Sigh! The only train missing was the steam train that picked me up in Bayswater five days a week and rocketed - sorry, rAcketed - me to West Midland in time for classes at Governor Stirling Senior High School . Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your video on You Tube , if it wasn't for your efforts ( & that of others ) people like me wouldn't have had the pleasure of seeing what you got to see in person , you were so lucky to get these shots , it's just a pitty that you didn't get to record any sounds on a tape recorder at the time that you'd filmed these great shots otherwise this video would have been so much better.
The films were stored in a cupboard for more than 45 years with little hope of them being seen again. Thanks to the internet and RUclips they have been made public. When they were shot back in 1970, the internet was not even on the horizon. Fortunately the films were stored in darkness and in ideal conditions. They are not supposed to last that long. I was only passing through the area on an around Australia trip at the the time. If I'd lived there I'd have taken more
reidgck Thanks for your efforts on making these films available Very Much Appreciated indeed! I've got Adrian Gunsberg's Book A History Of Western Australian Government Railways Steam Locomotives which is very informative!🙂🚂🚃🚃🛤️
My grand father could of been driving that train. He ran out of Fremantle and all over western Australia for over 50 years. Old Harold Dennis. God rest his soul.
The Hotham Valley Railway in Dwellingup Western Australia is the other one I was trying to think of closed at the moment due to Covid 19 Restrictions!🤔🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🌳🌳🌳🌳🇦🇺
This is fantastic Steam Locomotives in action in the South West in actual service 50 years ago! Got the Book by Adrian Gunsberg History Of Western Australian Government Railways Steam Locomotives which I can highly Recommend and one of the Train Hobby Pictorial Books Steam In The Southwest Of Western Australia!🤗🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🇦🇺
There's not a lot of video footage of Steam Locomotive action in Western Australia there's a bit on a DVD I have called Steam In Australia but it's mostly Heritage Trains around the South West Pemberton Etc!🙂🚂🚃🚃🚃🛤️🇦🇺
I didn't realise there is a shortage of film regarding actual steam operations on the WAGR. I was there only two or three days on a trip around Aus but made it a point to take some film of what was every day happenings back then. I thought at the time that steam operations would be there a few more years but It wasn't long after before it was all history.
I lived in Dwellingup before and after the first big fire and was used to seeing steam trains (both wood burners and coal fed locos). During school holidays, my mates and I would spend hours down in the rail yard while the drivers were busy shunting and were lucky enough to ride on the footplate many times. Those are the days to be remembered...I'm 74 now and the mere sound of a steam loco is enough to have me hunting around for a look, not to mention the smell of burning coal.
you can't get rid of the noise, its the film moving through the recorder and sorry to say it's pretty much unremovable unless you mute the youtube video
Man, that takes me back! Pity it was silent film, but still very nostalgic. Thank you.
Thanks for going to the trouble of converting it and uploading it, these are just wonderful. My grandad was a train guard in WA.
Beautiful, just beautiful! Got any more? 😊
Sigh! The only train missing was the steam train that picked me up in Bayswater five days a week and rocketed - sorry, rAcketed - me to West Midland in time for classes at Governor Stirling Senior High School .
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your video on You Tube , if it wasn't for your efforts ( & that of others ) people like me wouldn't have had the pleasure of seeing what you got to see in person , you were so lucky to get these shots , it's just a pitty that you didn't get to record any sounds on a tape recorder at the time that you'd filmed these great shots otherwise this video would have been so much better.
The films were stored in a cupboard for more than 45 years with little hope of them being seen again. Thanks to the internet and RUclips they have been made public. When they were shot back in 1970, the internet was not even on the horizon. Fortunately the films were stored in darkness and in ideal conditions. They are not supposed to last that long. I was only passing through the area on an around Australia trip at the the time. If I'd lived there I'd have taken more
reidgck Thanks for your efforts on making these films available Very Much Appreciated indeed! I've got Adrian Gunsberg's Book A History Of Western Australian Government Railways Steam Locomotives which is very informative!🙂🚂🚃🚃🛤️
My grand father could of been driving that train. He ran out of Fremantle and all over western Australia for over 50 years. Old Harold Dennis. God rest his soul.
Yes for sure, he and all the other great drivers and firemen did a great job keeping the trains of those times rolling
I worked with your grandfather in Wongan Hills in 1981. I guess he was in his sixties then.
The Hotham Valley Railway in Dwellingup Western Australia is the other one I was trying to think of closed at the moment due to Covid 19 Restrictions!🤔🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🌳🌳🌳🌳🇦🇺
This is fantastic Steam Locomotives in action in the South West in actual service 50 years ago! Got the Book by Adrian Gunsberg History Of Western Australian Government Railways Steam Locomotives which I can highly Recommend and one of the Train Hobby Pictorial Books Steam In The Southwest Of Western Australia!🤗🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🛤️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🇦🇺
I was a month off being born but nice to see the old trains in perth
Thanks for your comment. You are giving your age away. Glad you like the film. Posted just for you.
Thanks for your comment. You are giving your age away. Glad you like the film. Posted just for you.
There's not a lot of video footage of Steam Locomotive action in Western Australia there's a bit on a DVD I have called Steam In Australia but it's mostly Heritage Trains around the South West Pemberton Etc!🙂🚂🚃🚃🚃🛤️🇦🇺
I didn't realise there is a shortage of film regarding actual steam operations on the WAGR. I was there only two or three days on a trip around Aus but made it a point to take some film of what was every day happenings back then. I thought at the time that steam operations would be there a few more years but It wasn't long after before it was all history.
I lived in Dwellingup before and after the first big fire and was used to seeing steam trains (both wood burners and coal fed locos). During school holidays, my mates and I would spend hours down in the rail yard while the drivers were busy shunting and were lucky enough to ride on the footplate many times. Those are the days to be remembered...I'm 74 now and the mere sound of a steam loco is enough to have me hunting around for a look, not to mention the smell of burning coal.
I am the same colour as the locos .
you mean, out of date, old, rusty and need of repair?
I thought they stopped using steam in 1975
no, it was 1971
Great footage but sound please get rid of it just a noise .
you can't get rid of the noise, its the film moving through the recorder and sorry to say it's pretty much unremovable unless you mute the youtube video