Excellent wonderful video. My grandfather and grandmother moved from holland to Northam just after WWll, they lived in a rail camp while helping to build the Northam line. I now live in kojonup were i regularly walk my dogs along the disused 73 line. This video meant alot to me and my family's and friends because we all had a strong dependence on the the rail ove 3 generations. Thank you for posting this wonderful video it really does bring back so many memories.
It was definitely diesel-electric. As per the caption, it was the first diesel-electric rail vehicle in Australia. It had a traction motor hung from the underframe that drove the inner axle of the drive bogie via a cardan shaft.
Excellent coverage of WA's rail operations, passenger through to freight plus train control and some track work, great production, most enjoyed this way!😉😉
What gives you that impression? The Ellenbrook Line began construction in January 2022 and is on track to open in December 2024 and it's only a few kilometres shorter than the Joondalup Line.
No more mainline steam in Western Australia.It seems we really lag behind other states with mainline tourist trains.I’m sure people would love to travel on a mainline steam/heritage diesel hauled tour in preserved rolling stock to a country destination for a day tour.what a shame we cannot do what other states can and regularly do.Change is needed if heritage rail is ever to survive in Western Australia.
The government has been considering a railway to Yanchep since at least 1901 www.metronet.wa.gov.au/news/latest-news/category/yanchep-rail-extension/rail-sought-since-1901
A 10 ride ticket that offered a bulk buy discount. You would purchase it at a newsagents and insert it into a machine on boarding. It would stamp the trip expiry time and punch out one of your ten rides.
@@psychosquirrel555 there were single, 10 or 40 trip MultiRiders. They also had a magnetic strip and printed each trip on the card but didn't physically punch the card. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiRider
This episode of RA is what got me into Severed Heads. I bought everything they put out after this, and I finally got to see them play at Le Rox in Adelaide a couple of years later. Went for a wiz before the show, standing alone at the wall of steel and who walks in, but one Mr Ellard. He's humming to himself, and mid-stream breaks into this "wop-a-bop-bop:" thing. I dare not look up, I mean, this guy is one of my heroes. Suffice to say, the opportunity to shake hands and say "love your work, Tom", was lost among the toilet lollies forever.
@@MitchellFreewayI guess however, it has some weird design choices for Metronet. Like why on earth is Redcliffe not at the airport instead of 1-2km away? It doesn't make sense!
@@wence25games89, it makes perfect sense when you look at the Perth Airport Masterplan. Terminal 3 and 4 are set to be relocated adjacent to Terminal 1 and 2 at Airport Central in the future. The terminals would likely have been relocated sooner if Qantas had not refused to move. Thus Redcliffe has been primarily designed to provide access to the surrounding residential area and the DFO. One thing the PTA do well is future proofing.
@@wence25games89, because it will centralise all terminals around Airport Central. Why have terminals on opposite sides of the airport when you can have them all in one central location? It's been planned for the better part of a decade. It will also support the development of a third runway.
I remember that old red and white striped fabric that covered the seats. Thanks for uploading this! I grew up south of the river, so I didn't ride this line often. Trains were very much a "north of the river thing" to us.
I grew up south of the river. The Armadale line was nothing short of a warzone a lot of the time....no I'm not joking. Hopefully the new revamped and raised line will help the issues.
i helped make this video by Danny Brennan,i took the film crew around the network ,Danny asked me to be in the film which i said ok ,i got the original viideo but i lent it to someone else and as yet have not got it back,there are two men on the video which have since passed away too
Then is the Albany reopened Geraldton and the Burberry to Perth Burberry to manjimup reopened i wos on the last tran to good old Geraldton i wos oliy 8 years old i love ❤️ it bring it all back
Golden. I was in Perth with the US Navy in 1998. I was absolutely amazed by the expanse of the rail system then especially relative to the size of the city. I can’t imagine how good the system is now. Really wish my country (USA) would have developed systems like this all over our metropolis of 1 million or greater.
hi i hope you read this. Perth has a few more being built. Check RM transit youtube channel on Perth rail. The lines are Joondalup, Fremantle, Midland, Armadale, Mandurah, Thornlie (spur), Airport link, Ellenbrook and Thornlie-Cockburn.
Perth is not far from a doubled population since then... nearly 2.2 million now. There's 3 big rail expansions going on right now... and there has been a few in the last 15 years... * New line out to a new suburb called Ellenbrook that is North east from Perth. * Extensions of the new Electric line up the freeway North of Perth all the way to Yanchep. * The Armadale line is currently closed, being upgraded to remove ALL street level crossing and extending the electric out past Armadale to Byford. The new Thornlie line is being extended to join what for you would be a new Line that goes all the way down south to Mandurah. There is also a line out to the Airport now... underground from where it goes under the river all the way to the Airport. We're a lucky state... 4 times the size of Texas and full of minerals that the world needs. The mineral royalties help pay for much of our infrastructure. Were you on the Kittyhawk...?... thanks for your service.
Also worth noting now, that the Cannington Interchange shown in this video has been completely demolished, with a newer station being built in its stead. Fascinating how in just 34 years the station went from being one of the major, modern stations of the Armadale line to being among the first to get demolished during the current Armadale Line upgrades.
1986 , Wish I was there. I was 15 and managed to get my hands on a half pint of Golden Grain and almost set myself on fire listening to the music and smoking cigarettes... But I am Good, I am 52 years old now...
