FIRST RIDE on Melbourne's Newly-Restored Red Rattler! | Steamrail Victoria's Mainline Tait Testing
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2022
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A trip from the city back out to Altona on the Tait. The 'clink' of the handles as the train rocked over the Kororoit bridge and you could look out the open door. Best trip was in the guards van one day when mum had a pram with her.
Use to catch these to school every day Nunawading to Bayswater, having all the doors open on a hot day. Can't remember them being painted two-tone thought they were all red.
doors open -absolutely. you're right, they were never 2 tone
excellent camera work
Nice view of the Maryvale paper train @ 12:20!!!!
Did the @ trip from Dandenong with 2 of my grandkids. Couldn't shut the 16 year old up! All the questions he was asking! I had worded them up before we left home, how I used to catch the Red Rattler everyday to get to work. Was an apprentice at the time, so consequently I had no other forms of transport for work. That was 1958 -1962. So we rode on 2 trains that were manufactured 112 years apart - the Tait Set and one of the new 7 car trains now running on the Cranbourne & Pakenham lines.
Very enjoyable day out, lunch at Pakenham then Metro back to Dandenong and then to Cranbourne.
That's interesting I too wish to take a ride so can you please advise where or how can I book?
I remember the train was absolutely smokers it just smelling the smoke was unbelievable i recently sore a red rattler just rotating away unbelievable history going to waste it was one of Australia's best thing's they made if not the best thanks so much for putting this video file on RUclips
I used to get the red rattlers and blue trains to work every day in the 70's Heathmont to Richmond in a smoke filled charaige and sometimes took my little bong too...
I notice that this particular set had the original square wheels. Most of the versions that I rode on had round wheels. Perhaps that was a later edition. However when compared to modern trains these had rapid ingress and egress, comfortable seating and plenty of it, hanging straps for those who had to stand and excellent full flow air conditioning. They had tasteful interior decor with a "period" feel. They even had a proper luggage area to allow for the growth of people who need to take bikes on the train. A far more modern set of design parameters than anything on offer at the moment.
Excellent video, beautifully captured the sound and vision of these trains. Moved to Melbourne in 1981, lived in Balaclava and St Kilda and rode these until they were gone. Loved, loved, loved them. All doors open in summer, nice and breezy, all doors closed in winter, nice and cosy. Riding in a moving work or art, so enriching, such a part of the appeal of Melbourne in those days. 😊
Great to see the old Tait's preserved, had a cab ride in one when I was a boy from Flinders Street to Lilydale and back in the late 1960's, never forgotten that, the whine of the tractions motors and the clunky compressor noise plus the clanking of the hand straps when at speed. Beautiful timber interior. Jeff Hook used to do classic Tait's in his cartoons in the Melbourne morning paper back then.
I still want my Harris back, maybe someday with those 2 greaser cars in newport sigh...
Remember them well going from Reservoir to Jolimont for the footy
They were very comfortable, not like today’s trains!
Waved many a red rattler in the 70's I was a SA @ Reservoir Preston Ruven Nth Melb Kengsington Regent I use to collect tickets in my hat and wave the train on 13 day fortnight one Sunday of. Cheers
You brought back memories of these sets with their two-tone paint scheme, the two interior layouts. Apart from these, what hugely Impressed me was your choice of shots, your rock-steady camera work, the wind suppression on your mic.
All these created a magnificent, and even historic, video. Thank you for uploading.
My thoughts exactly. 👍 The only thing missing from this video was a cab ride , hopefully somebody can document this in the near future ! 😉
They are really beautiful,as the only photos I saw of them were in black and white! What amazed me,was how quiet they are,and the motormen, have the controllers,operating as smooth as glass! You Aussies have some amazing preserved equipment,and even better,it can still operate on the mainlines! Thank you,and as one the commentators mentioned,I also was able to ride on the equivalent Long Island Railroad MU,in and out of Brooklyn,when I was a boy 👦!! Even got to run it,made me a lifetime railfan,and then some!! Thanks 😊!
I would like to see the old Harry's back (Hitachi train)
Aren't they a beautiful piece of machinery, I love everything historical. Love the sound of the horn, it is piercing. I used to ride these in the '50's and '60's, rolled the window up and stuck my head out as a kid and rode with Mum to Frankston, Hurstbridge, St Kilda and Port Melbourne, you would see the signs along the tracks so many miles to Griffiths Brothers teas, an era long gone unfortunately.........
I didn't know why they couldn't bring them back much better than the trains today by far
I hated these trains when I was a child. They made me rock in my pram hurting my elbows on the sides. I preferred the blue trains.
Liked the Newport Workshops headboard for the last leg. Brings back memories of catching the workshops train as an apprentice.
15yo Collingwood fan me caught red train to Geelong for a game on Easter Monday, 1981; fellow supporters- granted people I didn't know- threw a beautiful timber door onto the tracks, destroyed a mirror on the stunningly ornate train. I didn't think it was amusing then.and - as for now - the memory saddens me greatly. Our heritage. I guess the vandals were immature and, well, probably drunk.
Love it! But one question. Does it have ads for Mt Buffalo Chalet in it? And Peter's Ice Cream ("The Health Food of a Nation"). They were always in those little frames.
SteamRail. Bringing style and character back to the.mainline. This triggers so many memories.
What a Melbourne icon! I'm crazy for those light fixtures.
I can remember as a 16-year-old back in the 60s it was the norm for me to catch the red rattler from Ringwood to box Hill and back twice daily and I was always hoping for the new modern blue train to turn up rather than the red rattler I would give my Eye teeth To have a ride on a red rattler today at age 69🙏
Great touches ❤️
Seeing the metro train between the carriages
Stopping at Belgrave in place for the Puffing Built sign, etc
I went to school at Belgrave South and Upwey; and used the Belgrave line to get to the city, etc.
Good memories
Thank you 🙏
that metro train is a comeng, the comengs have the same horns as the taits and I think of them as the taits of the metro fleet
Very strange looking and that is why I love them
Compare to Sydneys red rattlers these seem more homely.
I love old pantographs they look so good, the sound of the motors and the compressor running is wonderful.
I have never been on one but can remember going to Melbourne in 1973and thinking they looked like wild west electric trains.
Magical, thanks!!!
This would be the best video yet of this final test, a train I was on. Thanks for your great camerawork. 👍👍🤗
Nice one.
Wonderful restoration. The motor sound is a bit like the old Class 475 "Stadtbahner" trains in Berlin.
The set is even older than i thought with some being built as long ago as 1910 and pre-dating Sydney's first electric train run by 7 years. But both types of train do have one thing in common they were originally built as Loco-Hauled stock but were later converted to electric traction. Some pretty fantastic shots there.
Beautiful video like and subscribed from Czech Republic 🙂👍👍👍🇨🇿🇪🇺
This is a great video
Nice video Adam. I love the inside view of the Tait hope to see it at the open day.
Used to live these as a kid cause you could roam around with the doors totally open, such fun! I think the blue trains were similar?
PannierTait
Great vid.
Glad these are back in service
We should save Comeg trains
What a cool video, I can't imagine this happening in the UK!
Maybe not right now but don't forget "Sarah Sissons" and the restored 1938 stock on London Underground.
@@davebarclay4429 good point, I bet the heritage events on the underground are cool!
I use to always go to St Kilda on the Taits every time I was in Melbourne...now it's a tram line....Ps, I've never seen so many closed sliding doors on a moving Tait set before!
So right. We used to prop the door open with a foot. What memories of the late 50s.
No way u still make vids Adam hope everything is well for you , beau
Any idea when the public will be able to ride this train?
So who put the wheel flat on the front bogie...
It’s been there since the train was being steam hauled. Work is underway to overhaul 4 motor bogies for the train. Once completed, they will be placed under the motor cars of the preserved Tait.
@@craigsoden4996 Great to hear; a wonderful job already done. I can't believe I used to ride to work on these when I moved to Armadale in 1969 after coming to Oz in 1968.
Nice Video
This was only for volunteers and friends?
Where's 341T, no 5th carriage?
when this trail will special run i want to ride on it
bad luck they were burnt
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