Being from Camden myself & still living there , it’s unreal to think that Camden had a train back then & doesn’t today .You would think it would be the other way around . I’ve looked at all the Camden line rail history & quizzed old fellows I worked with in the local coal industry who lived the era of the Camden line & learned a lot about it . Fascinating stuff .
The end of "Pansy"..... To quote a line from an Iris Dement song... *"...and you know the sun's setting fast...* *It's just like they say...nothing good ever lasts"*
My mother used to take this train to work. Kenny Hill is the 1:19 grade. In winter, it could take a couple of goes to get over. Great filming. Camden was a great place to grow up.
My now 73 year old heart is broken watching this. I travelled to Campbelltown on this train at the start and end of the school term when I was a boarder in what in those days was known as St.John's college. My parents also when they came to visit me. Dear train, Requiscat in Pacem 😢😢.
If it is supposed to be artistic, I found it more distracting and would rather of seen the raw footage underneath, but the rest is gold, thanks for posting@@michaelhatton2477
Never got to ride it but my father worked for NSWGR at Campbelltown and had several rides on it ( including to last day) , now they're trying to hook a line to Campbelltown from the new airport line
I was a little curious about the train. I knew of it but wasn't from NSW. Then I was captivated by the sombre piano. Looking further I saw so much more of what we have lost. People hanging out of open doors and windows. Photo stops. Jumping off the train when not at a platform. Even while still moving. Dressed up for the occasion. I recently went on a steam excursion and how different it is. Freedom is what we have lost. Not just the trains or the lines or the steam engines. Something so much more. I also noted wryly how the majority of those in this clip are now dead.
It seems funny now that train photographers back in the day believed that somehow having a cine camera or 35mm camera was a passport to wander onto the tracks The good old daze(days)
Beautiful thanks a lot 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Being from Camden myself & still living there , it’s unreal to think that Camden had a train back then & doesn’t today .You would think it would be the other way around . I’ve looked at all the Camden line rail history & quizzed old fellows I worked with in the local coal industry who lived the era of the Camden line & learned a lot about it . Fascinating stuff .
The end of "Pansy".....
To quote a line from an Iris Dement song...
*"...and you know the sun's setting fast...*
*It's just like they say...nothing good ever lasts"*
This is absolutely precious footage. Thanks SO MUCH!!
My mother used to take this train to work. Kenny Hill is the 1:19 grade. In winter, it could take a couple of goes to get over. Great filming. Camden was a great place to grow up.
My now 73 year old heart is broken watching this. I travelled to Campbelltown on this train at the start and end of the school term when I was a boarder in what in those days was known as St.John's college. My parents also when they came to visit me. Dear train, Requiscat in Pacem 😢😢.
Fantastic to see that after all these years there is still great footage of this iconic line, thanks so much for sharing
lovely video.another sad story
Beautiful, great quality for the format. Old footage like this really makes me sad, not all progress is good...
Excellent footage.
Love the double exposure at the end!
From what I've been told it was completely by accident. But it works so well as an artistic choice imo.
If it is supposed to be artistic, I found it more distracting and would rather of seen the raw footage underneath, but the rest is gold, thanks for posting@@michaelhatton2477
Loved it!
My parents had a VW beetle CPB631 and we were living in Cobbitty then. I remember seeing the last trip of the train from that car at Kenny Hill
Just superb...
Excellent historical filming
Such a score thats been chosen to accompany this footage, it's like the Leonard Coen track for a by-gone 'steam' Very good image for 8mm also!
Stunning and moving footage - thank you - such a shame we have lost so many rail lines
Amazing
Never got to ride it but my father worked for NSWGR at Campbelltown and had several rides on it ( including to last day) , now they're trying to hook a line to Campbelltown from the new airport line
I was a little curious about the train. I knew of it but wasn't from NSW. Then I was captivated by the sombre piano. Looking further I saw so much more of what we have lost. People hanging out of open doors and windows. Photo stops. Jumping off the train when not at a platform. Even while still moving. Dressed up for the occasion. I recently went on a steam excursion and how different it is. Freedom is what we have lost. Not just the trains or the lines or the steam engines. Something so much more. I also noted wryly how the majority of those in this clip are now dead.
Everyone responsible for their own safety...and having a whale of a time . Lost times ';)
The stations of the cross are visible at the Franciscan monastery on the way down the hill to Campbelltown at 6.40
It seems funny now that train photographers back in the day believed that somehow having a cine camera or 35mm camera was a passport to wander onto the tracks
The good old daze(days)
Fascinating history!
Now all covered in urban sprawl.
Theirs a house and big trees behind the smoke at 6.21-6.30...there still there.
To think there was a trainline there. Modern day we have no trains going to Narellan and Camden
I assume this is Liverpool Australia based on Google algorithms…
Campbelltown - Camden
Was this taken in the fifties?
1963
I believe a section of this line had a 1 in 19 grade.
It did mate , out at Kenny Hill .
People in power with no foresight shutting everything down. Didn't they realise the population of Sydney would grow ???