Oil trains and heavy artillery? Fyshwick and Molonglo Siding | Lost in Time (Episode 5)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2024
  • Welcome to Lost in Time, a short series of documentary videos showcasing the lost railways of the ACT, and an exploration to see what survives.
    Today we take a look at the railway sidings in Fyshwick, and the wide variety of cargo they've handled over the past century.
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Комментарии • 17

  • @griffinfails3689
    @griffinfails3689 Год назад +4

    I had absolutely no clue about this! Fascinating episode of all time, I would never have guessed we would ever have had railway cannons.

    • @johnd8892
      @johnd8892 5 месяцев назад

      This disjointed report left out the better important points that this was a German rail gun captured by the Australian diggers in the final turning of the stalemate under Sir John Monash.
      Far more significant in world history than the concentration on barely used internment camps.

  • @Scott-un7lc
    @Scott-un7lc Год назад +4

    Great video

  • @jamiekeenan7731
    @jamiekeenan7731 Год назад +2

    Really interesting video series, thank you for these! I would love to know more about the Tuggeranong railway station that closed in the mid-70s and the planned rail line to the planned Tuggeranong Arsenal.

  • @1npag
    @1npag 10 месяцев назад +2

    An excellent video, very interesting and professionally produced. One point however- the shameful dismantling of the Amiens Gun by the Department of Defence was not undertaken during the Second World War, but much later. I can remember the complete Gun parked at the edge of the station on Wentworth Avenue in the early 1960s.

  • @patgagel7035
    @patgagel7035 4 месяца назад +1

    The water supply reservoir for the Molonglo Camp is still on the hill in the trees cnr of Canberra Ave and Newcastle St.

  • @bitey6709
    @bitey6709 Год назад +5

    I've seen the gun barrel, but how much more impressive it would appear if it were still on it's carriage. It would by now have bought in so much more money than it realised as scrap.

  • @SpottoBotto
    @SpottoBotto Год назад +1

    Great video. I've always wondered why there were so many tracks

  • @timhorton698
    @timhorton698 3 месяца назад +1

    2:20 how did they get the gun to Canberra? How did it fit through the tunnels?

  • @johnd8892
    @johnd8892 5 месяцев назад +1

    This disjointed report left out the far more important points that this was a German rail gun captured by the Australian diggers in the final turning of the WW1 stalemate under Sir John Monash.
    Far more significant in world history than the concentration on barely used internment camps etc.

    • @canberrarail
      @canberrarail  5 месяцев назад +2

      This video is about the rail gun’s relation to Canberra’s railways specifically. We could always do a deeper dive on the rail gun itself in a future episode.

  • @metricstormtrooper
    @metricstormtrooper Год назад +4

    I'm really looking forward to riding one of your historic trains early April, here in Hobart the transport museum is only allowed to use about 500 metres of the now disused main line into Macquarie point and out to Bridgwater, which is just a sad inditement of the anti rail state liberal government.

  • @patgagel7035
    @patgagel7035 4 месяца назад

    What ever happened to the ‘Government Siding’ behind Yallorn Street? Is it still Government owned? The museum is not Brambles, it is Bill Cleary’s place next door.

  • @ballantynemoyes8019
    @ballantynemoyes8019 Год назад

    Where is Bork? Is it anywhere near Bourke? 🙂

  • @patgagel7035
    @patgagel7035 4 месяца назад

    I have the drawings for the original Trackfast.

  • @kellyswoodyard
    @kellyswoodyard 3 месяца назад +2

    There's government priorities for you. They could waste time and massive resource's to bring that stupid gun back to Australia, but not the troops senselessly murdered in Europe.