Outer Melbourne Branch Lines 1950s and 1960s DVD Preview

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  • Опубликовано: 20 апр 2017
  • Channel 5 Productions have produced a DVD featuring films shot by the late Keith Atkinson on the outer Melbourne suburban branch lines that once connected with suburban network.
    Those featured include Stony Poiint, Healesville, Warburton, Alamein and the Upper Ferntree Gully to Belgrave narrow gauge line.
    The DVD is available through hobby outlets or directly from
    channel5productions.com
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  • @rocnoir4233
    @rocnoir4233 4 года назад +10

    My grandad worked these lines. Harry Rees 1930-1974 resting in peace.

  • @bryan3550
    @bryan3550 3 года назад +6

    Priceless footage! 😢

  • @thetrainman548
    @thetrainman548 3 года назад +5

    Thank you for sharing, much appreciated 😊

  • @railtrolley
    @railtrolley 6 лет назад +17

    Thanks for uploading this. The first shot in the film is leaving Healesville on the up towards Melbourne. The second shot is passing Tarrawarra - the next station after Healesville. Spent much time in both places doing trackwork, driving trolleys in the 1990's. This footage is a priceless record of a long gone era.

  • @clayauslewis4236
    @clayauslewis4236 Год назад +1

    Awesome footage. As a baby boomer, I grew up in that era.
    Thanks for sharing.

  • @anastasiosdimtsis1
    @anastasiosdimtsis1 3 года назад +7

    Big thank you to the idiots that closed these lines. Now we need them!!

    • @andyrob3259
      @andyrob3259 2 года назад +1

      The sad thing is when some of these lines were closed in the 80’s and 90’s even back then blind Freddy could see the city expanding that way and they would be needed. More gut@@@less politicians and their toadys.

    • @anastasiosdimtsis1
      @anastasiosdimtsis1 2 года назад +1

      So short sighted!! Greedy!!

    • @oneeyedrichmond
      @oneeyedrichmond 2 года назад

      Mernda line says hi. Closed in the 1970s and the infrastructure ripped up back to Epping. 30-40 years later millions spent putting it all back. Eventually with urban sprawl it will be built all the way to the original terminus at Whittlesea.

  • @CarePeers
    @CarePeers 5 лет назад +11

    When travelling in Australia, I went to Lilydale before.
    Not until now, I can see how the station looks like during the era of steam train.

    • @somedumbozzie1539
      @somedumbozzie1539 2 года назад

      I used to cycle there a lot It looked like that well into 70's.

  • @michaelroper4237
    @michaelroper4237 6 лет назад +8

    stunning footage man thanks for sharing. Keith Atkinson is a legend

  • @reverseuniverse2559
    @reverseuniverse2559 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks for sharing great old scenes

  • @akka354
    @akka354 4 года назад +4

    I was apaper boy in Fawkner used help turn the Beatle around on the turntable at 4 30pm I loved it ALEC MARTIN

  • @garynewton1263
    @garynewton1263 Год назад +1

    The highlight of trains for me was seeing the 'Spirit of healesville' rattling through platform 3 at Burnley one weekday afternoon after school around 1982.
    2 or 3 carriages from memory.
    I always thought the Healesville line would get a suburban service as I saw 'Coldstream' on the destination box of a Hitachi or Comeng one day.

  • @damienmilk3025
    @damienmilk3025 2 года назад +1

    This so rekindles my childhood. The K 150 at Lilydale was driven by Ian Barkler, I am sure it would be his son that I went to primary school with Greg Barkler, he always said his dad was a train driver but I did not know it was a steam train he drove. Great memories, Thanks.

    • @LouKodge
      @LouKodge 2 года назад +1

      Ian Barkla (spelt thus) started work as a young lad on the puffing billy upper gully to gembrook line, when that closed in the early 1950s i guess he was transferred to Lilydale. More ref book "the narrow guage"by author Nick Anchen.

    • @damienmilk3025
      @damienmilk3025 2 года назад

      @@LouKodge Thanks for the update, it is indeed, a small world.

  • @mickcarson8504
    @mickcarson8504 6 лет назад +8

    Those were my years. Stupid at having closed the Warburton, Wonthaggi and other railways, then covered the tracks with gravel and used as walking tracks where horses are wrecking the surface in some area and shit on them. The Wontaggi line has wide cracks in many places. I mean, they could have continued to run steam trains from formed steam train societies and used as tourists excursions, especially the Wonthaggi line that runs along the scenery seashore between Andersons and Wonthaggi, just like the wonderful Puffing Billy. But no, the idiots decided to close the lines and throw some dirt over the tracks. What if people wanted to ride on motorised rail trolleys or businesses wanted to start a controlled ride-on trips, taking people for a ride on these tracks? Rail track weren't in bad state when they were closed, so why not wait and see if some idea on re-use of the railways? There is so much tourism going to these places, so why not start a steam train ride, etc., and build a walking track along one side of the railways? Shit for brains I'd say.

  • @garynewton1263
    @garynewton1263 Год назад +1

    I had high hopes that the Healesville line would eventually be electrified for suburban trains.
    I am more confident that Whittlesea and Mornington will see Suburban trains in the next 5 years.

  • @SpencerHHO
    @SpencerHHO 3 года назад +4

    I live in the clyde cranbourne area, I see some track remnants past cranbourne station, I assume these are what's left of one of these branch lines. It's a shame they're gone, it would be nice to have more rail service further out.

    • @anastasiosdimtsis1
      @anastasiosdimtsis1 2 года назад

      They should be extending the line now that they're doing the upgrade

    • @oneeyedrichmond
      @oneeyedrichmond 2 года назад +1

      All the old South Gippsland lines went through Cranbourne & Clyde.
      South-east to Koo Wee Rup->Nyora->Korumburra->Leongatha->Fish Creek->Foster->Welshpool->Alberton->Port Albert (or branched off from Alberton to Yarram).
      South to Wonthaggi (branched off SG line at Nyora)
      Future PTV plans have the Cranbourne line being extended to Clyde.
      There's also been talk of a 3rd Melbourne airport being built in the future at Tooradin and the line extended to service it.
      There's an online petition trying to get the Cranbourne line extended to Koo Wee Rup.
      A heritage group tried to keep the line from Korumburra to Leongatha going about 10 years ago but that closed too.

    • @SpencerHHO
      @SpencerHHO 5 месяцев назад

      ​@oneeyedrichmond I only saw your reply now that I stumbled across this video again.
      Thanks for the info, I've seen what's left of the line at Koo Wee Rup and wondered how that once worked.
      The lack of rail infrastructure in that area is a real shame. I live in Yarragon now and the Vline trains are such a blessing to have and I'm greatful that the state is continuing investment and expansion of currently existing lines.
      It's a pipedream but I wish those lines would be restored and connect with the barinsdale line at Traralgon. Yarragon is a tiny town but the rail line really does keep it alive making it a more viable place to live for people wanting to avoid the rat race of Melbourne.
      Still Victoria is a lot better than many other regions of the English speaking world when it comes to maintaining public transport, especially rail.

  • @Leopold5100
    @Leopold5100 3 года назад

    MANY THANKS

  • @user-mp2tl8zv2t
    @user-mp2tl8zv2t 6 лет назад +2

    Very good video.

  • @nickk6286
    @nickk6286 2 года назад

    How do i get a copy of this dvd - I am trying find the old Mornington Station line to Frankston!

  • @bg5590
    @bg5590 2 года назад

    Re: comment at 1:40 about better roads and more car ownership reducing customer demand for railways.
    The other factor was rural depopulation (aka urban drift). This was largely driven by on-farm mechanization. The result is fewer rural customers. So you have a declining share of a declining market. However the outer Melbourne lines were only closed when suburban sprawl was already well established. So, it shouldn't have been too hard to see that the lines would be needed again within a generation.

    • @johnd8892
      @johnd8892 Год назад

      The Warburton line was closed with the advice from the MMBW that it's closure would be a disincentive to urban sprawl. The growth of Melbourne sprawling outwards was along railway lines as noted in the 1954 MMBW plan for Melbourne.
      The MMBW were especially keen to protect the Yarra Ranges from high levels of urbanisation given their unique character.
      This closure tool has largely worked with massive population growth on the Werribee, Craigieburn, Sunbury , Pakenham and Cranbourne lines compared to much smaller urbanisation along the closed lines.
      That tool of rail closure has worked well for the previous line to Warburton with very little urban development in that Yarra Ranges area.
      The state government also had the additional attraction that closure avoided the very poor cost recover of operating costs compared to fare and goods revenue compared to higher used lines.
      Keeping these areas rural in nature also encourages local employment reducing the peak hour road demand of long distance driving.

  • @christopherlovelock9104
    @christopherlovelock9104 6 лет назад +1

    That AEC had to date from around the first World War, - known as a 'Y' Type with a 4 cylinder petrol engine, - does anybody know if it still exists, I would think it started life as a lorry.

    • @mickcarson8504
      @mickcarson8504 6 лет назад

      You might find it at the Railway museum in Newport. Search their website and see.

    • @Shitphototaker69
      @Shitphototaker69 5 лет назад +2

      Unfortunately there are no more AEC railmotors left most were used as sheds if not they were scrapped the last AEC railmotors was ordered to be scrapped by the Moreland city council

    • @allandaly2573
      @allandaly2573 4 года назад

      There is one at Normanton aec 4 cylinder check on U tube

    • @johnd8892
      @johnd8892 3 года назад +2

      From 1922-1925 VR constructed 19 of the AEC railmotors at their Newport Railway Workshops complex. Used AEC mechanical parts.
      Successful in reducing operating costs for the many lines with very sparse passenger traffic on offer.

  • @mooreandless
    @mooreandless Год назад

    There was a train line that went either through or to My Evelyn.
    Does anyone remember that?

    • @hawthornvalley
      @hawthornvalley Год назад

      That would be the old Lilydale - Warburton line. Unfortunately the track bed from Lilydale can't be accessed any more when they demolished the bridge over Warburton Highway.

    • @johnd8892
      @johnd8892 Год назад

      Mt Evelyn was an intermediate station on the Warburton line as touched in at 4:17 .
      The full DVD from Channel 5 has more on the Warburton line and I think My Evelyn footage taken before closure in 1965.

    • @shaundgb7367
      @shaundgb7367 Год назад

      Yes, I grew up in Seville in late 70s and 1980s, so can remember as a kid could see where the old Seville station was. I think the line ended at Warburton but must have gone through Mt Eveyln, Wandin North and Seville on the way to Warburton. Have no idea when they all closed. Suspect a few decades earlier. Clicked on this video to see what it may have looked like back then.

  • @CarePeers
    @CarePeers 5 лет назад +2

    The mini train at 02:40 looks like a toy.

  • @tramwayjohn
    @tramwayjohn 6 лет назад +3

    I have the DVD and it is great. . . .except for the annoying MUSIC!

    • @rodcook5898
      @rodcook5898  6 лет назад +1

      Music is only on opener, credits and between lines on full DVD. Promo only covers opening segment.

    • @tramwayjohn
      @tramwayjohn 6 лет назад

      Rod, perhaps an overreaction on my part! I had viewed various rail videos that had annoying music right through them, and then I made the comment. By the way, as you know, the British in particular, have built some fine replica locomotives, and I feel that it would be affordable to build a replica AEC RAIL MOTOR. It is amazing that the line once used by the Beetle is still in place. . . . how about a replica running on that line? Not such a silly idea, I believe.