Driver's Eye View - Mary Valley Rattler - Gympie to Amamoor
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2024
- The Mary Valley Rattler located in Queensland, Australia was formerly known as the “Mary Valley Heritage Railway”. It operates heritage trains between Gympie and Amamoor through the Mary Valley using heritage steam and diesel locomotives along with a 2000 Class DMU. It is one of the region's biggest tourist attractions and is managed as a not-for-profit organisation. Often described as Australia's third biggest heritage railway, it received funding from the Gympie Regional Council to address safety concerns in 2016. Journeys recommenced between Gympie and Amamoor on 6th October 2018.
The Mary Valley railway line branched off Queensland Rail's North Coast Railway Line, just south of Gympie and continued to Brooloo in the upper Mary Valley. Constructed started in 1911 with completion to Brooloo being celebrated in April 1915.
By the 1970s, the line became increasingly unprofitable due to the economic impact on the dairy industry of cheaper alternatives such as margarine and the loss of the British export market when the UK entered the European Economic Community. The Wide Bay Co-Operative Butter Factory in Gympie (Australia's largest butter factory in 1925) closed in May 1978 after nearly 80 years of operation. In 1988, staff were withdrawn from intermediate stations. The pineapple industry lobbied successfully to keep the line operational until 1995. In 1996 the Mary Valley Heritage Railway Board proposed operating a tourist train using volunteers and trainees. The first tourist trains commenced running on 23th May 1998.
The railway follows the Mary River Valley, crossing some of its main tributaries, including the Yabba, Kandanga and Amamoor Creeks. A C17 Class steam locomotive dating from the early 1920's and 2000 Class DMU were operating services during my visit.
The staff and volunteers are a friendly bunch who go the extra mile to make sure you enjoy your time at the railway. It's worth turning up early to enjoy a bite from the Rusty Rails cafe and watch the locomotive arrive from the loco shed and couple up to the beautifully restored rake of heritage carriages.
I'd like to thank Sherry Lowe, Nerida Kent and the locomotive crew for their help in making this video.
To learn more about the railway or the book your own Mary Valley adventure please click on this link - www.maryvalleyrattler.com.au/
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Map at 00:28 - Google Earth/Google Maps
Track Gauge - 3'6″ (1,067 mm)
Correction - The river at 01:04:12 is not Moorhouse Gully, it is Amamoor Creek
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Nothing to beat a CHOO-CHOO. SO enjoying the beautiful Australian journeys. Got my eye on a few to see in person, save save save! Thanks Tim❤❤❤
Hello Anna, this is a lovely railway, if you are travelling that way, it's worth a visit. There are some nice railways a lot closer to you, are you planning to visit some of them? Best wishes. Tim 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 as soon as I saved up enough. Transalpine is a must. I want my daughter and grandchildren to go with me, but it will happen ❤️
@@annawitter5161 Hello Anna you are lucky to live where do, because the TransAlpine and the Coastal Pacfic trains both start out close to your home town. I can hand on heart recommend the two trains, they are world class. I hope you don't have to wait too long. Best wishes. Tim.
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Thanks, Tim. Great memories of doing this trip about the same time as you.
Hello Chris, I really enjoyed visiting this railway, it's nice to step back in time to see the world as it used to be.
Thanks again Tim. Just up the road from me. It was a pity you did not catch the turning of the loco on the turntable at Amamoor. I travelled on it years ago when it ran to Imbil.
You live in a nice part of the world, the crew had the locomotive on the turntable and turned before I'd had chance to get there, I should have been quicker off the mark. It must have a memorable experience travelling to Imbil by train.
Great restored railway thanks Tim, It's wonderful it was saved from the wrecking crew cheers Bob.🚂🚃🚃🚃🛤🍺🍺
Hello Bob, it's nice to be able to travel on this train and experience the railway as it was back in the 50's & 60's 🍺😊.
Hi Tim! The steam engine works excellent with a good sound 👍 and the sameday is rescued. Best regards from the Mühlviertel 🍻🇦🇹.
Hello Hans, it's nice to hear the sound of a steam locomotive working hard, I hope you enjoyed the video. 🍻 Tim.
Nice to see parts of Oz that the tourist brochures don't show! Interesting semaphores, a white-painted rocking pole with a red O at the cess end!
I love to get off the tourist trail and this railway is a real gem, I have a number of books showing Australian branch lines in the steam age such as Eric Marggraf's "This Was the Railway". The Mary Valley Railway brings those evocative photographs to life.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I know Eric Marggraf's book well. I had no idea you were down my way of the world. I am currently using your latest WHR videos to aid my training as I am returning to Wales for another stint again soon. They are very good and I have only found the one video for the up direction from Beddgelert to Port. Are there others from Caernarfon to Port? Any how I am a steam driver at the Rattler and would have loved to met you but I suspect you were there on a Wednesday, I can only do weekends. If you are in Wales (Boston Lodge) this UK summer ask about for Dazza. (one of the Aussies, as there will be two of us this year)
That is not a signal. It is an apparatus left over from the filming of a US Game show some years ago and it has not been removed.
@@LlewellynBikesIt's a really nice book, his photographs are excellent. The people on the WHR go the extra mile to make sure visitors enjoy their time at the railway, I'm planning on visiting the WHR again this summer, with a bit of luck it won't be raining and I'll be given permission to video the route from Caernarfon to Porthmadog. The only video I'm aware of showing the route in that direction is by Video 125 - www.video125.com/search?q=welsh+highland+railway It would have been nice to meet up at the Mary Valley Railway. I know a number of volunteers on the WHR and the FR, I'll ask if any of them know Dazza. I live on England's South Coast between the Bluebell Railway and the Watercress Line. One of my travelling companions used to be a driver on the Puffing Billy, now he is a station master at Menzies Creek. I met a driver on the Bluebell Railway who spends half the year driving on the Bluebell Railway and the other half driving on Puffing Billy, although Covid put an end to his travelling for a few years. Queensland Rail run some of the best trains in Australia and they are a fraction of the price of the well know trains such as the Ghan or the Indian Pacific. Outside of Queensland. I meet very few people who have heard of the Spirit of the Outback, the Spirit of Queensland, the Gulflander or the Savannahlander. I will visit Queensland again to film the sugar cane trains, they fascinate me. Maybe we'll meet up one day.
Palavras para quê simplesmente espetacular muito obrigado pela partilha
Obrigado, estou muito feliz que você tenha gostado do passeio
I may have skipped the previous videos out of boredom, but there was no way on earth I could possibly have ignored this. This is my favourite kind of Driver's Eye View with a steam engine.
Now that you can do it, let's make a chain now,
Chugga-chugga motion like a railway train now.
Do it nice and easy now, don't lose control,
A little bit of rhythm and a lotta soul.
So come on, do
The locomotion with me.
I could kiss you for this, lol.
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video, it was a nice railway to visit and the staff and volunteers were very friendly. I have about a dozen cab ride videos waiting to be edited and uploaded to RUclips, you will like some of them, but not all. I liked your poem, was it inspired by the Little Eva song "the Loco-Motion"? 😊
@@Timsvideochannel1 It is the Little Eva song, The Locomotion. I sang the lyrics to let you know how happy you made me feel. In the 1980s, Kylie Minogue recorded a cover version on the song.
@@kellyashfordtrains2642I can name most of the old songs, but I'd be at a loss to name any of the songs in the charts today. The old ones are the best, but that might be a reflection on my age.
Great sound but bad camera position. The locomotive takes up half a screen and the view is only to the left. A pity. Still, it's worth seeing. Greetings from Germany 👍🙂🙋🏼♂️
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the sound, I placed the camera as far forward as I could get away with, I'd love to have placed it on the front of the engine, as it was I was grateful for being allowed to place a camera on the locomotive.
@@Timsvideochannel1 👍🙋♂
The locomotive operator appears to have a very limited view of the right hand side of the track ahead. Is that true or is this video view a result of camera placement?
Driver is the eyes on the right hand bends, fireman is the eyes on the left. It's important to have route knowledge so you know when to have an eye out as the track curves to your side
Looks very dry does it rain often ? very special country but the ride was smooth i almost fell asleep ! LOL😄
It's not as dry as it looks. Out of interest I looked up the average rainfall in my home town and Gypie. The average rainfall in Bognor Regis - 928 mm | 36.5 inch per year, the average rainfall in Gympie - 855 mm | 33.7 inch per year. Bognor Regis has plenty of rain and the rainfall in Gypie is similar although the difference between the dry season and the wet season is more pronounced. The excellent steady software built into today’s GoPro cameras makes all trains appear to be much smoother than they actually are 😉.
I don't hear any rattles in that fine locomotive.
The locomotive sounded really good. I looked on the internet to find out where the name originated, this is the answer I found - "The railway's correct name is the Mary Valley Heritage Railway; 'Rattler' is actually the name for an individual train, a vintage railbus called the Red Rocket, which used to convey schoolchildren up and down the valley".
Thanks Tim. 🏳🌈
Cheers, I hope you enjoyed it 😊.
Interesting to note Gympie Railway Station hasn't yet caught up with the late 20th Century, let alone the 21st Century? Still using semaphore signalling.
Don't you just love it 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Visit Gympie and go 60 years back in time! Visit Queensland and go 40 years back in time! LOL😁
@@neilforbes416 QLD has got more to offer then NSW.
@@robertcoleman4861 Queensland, even today, has *STILL* not shaken off the stigma of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, *AND NEVER WILL!* And Queensland's Police *STILL* carry the *STENCH OF CORRUPTION* from that era, and *WILL NEVER BE RID OF THAT STENCH!*
It is not mainline any more. It is a heritage railway. Actually there are no working semaphore signals on the line. The one recently installed at the station platform that appears to be a Starter is non working and is on the base of the colour light signals that were all removed in the 1990's. I am just back from the weekend of firing and driving 967.
44:25 Why did they call that road *Butler Road?* Because they were *Maid* to! LOL😄
Groan, that's a terrible joke and what makes it worse is that it still made me smile 😁.
@@Timsvideochannel1 😄
@@neilforbes416 Good luck for this weekend for steamfest it looks like your in for some good weather.
@@Mediawatcher2023 Ssssshhhhhhhh!!!! Don't say too much in case you "Jonah" the weather! LOL
@@neilforbes416 oh yes you invaded by green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants 😆
Hello me autistic train man as well
Hi, I hope you enjoyed the video 😊.
Какая красота!!!! Timsvideochannel1,вы большой молодец,что дарите это видео людям
Спасибо, я очень рад, что вам понравилась поездка
@@Timsvideochannel1 очень нравится ваш канал! Но мне кажется,что лучше,если это конечно возможно в вашей ситуации,устанавливать камеру не сбоку локомотива,а спереди! Так обзор лучше!
@@MrAsdafic Приятно знать, что вам нравится смотреть этот канал. Мне не разрешили разместить камеру в передней части локомотива, потому что путь был в плохом состоянии, и они не хотели, чтобы его показывали на RUclips, потому что слишком много людей прокомментировали бы состояние пути. Мне разрешили поставить его сбоку от локомотива, потому что вид на путь закрывал паровозный котел.