Swingdoor Electric Suburban Trains on the Alamein Line 1960s
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Swingdoor Electric Trains on the Alamein Line in the 1960s. The Alamein line is a relatively short suburban branch line in the Melbourne suburban railway system. It was originally part of the
outer circular Railway. The swing door cars were from the early days of railway electrification and were taken out of service not
many years after these pictures were taken.
What a wonderful peace of filming. Being a Pom brought up with EMUs (Third rail type) and seeing these lovely units along with Tait units is really cool. I've even started modeling the Taits. Let's hope these come available too soon.
Great to see. I remember catching a red on the Alamein line as late as 1883/4. They weren't the swing doors though.
When our railways had a heart.
Thanks for the memories, I lived behind the Riversdale station on Spencer Rd in the early 70,s. (Previously we backed onto the train line near Mont Albert station, steam also:) ) Just love the videos, and memories of a much better time.
The bridge at 1:30 was a second play-ground for myself and my sister, who grew up a few hundred meters over the other side, past the bowling and tennis clubs. We used to get up inside the girders on hands and knees and thrill to the rumble as the trains went over - such drama! - eventually crawling along the girders and clear across the road. Dustings of Burwood was just under the Hartwell bridge that appears at 2:20 - my father purchased his Holdens there, and when the golden Premier needed a re-spray around 1976 after a prang, my Malvern Star bicycle also got a lick of gold paint - it had had the top and front tubes replaced after it got bent in an altercation with a car door. I'm sure I had the only golden Malvern Star in Melbourne! Such good memories!
lovely!
another fine clip from your good self. if its dog boxes i love it. i note the self serve petrol sign at 2:22. i didn't think that stuff happened till the mid to late 70's. i certainly wont question your dating of this like i did once before. the latest car i saw was an eh holden. for a second i thought the driver was my old man. that driver had the same haircut style as my old man used to always have. but it wasn't him. he's carrying a bit too much weight and walked differently. the old man might turn up in another video.
I used to get self serve petrol after hours in about 1964. Don't know when swingdoor trains were withdrawn from the Alamein line but thyey were replaced by Tait cars as newer trains displaced the Taits on the rest of the system. Apparently withdrawals started in late 1961 and withdrawn cars were taken to Allendale near Ballarat and burnt. Bogies from many scrapped swingdoor trains were reconditioned and used under the new Y class diesels. All the swingdoor electric trains were withdrawn by 1974. A few Holdens in the film to gloat over. Don't think they were before their time. (EH=1964?) But anyway, the scenes in the film date back many moons before the EH Holden era..I haunted the Dandenong plant not the FB one.
When I left they were up to the HR. It was great to see the Holdens being assembled. They had a fleet of Bedford trucks that transported the major Fishermans Bend manufactured major parts to Dandenong. Also there was a fleet of railway wagons to run between the Dandenong plant and the GM plant in South Australia. All gone now. Like a puff of smoke as have the swingdoor trains most of which went up in a puff of smoke also.
@@reidgck , my memory has failed me as to when i first experienced self serve but all the servos around my place were not self serve. when i first got to serve myself i thought it was great. the 'self serves' i do remember before them were those bloody 20 cent after hours things. it was foolish to rely on them not being broken down. i particularly remember of one in castlemaine that was often broken and us panicking and worrying on the road back to melbourne. having to drive with fuel economy in mind wasn't my preferred driving technique. i picked out, what may have been a grey or silver eh judging by the shape of the rear quarter panel starting to drive through a crossing at 2:46. i always referred to my eh as a 1964 model but it might have been a 63 version. i always thought the hr wagons were the best looking holdens ever made. i lamented the replacement of the dog boxes with the tates on the port melbourne line. you'd get smartarses walking along the corridor looking for someone to pick a fight with. with all those open doors it was best to just cover up and not to get up and fight back.
i have just realised the self serves you are talking about are the 20 cent things. and yes there was one in my suburb and it was often broken like the one in castlemaine. a technique that served us well was to pull in to closed servos with a container and drain all the pumps into the container then put what we got into the tank. this was back in the day before the pump handles were padlocked to the bowser. this method helped get us back to melbourne late on a sunday night a few times. or perhaps the fuel gauge was wrong and we weren't low on fuel in the first place.
Well there was a garage on the corner of McNaughton Road and Dandenong Roads Clayton and they had a self service after hours petrol bowser. You put two bob, I mean two shillings into it and pumped that much worth of petrol into your tank. A bit more than you get these days for the same amount.. The two shilling coins were the same size as the later 20 cent coins. In the dead of night some smart cookies descended on the pump and with a two shilling coin with a small hole drilled in it to allow the tying of a string, used the string to pull the coin up and down through the sensor in the pump and thereby extracted as much fuel as they could carry away and they kept their two bob coin with the string on it as well for next time. The boss of the garage became wise and had a mechanic install a razor blade with a weigh on it so that the two bob and the string could go down the slot but when they tried to pull it up, the razor blade cut the string and the two bob fell down into the cash box.
The next day the prize exhibit there was the two bob with the string still attached. I guess you didn't have one of those pump manipulating devices in your purse for when you wanted petrol..
Don't know what all that has to do with swing door dog box trains but there is no shortage of similar stories from their era.
I am glad we are saving the red rattlers
hi could I please use some of your old Tait and Swingdoor footage please? of course I'd be giving credit