Melbourne rail infrastucture 1960's 70's (silent)

[@antonvann2576]

Looks like the first aid of soil being dug for the underground rail loop. Amazing how similar this was to the more recent politician display for the Suburban Railway Loop (the great white elephant railway)

[@raybesserdin7542]

What a gem!!!😀😀😀👍👍👍

[@ufn489]

Interesting for sure and certain and i even remember that era (just).Thanks for posting this historical account. Just love the 16mm cine cameras that were all the go with TV news teams and newsreel reports.

[@aaronlaguda]

Thanks for the Upload , its gold to see our old melbourne.

[@no1dagboy]

Great to see some of the Melbourne of my childhood.....

[@australianbloke3934]

I was in my twenties during the sixties. I found myself wondering exactly what I was doing while these constructions were in progress. I missed the Vietnam war conscription by one day, but several of my mates tell a different story. Sadly, looking at these films, I'm guessing that most of the workers, officials, politicians and bystanders will all have passed away by now. In no particular order, I can't help but recall how much simpler life was in those days. Simpler, safer and far less over-regulated. I wish we still had the SEC, The Gas and Fuel Corporation, oh and I still miss stations that had ticket sellers (one return ticket to Flinders Street please, off peak) , station masters, each train with a driver and guard, milk delivery vans, bread delivery vans, my EH Holden, In Melbourne Tonight, rotary dialling telephones, watching television on deck chairs outside the window of the local electrical shop (in Sandringham) and the big day when we took delivery of our seventeen inch Astor television in time to see the Melbourne Olympics.

[@raybesserdin7542]

I'm with you!!😀😀👍

[@johnandwegs]

great video!!!!! I now have seen two Spencer street builds!!!

[@vitodoriacalcio]

great to see the progress that has been made in our city over the years. even spencer st in the 90s looked unpleasing to go to. this clip gives good insight into the past and how our city used to be

[@besteducationaltoysforchil9252]

I was in my my mid 20s newly married and it all seems just a short time ago - no internet or mobile phones and TV was king with everyone watching the Sunday night Movie and in Melbourne tonight. It was a simpler society and I think it was a more considerate courteous generation in those times.

[@ThePaulv12]

What sentimental dross ... It wasn't like that at all. Monstrous family violence. sex offenders abounding, incest etc all ignored by authorities. Religion and superstition ruled and priests & doctors were held in high regard just because they were priests and doctors not for any other reason. The murder rate was numerically higher than today, the road toll far greater and the place was awash with guns. Also there was terrible unconstrained racism, and hatred of anybody with a hint of yellow skin. Just because an old video reminds one of one's youth doesn't mean 'those" were more quaint times. Fffar out Brussel Sprout!

[@seiner0ne]

ThePaulv12 Nothing has changed much

[@AusTVUploader]

@@ThePaulv12 What?

[@125sloth]

@@ThePaulv12 The things you mentioned were not ignored by authorities as such, the atrocities were not even reported but covered up. Victoria has had the strictest child sex abuse laws since the early 1950's, way ahead of the other states at the time of introduction, in fact way ahead of the developed world in reality. The penalties also for convicted child sex offenders were also harsh, with terms of imprisonment. Again, the offences needed to be reported for police to act. I agree that many police were part of the problem, but not all were slack or disbelieved victims.The problem was that like you eluded to, there were cover ups.Yes religions were rife with offenders, racism. Road tolls were due to no breath testing, poor driver training, and cars that were not designed for safety, unlike today. I could not agree more with your views. However there was also one group of people "put on a pedestal" back in the day that most people do not know of, and that is the Masons. Masons were not only active in their Lodges, but also in government, police, judiciary and the courts. Many Masons, or members/relatives of a Mason's family were perpetrators of child abuse, both sexual and physical, and the "cone of silence" was always put into action if police or other authorities knocked on the door after a complaint. Yes incest was a huge issue, (still is today in some communities), just like domestic violence. In this age of digital technology, offenders can keep one step ahead of authorities as well. Wait until police investigations into issues brought out in the PRIVATE hearings in the Child Abuse Royal Commission are completed. it will not only confirm your views, but also put a lot of "upstanding" people in the community in jail. I think quite a few Masons as well would be looking over their shoulders. Don't get me wrong I am not anti Masons, most are "normal" people, (I hope). But there is a minority who are nasty grubs, who have ruined kids for life and get protected by equally nasty sick mates in the "brotherhood".Just like elements of the Catholic and other churches really. They are so well organised that other law abiding Lodge members have or had no idea what was going on. And of course, we must not forget the sick bastards that molested kids at Puffing Billy and other historic rail organisations. It's no secret. If you go to the Victorian Ombudsman's website, there is a published report to Parliament only a couple of years old, about how evil those places are. And investigations are still ongoing.

[@Hero.Lone-Wolf]

@@125sloth could you tell me more about this INCEST issues ... I find it strangely and warmly interesting.....

[@fernald10]

Suits, horn-rimmed glasses and a hat or three. Some rain too, and as for the *really* old Spencer Street station ... Classic!

[@TheAxelay]

I agree, Melbourne had it's twilight era's 60's to 80's (heck maybe even the 90's too!) but those days are long long gone and it's not getting any better and it never will, heck every their railways were much more interesting than they are now and to finish off this beaut vid, an S class locomotive..

[@coffeetwosugarswithhikingb4180]

I still remember the drivers walking from the front engine to the back engine the go back the way they came, before the loop opened. Dam i am getting old😒

[@qqq2211]

gees what great footage thanks for posting

[@70s80sVidz]

awesome ! thank you so much for sharing this amazing footage, very appreciated !

[@MattAttack54]

very cool footage i can see some what influnences the American Interurbans and Electrics had on Australia. Hence EMD made alot of the Locomotives used on the Victoria Railways. I like those Electric Class and Diesel Electric Class Loco's also that Blue and Yellow Paint Scheme was great.

[@dlindstrom6147]

The first sod was turned on 22 June 1971

[@noelroberts8199]

Good old Harris trains and Red Rattlers, they don't make 'em like that anymore, thank goodness, Still, abit of nostalgia. And did you notice all the Holdens and Falcons in the street view........

[@Wally1967]

Towards the end was that Spencer st Station? Damn I miss the red Rattler. Thanks for posting.

[@RATTLEY67]

Yeah Wal I miss the old rattlers too.You knew you were on a train not a plastic cage going from one place to another.

[@matthewdempsey6583]

R.I.P red rattlers Hitachi silver and Harris blue trains

[@smedleyfarnsworth263]

I could see my office at 67 Spencer Street.

[@paparia1969]

at 3:05 you see the skryscraper that has since been replaced by the 101 Collins St building. The Herald Sun building below it.

[@NR54trailerail]

Great video!

[@newellgirl]

what you are witnessing in this film is a golden era in the city of Melbourne..today it is over crowded...full of cheap cars..shoe box developments....look at the solid Holden Cars and other vehicles all or mostly locally manufactured..that's all gone..cities over run by migrants who have no intention whatsoever of integrating.they clamor in violent gangs wielding machetes and shut down the once wonderful Moomba festival celebration..a place where local councils didnt turn their backs on Australia Day and simply delivered good public services instead of political rhetoric...nay I'll take these days depicted any day over the rubbish that is today's wankfest known as "globalism" its nothing more than an excuse to import people to fill real estate ..the prisons of the 1788's are now city apartment blocks..the master or warden is cash..and that is what has destroyed the once wonderful city that was Melbourne..and its happened all around Australia...glad i at least got to see a slither of this blissful, wonderful time..

[@vsvnrg3263]

newellgirl, dickhead.

[@sail1948]

Does anyone remember the railway goods yard in Melbourne, they used to employ casual labour, I worked there in 1966 as a 17 year old pom.

[@jimcrawford5039]

sail1948 down Flinders St. Extension. I used to go down there to pick up stuff. I was a happy young migrant then too.

[@rocnoir4233]

My grandad Harry was a rail worker through the 60's and 70's. Sadly he died of cancer at 45. Never once complained about his job though.

[@stewartyuen]

got any sound versions?

[@paparia1969]

@trainmaster5000 No. Harris trains were blue. Introduced 1961.

[@JustMe-bo2yu]

Thought they came onto the scene in 1956?

[@vk3ase]

If there were "sound versions" i would have put them up. It came off silent 16mm film.

[@avgfree21]

Spencer street station, the new one in the film, is that the same station there as the one now known as southern Cross? or was it rebuilt into the current one?

[@pauloconnor2980]

Gas & Fuel buildings at 3:27 and a rather nice International!!!!!!

[@crb456]

Paul, you beat me to it!

[@flammabletube]

Same station just with a lot of changes about access to suburban platforms oh and a wonderful new roof that doesn't really work

[@lloydharvey6602]

Welcome too Southern Leakpool Station,Melbourne still a leaking windtunnel,Monagetti should be ashamed too admitting that he was involved with this project

[@trainmaster5000]

Thanks for posting this. Are the Harris Trains the ones in red?

[@lloydharvey6602]

No,red for Tait's ,blue for Harris, Silver for Hitachi's, then the rubbish afterwards

[@pauloconnor2980]

CRA building at 3:11!!!!!!

[@kentallard8852]

a pity that of all the '69 MTP rail projects they only built the loop - but some how manged to build 8 of its freeways! Doncaster & Rowvlle railway lines, where are you?

[@milamba]

My grandpa's in that!!

[@billsmith281]

Im pretty sure it was your grandma

[@paulherry4902]

only the important vip's get the hard hats

[@Jamez53]

why are those cars on the road depicted in mass supply in this film but today on the roads the are non-existant

[@paupaupaupaupau]

You have taken a documentary about the city loop and dubbed a sIupid craking sound over it. DOMB!

[@vk3ase]

It is silent film with no recorded sound at all, i could have put music or made a commentary but people would have complained about that as well. What you are hearing is the sound of an empty optical sound track with random noise that has it's own appeal and better than complete silence i think.

[@paupaupaupaupau]

@@vk3ase nonsense. It is from a vic rail documentary on the loop. Re ta ř d

[@vk3ase]

It may well have been used in a documentary but the film in this video came from the original raw color reversal 16mm silent stock that could have been commissioned for the documentary or just old news footage that they used. Anyway, i have the original film and it was transferred as it was.

[@paupaupaupaupau]

@@vk3asenonsense. You put some clips together you got off the web. Removed the sound and have blatantly lied. It’s also a copyright claim.

[@vk3ase]

I have explained it as well as i can, no more comments from me.

[@stewartyuen]

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[@DC180]

Ahhh Freemasons at work.