There’s even quite a few other things that don’t exist today such as the Port Melbourne road bridge which was replaced with a roundabout during the light rail conversion or in the early 2000s! :)
Just stumbled upon this video - brings back memories of crewing S, X, C, T & Y class locos out of Ararat in the 80s. Each class had its own distinctive note and this video highlights the S class “wail”. Train radios were not universally fitted early on and communication with “Control” on the Ararat-Geelong line was made with magneto phones located at the unmanned stations along the line. Thank you for posting, greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the footage of 23, now I've seen the whole class operate on the SMR. My brother and myself held the banner with the help of other SMR driver's.
Utterly fascinating John. I never knew how this process worked outside of seeing still photos of the trains. It's quite the process! Love that note on the rat fleeing. LOL! Cheers AC
Even as a child I was fascinated by Australia, the landscape, the trucks, the mentality of the people. For a long time I had nothing to do with railways, even though my father and brother are enthusiastic model railway enthusiasts. Last year, when I had to stay at home for a long time due to an accident, I happened to see the series "Railroad Australia". I have loved freight trains ever since and fell in love with the Pacific National No. Series locomotives. I'm saving up to be able to visit your beautiful continent. Thank you for these wonderful recordings greetings from Germany
Before its time: In the 60's amd maybe before it had multi-modal tickets, train+bus (Middle Brighton Buslines) e.g. city to Milton Street Elwood The old trains were the true dog-box type, with twist handles on the doors
Excellent coverage, John. That’s something I’ve always wanted to do myself one day. I wonder what happens during shutdowns? A boat replacement service for this station perhaps?? 😊
Just adding reading on another post, Sydney trains Charter a water Taxi from Hawkesbury River on shutdowns apparently. Press the button on the platform to speak to someone to organise it to come pick you up 😮
I've caught the train from Central to Gosford and return. That ride down the Cowan bank is amazing, escarpments, tunnels, forest and then the train cavorts out over the Hawkesbury river with islands and oyster farms when I went past. What a trip. I'll never forget the spectacle until the day I die. The sun was rising, there was fog in arms of the river - it was beautiful. For someone from Victoria it was very eye opening. I'm having a PTSD episode watching this though LOL. It was tarnished unfortunately by a nasty search by transit police on the way back from Gosford (not long after this station in the vid) then another attempt 15 mins later. Proper police were called - it all ended well for me but perhaps not so well for the transit police. That's one advantage of cameras in trains.
They were the original pantos , in later years they mostly ran with the newer type , but for historical reasons the original ones were raised for the run into Traralgon
Gosford Quarries had a dead end rail siding off the Down Main not far from the station platform, it ran along in front of the house, closed in the early 1970's I think. Fancy living in that house with all the clatter from the crossing bells. You can get a good feed of oysters and other shellfish off those rocks at low tide too. Very enjoyable video, thank you John, well done.
Great show there John. Can't get over the traffic volume in that period of time! Also, the Drone really adds to the overall experience, thanks. Cheers AC
Last Saturday AD60 6029 ran shurtle services between Gosford and Hawkewbury River, and Wondabyne would be a fabulous location to video it. As we passed Wondabyne there were a fair few people on the platform.
Thanks for sharing this one John,I had forgotten the name of the station,but sure remember the scenery along that section of line,and always thought it to be beautiful.Didn’t know any of the other facts about the area either,so I’ve learned something new today 🙂
@@johnphillips592 OK, sir, if I may ask, is this mini locomotive made by yourself or is it available somewhere to buy it? I also want to have one like that, because I also work on the Indonesian railways
@@Fadly1277 All our locomotives were hand built by the owner , we build all the rolling stock as well , mostly during the winter time as we can do it indoors .
@@johnphillips592 Does that mean all the locomotives are assembled from their respective owners, sir? I intend to assemble a mini locomotive with an engine from grass tripe. If the boggies or locomotive wheels were obtained from where, sir, please explain, thank you in advance
@@Fadly1277 All parts are constructed on site , using a lath and milling machine , the only thing made of site was the boiler , had to be made by a qualified boiler maker
An excellent video indeed. There's something that's hard to describe, maybe a kind of realisation really, that comes over a person as they see these things in action for real. I worked in the Pilbara for a few weeks in an elevated area, next to the open valley of Karijini National Park, where I seen the constant stream of autonomous trains arrive off the main north/south line and take the large circular loop below the loading stations where they fill the trucks one by one and gradually loop around to take their place alongside the main line back north once again, moving Australia to China, one truckload at a time. They take around 3hrs to complete a loading phase before setting off north to port once again. On cool still mornings, once the final trucks had been loaded and despite being a few km/miles from the train, we could clearly hear the engines pick up from 3hrs or so idle and load up followed by the clinking of every truck's connection to the next as they took up the slack. Most interesting and impressive. Automation and AI will no doubt continue continue to hone this process and remove more humans from the entire process, including the mining. I hope China will continue to remain a willing customer...
Good to see the fruits of ones labour return to the rails (G42, beach Forrest line loco). If not only a small part I helped along with other tradies machine up the 4 engine plates at Amecon ship yard 1990's. Got me interested in the steam side of the hobby, Im now in the process of building 2 womat loco's. 5" and 7 1/4" gage.
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Excellent Tour! Glad to see you running on the bottom loop again... What is the stiffest grade coming up out of the bottom loop? Probably around 8:02 to 8:45 in the video? Now if you could just build a balloon turning loop between Wombat Jct and the engine facilities on the downhill side using embankments and trestlework to keep the grade manageable, you could have constant running on both loops. You'd just have to go into the engine terminal to get water...
I live in Croydon, and you should see it now... There is no sign of the old railway... And so seeing the vision of how the old railway operated, is remarkable. The new station is going to be absolutely amazing, and for the first time ever croydon will not be divided by the railway line. I am certain that's gonna make a tremendous change to croydon.
Hi John, Awesome video, well done. It is utterly fantastic what they have done there by incorporating all the original works into the modern facilities. This is a model of what should/could be done in many other places. I think of the Roundhouse/Machine Shop I used to work at here in Vancouver BC that is now fortunately saved, but not with the machinery, which is quite similar in many respects to what is in your video. Thanks for a great showing. Cheers AC.
