Sadly I've never seen the film - Aussie films only very, very rarely appear on Brit TV for some odd reason. My suspicion is that these two lovelies provided the most believable performances in the movie.......
Great memories! In 1992 I was working as a Surface Movement Control (Apron) air traffic controller in the small control tower at the end of the international finger. Bit like a traffic cop, especially when SIMOPS was introduced. One of my favourite ATC jobs!
Despite all the condemnation of the ASGs they were a revolution. A necessary product of the time. And the IDEA behind it would have done a far better job than the "standardisation" that we are currently doing. Its intent was to increase the haulage power on 3' 6" gauge tracks. Making 4' 8.5" the standard was to increase the size and weight of trains. But by far the most common gauge in Australia WAS 3'6" so it would have been logical to make THAT the standard gauge. Which would have been very sensible if trains of equivalent size and weight could be carried on those tracks. Enter the ASG. Potentially a game changer.
I rode the Diesel Trains from Melbourne > Foster every School Holidays 1965 to 1971. 4 hours trip. Sad the line was shut down. Foster Station often won the Prize for best kept Station in that era.
The long trains of wooden cars at the begining might have been the Warragul school trains which were discontinued in the late ‘70s because the kids were trashing the cars. I worked in the Edication Department and saw the 4” file on the topic. There was an outcry about replacing them with buses. The VR tried to encourage free travel for 4 teachers but could only get 2.
I done a walk of the accident area about fours years back at the crossing at Violet Town, very sad even today. The Southern Aurora Museum at Violet Town well worth a visit.
I lived at Mannahill and Yunta. The standardisation killed off so many of the small towns on the Broken Hill line and they have been demolished or abandoned. Mannahill has a population of 7, Yunta is surviving but the likes of Nackara, OodlaWirra, Olary and Mingary are gone .. sad but true, as are the transhipment yards and workshops at Terowie.
What a beautiful loco. Loved these "mountain class" engines. Always did the Adelaide > Mt Lofty / Belair runs Mon to Fridays, at about 17:45 >18:00. I used to admire them from my house as they ran the hills.
Its pretty impressive that those victorian old wooden boxes managed to survive long enough to serve 80s kids especially with the shinkansen already in service for a few decade I love the early 1900s look of these taits
I lived in South Yarra & these guys trundled past 24 hours a day with briquettes. A fantastic array of well preserved history. Thank you!! How stupid to totally remove electric service to the Valley.... especially more than ever now as it would have been so appropriate....and smart. 😢
At about 7:30 it crosses the original south rd crossing which is still there but now a bike track. A new car bridge over Pedlers creek was finished that year and is about to be demolished.
Beethoven's 6th or Pastoral symphony would've been more appropriate for this bucolic setting, particularly the part of the 1st movement where they're leaving the city. Like Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody and Piano Man I always hope to never ever hear the 5th ever again. Besides, it's hardly his best - subjectively of course. I suppose it could've been Mozart's Turkish Rondo or Beethoven's utterly dreadful Fur Elise Muzak style, ergh ergh ergh. Excuse me while I go and sick up.....
Who made the stupid decision to cut down those wires? Imagine how good the service to Traralgon could be today if it was still electrified. Although Sprinters are pretty quick, they are still diesel powered. Something the government keeps telling us is WE have to cut fossil fuel use, but they had the infrastructure already in place for electric and dismantled it. No foresight.
The closure was an orchestrated closure closely following Australia signing on to “The Lima Peru Accord”. From 1973 onwards was the destruction of rail infrastructure and manufacturing within Australia by a co-ordinated effort between the Left Wing Socialist Unions and Government. We can see the ongoing fruits and continued attacks upon the farmers, people of the bush and the Australian people in general, working towards (against the peoples will) to this dystopian new world order.
Randomly stumbling across a RU-vid video originally filmed in the year I was born as well as spot on with the dates in July that I currently book when I travel to Tassie! It jogged some early childhood memories from the tail end of the 90's when I would see family come/go at Station Pier on this ship. The girl in this video should totally remake her home made video tour when the new Spirit of Tasmania IV & V launches this year. What a wholesome and happy watch, this video was!
I stowed away in the Oriana on her second voyage. From Sydney to Auckland. That was way back in the early 1960’s. It was quite an adventure but I made it without problems. Those were the days.
Hexham please, don't leave the H out. I lived there for the first 21 years of my life, great memories of all the rail activities. Two brothers worked for GovtbRail, Max as a driver and Brian in many departments Activity with coal boats supplying Sydney power at Mortlake. J & A Brown had the Stockrington and later the John Brown Hetton Bellbird had the Mortlake Bank and Pelton Bank and f inally the Hexham Bank , all loaded at Hexham
