Thank you for taking the time to visit us for the day we had returned K163 to public operations after it's extensive mechanical overhaul. Your video shares so much awesome information of the Mornington Lines history including our operations as a tourist attraction on the Mornington Peninsula.
Great to see a preserved tourist railway like this in Aus. These are common in the UK, so glad that this exists and good luck to them in all their endeavours!
We are fortunate here in Victoria as we have a number of successful Heritage Railways along with the Mornington Steam Railway.... Spa Country Railway at Daylesford, Castlemaine - Maldon Railway and the Yarra Valley at Healesville plus the narrow gauge railways 'Puffing Billy' Belgrave - Gembrook and the Walhalla Railway
Good to see they finally got it back running! I dream about the day they reconnect the track to baxter. Imagine if all the rail fans in victoria got together for a weekend and did like a working bee there.
@@WillJamesRailways Hopefully i know if they did a working bee/ fundraiser event thing a lot of people would be keen to help out. I know when puffing billy was being restored to gem brook my father went up there every day as a teenager or young adult i cannot really remember and would lay the track well obviously these days you cannot have kids doing that stuff and all the OHS that comes with it but if they did one for like cutting up the trees and cutting back the weeds ect along the track so they could have it inspected you know and so you can walk along it at least that would be great. I contacted a volunteer there a while ago about maybe doing one he never got back to me though apart from telling me he would ask someone higher up about it and that he thought it was a good idea.
To be honest, doesn’t look any worse than the rest of the Frankston/Casey/Cardinia area. All the rain in late Spring/earlier Summer made controlling the growth impossible, even now councils and VicRoads are still playing catch up.
The problem is that with most railway preservation groups they have more jobs to do than they have members to do them. You could always become a member of the society and help them with this task instead of complaining about it.
Such a lovely old rail line and that steam engine has been restored absolutely beautifully. It's really nice to see parts of history preserved like this.
I love the fact that our state government had the forward planning back in the late 00s to build a tunnel under Peninsula Link. So the trains will one day be able to join the main line to Melbourne.
Thank you Will, a very good video you have made another very informative Minnie view of history. We are glad you are able to let us know what is going on with heritage railway groups. Keep up you production.
Another great video Will!! This has just strengthened my resolve to get to see this railway. IT seems from your video, that they allow cab rides - or was that specifically organised by yourself? Either way - I'll make an effort to get out there.
Nice video Will. Nice to see K163 back at Mornington. I'm planning on going up around the end of the month or early February as I missed out on that day. It's been a few years since I have been to the Mornington Railway it will be good to go back up. - Nicholas.
Wonderful video as always will! Was good to see you down and have you down! Hope the carbide was a good one with such a wonderful crew! I always see me in two clips haha 😅
It would be nice for sure, but at least you can get the train to Frankston and any of a number of buses from there to Mornington, Dromana, and even Rosebud. Hopefully, they can get the line extended to Baxter over time and it would be a great rail trip then.
