Vintage Australian railway film - The rail way - 1979

This vintage aussie railway film, produced by Film Australia in 1979, details the history, innovation in, and the future of the the Australian rail industry. Narrated by Patsy Adam-Smith.

[@spartan117zm]

I’m only 22. The nostalgia I feel while watching these films is incredible, for a time I never witnessed, yet wouldn’t be here without. The feelings present in the speaker’s recount of her past gives me those same feelings for when I was little and my dad used to take me to the tracks near our house to watch the trains pass.

[@MASSspec1990]

Back in the early 90’s, when I was a child, my parents would ask what I wanted to do after I finished my school work, or on a rainy afternoon. I’d always ask to watch this video. Mum and dad would tell me stories of life in their youth, and of life before modern technology. It made me wish that I could travel back it experience those times told to me by my parents. Now they tell their grand children those stories, and I sit watching this video remembering my own childhood. I am glad that you are also able to feel the nostalgia and emotions for history just as I did, and still do when I watch this. The Green and Gold of the Australian National Railways is a thing of the past, as is the green and gold trams in Melbourne, but I miss those and wish to see them back.

[@EAFSQ9]

same mate. It harkens back to a time where diesels still powered wooden maroon suburban services & steel passenger cars up here in SEQ. I remember when I first saw the railway up here in Brissie, that, those days had just ended. So much has changed since then. Yet more to come.

[@martinbitter4162]

Little is known in Europe on the history of Australia's railway. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamesgovett2501]

Loco GM33 is now long gone, in service 1965 withdrawn in 1994 and scrapped in 1999, steam loco K153 entered service with the Victorian Railways in 1940 and is preserved and still operational in 2021 with Steamrail in Melbourne on heritage trains.

[@darylcheshire1618]

Vintage railway film, I must getting old, I saw this movie when it was new and current. I still have the VHS tape but I don't have the player any more.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Those QR coal wagons (17.00) looked dangerously overloaded, accident waiting to happen. Great video, most enjoyable, thank you.

[@darylcheshire1618]

That Normanton to Croydon service still runs every Wednesday, but a different rail motor.

[@mce_AU]

Brilliant. I've seen that one before, but it is always good to see these old programs again. Cheers.

[@formerparatrooper]

I remember fondly my railway trip from Melbourne to Canberra in early 1970, part of the journey was behind steam. The rest of my time in OZ was in Gove of the NT and partly in Mt. Gravatt Queensland. We left Australia in 1973 but never forgot.

[@Sam_Green____4114]

The madness of having different gauges !! Total madness!! All those goods which had to be switched from one train to another !! Madness !!

[@pharmajoe990]

It’s totally ridiculous

[@MarkHenstridge]

Oh how I miss the good old days of railways.

[@tobiusgregory2805]

I have this taped on a VHS somewhere. Thank you so very much for uploading it! This video has so much optimism, so much excitement for innovation and drive to achieve...when did we lose that in Australia?

[@Sam_Green____4114]

They used to do that piggy backing in the former East Germany on the narrow gauge lines of the former GDR !! The standard gauge wagons used to go on the back of flat narrow gauge wagons .Stopped now !! Only place l think they still do it is Austria on logging wagons !! When l was in Germany in 2008 approx they did a demonstration of unloading / off loading of a standard gauge wagon on the Brocken Bahn!

[@darylcheshire1618]

The 1980s and 1990s saw a lot of rail closures, privatization and support of road industry but now in 2020 are going through a rail renaissance (with a few exceptions)

[@christianluts810]

Outstanding!

[@DKS225]

This also features another line that was nearing completion. The Eastern Suburbs Line to Bondi Junction @11.30

[@Shitphototaker69]

What could be the only sound recording of the MK1 DDIU V sets

[@csm101000]

Incredible they don't make videos like they used to do they

[@thatclyderedrattler3146]

i have the DVD for this

[@darylatkinson8802]

Now most of the railways in Australia have been replaced by bus/coach, trucks and planes.

[@ThePaulv12]

Yeah if they just made the whole country broad gauge well there wouldn't've been any bloody problem would there?

[@specialk5070]

1982 we were out on vintage train really old school red stain wood carriages of course toilet opened to tracks below with sign saying don’t take a dump at the station. Traveled day and a half into the outback from Brisbane. Was able to go on top of carriage at night smoke a big doobie and look at the stars which were right in your face. Australia back then was awesome 👍 no these are not tails from beyond the black stump mate’s fair dinkum

[@bigolmemoryhole6944]

Knocking dogs at 30 seconds, the worst job on the rail is knocking them into position. It's still done it in the 21 century into wood sleepers, doing it in the Nullarbor would have been Hell. Hilarious seeing the new concrete sleepers laid on Nullarbor on shallow ballast rock on unprepared base, a few good rains that even the Nullarbor gets them & the ballast will get mud lubricated & start to sink, move & kink the rail.

[@percyengineproductions061]

7:27 gee he's annoying