Junee Roundhous has been on my 'bucket list' for some time - hope to get there soon. It is unique as it is both a museum (with what your video displayed great & ionic former locos & passenger cars) & still a fully operation loco repair & maintenance depot. The concept of the Mail train was used both for mail/parcels & passengers. I recall catching them overnight to various NSW destinations (passengers 'slept' whilst AP staff sorted all the mail for the various towns/villages along the line - until they were replaced with the Redfern Mail Distribution Centre & semis). Being able to see the inside of a diesel loco is great - interesting contrast between it & the old Rail Motor driver cab - more spacious crew area for 2 (driver & fireman) with A/C & a microwave compared to a very cramped non-A/C drivers cab with an ashtray! You used to be able to catch a Rail Motor from Central to Richmond before it was electrified. Thanks for sharing - great video.
@@shenysys Not sure I do recall catching a train to Cooma with my family during the school holidays, to see my Dad, who was working on the Snowy Mts scheme - I was only 5 years old. It might have been a Mail train🤔
I hope you get there soon, it is a great museum! My mum has told me about riding the western mail back to Bathurst from sydney when she lived there for uni. I have half thought that mail trains could make a comeback of sorts with the increase in parcel delivery and online shopping. Every major Victorian city bar Mildura sees a train so there would surely be enough of a population coverage to warrant. The 442 cab was great to be able to sit in!
@@AlexsTrainChannel Yes my son & I got back from Broken Hill on the Xplorer train last Tuesday. I did the same trip 40 years ago on the Silver City Comet - that train is now kept as a museum exhibition at the Sulphide Street Railway & Historical Museum, lBroken Hill. The Comet was built here in Australia back in the late 1930s & was 1 of the first A/C trains in the British Empire. We were able to walk through all the carriages including the power car (which had 4 GM diesel engines). You can also sit in the driver's cab (similar to the Rail Motor driver cab in your video). Very cramped & no A/C for the driver (unlike the rest of the train). When I caught the Comet it only went as far as Orange (originally only to Parkes). Now the Xplorer goes all the way to Sydney's Central Station (having come up on Monday). Whilst it is a long train trip it sure beats driving!
Great shots, thanks for sharing. Cheers.
I've been there and it's pretty cool though was always curious on who the boiler was intended for.
Junee Roundhous has been on my 'bucket list' for some time - hope to get there soon. It is unique as it is both a museum (with what your video displayed great & ionic former locos & passenger cars) & still a fully operation loco repair & maintenance depot. The concept of the Mail train was used both for mail/parcels & passengers. I recall catching them overnight to various NSW destinations (passengers 'slept' whilst AP staff sorted all the mail for the various towns/villages along the line - until they were replaced with the Redfern Mail Distribution Centre & semis). Being able to see the inside of a diesel loco is great - interesting contrast between it & the old Rail Motor driver cab - more spacious crew area for 2 (driver & fireman) with A/C & a microwave compared to a very cramped non-A/C drivers cab with an ashtray! You used to be able to catch a Rail Motor from Central to Richmond before it was electrified. Thanks for sharing - great video.
If not mistaken there used to be a mail train to Cooma.
@@shenysys Not sure I do recall catching a train to Cooma with my family during the school holidays, to see my Dad, who was working on the Snowy Mts scheme - I was only 5 years old. It might have been a Mail train🤔
I hope you get there soon, it is a great museum!
My mum has told me about riding the western mail back to Bathurst from sydney when she lived there for uni.
I have half thought that mail trains could make a comeback of sorts with the increase in parcel delivery and online shopping. Every major Victorian city bar Mildura sees a train so there would surely be enough of a population coverage to warrant.
The 442 cab was great to be able to sit in!
@@AlexsTrainChannel Yes my son & I got back from Broken Hill on the Xplorer train last Tuesday. I did the same trip 40 years ago on the Silver City Comet - that train is now kept as a museum exhibition at the Sulphide Street Railway & Historical Museum, lBroken Hill. The Comet was built here in Australia back in the late 1930s & was 1 of the first A/C trains in the British Empire. We were able to walk through all the carriages including the power car (which had 4 GM diesel engines). You can also sit in the driver's cab (similar to the Rail Motor driver cab in your video). Very cramped & no A/C for the driver (unlike the rest of the train). When I caught the Comet it only went as far as Orange (originally only to Parkes). Now the Xplorer goes all the way to Sydney's Central Station (having come up on Monday). Whilst it is a long train trip it sure beats driving!
1:46, right side of screen, stamp machines! for getting a stamp to post a letter after hours. i'd totally forgotten those things.
I'll be showing my age when I don't know what stamp machine was 😅 I have sent few letters in my time though.
Home of the mighty 57 Class ... but the only one left is at Valley Heights museum