History of Melbourne's rail network from 1864-2018. Animation of train lines. Sources: Wikipedia Edited and produced by True Believers Social Links: Twitter: / truebelievers15
On the former Whittlesea line, today's Middle Gorge station sits on the foot print of the original South Morang Station, I live opposite the old freight storage yard that sat beside the original South Morang Station. The South Morang station we know today was built in the middle of a paddock between Epping and Middle Gorge stations to cater for Westfield shopping centre and should have been called Mill Park station in my opinion. The stations Hawkstowe and Mernda were also not mentioned in the video, they run between Middle Gorge and Doreen. Loved the video, nice work.
Really great video aside from a couple of mispronunciations and it would have been cool if major waterways, such as the bay and the Yarra river were largely filled in for some context.
Your facts were spot on. With alright animation. My only problem was the way you verbally presented it was a bit dry. Also quite a few place names were not said correctly. Apart from that it was excellent. You should be proud of yourself mate.
Appreciate the kind feedback. Looking to improve from there. I just tried something new and I'm very happy with the criticism. Improvement with the audio presentation and better animation would improve the video. Anyways looking forward to make more transport oriented content. Glad you enjoyed it.
great! there was one thing what about the williamstown pier line! got shortened 1 station behind it in 1981, now called the williamstown line! just a pretty cool thing, at newport railway mueseum (near north williamstown station), the tait has sometimes a terminus that says, "williamstown pier" with a squished font, and it carefully says on the bottom (next terminus because taits are old as) it says "williamstown"! looks like the tait trains died with a comeng looking at them😂! lol
You forgot the short line that ran off of the outer city loop line between the Epping line and coburg line which went in to north Fitzroy park. I think they still have one of the original steam engines there.
Oh no, you're absolutely right I forgot adding that short branch down to Fitzroy. Though I don't think that branch lasted very long before it got closed. Thanks for noting the correction. Hope you enjoy my other videos, thanks for the comment.
Apparently the first prototype electric tait trains were built around 1897 as they had one of those original prototypes preserved in the Newport workshops until it was unfortunately destroyed in the 2016 workshop fire. It was still am amazing piece of Australian heritage as it was a technological marvel at the time it was built and it was doing special public tour runs from the 1980s all the way up until it was destroyed in the fires. Anyways what’s also interesting is how a couple of years after the Kew branch line closed the new VicRoads head offices opened for operations on the same block of land where Kew station was so they pretty much replaced the station with a large tower block brutalist structure that still serves as VicRoads head offices to the present day! :)
Thanks for sharing information about our past train prototypes, that most of us will probably forget into the future. A lot of our railway building can be contributed to our past vision from those who really were looking ahead of their time.
True Believers NP! Though it’s likely that the Tait trains were in development for 20-30 years before the first passenger line was electrified so they most likely would of had a short section of electrified track somewhere during that development time period so they could do test runs of the prototype Tait trains! :)
@@Techno-Universal You commented twice XD. Yeah you're right, the world war delayed electrification unfortunately which is probably why it took so long to get those trains into service.
True Believers Yeah it apparently encountered an error the first time I tried to send it saying that it timed out when it actually sent so it was just a funny technical issue there! Anyways I also won’t be surprised if they metro tunnel project is done in phases just like the city loop project so they might first open the tunnels and the first station as soon as 2023-24 while the other stations would be opened later over the next few years however if they are doing everything at once then it all would be opened sometime between 2026-28 depending on the technical challenges they encounter! :)
@@Techno-Universal It's still too early to tell for the Metro Tunnel, glad you enjoy my videos. Any way I can further contact you, I wouldn't mind discussing more about transportation, it's hard to discuss everything into a youtube comment reply.
passenger services out to south gippsland ceased in 1993, however the line was still used by sand trains to the Australian Glass Manufacturers siding in Nyora up until 1998.
So Kooyong used to be called 'North Malvern'? That makes sense. And Richmond Park? I thought it was called Survey Park or Burnley Gardens???? And there was a station called 'Cremorne' between Richmond & South Yarra.
I think that the Freight Trains that run Between 1879 to 1889 was the steam hauled carriages which was replaced by the swingdoor fleet when the swingdoors entered service in 1887.
Pretty good, just when you mess up what your saying edit it out and re-record those bits, ik this video is a bit old so you might already be doing this but if you don't then that's something you could improve on. Otherwise very good video!
Well made but you have mispronounced bittern station as burton and the stony point line was only closed in 1981 and reopened in 1984 but was only closed beyond Hastings as it serves the BHP now bluescope steel mill via Long Island junction (built 1963) and you also forgot that the line served the HMAS Cerberus naval base until the early 90s when the siding was closed
It was planned as a freight line and besides that point, it never saw any trains on it at the end of the day. Failed project by a big vision by one man's dream to have his own railway.
@@iceberg6633 Yeah technically the city-loop opened in stages and didn't all open at once. I think I set the date when the whole project was complete. That wasn't a mistake, I intentionally stated the whole city loop finished in 1985. Yes parts of opened as early as 1981.
@@TrueBelievers Are you from Melbourne originally? Because if you didn't grow up pronouncing place names like Malvern, Beaumaris and Berwick, then I can understand you tripping over places like Prahran.
The Adelaide one has been released now, enjoy! Also renamed the playlist to Animated rail history videos for easy viewing. That completes all of the Australian cities for now
CBD - stands for central business district and is generally referred to the central city part, the downtown area, the economical central hub of a city. In Melbourne our central hub general is located within, Flinders street, Spencer street, Spring street and Latrobe street. This is where the city railway loop is located and is where all the railways come into the city and back out again.
Sorry, but this clip is like the tale of the King's New Clothes, people here are seeing a poor example of animation and endowing upon it greatness. It is badly done, blocky, innacurate and in many places, just plain wrong. By not using a real map as a basis, with placenames and correct map topology, you have litte more than a Lego train map.
Check out the newer videos, they are an improvement from this one. You only learn by trying and my first attempts were pretty poor. That's why I look at the whole channel to see if they have improved or not. Not everyone's first attempt at something will turn out good. Still improving my craft at making videos.
@@TrueBelievers I think your depiction of Melbourne's rail history was interesting....and it was simple. Of course, being a long-time Melburnian helps in being able to follow it all.
