On Time

[@simonf8902]

NFSA does a great job posting these great movies.

[@NFSAFilms]

Thanks for the support Simon.

[@neilfromdownunder9204]

Great video, but I can't believe the signalmen were pulling the levers with their bare hands as from my experience in the SAR touching the levers without using a cloth was a big no no!!

[@CalebsRailFilms]

I absolutely love this video! Been watching it since it was released on KZbin and that was before I a account on here as well. Especially like the goods trains scene with a mixture of spark and steam goods movements. NFSA Films is a great resource for railway modelling by far.

[@Steamtostay]

There are still a few mechanical signalboxes around Melbourne, if anybody wants to observe them (although access is not allowed). Frankston is the largest, with more than half of the original 81 levers in use and much of the infrastructure still mechanically interlocked. Others include Greensborough and Eltham (also using Miniature Electric Staff), Riversdale, Kooyong, Gardiner, Sandringham, St Albans, possibly West Footscray, and remnants of many more.

[@jamesroberts3033]

That was a wonderful time to live trains run by Victorian Railways, no private companies that deem a train arriving up to 5 minutes late, is said to be on time

[@beagle7622]

About 3 pm they would add 3 carriages to both the Harris & red rattlers. I loved watching this guy he was so good at his job. That was platform 6 & 7.

[@themidlandconnection]

hwoah, footage of the O gauge NSWGRexhibition layouts....golden :D

[@traralgontowing7030]

A time when everyone was well dressed and well mannered.

[@maxischew514]

Wait. So there was a time when the trains ran on time?

[@NFSAFilms]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@johnd8892]

The rot set in later in the 1970s. Much better on time running in the 1950s and earlier by a much more professional crew of career railway workers. and not political appointments. The slogan my dear departed Aunt quoted was "On time all the time" for the 30s VR. Recent comparisons are only made to recent years on very elastic definitions of what on time is (eg less than 5 mins late is on time lately). Back then the railways revenue exceeded the operating costs. Now revenue only covers 25% of operating costs. Since covid lockdowns it may be as low as 2%.

[@michaeldevereaux1623]

@@johnd8892 what a clever comment...

[@conmane3341]

We'll get another track work anyway, and late again, and you're fired

[@MarkWhich]

You could smoke on those trains too, with signs encouraging it.

[@internezzo]

Magic. Australians everywhere, Australian accents, jobs, proper people - all GONE FOREVER. if you weren't around at the time, you've got no idea and never will have.

[@MrKyleDD]

I won't say where I work because I still work there, but.... There are Asians everywhere, and whenever I get the opportunity to work with an Australian I'm so happy. I support Australian jobs and believe that even though places these days do need to fill quotas of, say, international people, etc etc, we being Australians should keep on MOSTLY Australian workers. We just need to look past these 'Australians who don't want to work' and keep hiring those Australians who actually do.

[@johnboy557]

Yes different times,sometimes i wonder what country I'm in.

[@michaelcarter7387]

Pity no mention of Flinders Street Booking Clerks

[@johnd8892]

At bit more staff focus in this seldom seen Victorian Railways recruiting film from 1967 has just been released by the ACMI : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2rMgXijr7Cejtk So far it seems only a few hundred have seen this in the past fifty years or so.

[@modernistdream]

I hope the CEO of metro trains and the Vic Govt are watching this.

[@conmane3341]

Sydney train is even worse

[@dannyhowell2027]

Hi what year was this done

[@johnd8892]

Description says released in 1953 so likely filmed in 1952 and or 1953.

[@johnd8892]

Another seldom seen Victorian Railways recruiting film from 1967 has just been released by the ACMI : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2rMgXijr7Cejtk So far it seems only a few hundred have seen this in the past fifty years or so.

[@stevenchen5460]

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