Vintage Steam Train to Queenscliff 1967

[@TheOzbob]

Thanks. Great film.

[@georgejetson7201]

Graeme, thanks for posting and more importantly thanks for taking the original film. Slight correction, K 187 ran it from Sth Geelong to Queenscliff and back, K 176 only banked it through the tunnel. I also believe it was Sunday 3rd December. Cheers

[@reidgck]

Thanks for that. It was good to have a few Ks available those days

[@billrichardson6389]

Great footage Graham, such good quality for 1967 film, thanks for sharing.

[@reidgck]

The film lost a lot of ts original quality with time but digital conversion will stop further deterioration. When these films were taken the internet was not heard of and wouldn't have been believed as being a development of the future, so the films could only be stored away to be likely never seen again. Great to be able to revive them and post them in memory of great times back then.

[@waynewhite2323]

Classic stuff mate, can still remember that summer when Harold Holt disappeared.

[@reidgck]

Yes lots of memories like that and far better ones too. Times are not so good now.

[@waynewhite2323]

@@reidgck Melbourne was a great city too grow up in, great public transport beautiful parks and picture theatres, going places with the family was a real treat, live in Perth now but I really miss old Melbourne of the 1960s./70s

[@reidgck]

@@waynewhite2323 Perth was great in the late 1960s too. Too many motor cars everywhere now. Every town that was decent is now a sea of motor cars. Mainly one person per car too which doesn't make sense. The decline in general physique of the average person is very noticeable also. probably the abundance of junk food and the time wasting electronic device addictions and associated lack of exercise..

[@Dalts1985]

reidgck - Not just that, but ppl are busier these days & working longer hours, with minimal turn around times betwn shifts ect. - Australian’s work some of the longest hours in the civilised western world, just becuz one has left the office, with iPhones / iPads & laptops these days & remote accessibility arrangements in workplaces, there is no boundary betwn the office & home anymore, hence depression is at record highs...

[@trainman9024]

Queenscliff is so much diffrent now but it still has a lot of the old buildings and history it did back then and part of the station in og I think not really shore but drysdale has changed alot

[@ChristosGreek]

Was this a special occasion because the train looks crowded?

[@vsvnrg3263]

for a while i thought you might have run out of wonderful film. not so.

[@reidgck]

Still plenty left.

[@edmundcarew7235]

@@reidgck Great quality! I enjoyed going as a family on the Queenscliff Sunday Excursion trains that ran from Flinders St in the 1970s. There was also a connecting loco hauled train from Ballarat! It was a great way to spend a summer Sunday.

[@garynewton1263]

I still don't understand why the hell don't the govt re-open the line from Geelong to Drysdale? This Queenscliff train would be a roaring success most of the year. They could run a passenger tourist train from Geelong to Ballarat also as all the infrastrucure is still there.

[@kennethjones6650]

It’s now a narrow gauge railway and I don’t think a lot of the newish home owners would enjoy the sound of a train rumbling past 5 metres away from there fence yes the track in bed is still there but most of the signal crossing have been turned into roads / side walks it’s the one line that won’t return to service and the narrow gauge railway has been there since the 1969 and they own the land or the track it’s just not viable if trains returned to queenscliff it’d have to be sprinters not velocity’s I’d reckon it’s on the bottom of the list when it comes to returning trains to towns