Rail Town 

Australia was more civilised then than it is now.

The finest time of the commonwealth

Spent the first 15 years of my life in the Port, great times growing up there.

Interesting film. However at 3:37 the film makers just grabbed any old film, this being Victorian railways stock film, so about 1000 miles from the Transcontinental. Moral is still can't trust the media's care with facts.

Just as I remember it from my boyhood years. A great place.

Agree.how. Many skills have lost without mdernreplacemt?

It’s a far cry to what greets you now in 2023 in regards to the thriving rail industry.

This was when the good old Port was a railway town. Thanks for the memories.

Can't say I miss Port Augusta nowadays. Lived there from 1959 until 1981, and brings back some really good memories, and funnily still recognise many of the items shown in the footage from the wharf, the jetty which still stand. The Town Hall in the main street, the High School and the CWA (on the corner of Flinders Street and Stirling Road Road) and the power station which I worked at. Thanks for the great memories, a real blast from the past...

Certainly miss the good old railways. Sold off by federal Labor, shame.

I can remember the steam train coming to Coonana, some names of family who live were Blaschic Willie's, Prendergas ,it was good our parents never had to worry about us being kidnapped or gone missing as every body lookout for every one ,the good old wheel barrow was a very useful item ,I can also remember passenger on the train throwing lollies and fruit out of the windows that was long before air-conditioning if you put your head out the windows you would end up with a black face.

Cheap houses there now.

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It's a pitty South Australia's rail network is not moving people like it used to. Victoria and NSW have fantastic networks.... We've got shit.