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What a wonderful layout. I love the little scenes and the stories behind them. Also that EE sound is sweet.

I remember riding the old Mercedes Benz O305 and O305G buses back in the day.

I remember this and I got stuck halfway on 98 99

Spent a few years at the Claisebrook railcar depot servicing the diesel railcar fleet. The ADK railcars were a good car and the ADL railcars were even better. The old ADG and ADX railcars were held together by bits of wire and welding at times. But somehow they got out on the tracks and provided a service. Good memories.

Great memories of the Armadale line. One can see how much suburbia has grown along that rail corridor over the year's. Fortunately you were there recording it all for us. Even more interesting to watch now in light of the current redevelopment of the whole corridor.

I used to work near mullewa

Great shots of West Leederville - as an ex Perth Mod bogun - this takes me back... thanks for sharing!

it's a bit "eye opening" seeing all that semi-bushland along the Armadale line that is now all part of the urban sprawl... Also - who's beautiful Norton motorcycle in the foreground of one scene?

I loved these two videos and your commentary gave me some insider knowledge that really helped me understand the Perth rail system from back when I was a young lad.

Awesome mate, The Blacktown line serviced HMAS Nirimba or Quakers Hill when I was based there in 1983.

Great stuff Terry. I myself grew up in Carlisle so i use to frequent Carlisle station from around 65 on . I miss those days .i also use to visit the rail bridge over great eastern hwy and go under neath to watch the trains pass Oh and the Cynders as the were called opposite the east perth power station Again Well Done Mike

I’m in perth now

Thank you for this little bit of WA railway history.

Thanks for the memories Terry. I attended Mullewa Junior High School from 1966-70. Then was a drivers assistant based at Three Springs and Geraldton from 1985-91. I well remember the grades around Eradu including putting sand from trackside unto the rails so the loco could keep traction. Some drivers hated the track out there. I personally loved it and actually learnt to drive trains in that area. I went back to Mullewa in March 2023. I was saddened by how much the town has deteriorated.

Great footage yet again thanks Terry

This is very interesting for me. To cut a long story short -I travelled from Sydney Central Station in early December 1969 to Perth after living in Sydney since 1963. Did not have break of gauge at Albury because the Sydney- Melbourne line was converted to std gauge in 1962. The usual change in Melbourne to the Overland on broad gauge 5ft 3 to Adelaide. In Adelaide switched to the dual gauge train (5ft 3 +3ft 6) to Port Pirie. The switched to the Std Gauge train 4ft 8 (Commonwealth Railways) to what I thought was Kalgoorlie for another change of trains but I was wrong. Remember it is Dec 1969. The train pulled up in Kal and i looked out the window expecting to see fellow passengers leaving getting ready to change for the 3ft 6 Kalgoorlie Express to Perth. Nobody was getting off except for a couple of people. I asked around and was told we remain on the train until Perth which was a surprise. I repeat this is Dec 1969 and all the records say 1970- 1971?????? it was opened. I can prove it as well. In Perth i went and immediately updated my Drivers License which shows Dec 1969 as first issue. (I actually got the DL in 1962 at Vic Park Police Station) So there it is with proof as well

A great lookback on Western Australian railways history and the old diesels. It would be interesting to do a follow up video of Mullewa in 2024!😉

pleasant viewing. corellas and galahs really are clowns.

Great video. I love how you were able to record the different birds around the rail yard.

Great footage, Terry! Mullewa is very familiar territory for me, as that's the area I grew up in. Unfortunately, I came about 30 years too late to see Mullewa back in the WAGR/Westrail days. I only ever saw the Perenjori and Karara ore trains as well as the seasonal grain trains as a kid. My dad would've only been a toddler when you filmed these scenes of Mullewa. Until now, I only heard from dad what it was like back then before the regular goods trains stopped, and never had I seen any photos or videos of Mullewa in that time period. I know Dad told me how he remembers my late grandfather sending almost all of our wool, grain and sheep off to market by rail from Canna siding, and any commodities like bags of fertiliser or machinery parts we needed would also get carted up by train where possible. So, to finally see footage of the area from back in the day has answered so many questions. Thank you for sharing!

Love this video, so many different birds!

Great vid.

Not technically a double header, the XA is being hauled dead. English Electric and Metropolitan-Vickers locos couldn't operate in multiple unit.

0:01 - 2:19 - Port Augusta station with a narrow gauge Ghan service departing. This part of the line is now used by the Pichi Richi Railway. 2:19 - 3:17 - If I was to guess, it would be somewhere like Brachina or Copley which was the initial terminus of the “Pick a Back” operation, later extended to Marree. 3:17 - 3:37 - Kalgoorlie.

All Aboard Enjoy the ride.

Still trying to see this old girl. But some day I will the best bus in transperth ❤

Fantastic video, Terry. Absolutely amazing footage.

I been on these west rail trains when i grew up in subiaco perth Australia and my grandparents used take up to midland stn and down to Fremantle markets and Fremantle fisherman's wharf at mg mckailis fish and chips shop on fisherman's wharf in Fremantle Australia

I went on these trains from mt tom price iron ore mine site and back 1980.s

I saw the horse shoe bridge but where was the train station?

We have not seen that Safri bus did it get replaced because now we have a trallier bus

What locos were used by the WAGR "Shopper"service to Perth and Bunbury?

This made me a little nostalgic. I remember sitting on the floor by the open fibreglass-shelled door of a brown and orange carriage on 40 degree summer days as a boy. And as a young teen without money for the fare, being ready to jump out and scuttle over the tracks as soon as the conductor came into the carriage. The orange and brown manual trains were so slow in summer, they’d only get a bit faster than running speed between Swanbourne and Grant street.

Another excellent video Terry

The semaphore signals

I used to go fishing at Victoria quay at Fremantle Australia and go eat fish and chips at cirilos seafood restaurants ion fisherman's wharf in Fremantle Australia with my grandparents

Aahhh... Remember it all...

Perth and Brisbane & Adelaide pre electric system makes an interesting comparison. Brisbane & Adelaide similar size (about 1/3 of the big cities) Perth smaller. Adelaide almost totally DMU from the early 70s. Perth mostly DMU & Brisbane a lot of loco trains, few DMUs. One difference I have heard of no suggestion to ever closedown Adelaide's system. Perth ADG & similar railcars look a bit like a slightly shrunken Red Hen DMU & unlike the other cities Adelaide was all 1 train till 1980 Red Hens & trailers. I noticed in this video the pointwork is taken quite quickly, probably not comfortable but for a railfan an action packed ride, I certainly had plenty of them on Red Hens. Perth, especially after the Freemantle line closed had a similar sized suburban train system to several smaller cities in Australia & NZ like Hobart, Dunedin. What saved Perth's trains was it's much larger size & growth. So today all 3 cities have very similar modern EMUs, more lost inderviduality.

This is some really cool footage, those big old Alcos were really working! I’m from the US near the Powder River Basin coal fields and I always wish someone would’ve taken some videos of that area when things were really popping off in the mid-late 70s. Thanks for sharing!

i remember we all caught trains on the last day of the deisels. we went from victoria street to claremont and back. and then were no trains for about a decade. it was kinda weird.

Great stuff mate 👍

Cant say I worked the last Bauxite train but was there when Alcoa were winding down in the late 90s I started at Kwinana 1990 and Jarrahdale services had a mix of D,DB,N,NA,P..class locomotives with consists at 70 and 45 cars in length Train orders were the movement authority

Some good memories of riding in these in the 60s and 70s😊

A great little video we have a w class here at Broken Hill.

Good on you Terry. 👍

Hi Terry, the Jarrahdale-Kwinana Railway operated from the early 1960s. It opened on 9 June 1963, and the last train over the line was on 16 February 1999.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD DO A SPECIAL COMMERITIVE SERVICE FROM KAL TO SYDNEY USING NON AIR-CON CARRIGES. THOUGHTS?

Thank you Terry !!! so oo much for posting this beautiful piece of my past ! I can't believe we have not tripped over one another as we each filmed many of the same shots. My film has been lost, but thanks to you, I can re-live it all and some. Top effort mate !

This deserves many more views than it has to date. It brings back memories of commuting on the hydrofoils and ferries back in the late 1970s early 1980s. Was very sad when they were replaced. The sound of the engines as they powered up leaving Sydney Cove is never to be forgotten.

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