Perth Railcars in the 70s - Video with actual sound.

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I have now upgraded and extended this video, renaming it "Perth's First-Generation Diesel Suburban Trains" Parts 1 and 2." This is to add more footage to the video, and to overcome a Copyright Restriction which was placed on it which restricts the geographical area in which it can be seen. I am leaving this original up for the benefit of those who originally watched it, and who may wish to review it at a later date. Cheers, Terry.

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@BD12 Год назад

I can't wrap my head around how green everything is on the Fremantle line.

@terrymercer2379 Год назад

Thanks. The green is a feature of Western Australia in Spring. One reviewer, years ago, described the colour as "Histerical Green!". By mid November, it has turned to yellow and brown, once the temperature reaches the high 30s and the occasional 40. Perth has a Mediterranean climate, of cool wet winters, followed by hot dry summers. I love it.

@tonycook603 2 года назад

I have just found this video, that was a wonderful watch. I'm from the UK but lived in Perth as a child from 1967-1969 and again in 1973. I have only been back once for a holiday in 1981. The video brought back so many memories, the colours of the trains, the interior of Perth station, the bridges over the Swan with no guard rails, the trains running with doors open, the horseshoe bridge, Boans, the hedge cutting spelling out DAGLISH. We lived in Carlisle first time round and it was wonderful to see Oats Street as I remember it. We had no car and so the trains were our means of getting around. Thanks Terry for a magical trip down memory lane.

@stephen5224 19 дней назад

Oh my goodness, this is from my childhood, I used to stand on the Eric St Bridge on my way to North Cottesloe primary school and watch the steam train pass underneath. The music in this treasure of a video is wonderful.

@ivanolsen8596 3 года назад

Good on you, Terry this brings back many memories, I was a junior at the Fremantle Loco Sheds in 1959 becoming a Trainee Engineman a few years later, after getting a Firemans Ticket was sent to Narrogin then East Perth and back to the bush at Mullewa where the X Class ruled. The reason they smoked bad was their 2 stroke Crossley engines had piston scavenge pumps that bypassed oil badly blowing it into the engine, They were ex wartime submarine engines and generators. I shovelled coal into the fire boxes of many steamers you showed, and the Freo track was well known to me, we shunted Cottesloe, North Freo to Dingo, CSR, Cumming Smith and State Imps, Leighton still had sand hills and a foot subway from the highway to the beach under the station. Freo Station had 4 platforms and a tiled subway connecting them. Thank you Terry for preserving history and great memories.

@itchyvet 3 года назад

Mullewa, Perenjori, Geraldton, Meekathara, X Class definately ruled.

@pauliec17 5 лет назад

Doesn't get better than this! A true recorder of history - totally lost without your efforts! Kudos to you sir.

@janmeyer3129 3 года назад

I remember the night the last train came through on the Perth-Freo line. I was so sad. Then I remember later in the year walking across the rail-lines with my pre-school son and telling him about the trains that used to run on those very lines, feeling as if I was telling him about the era of horse-drawn carriages. Travel all I can by rail now (I have a pass!) - feels precious every time. I sit and think “We nearly lost this”

@AbsintheBabe 3 года назад

It's an odd feeling, being born in 2002, these trains are something I have never experienced, yet I feel somehow nostalgic and a sense of connection to an older version of my city.

@mike-gg2py 2 года назад

Was a great time then....so carefree safe to ride trains even at night. People in Perth were friendlier. I was born in 1974 so growing up seeing these image's of how Perth used to be brings a tear to my eye as the Perth I grew up with is just a distant memory now. Even though you are born in 2002 you will indeed look back at Perth in your own eyes as well.

@josephhapp9 3 дня назад

Thank you Terry, a historical documentary gem. This made our day. Superb effort and presentation.

@beckyluvstoscrapnsew Год назад

Wow this brings back so many memories of train travel as a kid …even as young as six or seven years of age we would go into the city on the train , getting on at Success Hill or if we had time we would walk up to Bassendean station . We’d go to the cinema and catch a movie , look around the shops ( mainly Boans and Moores ) then catch the train home again ..if it was hot the doors would sometimes be left open ! And the windows opened too , more than once we had seen teenagers hanging out the windows or doors trying their luck ( idiots ) …going to the Royal show was always a battle, the train was often full by the time it got to our station and we often had to wait two or three trains to actually get a place, adults standing desperately hanging onto the leather straps hanging from bars below the ceiling so they didn’t get knocked over by the bumpy ride or going over the junctions where the different tracks crossed over ….getting off and walking up a big hill to get to the main entry of the Showgrounds was hard work . Getting home was even harder ! My favourite ride was going to Fremantle, although going over the river bridge used to scare me to death ..lol… I was sure one day the train was going to fall off that bridge ! The train stations had so much character (until they started modernising them ), I often ended up on the wrong platform at the city station and had to make a mad dash up the steps across the bridge and down more steps….you could never be sure which platform you were going to be departing from until you checked the signs unlike now where there are set platforms. After the late seventies I stopped riding the train and when I got onto a train again in the early nineties absolutely everything had changed! It was sad seeing everything modernised, with so much change still to come …I haven’t caught a train for many years and although the last trip was faster , smoother , more comfortable and less smelly I would have loved one more trip on the old trains, wind blowing on your face from an open window, kids happily standing for adults , the conductor with his ticket machine walking up and down often catching those using an expired ticket ! Feeling much older than before the video started …lol..

@29brendus 9 месяцев назад

Truly fascinating. I live around Oats Street periodically, and can't believe the changes. Great Video.

@clinteastwood8485 Год назад

Thank you for sharing. I live in Tasmania now after 42 years in Perth. You bought back some very fond memories for me. Especially the old rattlers. MTT Buses, SEC, Telcom, Micheal Edgely Entertainment Centre, Boans and the old Peters. I remember catching either the Yellow,Blue or Red Cat to get to the Dental hospital. And the old Bus station, how many times going up and down and around the ramps. I used to get the 354 to Koondoola.I remember when the AMP,Allendale Square and Telecom buildings were the tallest in the city for a Long time into the 80's I think. When you could drive through Forrest place. And the old Perth Metro markets where West Perth station used to be.

@tintooki 3 года назад

I was 15 when this was made. So many memories. I lived on Victoria Street on the Freo line. I remember the Golden Fleece petrol station and car wash very well. I loved catching the train and was so sad when they closed the Freo line. They closed it just when I needed it too as I was studying at Perth Tech - and I used to get bus sick - but was never sick on a train. I was so glad the Labor government saw sense and brought it back. Thanks for creating and posting this video.

@downunderrob Месяц назад

Ha! A Mosman Park boy! Kalgoorlie St here!

@allanthiel 4 года назад

Terry - legend. Loved it. Great to look back to the way it was. When i was a kid, I got caught by the police fishing on the bridge across the swan at the old power station. Seeing it in your film now tells me why they did not like our fishing on the bridge. We used to jump into the small platforms on the side of the bridge and hang on to everything as the trains passed. The drivers reported us as they should have. Thanks and well done.

@robweckert5689 4 года назад

That was an amazing video and I loved watching it. I live in Perth and am amazed by how good the modern-day railway system is in 2020. I do think that in the olden times, Perth's locomotives and rolling stock were quite unique compared to other cities' trains I definitely would say aesthetics were never a consideration in WAGR's purchases though. It is also noted that the oil and grease smothering the tracks looks like an environmental disaster waiting to happen but I guess that's just how it was. All the same, it'd be awesome to get in the Delorean and travel back in time to see these film locations. Yep, one of the best film productions I have seen in recent times. We'll done.

@scottsencounters 3 года назад

Absolute masterpiece Terry. Interesting to see how much has changed here in Perth. It's ashame that the old WAGR trains don't exist anymore. Needs to be in a museum preserved. The Armadale Line where Welshpool is in this video hasn't really changed a huge amount though considering how long ago you recorded these videos. Never the less beautiful video mate.

@chrisjohnson6876 3 года назад

Wow! ...just Wow! What a fabulously edited and narrated video. Thanks heavens for super 8 film and your dedication Terry, in filming this stuff, that was, until now, lost in time. The music, the cars and busses and of course the Red/Green and white trains with the audible smelly geared diesels, complete with cow catchers!. An ABSOLUTE CREDIT to you, in both production and post production. Thanks so much for the upload, for the memories, from a sixty something Graylands immigrant

@stephenvelden295 3 года назад

My Primary and High Schools were alongside the Armadale line (Beckenham Primary and Cannington Senior High School) We used to play on the railway (put coins or bits of cheese on the rail), no fences back in those days. I now live very close to the intersection of the Armadale and Thornlie lines. Things have certainly changed (for the better) since, although I loved the freedom we had back in those days!

@clifffowler2581 3 года назад

I was so looking forward to seeing the Perth to Armadale footage but alas he showed only up until Welshpool...

@oswaldthree 3 года назад

Well, when I came across this vidclip this evening, I had no intention of watching the whole 65minutes - but here I am at the end!! Thoroughly enjoyed it!! I am an Oats St kid and was pleased to see the footage of the Bunner Bridge and The Cinders : on the occasions when our track got the straight-through run, that could be a hairy ride (esp as the doors were mostly open, haha :) It was good too, to see the pics of old Perth buildings near the track - I used to love coming into East Perth, when you were presented with all those rusty rooftops and thick conglomeration of old sheds and whatnot - all gone now, with the 'beautification' ....... And all that fencing along the electrified tracks - crikey, you need to get up at least 10 minutes earlier in the morning to go the extra distance to the (locking) safety gates, LoL!!! Just wish we could recapture the smell of those steam trains and insert it into the videos - I really loved that!! Trains and Train Driving run through one line of my Family History (mostly in the SW) .......... THANKS Terry, mighty job. RjB

@antiussentiment 3 года назад

How has it taken me so long to discover this video? You've created an important and wonderful document. Thank you so much.

@catherinedav7503 2 года назад

THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE VIDEO ON THE INTERNET IN TOTALITY. Terry sincerely this is a masterpiece.

@terrymercer2379 2 года назад

Wow; thank you so much.

@skippymaster57 6 месяцев назад

I can remember working as a shunter from Forrestfield yard in the mid 70's. As part of the #7 crew, we worked the standard gauge from Forrestfield through to the Midland Workshops with livestock rolling stock and also down to Kwinana for fuel trucks. We also travelled through Spearwood and up the beaches past he Roundhouse and into Fremantle, then through to Leighton yard across the bridge. The standard gauge stopped at Leighton yard and still hasn't gone any further. They used 'K' Class locos for the small trains to these places.

@vegemitesandwich1113 2 года назад

This is amazing, I'm so glad is stumbled upon this. Great production. I'm only 20 and it's amazing how much the trains and train lines have changed since the 70s. I live in Gosnells and I'm always seeing trouble on the trains almost every day, I wonder how it was back then. Thank you for the video! Very informative i appreciate the time and effort put into this. A great look into the past.

@terrymercer2379 2 года назад

We had a very different world back then; women and children could travel without fear. The decade before I shot the movie, every major station had a Station Master, and porters. Every train had a driver and a fireman, a guard and at least one conductor. We did not have so much quantity of things, but generally had much greater quality and respect for each other.

@Bellakelpie 3 года назад

Brings back lots of memories for me. I rode in all of these as a kid. Plus the steam tender engine hauled suburban trains that ran during rush hour between Perth and Freo and vice versa. The engines driving wheels always slipped a lot when the train left Grant St Station, traveling uphill. also memories of traveling to Armadale via Fremantle and Spearwood and returning to Perth via Gosnells and Forrestfield.

@user-pw6br8ke2t 3 месяца назад

So glad you took the time to record this! I spent five years on these trains traveling from Kelmscott to Guildford in the late 80’s and this bought back so many memories - thank you!

@dirtxn9195 4 года назад

Great find...remember the last days of diesel railcars we’re pretty rough compared to what was to come...the infrastructure was certainly at its end of its working life, but a inspiration for train modelers in any scale... well done Terry.

@user-ff9pc3fu7p 8 месяцев назад

If you didn't film this we would have nothing of this . Thank you sir

@brianmuhlingBUM 10 месяцев назад

I keep watching your train movies over and over, can't help it, I live in the past, don't most of us. Thank you for pronouncing the word KILOMETRE correctly. Too many professionals get it wrong. 😊

@terrymercer2379 10 месяцев назад

Hi Brian. Thanks for your kind words. I have been considering developing an extended version for RU-vid with about another 20 minutes of "lesser quality" footage, which I plan to divide into parts 1 and 2. I will need to replace the music: (I got a copyright strike on my original and wasn't able to be shown in some countries) Your encouragement motivates me to press ahead with the project. Cheers, Terry.

@stephenmay7572 2 года назад

Thank you for taking these videos Terry, and thank you for sharing them to the public. Very interesting to see what they used to look like, I will say, the rails look a lot cleaner now than they did then

@carlbentley80 5 лет назад

This is a treasure trove of sights and sounds from days gone, fantastic and very well put together. Interesting to see all the places where I now ride my bike on a regular basis and how much they have changed. Best viewed whilst also having the Landgate Mapviewer Plus website open so you can see old aerial photos of the places featured in the video and compare the scenes through the years. Thank you for this amazing look back Terry, you have done a great job.

@peterboroughmagazine6628 Год назад

Thank you so much Terry for preserving this history and bringing back so many memories to me. I used to travel the Perth to Fremantle line during this period.

@alanwilliams1435 3 года назад

Great video Terry, loved it! I grew up in Eric Street, Cottesloe a stones throw from the flour mill and about 200m from the Fremantle line and loved trains as a young boy and would spend alot of time riding my bike to Grant Street and Cottesloe stations to watch the trains and also the branch line going to the flour mill. Also, watching all of the freight and passenger trains on the Fremantle line heading to and from Freo was such a wonderful time and will stay in my heart and soul forever. Ahhhhhhhhh the memories as a young boy. Priceless.

@Daishi0861 10 месяцев назад

this was a very cool look into a unique archival history of the perth rail system, thanks terry!

@TheMightyHellfish 4 месяца назад

I thoroughly enjoyed this, Terry. There's a wealth of detail in just about every shot. The run out to Freo and back from Perth was the most memorable because I'd been travelling the Freo line though to East Perth for my TAFE day release at Mt Lawley tech before I got my driving license. I was amazed to see the shots of ADx class which were still in their 60s livery. I suspect I wasn't the only one who wasn't fond of the orange with the blue "go fast" stripe, particularly since the orange only ever seemed to last for five minutes before it looked washed out. Possibly because I was catching the passenger service, the ADx and poor old X/XAs that I'd see in the Fremantle yard in that colour rarely looked clean unless you saw one ex-shop freshly-painted closer to Perth... unless the Freo line got those that no-one loved! (I do realise that X/XA Class rarely looked cleananyway, but the faded orange plus the near-permanent oily smear only made them look like poorer cousins to the green liveried members of the class... ) My recollection may be incorrect but I seem to remember that there may have been a green shunter around Freo at the time, possibly a Y?

@bigkiwimike 5 лет назад

Nice stuff Terry. Very much enjoyed this. I’m a driver in Auckland, New Zealand. When I joined in January 2014, the ADB’s were still running. I qualified as a driver on the 5th of December, 2014, the day the ADB’s were taken out of service. Even so, I was still given a drivers key for them, the last one ever issued. I’m still qualified for the ADL’s which run a shuttle service between Papakura and Pukekohe and will continue to do so until that section is electrified. There is a very strong rumour that the ADL’s will be going through yet another overhaul to run north of Auckland from Swanson to Huapai. Only eight of them are currently running, with 803 and 804 having been laid up for a few years with undersized wheels, and have now been stripped of further parts. Thanks for uploading this video.

@itchyvet 3 года назад

Can't believe the ADL's are still running. incredible. Though for some reason, I never did like driving them. However the ADB's were another kettle of fish, them I loved driving, especially after new brake discs were fitted.

@ColinsGardenRailway 4 года назад

Have just come here, from the "Perth Reflects" Facebook page. Have watched the first 30 mins, will watch the rest later tonight. Brings a tear to the heart, that your passion has been SAVED for future generations to realise what the Perth railways were and have come to be. Kudos to you Terry.

@ParArdua 3 года назад

Brilliant Terry, thank you. I really miss the overnighter to Albany, another victim of Charlie Court's war on trains. As a kid in the 60s, I remember a sign "Gentlemen, Do not expectorate on the platform". Indeed.

@ivanolsen8596 3 года назад

The Honourable Charlie was only after the land to sell, he wasnt known as Charlie Landall for nothing. We always read that sign as" If you expect to rate here, dont expectorate here"

@wallydug2256 4 года назад

Hello from sunny Scotland,I really enjoyed watching your train movie as a retired railway signalman it was fascinating watching different but the same engines and dmu's and all to nice relaxing music too.😁👍

@terrymercer2379 4 года назад

You are welcome. Our railway had a strong British influence, tailored for our local conditions. We loved it.

@mikebni 4 года назад

Greetings from Ireland, Terry. Thank you for the wonderful old archive footage, such a difference from the line to Freo I experienced a few years ago. Wonderful to see and actually hear the old XA diesels and the railcars. Here in Ireland I’m involved with the restoration and operation of some locos very similar to the X and XA class, only Ireland reengined them with EMD power plants while WAGR soldiered on with the Crossleys and the oil leaks. Great to hear the original engine sounds. Thank you again!

@terrymercer2379 4 года назад

Thanks for your kind comments. It is really meaningful to be able to experience our railways heritage, anywhere in the world.

@ivanolsen8596 3 года назад

The Crossleys were a wartime Pommy submarine engine with a leaky scavenge pump, dont know how they hid from the Hun, maybe the cloud of smoke hid them. The EMD is a great engine, ran 2 on a dredge, never a moments problem.

@mikebni 3 года назад

@@ivanolsen8596 This is why Irish Railways re-engined them all to EMD!

@ivanolsen8596 3 года назад

@@mikebni Totaly understandable, dont know why the WAGR didnt do the same!

@allansunderland6944 4 года назад

Gold !! Thankyou soooo much for this post & your effort to produce it. Oats St was my station and like you,Terry, spent a lot of time, in the 1960s, watching trains around Welshpool, Carlisle Cannington & East Perth loco depot. Very nostalgic. Took me back 60 years. Cheers, enjoyed the ride !

@starcorpvncj 3 года назад

At 13 in 1964 as a newly arrived immigrant, after school, I used to catch the steam train from Welshpool into Perth station to sell the Daily News for 4d a copy. I wore a red hat with the Daily News written in white letters at the front. I loved the smell of the smoke and enjoyed the noise as the steam trains came puffing in and out. I lived in a tiny asbestos house in a sandpit. We had a wood stove, and wood-heated copper and water heater. They were harder days, but happier times. On Friday nights Dad and I watched Combat on our black and white TV. Every day I caught the school bus to Kalamunda High School. It was a 3 year high school in those days. I loved that school where I gained an 8 subject Junior Certificate and learned to play rugby union, a sport that changed my life. Now I am 70, and a disabled vet with 18 years of service, including 2 tours in the Middle East. Presently I am in Vietnam, locked out of my country due to Covid through no fault of my own, and no one cares.

@paul0075r 3 года назад

Loved your video Terry. I didn't get to live in WA until 2007, so this was a history lesson in many ways, but it was amazing coverage of something I was keen to learn about Perth for quite some time. I absolutely enjoyed ever minute!

@pseudonajaaffinis Год назад

Used to love hanging out the doors which you could slide open on a hot day.

@MRLICKSPITTLE 3 года назад

This is Gold Terry, so many memories! My first job was as a Junior Traffic Officer at Freo Goods back in 1969 and every Tuesday I caught the train up to the Railways Institute tin Wellington St to do my Safe Working and Station Accounts (at least I think that's what it was called - memory isn't quite what it used to be!). As a kid in the 1950's in Edinburgh, Scotland, I was an avid trainspotter so I guess rail, especially steam, was always in my blood. Thanks again for this wonderful trip down memory lane.

@markpickford2860 3 года назад

Excellent thank you so much Good memories and good camera work! Must have been quite a task to sync up the audio. Very well done 👏

@coffeyjp 3 года назад

Nothing I could say to marvel what has said before me. Absolutely brilliant and such dedication to record this history. I arrived in WA 1971 and missed the steam era but totally loved the Perth I was destined. I remember the freights trundling through Perth Station, Welshpool/Leach Hwy., yard seeing a B class diesel heading off to Kewdale. The awkward looking X's on coal trains and watching/hearing the evening south bound freights racing through Kelmscott station. Your film brought back many pleasant memories of my early years here in WA, thanks.

@aaronantulov4696 5 лет назад

Amazing... I wonder what life would have been like without a Southern and northern suburbs railway. Can’t picture it.

@hismajestyericcartmanthese5755 3 года назад

Thanks for the history lesson. It was a great video. I really enjoyed watching. My goodness allot has changed. It is nice to see what Subiaco station was like before it was sunk underground.

@user-three-four-nine Год назад

Beautiful video! It's really a shame only one of the railcars is preserved in semi-decent condition, but quite a few X class and steam locomotives still live on. Have you digitised and archived your collection of audio and video reels?

@MrOlgrumpy 3 года назад

I travelled to Wembly Tech in the late '60s riding in "dog box " passenger cars where we used a clone conductors key to lock the doors so we had a compartment to half a dozen apprentices,cheeky buggers.

@Christonson 2 года назад

Amazing video, I can't believe I haven't stumbled across it yet. Thanks for sharing it with everyone. Excellent commentary also!

@CT-vm4gf 3 года назад

I was born in 1980 and remember going over the swan river on the rickety bridge in the old orange trains, the water visible through the open door

@ed110pp 4 года назад

Thanks a lot for this production - it bought back lots of memories of train travel to Fremantle from my younger years back in the 1970’s

@christianvlek 3 года назад

Hi Terry , thanks A lot for taking the time to make and upload this video . I spent much of my youth tearing around the city of Perth thanks to these trains and it was great to see much of the city unchanged .

@mike-gg2py 2 года назад

Thankyou Sir for your contribution to our state history. Brings back memories those old diesel trains windows open after school heading to Claremont speedway on a Friday night. I miss that Perth 😭

@philipaldrick5363 3 года назад

This was a very pleasant video well put together, something that I never thought I would see. Thank you so much Terry.

@shirleyellis9708 2 года назад

Wow, thanks terry it's great to see the old trains again. brings back memories.👍

@sometimeworld1 2 года назад

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I took the train from Kingsley (now Sherwood) station to Armadale for school in the mid 1970s (fare 5c). I also remember dreading going over the Bunbury bridge and thinking I was going to fall into the water (the doors were always open in those days).

@janatanelmodickie4801 4 года назад

thank you Terry. I cant tell you how happy i am to find your movie. you have done a great job matching the sound and video and it was great to see your reel to reel too. After the death of my father, I spent 3 months in Kelmscott as a six year old boy before returning to England in dECEMBER OF 1975 and remember travelling to Perth and Freemantle on the train. I remembered a bridge with no sides across what i presume is The Swan, When i saw the Bunbury Bridge in your footage, I thought that must be it. From your narration i gather that we would of travelled from Armadale as i remember it being the local town. I just typed in 'train 1975 perth australia' and your film was wgat i found. it was exactly what i wanted to see. thank you so much it was fabulous to see after 44 years the music was perfect aswell

@terrymercer2379 4 года назад

Thanks for your kind words Johnathon. That wobbly bridge was over the Swan River. It was called the Bunbury Bridge, because, I think, it was on the main line to Bunbury

@perth-transit1 4 месяца назад

Thank you Terry love the videos

@moondyne2034 3 года назад

A masterpiece Terry! All that work and expense processing the film. And lets not forget, a vote for the Liberal/National parties is a direct threat to our public transport system.

@jucknorreyne 3 года назад

thank you Terry for capturing these memories

@MATT-xv4bh 3 года назад

Oh, thank you for your work's effort in this presentation. You are a gem. Such memories renewed!

@reign3099 3 года назад

Those were the good old days. Im feeling very nostalgic. Great video sir.

@banksiasong Год назад

Great footage and details, thank you Mr Mercer.

@mauricevandraanen4286 3 года назад

Wow, just great and very awesome and many thanks for those authentic sounds and views in my most favourite town of Australia

@andrewnelson3681 3 года назад

Thank you so much for putting these videos up. I really enjoyed watching them and remembering my school days travelling to Guildford.

@Notric 5 лет назад

Thanks mate, some great footage there and so many good memories.

@ReHerakhte 3 года назад

Agreed, this brings back a lot of memories from the 70s & 80s - the cinema at the Ent Cent, the Telecom tower, the MTT buses, those bendy buses were never as good as the Freo train :( And Golden Fleece, I can't even remember the last time I saw one of them!

@zoenoble1185 Год назад

This is great. Thank you so much.

@rosabono8419 3 года назад

Thank you for this footage. ❤❤

@octarinetree470 3 года назад

What an awesome video! Thank you Terry!

@richardmcsweeney5291 3 года назад

so much great footage, thanks. i spent my school years on trains commuting back and forth from a few different schools, subiaco,midland, bassendean.

@josephhapp9 3 года назад

In the 1970s I worked at the G.P.O. Telephone Exchange, parking in Stirling street and walking across the Perth Train Station to start work. Thanks for this and special thanks for the Historic timeline when State Liberals closed Fremantle Line. Made my day. 🌺🌺🌺

@bsvphillipines4728 3 года назад

Thanks Terry that was really enjoyable..

@GgoXMseJ5339 3 года назад

Fantastic video .I enjoyed every minute

@justme-pb2yh 4 года назад

Brilliant !! Thanks.

@mikenkatechandler5243 Год назад

😀😀😀Why has it taken me so long to find this Absolute wonderful viewing TERRY I grew up in Carlisle in the 1960s Was quite emotional looking at what i remember Millers yard Archer street station Oats street etc Thanks for the memories bud Well done

@stanko2566 4 года назад

Thank You Terry

@is1943 7 месяцев назад

Great video with good memories

@robinbouwer2932 4 года назад

Well done Terry

@DC-zx2si 2 года назад

Seems like yesterday I rode on one of these as teenager

@washroomstudio1692 3 года назад

wow this brought back some memories, Thank you :)

@lachlantanseytheii4412 Год назад

everything on the Fremantle Line is so different

@downunderrob Месяц назад

Less industrial and cleaner! 😂

@edwardcat5247 3 года назад

i convinced my daughter that it was me knocking on the rattly windows of these old orange smoky grumblers that made it start from each station (I coul;d hear the gnarly engines increase before we moved)

@epichourtime 2 года назад

A version of Perth I've never really seen. Great work! 👍

@downunderrob Месяц назад

At about 48:39-41, the Claremont Showground underpass. Notorious for flooding in Winter.

@bigjase8709 3 года назад

Incredible footage.

@yerrx1650 5 лет назад

Amazing video.

@neverendingadventure6036 3 года назад

Great footage!

@samuelanketell8190 2 года назад

Excellent bit of film mate im from the east coast in northern nsw and I was always interested in what the old days of west rail looked like 👍 👌

@mebeasensei 2 года назад

5:10 See the sign, 'Rally and March! Save our Railways'.. Railways were nearly wiped off the face of the earth in Australia in the late 70s and early 80s. I am from Victoria. They closed down passenger services all over the state...keeping a very minimal service on trunk lines only. Even Melbourne's suburban network faced wholesale closure. Hard to believe now. Ridership on Perth's suburban network went from 6.5 million rides in 1981 to over 60 million in 2018! Thank goodness.

@pixiepqueen 3 года назад

awesome vid... extremely sentimental for me.. I grew up in Claremont.. the railway was always a dominant presence in my life. Was really upset when they closed down the line.

@itchyvet 3 года назад

As a Train driver myself, employed by the WAGR for 30 years, I worked many of these trains mentioned in your video clip. Used to get annoyed with guys like you being too close to the track, but now appreciate the work you folks have done to record the history of our rail system. Too bad the Privatisation destroyed the H.V.R. runs the public enjoyed so much. My favorite Loco was the X Class, especially the double headers, the "C" class came in second. I worked the rattle traps before they were all written off, and was involved with the EMU's when introduced. Sadly, the job since privatisation has gone downhill.

@keithammleter3824 3 года назад

Itchyvet: It's interesting that you liked the X-Class. They were bad - real bad. The WAGR bought them from a dodgy British manufacturer (Beyer Peacock). The makers didn't want to spend money on a good diesel engine powerful enough to meet the WAGR spec, so they took a submarine engine and hotted it up by running it at 150% of design RPM. The result was extreme unreliability - failed bearings, cracked heads, cracked pistons etc etc. The was a Royal Commission into the X-Class and several other aspects of the WAGR - problems mainly due to the owner (state government) treating the WAGR with a sort of benign neglect. As a train user and city worker I hated the X-Class. They were extremely noisy, even when idling, and poured out a lot of foul smelling dark exhaust at times (as did the ADV/G railcars) - either the WAGR was running them on cheap low quality fuel instead of road-spec diesel, and/or the injectors were all shot. I met a WAGR engineer (non-Australians note: In Australia, an engineer is a man with a degree who sits at a desk doing engineering, not a train driver. A train driver is called a driver) in a pub one time in the 1970's. He claimed they used the highest quality diesel fuel - I never believed him for a second - no road truck ever polluted the air like those X-Class locos. When the ADV/G's got old, you could hear them missing on one cylinder at times, and they seemed to lack power.

@itchyvet 2 года назад

@@keithammleter3824 Keit, The V8 cylinder engine powering the X Class was a TWO STROKE engine. Yes, it did have many issues in the beginning, it even had a drip feed lubrication system as found on steam engines. thankfully, after the investigation major rebuilding was carried out installing a wet sump lubrication system, new more advanced heads and injectors after which many issues were just a bad memory. the ADV's were excellent with their new Mercedes engines, but sadly they failed to upgrade the transmission systems as well, which had bad habit of over heating and then dropping out, meaning unable to keep speeds to time table on one engine. The best Railcars IMHO, were the ADK's, only problem they ever had was with the disc brakes not being replaced cause warps and loss of retardation and unable to predict stopping locations. When replaced with new, they were awesome to drive. The ADL I never cottoned onto, IMHO, they were just impersonal to drive.

@keithammleter3824 2 года назад

@@itchyvet : Virtually all diesel-electric mainline locos the world over have been 2-stroke - the externally forced induction & exhaust valves in head type, of course, not a crude loop scavenged thing like a lawnmower 2-stroke. Such loco 2-strokes should not smoke visibly at all, except perhaps at cold start, but the X-class sure did smoke badly. Noisy horrible things. 4-stroke diesels are pretty much confined to shunting locos. According to Fred Affleck's book (History of WAGR/Westrail) the main problem with the X-Class engines as delivered was pistons cracking apart to due being run at 150% of design RPM in order to get the power WAGR wanted. Many different pistons were tried until eventually WAGR designed and made their own pistons which fixed the trouble. Road wheel bearings failed due to vibration from the diesel engine. An anecdote for you: At one time WAGR contacted WAIT (now Curtin University) and asked them if they would like a surplus railcar engine (I believe ADG Class - 1950's vintage). Of course the answer was yes as a railcar engine is something a little different. So the uni technicians spent much time trouble and a a bit of money installing it in a permanent dynamometer setup so us students could run it and do tests. But it could not be started. It was absolutely worn right out and rooted. As a one-time passenger and outside observer of WAGR/Westrail, it always seemed to me that the system was definitely run with a sort of benign neglect, often with locos and railcars run into the ground without proper maintenance. Once in a while something new would be bought, much to the delight of us passengers. I remember when an ADG set was supposed to depart from the platform, the driver caused the motors to rev their guts out, without the railcar set not moving for a while, then moving out abnormally slowly. Clearly something very wrong, and must have been known to Westrail to be wrong. Brakes stuck on? Automatic transmission fault? I remember another time an ADV railcar set had stopped near a road crossing, holding the boom gates down. I was in a car near the boom gates, and an enormous traffic pile up built up behind me. The railcar motors were running, but something was obviously wrong. Eventually a motorcycle policeman showed up. He evidently wanted to direct the railcar driver to proceed and set off toward the railcar bouncing his motorbike down the sleepers of the opposite-way tracks. Perhaps he had a death wish. Anyway, the railcar driver and a couple of other Westrail workers started screaming gesticulating and swearing at the cop, who woke up and retreated. Meanwhile we all sat in our cars for half an hour or so, until they got the railcar set to move. Note: I worked for a while for the dealer of a certain USA manufacturer of large diesel engines. Such engines will virtually last forever if properly maintained in accordance with manufacture's recommended practices and given clean fuel and good lube oil.

@vsvnrg3263 Год назад

itchyvet, do you know that you are probably all on your own in your choice of favourite loco. the irish railways werent prepared to tolerate all the problems with the crossley engine and promptly swapped them out for real engines- emd's. an episode of the westrail magazine, all of them are available on youtube, had a piece on the retirement of the x class. the reporter attempted to get a positive response to someone who worked on them asking if they had any redeeming qualities. the answer was no.

@vsvnrg3263 Год назад

@@keithammleter3824 , beyer peacock used to have an excellent reputation. the british government may have applied some sort of pressure to install british engines in them. victoria was under local pressure to buy british diesel locomotives around the same time too but they engineered a way around it. many of those are still going now paying for themselves many times over. in fact victorian railways pressure on emd for exactly the product they wanted led emd to open many new international markets for themselves.

@Frankiegish 11 месяцев назад

Thank You 🙏

@terrymercer2379 11 месяцев назад

You are welcome.

@cozmolikeytrainz 5 месяцев назад

20:15 Look at that wheelslip! *LOOK AT IT!!*

@michaeltunbridge9323 5 лет назад

Excellent Video love those X Class Those ADKs And those Orange Westrail Colour trains and ADLs are my Favourite shame that they aren't in the Bassendean Museum

@fixmyvelo1951 2 года назад

Superb!

@vsvnrg3263 Год назад

lovely show. the sounds were added with precision. i'm mildly disappointed there wasnt more footage around queens park but still a great show. ive subscribed.

@terrymercer2379 Год назад

Thanks, love your comments. I have always regretted that I did not film all the stations on the Armadale line, like I did the Fremantle. I have a little extra footage, unfortunately not of Queens Park, which I will at some stage, develop into an Extended Version, with copy-free music. (I got a copyright strike on my current movie which restricts it from some countries.

@vsvnrg3263 Год назад

@@terrymercer2379 , copyright strike! naughty! some long time locals told me there used to be sidings at all stations along the line. i'd love to see pikkies of them. i trawled weston langford's site and drew a blank. i assume you know of the weston langford site?

@terrymercer2379 Год назад

Ha Ha. When I put the movie together, I didn't even know what a copyright was. On the sidings, I remember them at Welshpool, Cannington and Armadale. They may have had others, but I don't remember.

@terrymercer2379 Год назад

Weston Langford has close to the best Railway Pics available, and he allows us to use them provided we give him credit. Love it.

@oo0Spyder0oo 5 лет назад

That was brilliant, the editing and the music went great together. I have an old lamp from one of these diesels but not sure if it's from an X class or something else. Great memories, cheers.

@vsvnrg3263 Год назад

i scored an air reservoir off an x class that was converted into a barbeque, backyard incinerator.

@dennsello 3 года назад

WOW missed this one...😃

@peterbates4696 21 день назад

I drove the Perth DMUs after they were shipped to Auckland

@arthurbransby840 4 года назад

Thanks Terry, awesome memories there. I often spoke about the Goods line from Leighton to Cottesloe and all I got was Bull@&$t, so I can tell them to look at your recording as proof. I know we had to have progress, but somehow the Railways doesn't seem to have the life/feel about it now.

@itchyvet 3 года назад

How about the goods line to Subiaco, where shunt trains worked every day ?