Rails Around Australia - Episode 4 - The Desert Trains - 1987

Rails Around Australia - Full Episode 4. This episode features:
3:05 - Newsreel from the Trans-Australia Railroad Construction
4:38 - The 'Tea & Sugar' train
11:20 - Re-railment of a Fettlers Car
14:48 - 'Newpatch Theatre' travelling entertainment
22:48 - Fettlers replacing sleepers by hand
31:54 - Tour of Kalgoolie
34:19 - Gold Digging
38:25 - Two up game
41:09 - Boulder Loopline Railway

[@coolhand1964]

Just the opening soundtrack and images take me back to my early 20's. Wonderful days. Time is a cruel master.

[@johnnyallen2090]

So pleased to have stumbled onto this episode. I lived at all the sidings including non inhabitated ones ( Fisher).. whilst assisting with the construction of Telecom optic fibre project across the Nullabor .The Tea and Sugar was our life line . Not many people are aware of this but the return Tea and Sugar was called the Bomber and we relied on this train to shift men and machines east (including bulldozers) I was thrilled to see old footage of the first passenger train at Ooldea as my grandfather Archibald Russell was the gaurd on that very first train ( and didn't he tell me some wonderful stories when I was a little boy) This country means a lot to me especially since my grandpa crossed it many times during his 40 years of Commonwealth Railways service.The people out there are unique and it was a pleasure to be part of their lives for a short time.

[@jessesands4099]

The Tea and Sugar Train finished 9 years later in 1996!😒☕🍭🚆🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🏜️

[@mathewgreen4099]

Another great episode. It seems like this series was filmed at just the right time. A lot of the featured lines seem to have been amalgamated or disappeared altogether. Many thanks for posting.

[@ColonelBummleigh]

Yeah,it's a good watch. A social history and some characters.

[@jessesands4099]

Got the Book "The Desert Railway" a couple of years ago which features many of photos shown here!🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🏜️🐪🇦🇺🐇🐰

[@BenjaminRowe-hc7uo]

The good old days.🇦🇺

[@geosutube]

Quaint life in the midst of nowhere, older clothing styles, the pop entertainment group are to be commended for their efforts. A life soon gone by, this clip is nevertheless a wonderful story of life on the edges of society.

[@vettebecker1]

Love the E locomotives and the pullman heavyweight cars!!!

[@brianclenentsfetting]

Brad Johnson

[@jessesands4099]

Cook the real Australia! No crowds No Traffic jams No Pollution!😒🛤️🏜️🐪🦅🏚️🇦🇺

[@NJPurling]

@Kabuki Kitsune Yea' it's just a water stop for the Trans Australia trains now. Its not quite as bad as the fate suffered by Ooldea. Pre-stressed concrete sleepers would have amazed the builders of the Port Augusta - Alice Springs line.

[@jessesands4099]

Cook's a long way from New South Wales!🤨🚆🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🏜️🐪🦅

[@russrh]

the entertainment group was great with 'Surfing New South Wales' and LOL at Cook having a future after concrete sleepers. and amazing where the super pit was then as to where it is now in Kalgoorlie

[@MFXdump]

12:43 Marty Feldman from the Movie Young Frankenstein!

[@philatelynatashka8653]

The golden times

[@michaelhunt4445]

The Tea and Sugar was an interesting train, but not as interesting as the Ghan, whose late running was often measured in days rather than hours, what fun for a conductor to be told by a lady that her baby was due any minute, he was berating her for travelling while pregnant, but said the lady, I wasn't pregnany when we left Port Augusta.

[@user-bd7yy3vg9r]

Michael Hunt มั่วแล้วมึงอ่ะ55

[@jessesands4099]

Silly question on What On Earth You Do In Watson All Day! I would have said "ENJOY THE PEACE AND THE SOLITUDE"!🤨🏚️🏜️🛤️🚆🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🇦🇺🐂🐪🐰🐇🦅

[@robertchinnock8017]

wow i used to live in kalgoorlie and the old loop line isnt like it is now.. but the local government is trying to bring the line back to life due to the super pit getting longer

[@aebaumgartner1524]

Robert Chinnock l

[@haroldreardon8070]

Half size ties, no wonder they wear out so fast. Ones going in are already split out.

[@kentrobison588]

Hoover was a mining engineer. How could he be there at aged 18?.

[@thejunedempseyshow660]

tastey tastey desert train

[@pakistanrelwayssiddqui7737]

Wow

[@connectorxp]

Renault 12s were imported in Australia?

[@russrh]

yep!

[@rail_jesse]

30:00 can anyone give me any info for this song?

[@timb393]

like it reason works @ the field and freedom.

[@saxongreen78]

David McGahan!

[@kentrobison588]

Harry does not know how to use a detector. Swinging too fast and lifting the coil too high.

[@jp-um2fr]

Being a pom I was delighted to see so many disgusting Brit things going on. Was that bloke having a boiled egg on cheese on toast. Cheese looked a bit thin though. Wonderful country and wonderful people. I had enough 'points' once.

[@BushGold]

These blokes should be out gold detecting this country.

[@user-cw1md6no6d]

the line is poor, it is constructed on the ground, without embankment, without ballast, and the sleepers seem to be also not in order....no wonder a record was broken! A stupidity record!

[@russrh]

you should just duck out and fix it up, you'll be done in an afternoon

[@michelebeck4311]

Australians.....?

[@fredduncan2725]

scythe scottish railways