More ancient Glenhuntly station and gates

[@johnd8892]

Great that Richard N filmed what many would think of as too ordinary. But now it is a rare historical record that tells quite a story. Thanks for posting too.

[@vk3ase]

Must catch up with Richard, have not seen him for years but he did a lot of filming of railways and other infrastructure around Melbourne and it would be good for it to be public. He has enough to make his own channel, maybe he has but i have not found it yet.

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

Lived in Grange Rd in 1986 with my gorgeous girlfriend. Rode the train from Glenhuntly to the city and back daily, so I probably missed out being a star in your film by a matter of a few hours!. Watching this video made me want to morph through the screen and go back to to a time I miss dearly. Thanks so much for posting.

[@MrLeedebt]

I lived in Grange Rd too. I was near Dandenong Rd, so I caught the train at Caulfield Station. Very familiar with Glenhuntly though.

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

@@MrLeedebt I lived in a block of flats at 160, right at the pedestrian bridge on Grange Rd. I remember there was an old fashioned milk bar directly across the road and the guy who owned it sold everything from imported cigarettes, to blue rinse hair dye for the old dears who resided in the nearby nursing home. He was always up for a chat. They were good days.

[@MrLeedebt]

@@lobbylloyd351CJ I shared a house at 23. It was a weatherboard. Just up the road towards the railway line was a milk bar on a corner with a chatty owner. (Mick?) He was probably far more chatty to a stunning girl called Marcia Murphy who lived in the house. Just as I am writing this, it brought back the memory of me winning an Easter Egg. It was in a box surrounded by chocolate-covered lollies. One of them lodged in my throat. I couldn't breathe. Panic set in. No one else was home. I ran outside to get help, as well as banging my back. Somehow, it dislodged. There must be something about Easter. Probably the same Easter, a group from work was on a houseboat at Eildon. Tragically, one fell in and drowned.

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

@@MrLeedebt Wow. Sounds like it was a memorable Easter for you for all the wrong reasons. The Thursday before Easter that year was also the day of the Russell Street bombing, which was also a total bummer. I was not in the city that day, although I usually caught the train in from Glenhuntly station, as I worked on construction sites as an electrician. Must have been a building industry RDO or some other stunt to get the day off before Easter I do remember that milk bar you mentioned on the corner with the chatty owner. It must have been a 'thing' in days of old for chatty people to be milk bar owners, particularly when dealing with customers like Marcia.. :)

[@Steamtostay]

That's the first time I've witnessed a gatewheel in operation! Thanks!

[@paulcaine2603]

Much appreciated, you just caught the end of an eira, the pedestrian cross-over bridge must have just been removed before you videoed. This bridge was never replaced, and would still be a great time saver if it had.

[@Laverous]

That is great. Love the Frankston line history. And this one takes me back. Thanks for sharing!

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

Unreal. That's my old yellow Falcon police interceptor parked on Glenhuntly Rd at 8:14. I reckon I must have gone into the old State Bank at the time of filming. I've still got that car today.

[@mickcarson8504]

If you look at this historic station you will be reminded of 80 years ago in Melbourne, the people, the young boys and girls, the break of WW2 when young men went to war and never returned, the stationmasters and ticket machine clanking by the ticket window and the steam trains andl electric Taits to Mordialloc and Frankston. If you you can remember this beautiful station and the people of their times, you would know how valuable this piece of history is to many historians and older people alike. I was 9 when dad took me for a train ride to Frankston from Caulfield, stopping at Seaford for picnic. Oh my, how Melbourne has changed... the old North Road and the gates.

[@reverseuniverse2559]

1986 what a memorable year 🤩

[@jdillon8360]

Great video. Especially seeing how much physical work was involved in opening and closing the gates and moving points. That would keep someone in good shape. So many trees back then too. Plus, I always thought the third line was added much earlier than the 80s. Interesting to learn it was later.

[@tubester4567]

This is my old stomping ground as a kid, I went to this station many times and walked past it almost everyday. The next crossing on Neerim Road still had a manual operated crossing at this time. Every time a train was coming the railway worker would run out and manually close the gates.

[@internezzo]

love the attention to all the details! thank you!

[@ACitizenOfOurWorld]

Thanks for the VIcRail memories!

[@colstephens76]

I remember it like that. Thank you so much.

[@professorpatpending8731]

Rode in many of those Harris trains from the city to Ormond or McKinnon stations all those years ago. Occasionally got off at Glenhuntly station. Good to see it as it was 30 years ago.

[@jimcrawford5039]

Great film, I remember those days so well. Riverina, NSW.

[@hazptmedia]

I wish I was around back then. Unfortunately I had to be born in the 2000s.

[@darylcheshire1618]

Notice the delapidated station building? I have a pictorial book of railway stations in the late ‘70s and it’s amazing how delapidated the stations looked compared to now. The VR had been starved of funds for decades and Taits were kept running for 60 years. Last week I saw a KZbin of someone who said that Chicago electric cars were “Over - Thirty - Years - Old” with a hint of incredulty in his voice. I thought Hah! with a thought to those sixty year old Taits.

[@125sloth]

I went to school near Glenhuntly. The signalmen who worked the wheel to close and open the gates were quicker than the boom gates that replaced them as far as opening goes at least,

[@reverseuniverse2559]

How would it be to go back in time to 1986 and remembering the mobile phone you took everywhere, it would be twiddling your fingers on a station bench seat or keeping the mind busy now we work our minds X four fold lol

[@christopherguy596]

Two of these gates are now part of an operating museum in my back yard.

[@neilmansfield8329]

This is good video. Love these red and blue electric trains

[@flyingscrapyard]

There's a lot to like here!

[@ctwentysevenj6531]

As seen in the video, there was a lonely Red box car goods carriage at the goods siding . It must have been there for years . It seems it never moved, until they redeveloped the station and built the third track. It seems that work is just starting in the video.

[@darylcheshire1618]

That was an HD wagon, there used to be two of them. I think they were part of a breakdown train, the VR placed breakdown vans in strategic locations around the state. When the yard was cleared the HD was still there but pushed into a car parking spot and the parked cars lined up next to it.

[@mrporsche4236]

When everything was normal

[@darylcheshire1618]

I recall the signalman became the SM (or whatever) at Dandenong.

[@williamrubinstein3442]

The level crossing is only now being removed. March 2022.

[@nigelholmes9332]

That four wheel freight truck languished on the siding for years. 8'36"

[@ctwentysevenj6531]

Nigel Holmes I remember that freight truck. I wonder where it is now?

[@mickcarson8504]

It's not a freight a truck, it's a van.

[@gregthompson3274]

Interesting as a resident of Glenhuntly, both rail crossings are being removed, and a trench railway being built with the Glenhuntly Rd and its tramline above the railine with Glenhuntly station being rebuilt,should be completed 2024

[@cellsplicer2008]

It looks like those trains were crossing the tram square a hell of a lot quicker than today.

[@nigelholmes9332]

+cellsplicer2008 yeah. A lot more gouges in the tarmac from the auto de-railers then too.

[@74_pelicans]

Amazing to see, now it's gone, completely demolished while they build a new station ready for august 2023

[@katultiuy]

Old Australia

[@andyrob3259]

Now about to change yet again. Station to be demolished this year, level crossing eliminated here and Neerim road and a new station built. Between 2021 & 2024.

[@vsvnrg3263]

entertaining. what is the purpose of the pole in the foreground at 7:10?

[@andrewgoldbergs4474]

Disc signal to let trams know if safe to cross..were catchpoints prior to crossing..still there..3 or 4 details a year!

[@vsvnrg3263]

@@andrewgoldbergs4474 ,thanks for info. a couple of hours after reading your post i have worked out what you mean by 3 or 4 details a year. you mean derails.

[@glennofootscray]

I'm thinking of having a go of modelling something similar...just because

[@matthewmassarotti2596]

at the 707 mark what is that thing on the left hand side top its moving is it a train or tram?

[@lobbylloyd351CJ]

Its a Luton peak delivery truck moving along Glenhuntly Rd by the looks of it

[@matthewmassarotti2596]

@@lobbylloyd351CJ oh I c

[@RATTLEY67]

Thank you!!!

[@smirkydragon]

weren't those trains taken out of service due to asbestos?

[@johnd8892]

Some of the early blue Harris trains had asbestos insulation which caused them to be buried in Clayton tip. The later longer Harris carriages did not and were upgraded for use on Vline shorter distance trains. Wikipedia V/line H type carriage.

[@NR54trailerail]

Great video!

[@icascone]

"Oooh, we've got pictures!" :P

[@AccordionManiac]

Great video

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

August 1986 is the year I joined the railways and earlier that same year I worked in glenhuntly at a roofing and gutter manufacturer called mack brothers I also on the city platform was rugby 🏉 tackled by a co worker who I upset by making a smartass comment we got into a wrestling match where he was trying to push me onto the tracks whilst a silver Hitachi train was approaching the platform I managed to survive that only to board that very same train and have this crazy 🤪 passenger stare at me with one eye 🤨 looking like he wanted to stab me it was not a good day 😀

[@chetdog]

25 years on.

[@venturabus01]

look at the cars back than

[@WayneCook306]

No going around those old gates like they do today with the boom gates or cross on a red light.

[@marklowe7431]

To be still doing this in 1986 is completely primitive.

[@MrLeedebt]

How right you are. I have lived near there most of my adult life. Obviously, dementia has set in. I can only recall it being a boom gate.

[@darylcumming7119]

Hasn't changed that much.

[@Kevin-go2dw]

For better or worse it is all gone now (August 2023), even some of the adjoining buildings. Most of the rolling stock has been replaced, and the station as depicted completely eliminated with the rails lowered into a trench and a new three platform station constructed below street level. Even the signal cabinet that replaced the signal box is now only a memory. I am old enough to remember most of this and also a footbridge at the down end of the platform which had been removed by the time this vision was recorded.

[@darylcumming7119]

@@Kevin-go2dw The end of an era?

[@xr6lad]

Ancient? 1986? Wtf.

[@cudgee7144]

Now it is like a drug injecting room in Mumbai. Very, very sad.

[@chetdog]

that place had a lot of indians and chinese people there now.

[@wannasurf]

man im qualified there haha