that's the place I got ... fleetingly ... At least we are able to capture screen shots. Thanks again, cheers, Laurie.

[@americanmultigenic]

Thank you so much for showing me a place I have always wanted to visit, but am probably too old to ever do now. Sorry if it's been asked before, but there seems often a passenger carriage on the freight trains. Is that so that relief crew can rest, eat & sleep between shifts or something like that? ---Mike

[@lauriekibblewhite]

I believe that is possibly the case. On the Nullarbor run, there are dongas at Cook where crew will sleep and change trains back to their starting point (eg, Sydney to Cook & return, Perth to Cook and return). I would think that there would be a similar arrangement at Alice Springs on the Ghan route. People who know more about it may comment and correct me. Thanks for dropping by, Cheers, Laurie

[@FoelyZ89]

Nice video, but where are the students or kids in Cook. Everything seems to be empty and what a solitude to live there? No shop, no cinema, no disco, no bar just sand and a few threes.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Yeah, it's great, isn't it? LOL. It used to have a population of up to 300 people once upon a time. It's now just a changeover station for rail staff. Thanks for dropping by. Cheers, Laurie.

[@michaelhayden725]

As I understand it it Cook now almost a ghost town only two or three people live there on a permanent basis. The hospital was closed ten or more years ago, as was the school.

[@longrider42]

Great Video, the more I see of the Nullarbor, the more I want to go there, crazy as that sounds. But there are way to many commercials in your video.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Thanks James, I agree about the ads. I hate them. But I have spent a lot of my own money over the years doing this, and I'm an old bastard who is trying to survive on the pension, and the pittance I get from You Tube helps such a tiny bit - incidentally, I have no idea how many ads KZbin have up there - they do it, not me. Please bear with me. At least I'm not using my videos trying to sell you stuff like the new breed are doing ... plus the ads. :-) . As for the Nullarbor, it is a fascinating place, and I have been lucky over the past 18 years to have crossed it a number of times. The Trans trip was a bucket list trip which we managed to pull off. Thank you for watching and commenting. It means a lot. Cheers, Laurie.

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Hey there James. I took note of your comment re ads in the videos, and decided to look deeper and see how it works. I was shocked at the way they have stacked in the ads, and the frequency of them. I have just gone through the entire list, and pruned them way back, tried to get a minimum of 10 mins between them in long (in fact all) videos, and no more than 5-6 in a long film. Potentially could cost me revenue, but the main reason my stuff is up here to retain the viewer and give them a (hopefully) quality look at my work and therefore, the country we live in. Retain the viewer and hopefully the revenue will look after itself. Thank you for your initial comments, I appreciate them. Cheers, Laurie

[@davideddy2321]

Laurie how many k’s had your old shocks done and what did you replace them with 💥

[@lauriekibblewhite]

G'day David. It was my sons cruiser. He bought it s/hand, so not sure if they had been replaced before or not or when. We got to Toyota at Ceduna, and they were replaced there with what they had in stock. (front shocks). The rears were replaced with the same make when he got back to Perth. I'll try and get more info for you. Cheers, Laurie.

[@davideddy2321]

Laurie are you on the road full time or have a home so to speak 💚

[@lauriekibblewhite]

@@davideddy2321 I live in my van full time. When I'm not on the road, I am normally based out of Albany where I stay at a caravan park just out of town.

[@davideddy2321]

@@lauriekibblewhite do you stay grounded during summer

[@lauriekibblewhite]

@@davideddy2321 I'm a pensioner, so cost is always a factor. I have done 3 big trips in 2019 and 2021. This year was a year of consolidation, and then I started this new series of video, (2021 Road Trip) which was never planned ... I did one video and then it did a topsy and growed ... for some reason it has gained an audience ... so I am spending a considerable amount of time editing and uploading, which keeps me occupied through the week. Summer? I usually don't travel for one reason or another. Winter, yes, everything is north of Albany and potentially warmer. I have maybe one more biggish one planned for next year, and that might see me out ... age and health considered. Who knows? Cheers. Laurie

[@mikebarrett5890]

Nicely done. What month did you travel?

[@lauriekibblewhite]

The trip was done in two parts. The first part to Rawlinna was done in April, and the balance of the trip in September. The full blog is available here ... members.iinet.net.au/%7Ealbmus/Trans%20Australian%20Railway.htm Cheers, Laurie

[@mikebarrett5890]

@@lauriekibblewhite Thanks

[@melvinleong3731]

Grav Soundtrack

[@marcosluciosilva2433]

21:39 no TRANSIBERIANA

[@lauriekibblewhite]

Where is the longest straight railway line in the world? Often called “the long straight,” Australia’s transcontinental railroad, known as the Indian Pacific, includes the longest straight stretch of railway in the world. The straight part of the track, between Nurina and Loongana, in Western Australia, is 296 miles (477 km) long. The Indian Pacific railway is the second longest railway line in the world. It stretches for nearly 2,500 miles (4,025 km) across Australia, connecting Perth on the Indian Ocean with Sydney on the Pacific Ocean. The trip takes about three days. The world’s longest railway is the Trans-Siberian Express, which connects Moscow and Vladivostok and crosses 5,778 miles (9,245 km) in nine days.

[@MyHonkytonkman]

Yawn

[@lauriekibblewhite]

What can I say? You're right of course, what ever it was. Thanks for dropping by, cheers Laurie.

[@jimmyriddle5246]

What you find a yawn, I find interesting. Each to their own