Last Steam Days Geelong Victoria 1960s 

I still remember those days of steam. Very fond memories.

My Grandfather drove these steam trains out of the Melbourne depot. I remember just how dirty the yards were but super impressed as a kid.

Wonderful collection of steam engines,sadly they were probaly broken down for scrap

Wow! Precious footage. 😘

Sadly, my interest in steam trains developed only after I'd left home in East Geelong. But I well remember them pulling us to and from Melbourne. In the late 50s, the premier train on our line was the 5.10 pm Flier from Spencer Street. It was non-stop and took 55 minutes behind one of those R class. Thank you for recovering these 3xtracts.

Awesome video.

another great piece of entertainment from your warehouse.

Remember these like it was yesterday, the Geelong/Queenscliff salt train used come come past the bottom of our street every afternoon during the week, and around Xmas time you could watch the holiday locos bring kids Xmas parties from the Geelong industries heading to the beach at Queenscliff…… a simpler time.

K's ran on Cement factory line through Herne Hill 'til at least '67.

What year roughly . I used to catch the footy trains (10.30 from Spencer St ) .about 66 & 67. Was there much steam left then. The footy trains were hauled by B Class’s. I enjoyed the train ride almost as much as the footy, gas lights in the carriages , big foot warmers in the morning.

This is a good train

I’d love a steam passenger train to be bought back like with west coast railways would be cool as and boost visitors to regional Victoria

Wonderful memories except, when they parked 50ft from my front fence, in Derby road in Herne Hill. LOL

The R class. Great locomotive and wasted. Trashed in 15 years. Terrible.

2:31 been there today

Those 3 locomotives are still here today but R753 is parts for R707

We’re most of these engines scrapped ?

Not one bit of Graffiti. Spray cans not invented yet ?

Was any of them but up for heritage

I’ve come to the conclusion watching all these that Vicrail and indeed the staff were totally useless keeping these engines looking clean, well maintained. I sting think I’ve seen an engine except the SOP that didn’t look as if it works have been scrapped even when most engines were steam. In fact it looks as if the drivers just walked away from the engines at the end of the day with little pride. Overseas drivers took pride in engines and would keep them looking good as much as they could