Shunting Clyde in the 90s - Along The Lines

[@goarmysleepinthemud.]

Great video. Back in the times when safety was good commonsense.

[@brentmcc6048]

Awesome, I only spent 3 weeks at Clyde.... Holiday relief spent time at Sydney Yard, Darling Harbour, Darling Island, Botany, Meeks Road, Homeshush Saleyard, Mortdale CS and Trackfast, Car and Wagon grades.

[@auslander1270]

WOW.. Thanks for this footage. Brings back many memories, I spent many MANY hours in this yard shunting and sleeping on 48's and 49's at this period and later on in the 90's. Wasn't all that fond of doing it at the time, but I sure do miss it now.

[@stephenwilliamson4556]

Thank you for sharing. Milk tankers, fly shunting, 49’s, and that crossing protected by flag men with a train coming at full tilt definitely made for an entertaining watch.

[@harryibrahim7936]

it was 48 class we only used 49 class the time the loco went to SANDOWN

[@harryibrahim7936]

it was 48 class we only used 49 class the time the loco went to SANDOWN

[@rossmcconchie1316]

Beautiful, just beautiful! So many memories.

[@gtrain7951]

Excellent video Alan. Thanks for sharing. So much there for the historian or modeller with such a variety of locomotives, rollingstock & yard scenes. Some of the characters and shunting techniques reminded me of the film footage of the Darling Island shunters in the 70's.

[@larsjuhlin6907]

Great vid Allan, first time I've seen footage of a train on duck creek branch, It would've taken nerves of steel to stop traffic on Parramatta road, scary to see the speed 4917 was carrying for the climb up to Clyde yard, suggests full tankers.

[@james.black981]

Fantastic video. I love just the OHS differences between then and today. The shunting and driving operations themselves are great, but 29:43 flying across Paramatta rd like that is just mind blowing.

[@superwombat]

haha yeah that is impressive speed for such a short spur, good thing those guys were on the ball with their orange flags!

[@doctorbohr1585]

​@@superwombatis it really Parramatta road?? 😱. Good thing the motorists were on the ball too! It wouldn't be easy to walk out into four lanes with only a flag. Amazing footage these days.

[@superwombat]

@@doctorbohr1585 yep, Parramatta Road. Not to forget the hazchem considerations! Ah, wild times back then.

[@doctorbohr1585]

@@superwombat for real! Lol. i remember the Carlingford line level crossing in those days, but not this one here.

[@stevieb931]

Unreal stuff. Not a chance in hell would you see something like that these days. Guys with the flags arrived a bit late lol

[@waynenewton8554]

Seeing the Clyburn Station platform brings back memories...as an apprentice fitter I did 6 months at Clyde using that platform every day....out of normal hours we had to let the guard know to signal the driver to let us off on the way to work and had to flag down suburbans on the way home.....all now long gone and no sign of where it used to be....thanks.

[@doctorbohr1585]

I recall it being there and covered in weeds in the 2000s, when it brought back childhood memories. They must have ripped her up fairly "recently" (2010 is still recent to me 😔).

[@Aaron-uf3sl]

Still some remains of it in situ, largely demolished but if you know what to look for it’s easily spotted

[@MullyDiesel]

Thank you so much Allan, this is invaluable to me as I’m modelling Clyde yard.

[@NSWGR_3203]

I know this is three years late but hows the layout going for you?

[@6560boudie]

Awesome video, I'd like to see more footage on the Parramatta road crossings

[@allan.armstrong]

I'll see what's in the archives. You never know!

[@robertcameron2808]

Thanks for the memories of Enfield yard I was there for years you can throw in Clyde the harbour Alex cooks botany and plenty more

[@thomasarmstrong3804]

Great bit of History, no High-Vis or Safety Boots. 86 class Electric Locos bringing coal from Lithgow. Early Tangara set . Completely mind blowing !

[@dapto234]

Plus an Indian Pacific under electric loco power and a few red rattlers thrown in as well.☺☺

[@peacemeal3196]

Amazing footage- thanks for posting- I never got to see any of this as a kid growing up in Adelaide…thank you for sharing

[@G516R700]

Excellent video mate

[@jimmyjames7529]

Great video, well done

[@number2664]

That set of points by the platform at 15:50, rough as guts

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

Looks so similar to Tottenham yard in Melbourne where I worked in the late 80s

[@doctorbohr1585]

This is good quality footage of the last years of Sydney as a working industrial city. Nice memories. BTW, 29:48 is an extraordinary level crossing by todays standards. What road is that?

[@livinlifetothefullest2750]

16:00 my goodness a pristine candy 46 on video now that's gotta be a rarity!

[@Richy.Boi.]

I love the Tangara on the main line

[@RailfanDownunder]

Superb

[@peejay1981]

This would have been 1991 at the latest, as that is when the single deck red rattlers were withdrawn, and same for the railcars to Richmond.

[@allan.armstrong]

You're very right. But it's still the 90s :P

[@nathanjsimpson]

Does anyone know a Chris Brown who used to work as a shunter at Clyde in the late 80's and early 90's? He drove a maroon Gemini, if that helps jog anyone's memory. Just an old acquaintance I'd like to get in touch with again. Thanks

[@user-tm4bi1nl4q]

Western Australia & Victoria lourve vans, AN open bogies.. it was a true Australian railway...