Train To Belgrave 18 Sep 1994

Melbourne to Belgrave in the front cab of the train. 18 Sept 1994. To Camberwell Station. .
From Camberwell Station to Belgrave. The last few miles had a lot of rain on the cab windscreen.

[@sophiehatcher2858]

How cool it is to see the old stations before their level crossing removals- so much has changed! Great vid :)

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Hii Sophie, Yes I was very pleased to find these videos before the crossing removals. If you look at the Train to Sandringham video, which seems to me have been made on a Saturday, you will be surprised at how empty the carriages seem. Now, if you take any suburban train it has lots more people on it.

[@sophiehatcher2858]

Anthony Clarke I’m not surprised :) Yes, how Melbourne’s population has grown so much. Let’s hope Metro is ready to adapt to these changes.

[@gail2500]

I worked in the city for a year in 1971 as a young girl and would get off at Ringwood. I barely remember it, but I do remember my pay, working in an office for $30 a week. $4 board, $8 for weekly train ticket, $10 in the bank and the remaining $8 for clothing and lunches.😃

[@myplace848]

You made my day Anthony. As someone who grew up in Boronia and still reside in the area this brings back so many fond memories. Thanks.

[@G516R700]

Fantastic video, would love to see a Comeng out that side of town again these days. Also great to see the old style stations before all the upgrades and level crossing removals of the recent years.

[@sandrafowler6717]

It's amazing to see what the Belgrave/Lilydale line looked like before all the level crossing removals and before the construction of Eastlink. I do wonder if any stations were removed because of Eastlink.

[@Jack-ub8kc]

None removed due to EastLink, but definitely a lot of changes due to the crossings and rebuilt stations. Weird to see old Boronia here, given it was put underground in 1998.

[@hooliganarfza15]

Great video 1994 Ringwood to Belgrave looked so peaceful back then, love how Bayswater and boronia looked before their huge transformations.

[@265hemi7]

Did that trip as a passenger many times ! I remember once seeing some childhood enemies of mine at Boronia station ! As the train pulled in I saw them before they saw me and I got off real quick ! 😭😀🇦🇺Four of them and only one of me ! . Great channel ! .

[@steamrailr761fan6]

Can’t believe that was 30 years back. Melbourne has definitely changed since then. 😊

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks Gary. Yes I grew up in Melbourne as well and love the train network. I was surprised to see an ad before the video. This is the first ad I have seen on any of my over 200 videos!

[@smitajky]

Even at the time this was done it was 36 years AFTER the closure of puffing billy. Yet I can recall the magic of that underpass and sloping ramp up to a completely different world. Hidden from view until this moment. Then the long slog out of the station, past the stabling yards and up above the gantry and the transfer shed. In my mind's eye I could see it all as the electric train sped through the same area. Perhaps the rain made it even more believable.

[@tresparivet6348]

Love the post!

[@meikahidenori]

A reminder of how much the stations were left to fall apart until recently. Lilydale was my main line, but we always travelled with my grandmother into the city via Boronia & Bayswater, then I did alot when I moved in with her during my later studies. I'm so glad they're getting fixed, saw way too many pedestrian & car accident on those two lines (I'm down Pakenham now and they're finally getting to the ones down here!)

[@TheComengNerd]

Love your stuff! The Belgrave line is a really good line. Especially on the outer section!

[@darrenmiles-morland8038]

So much memorabilia from the spot where the lines become double track just past Box Hill all the way to Ringwood. There is not a single level crossing in between those 2 stations any more, and this video allows us to re-live all of them as they were before even one sod of earth was dug up to remove them. The scenery itself looks far better than the ugly concrete cuttings which are there now. Great to see the old stations too, especially the curved Laburnum Station. And in between 35:30 and 35:35 the train passes through the spot where Eastlink got built years before it was there. But that's not all. We even get to see both Bayswater and Boronia before their old stations were bulldozed and when the level crossings there still existed., including no rail stabling area at Bayswater on the left side of the train next to the station, and no shopping complex between Boronia Station and the Boronia level crossing.

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks Darren for your great comments. I still have lots more train videos to go up. Gradually I will get to them. TONY CLARKE

[@thesneakysnake2071]

One big thing I noticed was the lack of a train yard and sheds at Bayswater.

[@garynewton1263]

I loved the train network in the 80s when it was called the Met. The TV ads were great.

[@a2.Milk85]

Thank you for this wonderful video. Some memories lives on!

[@garynewton1263]

This is my old hometown of Burnley. I'd give anything to be back living in Melbourne. The trains are awesome.

[@noelroberts8199]

No Federation Square, Princes Bridge is still there, The promenade bridge from Birrarung Marr to the M.C.G. is not there, Hitachi sets everywhere, the M.C.G. unfinished with the old stands surrounding the northern side of the ground, Wooden sleepers being replaced with concrete ones and continuous rails replacing short clickety clack ones. The infrastructure has definately improved over the last 30 years.....

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks for all your kind comments below. There are lots more train videos to come, in Australia, USA, UK, Europe and even one in India!

[@martinrumpf6662]

Love the video, thanks for sharing. Great history!

[@thesneakysnake2071]

Some of those silver railcars ran well into the late 00's, just with the green paint stripped. The doors were heavy and they made a lot of noise at the walkway between carriages, with those steel plates scraping each other that formed the bridge.

[@phoenixshell3772]

This is almost 1 month after I was born, wow amazing to see what the city looked like back then

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks Phoenix. I have been uploading 31 x 45 min videos from Dallas Texas to Los Angeles in April 2001. You can see them at this site for the Preview songs and at the BitChute site for the full videos. You will see links from each KZbin Preview to the full videos.

[@vlinenclasstrains]

Nice great video

[@Ash_18037]

Nice video, but at Box Hill station the only actual improvement is that the platform TV screens have been upgraded, in 30 YEARS! It even still has the completely empty/unused 4th platform! Such a disgrace of a station. It perfectly sums up the mismanagement and incompetence of Melbourne train system for at least 4 decades.

[@albert3801]

So much has changed! Mitcham station is unrecognisable from what it is today!

[@lauradegregorio5005]

Melbourne had class in 1994

[@aussietiger08]

thanks Good nostalgia video

[@Bobber256]

Really beautiful.

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks for the request on what time this video was done. I am not sure. It looks to me that it would have been around midday for the train to Belgrave, and about 2 pm or so for the train back, as it seems to have been afternoon when I returned.

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Hi Everyone. I have been uploading 31 x 45 min videos from Dallas Texas to Los Angeles in April 2001. You can see them at this site for the Preview songs and at the BitChute site for the full videos. You will see links from each KZbin Preview to the full videos

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks everyone for lots of good comments. I have recently completed uploading 51 x 45 min videos of a 1998 trip from Melbourne to Cairns. Intro videos are in this KZbin site, which direct you to the main videos at BitChute.

[@vlinenclasstrains]

The 1990s video of the Belgrave line

[@apxpandy4965]

Ohhh, such a pity about the rain - right in the bits I wanted to see! Sigh!

[@CycloneCordVHS]

what video camera did you use to tape this with? Great video, by the way!

[@HarishDharmapalan]

I came to Melbourne 1st back in 1999 and had trains such as the beautiful Comeng and Hitachi. Now it's full of X'Traps which is really boring.

[@midnightteapot5633]

18th September 1994 was a Sunday . I was a guard at this time . on this particular day I ran the 09.23 down and the 10.45 up Belgrave trains . any idea what was the time of your train here ?? pretty sure I am not on this train though , the bells are too fast @

[@TrickyMario7654]

Cool video! Loved hearing all the old style level crossing bells too! Sadly, all of it has been ruined in the name of "progress".

[@margaretcampbell2681]

All the old gantries

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks Margaret. I am still putting up new videos. So I hope you have subscribed to my site.

[@APH1991]

I didn't know Middleborough Rd was a levelled track.

[@vlinenclasstrains]

The Met Comeng to Belgrave

[@kirtichandrakomarraju5164]

This looks almost same as in the present day to me.

[@FeiBenZhu]

Talking to the driver he forgot to blow the horn for the pedestrian crossing coming out of Box Hill 😝

[@avgfree21]

I thought the jolimont yards were decommissioned in 1993?

[@anthonyclarke6583]

It looks like they were still active in 1994. I realise they must have been decommissioned soon after this video.

[@shannonconroy5021]

Wipers weren't working beyond Bayswater?

[@peterfraser8118]

Some comengs don't have wipers on right hand side.

[@planetX15]

@@peterfraser8118 This actually may have been a Hitachi train

[@planetX15]

No East Camberwell?

[@anthonyclarke6583]

I know I had to change video tapes in the camera at Camberwell. It may have taken longer than the space between Camberwell and East Camberwell. So East Camberwell may have been missed on the train to Belgrave. However, on the return trip Belgrave to Melbourne, I am sure it will be there.

[@planetX15]

I did see that video, both excellent uploads, it's just that my house is virtually minutes away from that station, so its good to see what EC Station was like in the 90's again. By the way, you weren't driving the train?

[@anthonyclarke6583]

No. I am not a train driver. I am not sure how I ended up being able to film from the cabin that day. So no matter what else I may have had planned for the day, I stayed in the front all the way to Belgrave and back. I still often take the train to Burwood station to see my homeopathic doctor, Anthony Von Moger, so of course I go through the East Camberwell bypass then. And I have relatives past Lilydale still take the main line up there as well.

[@planetX15]

Keep up the excellent work with your channel.

[@anthonyclarke6583]

Thanks for your encouragement. I have about another 1000 hours of video to wade through! Lots of trains. Trains in Australia, USA, Europe, UK, even one in India. Lots of bands. About 120 more than those I have already put up.

[@multiranger748]

45:50 the guy jumped over the gate to cross the line these days don’t think you could get away with that

[@paulhazlewood4009]

Grwat