St Kilda Line Electric Dogbox suburban Trains reidgck 2026-09-19 | St Kilda Line Electric Dogbox suburban Trains
Garratt 6011 Western NSW + double heading with 3649 reidgck 2020-09-12 | This film was shot during Easter 1967. The first part has been posted previously and is of the Gwabegar tour of the Victorian based Association of Railway Enthusiasts on the way to orange via Wellington. The Garratt returned over night to Dubbo on another working and then double headed with 3649 leading to Dubbo via Yeoval on a goods train. Some of the scenes are a bit fuzzy but I included them anyway as they cannot be retaken.
Trains at the top of Spencer Gulf Port Augusta South Australia reidgck 2020-07-13 | Trains at Port Augusta South Australia at the top of Spencer Gulf with part of the Flinders Ranges in the background..
NSW Steam Dubbo and Orange areas Easter 1967 inc. Garratt 6040 reidgck 2020-07-05 | NSW Steam Dubbo and Orange areas Easter 1967.The featured steam locomotive in this video is Garratt 6040 shown moving about in the yards at Dubbo; and there are also shots of it on the main line with a freight train. According to the information at the site below, 6040 is one of only four of 42 similar Garratts and it was withdrawn in May of 1967 which was soon after this video was taken. it is now at the New South Wales Railway Museum https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/HeritageItemImage.aspx?ID=4807239#ad-image-3at Thirlmere.
Farewell N class Mikados Victoria Raiiways 1966 reidgck 2020-04-11 | Farewell N class Mikados Victoria Railways digital upgraded version of coverage of the outing to Ballan with double headed N class steam locomotives 468 and 475 in 1966 with 8mm silent movie film.The final runs of N class steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways was in October 19 96.Shown is the scene at Spencer Street station Melbourne before the train departed for BallanThe train is seen arriving at Ballan and the locomotives the locomotives being serviced and turned before returning to Melbourne.The now removed turntable was also host for a strategically placed walker rail motor and trailer.Some of these scenes were shot from the walker rail motor trailer.The Victorian Railways K class 2-8-0 steam locomotives, all built before 1923, were not designed for possible conversion to standard gauge which was envisaged to replace some of the broad gauge lines in Victoria. Therefore, the later N class locomotives were designed for such possible conversion.The N class were largely mechanically similar to the K class. They except had a trailing truck under the firebox which allowed the firebox to be wider and so not be an obstacle to gauge conversion. This consequently meant a longer boiler than the K class resulting in a longer locomotive. However, by the time the first standard gauge line to Albury was built, the N class were being withdrawn from service. Thirty N class steam locomotives were built at the Victorian Railways workshops at Newport between 1925 and 1931.Another 50 were later built by North British, and yet another 20 were ordered from Newport workshops, of which only three were built due to the later J class steam locomotives with higher boilers, and being mechanically similar to the K and N class, and designed for easy conversion to standard gauge, being adopted.The newer J class, unlike the N class, could use branch lines which had shorter 50 and 53 foot turntables. Ten N class locomotives were sold to the South Australian Railways during a locomotive shortage there and became the South Australian Railways 750 class. Two survive. One is in the Railway Historical Society Museum at Newport Victoria and the other is in the National Rail Museum in Adelaide South Australia.
Steam to Mildura Pinnaroo Tailem Bend Easter 1968 reidgck 2020-04-10 | Victorian steam locomotive J515 and its Easter 1968 excursion to Mildura & Pinnaroo South Australia + SAR's 526 Pinaroo to Tailem Bend + the final part of the trip with R749 taking over from diesel electric locomotive B85 that brought the train from Serviceton on the Vic/SA border to Ararat.. R749 hauled the train from Ararat to Melborne
Carrum Railway Skyrail Overpass under Construction March 2020 reidgck 2020-03-24 | Carrum Railway Skyrail Overpass under Construction March 2020 from webcam and Nepean Highway
Frankston Victoria Australia dashcam footage MOVI0474 reidgck 2020-03-23 | Frankston Victoria Australia dashcam footage
Redhen Suburban Crossing 700 Class Steam Marino 1967 reidgck 2020-03-03 | Redhen Suburban Crossing 700 Class Steam on a Willunga excursion Marino South Australia 1967
Southern Aurora Train Crash Wreckage Feb 8th 1969 reidgck 2020-02-08 | Southern Aurora Train Crash Wreckage Violet Town Feb 8th 1969 the day after the accident.The Southern Aurora overshot the passing loop at Violet Town at high speed - where it was meant to stop to let an on coming freight train pass. It collided head on with the freight train on the Melbourne side of Violet Town with the loss of nine lives.These black and white pictures were taken after the wreckage had been pushed aside and the line repaired and re opened. Also there are pictures of the first arrival of the Southern Aurora with replacement Railways of Australia carriages. The train arrived at number 2 platform rather than the usual number 1 because number 1 platform has a bend in it and clearances had to be later checked due to the skirting along the sides of the replacement carriages. The southern Aurora is shown pushed into number 1 platform for this purpose. Also shown are is the Overland express in number 1 platform and the Spirit of Progress about to arrive at number 1 platform. In 2020 the days in the week coincide with the accident. There s a video of the Southern Aurora Museum at Violet Town at - :youtube.com/watch?v=DFnATOVjO1U&t=468s
Wild fires Northern Territory Australia reidgck 2020-01-15 | Wild fires in the Northern Territory along the Stuart Highway North of Daly Waters 2012
Manly Ferry North Head in Melbourne 1960s reidgck 2020-01-01 | Manly Ferry North Head in Melbourne 1960s
Railways and Steam Shunters Toowoomba Qld 1960s reidgck 2019-12-27 | Railways and Steam Shunters Toowoomba Qld 1960s
Echuca Steam Rally 1969 with R707 & J530 reidgck 2019-12-26 | R707 & J530 to the Echuca Steam Rally 1969
Newcastle & Hexam Steam NSW Railways 1960s reidgck 2019-12-25 | Steam operations mainly transporting coal; shot in the Gosford, Newcastle and Hexam areas New South Wales Railways Australia in the mid 1960s - by reidgck
Vintage Steam Train to Queenscliff 1967 reidgck 2019-12-20 | Vintage Train to Queenscliff 1967. with Steam locomotive R749 from Flinders Street station Melbourne to South Geelong with a K class steam locomotive from Geelong to Queenscliff on the branch line.. There was no turntable at Queenscliff at that time. Return to Geelong was with the K class funnel first with a photo stop at Drysdale for passengers. At Queenscliff we see the beach and ships with the P&O Himalaya passing and the former pilot ship Wyuna returning after taking a pilot out to the Himalaya to assist with navigation on the run up Port Phillip Bay to Port Melbourne. - by reidgck
Vintage Steam Trains to Stony Point 1967 reidgck 2019-12-20 | Vintage Steam Trains to Stony Point 1967 with Steam locomotives D3639 and K191. The railway station tat the trains departed from were beneath the old Gas and Fuel building which was being built at the time but has since been demolished. The first shots were from the top of the building as a stairway to the top was accessible at the time. At Stony Point, there was a picnic in the park with entertainment before a cruise on the former ferry 'Eagle Star' before the return train ride to Melbourne. The Eagle Star in those days, ran a regular service between Stony Point and Tankerton on French Island and Cowes on Phillip Island. - by reidgck
Trains Through OLARY outback South Australia reidgck 2019-11-15 | Trains Through OLARY outback South Australia
Bellarine Peninsula Railway Victoria pics early 1980s reidgck 2019-10-28 | Bellarine Peninsula Railway Victoria early 1980s pics
Narrow Gauge Iron Ore Train North Australia Railway1972 reidgck 2019-10-28 | Narrow Gauge Iron Ore Train North Australia Railway 1972. Part of a scene from a future videofrom 8mm film.
Driving through Broken Hill New South Wales Australia reidgck 2019-10-26 | Driving through Broken Hill New South Wales Australia on Argent Street. November 2013
Sydney and Newcastle New South Wales Australia about 1970 reidgck 2019-10-20 | Sydney & Newcastle scenes New South wales Scenes about 1970 including Sydney Harbour ferries and the Stockton Vehicle ferries on the Hunter River
Redhen Ride South Gippsland Railway Victoria Australia 1995 reidgck 2019-10-06 | Redhen Ride South Gippsland Railway Victoria Australia 1995Views of, and Redhen Ride on the South Gippsland Railway - ex Adelaide suburban Railcar on the preserved section of the line between Leongatha - Korumburra and Nyora. The line is no longer in operation.
L class Electric Locomotives Era of the Victorian Railways reidgck 2019-10-04 | Era of the L class Electric Locomotives of the Victorian Railways
Grossley Stationary Oil Engine Bourke New South Wales reidgck 2019-09-30 | Grossley Historical Stationary oil Engine in operation Bourke New South Wales
State Electricity Commission Railway Yallourn to Morwell 1960s reidgck 2019-09-08 | State Electricity Commission coal Railway between Yallourn open cut and Morwell briquette factory 1960s
Electric Locomotive E1104 Dandenong 1968 reidgck 2019-09-08 | Electric locomotive E1104 on a short goods train at Dandenong Victoria in 1968
Broad Gauge Overland arriving Melbourne 1960s reidgck 2019-09-05 | A short clip from 8mm film of the Broad Gauge overnight Overland express from Adelaide arriving Melbourne 1960s behind X class and S class diesel locomotives which in those times, took over from South Australian Railways locomotives at Serviceton. These were the days of axle generated power before the introduction of power vans for generating the electricity for the train. When the Victorian G class came into service with capabilities of supplying the generation of power for the train, the power vans were taken off and the G class ran all the way through to Adelaide. Also since this was taken, the railway between Melbourne and Adelaide has been converted to standard gauge and runs via North Geelong to Ararat and beyond rather than via Ballarat. The broad gauge between Ballarat and Ararat was out of use for some years until the reintroduction of broad gauge passenger trains. Thus there is a broad gauge and a standard gauge platform at Ararat and broad gauge trains have to negotiate a crossing of the standard gauge via a diamond crossing to access the broad gauge platform.
NSU55 & NSU56 William Creek 1982 reidgck 2019-09-04 | While pulling up the rails on the old Central Australia narrow gauge railway in William Creek yards, NSU55 departed with a trainload of recovered rails for Marree and the contractor camp trai which was being moved to Strangways Siding in readiness for the section of railway between William Creek and Strangway siding to be pulled up. It was a very hot day and NSU55 became a failure some kilometres out and NSU56 had to leave its work pulling up the rails at William Creek and venture out to rescue NSU55 and its train and tow it back to William Creek. The two locomotive crews were in contact via 2 way radio. The train that NSU56 pushed out to couple to the back of the broken down train, was apparently because of otherwise difficulties in coupling the trains together. There was likely rail hanging over the end of the broken down train and it was easieir to take a whole train particularly as there were two rails permanently along the side of the whole train trail rto carry the mobile rail lifter which was a converted digger as seen in other videos in the playlist at. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSMqGtLD9Q-s2a77cZ-ueNBk3wHbbdcvB
Cane Train Mossman Nth Qld moving Tablelands cane reidgck 2019-09-02 | Before the sugar cutting season gets underway along the coast in North Queensland,, sugar that has already matured on the cooler Atherton Tablelands is being trucked to a transfer yard outside Mossman where it is loaded onto narrow 2 foot gauge sugar cane trains for transport to the Mossman sugar mill. This video shows a load of cut cane from the Atherton Tablelands being transported by the narrow gauge railway down Mill Street to the Sugar mill near the end of Mill street, hauled by a locomotive named Daintree - after the rain forest north of the town.
Dual Gauge Remnants Peterborough South Australia 2010 reidgck 2019-09-02 | Dual Gauge Railway Remnants Peterborough South Australia 2010
Railway and gold mining history Pine Creek NT Australia 2011 reidgck 2019-09-02 | Pictures taken in 2011 relating to the Railway and gold mining history at Pine Creek NT Australia 2011. Pine Creek was a station on the old narrow gauge North Australian Railway to Katherine and Larrimah
B&W pics Cary Grammar Alexandra Tour 1968 with D3 639 reidgck 2019-09-02 | Cary Grammar Alexandra Tour 1968 with D3 639 - some black & white pictures
Northern Mail Train between Armidale & Glen Innes NSW 1960s reidgck 2019-08-26 | The Northern Mail between Armidale & Glen Innes NSW in the early 1960s. The train arrives at Armidale Railway Station behind a 44 class Alco diesel electric where it is replaced by steam locomotive 3315. Further shots are on the way to Guyra and beyond, and passing Balancing Rock near the top of the Ben Lomond Range
Bathurst Banker Steam Loco 5904 to Raglan NSW - 1967 reidgck 2019-08-17 | Bathurst Banker Steam Locomotive 5904 to Raglan - 1967Also near the end of the video, is some brief footage of Lithgow locomotive depot showing 3823 and of the Zig Zag Railway before restoration and a shot of a 36 class steam locomotive heading for Goulburn
Demondrille to Blayney Railway - Steam Trains NSW 1967 reidgck 2019-08-16 | Steam Trains on the now closed Demondrille - Blayney Line in 1967. Some reproduced 8mm film taken at Young of the mail train and of steam hauled goods and mail trains at Koorawatha and Cowra showing also the Vintage Train arriving at Cowra.
Trains in Bethungra area including the Spiral Easter 1976 reidgck 2019-08-16 | Various trains in the Bethungra area of New South Wales including on the spiral Easter 1976
Mansfield Goods Train between Mansfield & Yea 1967 reidgck 2019-08-16 | Mansfield Goods Train between Mansfield & Yea somewhere near Bonnie Doon 1967 with a Y class (V6) diesel electric with a string of 4 wheel wagons. A isolated short scene amongst the films in the collection but worth reproducing.
Driving South out of Cairns Nth Qld Australia dashcam June 2015 reidgck 2019-08-14 | A video taken by a camera looking through the windscreen -Driving South out of Cairns Nth Qld Australia to past Edmonton past where the road becomes one lane in each direction and the sugar still grows - scenes as they were in June 2015.
Tarwin River in flood Aug 12 2019 cutting Fish Creek Road reidgck 2019-08-12 | Tarwin River in South Gippsland Southern Victoria Australia in flood, cuts the road to Fish Creek. Footage taken with Dashcam August 12th 2019. The river normally flows some metres below the bridge but the road height beyond the bridge is lower than the deck of the bridge and the water is thus finding an easier path. The indicator post says the water is just under one metre deep where the water is crossing the road. This is at the same time while some parts of Australia are in drought with occurrences like the dam at Stanthorpe in Queensland about to run out of water
Steam train and M.V. Abel Tasman Devonport to Burnie Nov 1987 reidgck 2019-08-12 | M.V. Abel Tasman and steam locomotive Ma2 and train of passenger carriages restored by the Don River Railway at Devonport, simultaneously make a trip from Deonport to Burnie as part of Tasmania Day celebrations in November 1987. The train made two such return journeys to Burnie on two days while the Abel Tasman made one return voyage, returning on the following day. Thus, the train in effect, escorted the ship on the forward voyage on the first day and on the return voyage the second day. Passengers who sailed to Burnie on the first day returned on the train the same day while the next day, passengers who rode on the train from Devonport to Burnie returned on the Abel Tasman. That was in the time when M.V. Abel Tasman made three return journeys to Melbourne per week and stayed Saturday nights in Devonport. When the ship returned from Burnie to Devonport, it had to load up for its next crossing that night, of Bass Strait to Melbourne. Scenes on this video were taken on the two days and combined by editing with travel being on the train to Burnie on the first day Apologies for Video quality being a bit down, it was taken with early equipment , but is posted as an unrepeatable historic event and i an upgrade of a previous post.
Original Spirit of Tasmania to Devonport and back July 1994 reidgck 2019-08-06 | Original Spirit of Tasmania from Port Melbourne to Devonport Tasmania and back July 1994.
PB15 454 Queenscliff to Lakers Siding + dismantled boiler Pictures reidgck 2019-07-03 | PB15 454 on the Bellarine Peninsula Railway in Victoria on a run in the early 1980s from Queenscliff to Lakers Siding and return + boiler Pictures showing the anatomy of the boiler and the fire box position and the way the firebox is mounted and supported. The train consisted of an ex Queensland Railways locomotive, two passenger cars from Tasmanian Railways in their original livery with original vacuum brakes but with air brake also fitted to match the braking systems on some of the locomotives, and a car/van from Western Australian Railways. The railway is a part of the former South Geelong to Queenscliff branch line which was converted from 5 ft 3 in gauge to 3 ft 6 in gauge after the branch was closed in order to run these special trains as far as Drysdale - some nine miles or so.
Steam to the Silver City 1968 part 3 S.A. Garratt 409 to Peterborough & 406 to Black Rock & Terowie reidgck 2019-06-28 | Steam to the Silver City & Menindee part 3. Garratt 409 to Peterborough & Garratt 406 to Black Rock & Terowie South Australia. Part 3 was taken on June 10th 1968. An excursion from Melbourne run by the Association of Railway EnthusiastsPart 1: youtu.be/s0EBI5-hE7E Part 2: youtu.be/yWID5G7lDLw Part 3: youtu.be/FEBL_8qQWS0 (this video)
Steam to the Silver City Tour 1968 part 2, Garratt 409, Silverton W22 -Broken Hill 3249 -Menindee reidgck 2019-06-23 | Steam to the Silver City & Menindee NSW 1968 Part 2. Garratt steam locomotive 409 to Cockburn on the South Autralia and New South Wales Border with Silverton Tramway locomotive W22 from there to Broken Hill; and 3249 on the NSW standard gauge to Menindee. Full day number two of the trip from Melbourne run by the Association of Railway Enthusiasts.Links to parts 1, 2, and 3 are at Part 1: youtu.be/s0EBI5-hE7E Part 2: youtu.be/yWID5G7lDLw (this video)Part 3: youtu.be/FEBL_8qQWS0
Steam to the Silver City tour 1968 part 1 of 3 - to Terowie and Peterborough reidgck 2019-06-21 | Steam to Broken Hill the Siver City and Menindee Tour June 1968. Links to the Steam to the Silver City Tour are at:Part 1: youtu.be/s0EBI5-hE7E (this video)Part 2: youtu.be/yWID5G7lDLw Part 3: youtu.be/FEBL_8qQWS0
K191 & Swingdoor cars to Hurstbridge August 1967 reidgck 2019-06-19 | K191 with swingdoor suburban cars and country vintage corridor cars to Hurstbridge August 26th 1967
K176 & K191 Double Head to Healesville August 1967 reidgck 2019-06-19 | K176 & K191 Double Head to Healesville August 1967
