Victoria's Forgotten Railways EP14 Mansfield Line

[@VictorianTransportHistory]

Sorry for everyone who had to suffer through my pronunciation of Yea (it's pronunced "Yay")

[@keithpadbury9818]

See how you go with Waaia or Wunghnu on the Goulburn Valley line

[@spencerstransportchannel]

Hey, awesome video! I noticed the pronunciation of the town name Yea might be a bit different. Typically, it's pronounced as Yay. Thanks for sharing, and keep up the great work!

[@VictorianTransportHistory]

AGAIN WITH THE PRONUNCIATIONS, Thanks for telling me, I'll fix it in future Videos

[@jacintaedwards1123]

@VictorianTransport History Hello, Just wanted to add something. I attended a school camp at Bonnie Doon in 1982 and can 100% gaurantee that all of the rail line from Yea to Mansfield was still intact. Our mini bus stopped at Yea and we definitely saw the rail line still intact to Bonnie Doon. Then a few days later we travelled to Mansfield and Merrijig and that section of line all the way to Mansfield was still there. If the govt removed any tracks in 1978 it must have been between Tallarook and Yea.

[@sutherlandA1]

Another movie well done, i used to travel the roads that travelled alongside the Mansfield/Alexandra line most days for many years due to work and have picked up a few facts snd stories too. The Bright/Beechworth line is also worthy of its own video i think

[@VictorianTransportHistory]

Conviniently I have made a video in the Bright (Not the Beechworth line sadly), it's also really nice that you worked along side the line. Video link kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYjaaIuQhdilaacsi=l9bVdK_JS1esku38

[@smitajky]

At 5:59 there was an interesting photo. The D class engine had TWO single stage air compressors. I have never seen that on ANY other engine. Passenger engines like the R class used one single stage air compressor and goods engines used a cross compound 2 stage air compressor. I wonder what was happening with this one.

[@PaulinesPastimes]

You nearly lost me at "Yee" 😄

[@lynwill65]

The sleepers were removed around 1987/88 as we would see them stacked up and eventually burned, when driving to Mansfield. I wold so love to travel on a train on that route!!

[@jacintaedwards1123]

Sounds right because we went on school camp at Star Glen Ranch at Bonnie Doon in 1982 and all of the line between Yea to Mansfield was still intact along with most stations. There was still some rolling stock at Molesworth and Merton from memory.

[@Victorian_steam]

Aweosme stuff! I’m keen to get out there and explore the remnants remaining!

[@kellyswoodyard]

They ripped out the line to Cudgewa, from Wodonga as well, really fast after services finished. It would have been a sensational tourist line. Along the side of the Hume weir, across that big bridge, as the eastern end of the weir, then up into some magnificent bush. I worked on trains up to there, and back, in the early '70's. I don't know when it was closed.

[@greghayes9118]

There was a line that ran from Alberton to Port Albert, and then from Port Albert to Tarraville. I don’t know much about it except that I used to live there and followed the line as far as possible. It must have be around 1890…

[@johnmorgan4313]

Music is too loud

[@robertaquilina3848]

My great mate john aquilina railmotot driver spencer street drove the last passenger service to Mansfield in 1977 after that rail only to yea then a bus to mansfield then bus only

[@darylcheshire1618]

A few years ago I stayed in a motel in “Yee” and rode the bike to Alexandra where I had a counter meal in a pub. I ocasionally encountered clouds of gnats. Otherwise ok.

[@PiersDJackson]

The Alexandra Timber Tramway at various times were interested in extending beyond what amounts to a circular loop around the station and back with a few works sidings... one option was to extend back to Koriella (originally Alexandra Siding), with the possibility of Yea or Bonnie Doon eventually - this was before Rail Trails were even considered... the more promising option was to reconstruct the original Tramway to the Rubicon Forest, initially to the timber mill 500m away.

[@georgetb9083]

Could you do the Hopetoun line?

[@volgrencr221]

cheviot tunnel one of the most light restricted tunnels in the state very dark and in the words of a teacher on my primary school bike camp if you ride in at 170km/h you will go blind

[@ianmynard431]

Yea is niot Yee,, it is Yay!

[@glennsmith9676]

Tatong line would be interesting

[@mort8143]

Yep. Lived at Tatong in my youth. Still pretty visible. Worked at a farm off Castle Hill Rd which had the roadbed through it, adjacent to Mallum Creek. The wooden railway bed up into the Toombullup ranges from Tatong is still visible 👍🚂🇦🇺

[@mort8143]

Love it. Thanks. 👍👍👍🇦🇺

[@richardlilley2158]

I hate to point this out, but Yea isn't pronounced YEE, it's YAY. Hope that helps.

[@ozzypaul1564]

Very informative. Can't wait for you to do the Bolangum line to see how you pronounce that one, and also Rupanyup.

[@darylcheshire1618]

I travelled that line around 1979 on a special, the line speed was 10kph. 30 km line took 3 hr in each direction.

[@simonf8902]

Yay !! 😂

[@markspin4596]

Another stupid closure just like the Warburton line...

[@jacintaedwards1123]

Yes agreed. I explored the Warburton line in 2014 and so sad that they did that. That lovely old bridge over Maroondah hwy Lilydale is all thats left.

[@greghayes9118]

Such a waste…. All those man hours - gone.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

And now they want to get us out of cars!

[@Melbournelost66]

Pronounced 'Yay' not 'Yee'.

[@lewis72]

Was this recorded via an old telephone line ?

[@VictorianTransportHistory]

Lol, it was using an old head set. Thankfully my last 15 uploads have been using a proper microphone which has been serving me well.

[@michaelnaisbitt7926]

Within 50 years the only services will be Melbourne to Syndey and Melbourne ro Adelaide

[@darylcheshire1618]

The Adelaide services will probably go when the Victorian government subsidy ends. The Libs in Adelaide who didn’t want to pay for it were replaced by Labor in the last election, I haven’t heard what they intend to do. The privatized operators have their hand out.

[@BillSaltbush]

If you are going to have relevance, you need to learn the correct pronunciation of the various towns/stations. You lost it with me and I tuned out (moved on) after writing this.

[@brackenboy6321]

The first one was Tallarook which is pronounced TallaROOK. After the Yee I stayed with it anyway as it was a very interesting video for me.