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At 5:45 see the fuel depot (right), and what was the admin building and manpower office with drivers standby room (centre) (played many games of euchre in there), used to be a cafe as part of the building and lockers and wash room upstairs. I passed for driving there, was there 1971 t0 1983. Thank you for the video.

That looks familiar

Hey mate I have two old VW,s in my shed I could have shown you when you were in avenel funnily my first VW was a 65 beetle almost exactly the same as in this video I painted it gmh blue in the shed is two type 3,s a 65 fastback and a notchback thanks for this video I've never gotten to this show it's on my birthday 🎉stay well mate 🤟

Is it safe to swim at this beach (ie is the water clean?)

Watching this from the UK. What a great collection of images, many thanks for sharing these on RUclips.

Im in Rockbank

From January 1950 until about June of that year my folks lived at Rockbank as we had just spent 6 weeks at sea from the U,K. We were to live on a property owned by Mr Bill Cockbill. The house (I think bluestone construction) seemed to be in a direct line from the school, but a long way away from it. It was the first school that I attended and so much was strange. My sister and I walked over the paddocks to get to the school, crossing the railway line on the way. I was very interested in railways and enjoyed seeing the Overland from Adelaide come flying past. We also saw many coal trains heading for Melbourne. Although only six months, the area made a big impression on me. In June we moved to Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. I have quite a few memories of Rock Bank.

I ownef a 3 hectare lot at Lima East and i got to know the area teally well.If you included the populatiom of Lima Easy Swampool would be a larger population than the cencus records.

This is a new one for me! ..... And I have lived in Melbourne the majority of my life!

Rockbank has gone ‘ whoosh’ in the last 5 years. From a scattering of houses and a business and a tiny tiny station to full blown suburb and massive station. I still am old enough to remember the Rockbank Lion Safari next to the Western Highway/Freeway (and there was another out at Bacchus Marsh).

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All the hundreds of times I have driven through Smeaton and never new about the Mill or the other old buildings in the town . Great, video Ime off to have a look asap

Some of my ancestors came from Smeaton one was namedd after the town, Smeaton Wright was his name as my great grandmother was named Eureka Wright after the Eureka stockade. Just a bit of trivia.

Sorry, memory fade, 50 plus years ago, platform 1 booking office would also open during weekday morning peak hours when trains from the Frankston line would go through there. The brick building on the island platform, between the new disabled toilet and the end of the platform, used to be the male toilet with the entrance door at the disabled toilet end, the door towards the end of the building was a store room. I don't know what it is used for now. Coming from the Frankston/Dandenong end, the main station building on the island platform contained the Ladies toilets that were accessed from the Ladies Waiting Room, the Ladies Waiting Room had doors either side of the building with doors that could be closed. Next was a waiting room which was open on both sides. Then there was doors both sides of the building into a foyer with the Station Masters office one side of the foyer and the station staff locker room the other side. The station staff locker room is now the waiting room at the top of the ramp.

I worked at Caulfield Station in the first half of the 70's. The shop in the subway was the main booking office and was called the centre booking office. From the centre booking office, tickets were sold to all Melbourne & Victorian destinations and to major interstate destinations. There were 2 booking clerks on duty for most of the hours the booking office was open which was from first train in the morning to last train at night. The booking office on platform 1 only opened on race days. In those days there were race specials every race day. The booking office on platform 4, which was also the parcels office, sold tickets to Dandenong, Gippsland & South Gippsland line destinations. The platform 4 booking office would open during weekday peak hours and during off peaks & Saturdays it would open 20 to 30 minutes prior to the passage of a Gippsland or South Gippsland train.

Should notify steamrail or 707ops about the findings

I have driven 209M many times,alltough not anymore.

I know where they are very close to my home.

Carlton red brick towers next to

Another great Vlog, I’m wondering if they belong to someone who had every intention of making them into a holiday house? Or maybe a train enthusiast,who just wanted his own train set, but either run out of money to complete the concept , or became gravely ill and not able to finish the job, In other rural settings you may come across old W class trams who have suffered the same fate, ! People buy them as a holiday rental etc, but because of other issues in there lives , never get the trams completed to live in, I know of a VR railmotor that’s under a carport type of covering on the back roads near Barfold in central Victoria, it’s been there for 40 + years I know of and looks very derelict, cheers from Downunder 🦘🦘🦘❤️🇦🇺

I know exactly where they are. As you can see them from the nearby car park wink wink (which shall remain nameless of course). And it’s on private land with a grouchy owner if caught. I have heard of others approaching him to sell and he wouldn’t part with them. Hence the condition they are in now.

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the 3rd car was a hitachi car. it dates from the 1970's. the first car dates from the early 1900's or 1910's. it was for country journeys. it has compartments, a corridor and toilets, one at either end. they were my favourites for country journeys. you rarely shared a compartment with strangers. the second car is special. first introduced in 1888, i think, they had swing doors and compartments and intended for country journeys. but no toilets. later on some were turned into corridor cars. in the 1910's, most of these were lengthened and became the dog box electric trains. they were my favourite trains. they stopped being used around 1973, were sent to north of ballarat and burnt. a few survived and ended up on farms. there was a restored dog box train at newport workshops but were deliberately burnt to the ground in 2015. of these carriages in their original size though probably stripped out for use as workman's sleepers, there is one on tracks at east ballarat yard, and another at mornington railway, neither are under cover. this car needs to be saved, whatever the condition. i note that some of the bogies near it have timber in the construction. they will be original. i have seen these 2 cars in this video on another video a while ago. i have a fair idea what area they are in. i'd love to steal the swing door car but it wont fit in my backyard.

Geez…I was so excited when I checked your other videos after watching Kongwak. I watched you do the primary schools of so many other places but not Kilcunda. I was a student there in 1975. There was 1 teacher (Mr.Obrian) and 16 pupils at the school in total. I remember a few names. I used to catch the train from Kilcunda back to Melbourne with my dad sometimes. We lived in Hill street. The house is still there but surrounded by modern houses. The primary school closed down decades ago but is still there on Ridge Rd.

Us locals pronounce it carls roo. Prob not right but we’re aussies 😂

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Now you're really in my backyard!! 😅. Beautiful spot and the museum is a real asset to the community. The Crank Up Heritage & Community Festival is held there every March. Wood chop comps and steam engines on display, plus many other exhibits. The rail trail you mentioned runs 40km, all the way from Lilydale to Warburton and passes through some very scenic locations.

Hi, It is that Ausie/Swede again writing from Sweden. Thank you for a very interesting Video. My grandfather had a farm at Gladysdale (next town up the road to Powelltown) and the first time we visited him there, we took the train from Moe (Yallourn was my home town) to Flinders Steet Station and then another to Yarra Junction where he picked us up. I would have been about 10 then. So as you can imagine, this brings back a whole lot of memories for me. Thank you foor a great video, by the way we did not use the word Caboose, it was a Guardsvan.

Hey mate I really like this video it's represented and great for location as well I will have to check it out

interesting place. if that picture is that tractor before it was pulled out of the bush, 12:37, the loader attachment wasnt home made. malcolm moore was in williamstown road port melbourne. i knew a lot of people who got apprenticeships there. long after this was made, i might add.

Rattle67, I don't remember a house where the lighthouse is. At least not between 1950 and 1965. Where the CFA headquarters, the Rotary Park and the lighthouse are, was the site of the Cape Clear Hall and tennis court. Could it be that the bitumen surface of the Basketball half-court is the remnants of the old tennis court? Cape Clear was home to our family until the early 60s. Fond memories of the streetscape, pub, General Store, Primary School (an earlier version) and garage. Thanks for the memory.

Same old N/\Z1 camp

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Thanks great info and show from what you had to put up. Your drown take off never panned to right or behind to show where we were, BTW. No pics of inside the market available. That would have been even more interesting. Same with the Fish Market nearby, demolished a bit earlier, but there were some pics of inside as it had its own rail siding, but again nothing of the operation inside which would have been fascinating. Not much about the Eastern market, gone much earlier, maybe a few exterior shots, history missed. Thanks anyway, enjoyed, a bit long though.

The Misery Creek Bridge collapsed during the September 2016 floods with most of it being washed down stream. Only a portion remains.

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i knew this area well 50 years ago. there used to be very classy but run down buildings along some of the old gold-era coach roads. there are a lot of old coach roads in this area. you can tell they were coach roads because the roads would veer around large trees instead of going straight. there was a 2 storey building along this road you are on that i used to wish that one day i had the time and money to restore it. i assumed it was doomed to be wrecked by time or bushfires. however it was the star of a 'restoration australia' episode. it looked a treat when it was finished.

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Great video thank you. I have passed through the area many times driving to Maldon from Geelong.

Another great exploration of a by gone township, I’ve traveled through this area many times over the years , and never really found any of the places you have in this video, thanks and have a great day, cheers from Downunder 🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺❤️

Woohoo. Good video. Near(ish) my home (about 20 kms away). Yes it was an old store AND hotel. Marvellous how someone has restored that building to a home from that old ruined building in your photo. Thats always great to see. Slight correction : it’s not on the Midland Highway (Wikipedia is not always correct). That’s about 4 km back and travels between Daylesford and Castlemaine. You turn off it. Franklinford is on the C285 or Newstead road (as we call it). PS: the general store in Newstead does great burgers and bacon, egg and toast breakkies old style. Cheap, big serves but no fancy fuss.

That was really cool. I went to school in Alexandra, but I can't picture where the station would have been, does anyone know? I instantly recognised Colac station. I live there now and nothing at all looks different!

MAte - fantastic! Looking to do an overnight hike in this area, and this was the info i needed. Great work

explains way the street was called market street.

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Great stuff. I really enjoyed learning about the Western Market. I had a vague idea that it was once on the site, but now I know a lot more about it.

Great presentation -been past there hundreds of times & never realised the full extent of the area!

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