Melbourne to Belgrave in the front cab of the train. 18 Sept 1994. To Camberwell Station. . From Camberwell Station to Belgrave. The last few miles had a lot of rain on the cab windscreen.
Fantastic video, would love to see a Comeng out that side of town again these days. Also great to see the old style stations before all the upgrades and level crossing removals of the recent years.
Even at the time this was done it was 36 years AFTER the closure of puffing billy. Yet I can recall the magic of that underpass and sloping ramp up to a completely different world. Hidden from view until this moment. Then the long slog out of the station, past the stabling yards and up above the gantry and the transfer shed. In my mind's eye I could see it all as the electric train sped through the same area. Perhaps the rain made it even more believable.
A reminder of how much the stations were left to fall apart until recently. Lilydale was my main line, but we always travelled with my grandmother into the city via Boronia & Bayswater, then I did alot when I moved in with her during my later studies. I'm so glad they're getting fixed, saw way too many pedestrian & car accident on those two lines (I'm down Pakenham now and they're finally getting to the ones down here!)
Thanks Phoenix. I have been uploading 31 x 45 min videos from Dallas Texas to Los Angeles in April 2001. You can see them at this site for the Preview songs and at the BitChute site for the full videos. You will see links from each RU-vid Preview to the full videos.
Hii Sophie, Yes I was very pleased to find these videos before the crossing removals. If you look at the Train to Sandringham video, which seems to me have been made on a Saturday, you will be surprised at how empty the carriages seem. Now, if you take any suburban train it has lots more people on it.
Thanks Gary. Yes I grew up in Melbourne as well and love the train network. I was surprised to see an ad before the video. This is the first ad I have seen on any of my over 200 videos!
It's amazing to see what the Belgrave/Lilydale line looked like before all the level crossing removals and before the construction of Eastlink. I do wonder if any stations were removed because of Eastlink.
None removed due to EastLink, but definitely a lot of changes due to the crossings and rebuilt stations. Weird to see old Boronia here, given it was put underground in 1998.
Did that trip as a passenger many times ! I remember once seeing some childhood enemies of mine at Boronia station ! As the train pulled in I saw them before they saw me and I got off real quick ! 😭😀🇦🇺Four of them and only one of me ! . Great channel ! .
So much memorabilia from the spot where the lines become double track just past Box Hill all the way to Ringwood. There is not a single level crossing in between those 2 stations any more, and this video allows us to re-live all of them as they were before even one sod of earth was dug up to remove them. The scenery itself looks far better than the ugly concrete cuttings which are there now. Great to see the old stations too, especially the curved Laburnum Station. And in between 35:30 and 35:35 the train passes through the spot where Eastlink got built years before it was there. But that's not all. We even get to see both Bayswater and Boronia before their old stations were bulldozed and when the level crossings there still existed., including no rail stabling area at Bayswater on the left side of the train next to the station, and no shopping complex between Boronia Station and the Boronia level crossing.
Nice video, but at Box Hill station the only actual improvement is that the platform TV screens have been upgraded, in 30 YEARS! It even still has the completely empty/unused 4th platform! Such a disgrace of a station. It perfectly sums up the mismanagement and incompetence of Melbourne train system for at least 4 decades.
Some of those silver railcars ran well into the late 00's, just with the green paint stripped. The doors were heavy and they made a lot of noise at the walkway between carriages, with those steel plates scraping each other that formed the bridge.
I worked in the city for a year in 1971 as a young girl and would get off at Ringwood. I barely remember it, but I do remember my pay, working in an office for $30 a week. $4 board, $8 for weekly train ticket, $10 in the bank and the remaining $8 for clothing and lunches.😃
No Federation Square, Princes Bridge is still there, The promenade bridge from Birrarung Marr to the M.C.G. is not there, Hitachi sets everywhere, the M.C.G. unfinished with the old stands surrounding the northern side of the ground, Wooden sleepers being replaced with concrete ones and continuous rails replacing short clickety clack ones. The infrastructure has definately improved over the last 30 years.....
Thanks for the request on what time this video was done. I am not sure. It looks to me that it would have been around midday for the train to Belgrave, and about 2 pm or so for the train back, as it seems to have been afternoon when I returned.
I remberner the original Blackburn station 1970's. Yard on the left side with GY trucks and an E class shunting. Briquettes and mallee roots. The cutting beside BoxHill Cemetery GY wagons derailed with Y class hauling them about 1980? Oh and working across from the original above ground station signal box and old gates over Station Street. There was a wheel in the signal box to oen and closed the gates.
And thank those who think and record today for tomorrow's history. 1950's 60's,70's, 80'....on an on. They know things don't stay the same so record it.
Thanks everyone for lots of good comments. I have recently completed uploading 51 x 45 min videos of a 1998 trip from Melbourne to Cairns. Intro videos are in this RU-vid site, which direct you to the main videos at BitChute.
Hi Everyone. I have been uploading 31 x 45 min videos from Dallas Texas to Los Angeles in April 2001. You can see them at this site for the Preview songs and at the BitChute site for the full videos. You will see links from each RU-vid Preview to the full videos
18th September 1994 was a Sunday . I was a guard at this time . on this particular day I ran the 09.23 down and the 10.45 up Belgrave trains . any idea what was the time of your train here ?? pretty sure I am not on this train though , the bells are too fast @
I know I had to change video tapes in the camera at Camberwell. It may have taken longer than the space between Camberwell and East Camberwell. So East Camberwell may have been missed on the train to Belgrave. However, on the return trip Belgrave to Melbourne, I am sure it will be there.
I did see that video, both excellent uploads, it's just that my house is virtually minutes away from that station, so its good to see what EC Station was like in the 90's again. By the way, you weren't driving the train?
No. I am not a train driver. I am not sure how I ended up being able to film from the cabin that day. So no matter what else I may have had planned for the day, I stayed in the front all the way to Belgrave and back. I still often take the train to Burwood station to see my homeopathic doctor, Anthony Von Moger, so of course I go through the East Camberwell bypass then. And I have relatives past Lilydale still take the main line up there as well.
Thanks for your encouragement. I have about another 1000 hours of video to wade through! Lots of trains. Trains in Australia, USA, Europe, UK, even one in India. Lots of bands. About 120 more than those I have already put up.
