Going Our Way
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Made in 1967. Presents the many employment opportunities in the Victorian Railways. A young boy playing with his toys, including a train, dreams of his future. He becomes a station assistant. Shows how he learns his job and benefits from the V.R.I. library and sporting clubs. Includes executive officers who started at the bottom and worked their way to the top.
this is the railway i knew and worked on pity what's shown is all gone a real railway shown here
The shot at 3:22 of Flinders Street Station, with the Yarra behind it is amazing 👏🏻
None of my old girl friends in that era would have liked to go out train spotting! The briquette train brought back memories of school holidays in Melbourne during the late 1960's. Young station assistant didn't get a whistle with a pea in it for right-of-way? Both my cousins done their trade apprenticeships with VR in the 1970's. Cracking little video.
Ha...I remember applying for a room in a sharehouse with two girls. They wrote specifically in the ad, 'No train-spotters'!...It was 1990..before the movie 'Trainspotting' which was in 1996, so no chance they were referring to the appeal of junkie-sophisticates. It was a clever warning for nerds to 'not bother'.
God just amazing
Great production , I love watching this ❤ , interestingly they’ve hidden the Taits and promoted the then modern Harris trains
And cuts from the suburbs to country Victoria, before the full train is shown, so as not to show the six and four wheel old types of guards vans on goods trains.
All to depict the VR was all new equipment.
So much railways optimism at that time, on the cusp of Premier Henry Bolte's start of freeway building. Geelong already completed then toward Albury, Ballarat then Bendigo and with the freeways came the semi's and B Doubles...and sadly, so little VR innovation. It took another 15+ years before you could commute by train to Melbourne from Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine, etc and as for rail freight in the 21st Century...all but gone. Along with the railway 'men'. These days the railways are operated by economists and a knowledge of the 'industry' is no longer a requirement.
This was fantastic thank you
Thanks for sharing. I was working at Crawford Productions when this doco was made although I wasn't involved in any of its production.I knew the production crew.
I ended up working in another Industry.
I dreamt of being a suburban train driver however after failing year 10 at Tech school I left and gave up on railways.
I should have gotten into Metrol's train control centre.
That would've been a great career, I always had an interest in signals.
Oh well, at least Victoria has got a great network.
Here in SA railways have been abandoned.
Governments pulled it all part, And a way of life went, for a lot of people. 😂
Thanks for this.
Could have done with a better thumbnail to reflect the content that will interest many.
Will be letting quite a few friends know of this rarely seen film.