Railways - Now & Then.

[@hoover517]

Loved riding on the Red Hens. Doors wide open in Summer to get the breeze. And no one managed to fall out.

[@graphuntilithurts]

Dead men tell no tales ...

[@heatherhall3452]

I’m sure they did, I’m sure they jumped, that’s why the doors and windows all because shut

[@ThePerson1959]

This brings back heaps for memories for me. I used to work at the railcar depot. I'll always remember the fun I had working there and all the fantastic people I used to work with. They were such good days. I loved hearing the Reds rev up at the beginning of the video and seeing the old Grange station again. Yes a lot of wonderful memories of those days.

[@s.davidanantharaj5310]

Had the privilege of traveling by train from Wood Vile to Adelaide station in December 2018. We were on our way to see the India-Australia cricket match. Thanks for showing the old and new journey.

[@GM645E]

Who could forget the sound of the GMs and Twindisc converter... it almost brings a tear to the eye..

[@MartintheTinman]

Ten years later and there's been big changes again

[@harryharris4057]

I'm not a train buff but somewhere along the way Adelaide train network has lost its mystic. A favourite of mine was catching a country train into town, walking over a platform and catching something metro. I grew up on the Grange line. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[@richardmadden9639]

You have done a great job capturing this footage.I just am amazed at the memories it brings back.

[@alco961]

Yep, sitting back with the doors open, ah, they were the good days of rail travel

[@Rx224]

@alco961 I used to live at Exeter and loved the Semaphore train Rode it on the last day. That was sad. I wish I'd had a video camera back in 1978.

[@ThePerson1959]

I really enjoyed these clips. I lived in the western suburbs and used to take my dogs on the train until they too were banned. You could get a special ticket for dogs, prams and bikes way back then. We got on at Woodville and went to either the city, Grange, Semaphore or even Outer Harbour. I don't suppose there is any film of the line to Finsbury Stores out there????

[@heatherhall3452]

In the good ol’days! I remember when people used to smoke on the buses and trains... gone are the days ☹️

[@whorayful]

It certainly does, the sound of a pair of happy 6-71's revving their hearts out. You can almost smell the hydraulic oil.

[@Rx224]

I can remember riding all the way to Henley Beach on a Redhen. The line crossed Military Road several times. Imagine how chaotic that would be today ? I wish I'd taken more footage of the Station when I had the chance.

[@BaileyChap]

11:27 Interesting tidbit, however, there ARE still guards, albeit EXTREMELY rare, I've been on a 3000 class (about 2 weeks ago now) where there was a guard using a buzzer to communicate with the driver to tell them to close the doors and depart. I think the side camera was broken or something because the guard was only for one of the two directions.

[@MyUrbanExplorationOnline]

Thank you for uploading this video. I been meaning to go back and start to do more videos on the Adelaide urban lines. I did a bunch of videos a good while back in where I covered each stations on every line. I for one cant wait till the Flindies extension from Tonsley long with Hove and Ovingam underpass are done. That way it would give me a good reason to do an updated version of the videos.

[@MartintheTinman]

I worked at Glengowrie for the STA from '88 to '93. I lived in Pitman Avenue Woodville West and caught the Red Hens from Albert Park. I would stand in the open door, at that stage only uniformed staff could do that

[@pcorf]

3:45, sounds like a 3000 class to me. But at 5:35 we are in the cab of a 2000 class.

[@Gavsta40]

You can tell things have changed!

[@MOS-MHz]

I used to catch the 2000 Jumbo's from grange back in 98-99 hard to see with the footage as it arrives but im fairly sure the commuters are wearing the school uniforms we wore. By some odd chance it could even be myself that popped out the waiting station lol Actually having another look the clip is from 93

[@whorayful]

Well done great video, also highlights how passenger numbers have fallen as well.

[@alco961]

Thanks for viewing, & it was to show how railways here have changed. The Belair line not starting to good this week after it's shut down!!

[@johnhauser4589]

No graffiti. No covid. Orderly passengers. Very nice.

[@alco961]

@Rx224 I don't remember it going to Henley Beach worse luck. I use to like the trip to Grange tho & the old Semaphore Yoyo

[@neilforbes416]

Hello @alco961! Just out of interest, what software did you use to convert 4:3 aspect ratio 1993-vintage content to 16:9? Was it, by chance, one of the Power Director versions? I found PD8 does the better job of aspect ratio conversion(through CLPV system) where the image goes completely to the edges of the screen. I also have PD14, both "Ultra" builds, by the way, and found that PD14's CLPV system leaves thin black vertical lines left and right of image.

[@RefreshP747]

It was just more interesting back then.

[@alco961]

These days the train are not as busy as they once was. Most trains only run with two cars. There are a few that may have with 3 cars in peak. It is about 80 years since they first talked of Electric trains in Adelaide. in about 62 or 63 they showed a cut away model of their planned underground trains beneath King William Street. Better late than never I guess.

[@alco961]

Yep, once they run up to 7 cars in peak hour & 6 with "Jumbos"

[@pcorf]

7 car redhens would be the same length as a 6 car 2000 or 3000 class because the redhen railcars were 5m shorter than the 2000 and 3000.

[@whorayful]

They picked the same week as they opened the new Goodwood underpass for the Noarlunga line to change over a main part of the signalling system at C.T.C. The Belair trains now use what used to be the South Suburban from Goodwood to Adelaide. The Noarlunga trains will dip under the freight and South Main then come up and join up with the South Main (old Belair) line. Plus it seems they don't fill sand boxes anymore if the minister is to be believed. Wheel slip indeed.

[@whorayful]

Don't hold your breathe on electrification, it's now mid 2013, the cost of rebuilding every station to cope with 25kV electrics will kill the state. They're struggling with the Noarlunga to Seaford the new line, hate to see what happens when the get to Woodville or Alberton.

[@alco961]

Yes, remember those tickets. As for the Finsbury Store, No I don't, hopefully someone mind & post it.

[@heatherhall3452]

Hahaha to think that old orange thing was called the Super Train 😆 My son worked on the RAH he said it was the most unsafe work site he’s ever worked on - full of guys on ICE and unsafe work environment, the bosses knew they were on ICE they didn’t care because they got the work done faster - how disgusting! My son saw an ICE pipe lying on the ground it was that bad, someone got killed on a scissor lift been driven by someone else through a doorway too high, took his head off, shut the whole site down for the day, on to the next death

[@zonic26]

So what year was the original Grange station closed?

[@MartintheTinman]

The old Grange Station, the crossing and signal gongs were all decommissioned on Sunday 9 March 1986, the same day the new station was commissioned

[@darcro6629]

11:34 that ladies hair looks like Elaine Benes' hair :')

[@avgfree21]

So how busy do the trains get? Also Your finally getting electrification! it took you 60 years ;)

[@MyUrbanExplorationOnline]

and 6 years later. The, now Seaford, line is still the only electric line in all of South Australia.

[@Adelaide_Transit]

Most the smaller lines can regularly run with 2 cars, but the two largest lines Seaford and Gawler will run anywhere from 3 to 6 cars due to how busy they get

[@kaseyfriedel6871]

What about security guards

[@reecewang5601]

2011 got an toilet on it

[@whorayful]

Sorry, how busy? They run three or four car sets at peak hour on the North Main and South Suburban line packed to overflow, between peak they run double or single cars, usually near empty. Pity the new 4000 class electrics are fixed three car sets. Efficiency? Nope.

[@bobmarshall3700]

TERRIBLE film quality....