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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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Terry Mercer do you have any brothers I knew 2 Murray and Everard one sister died as a small child the DAd was our station Master Ron mercer

Look at the fantastic old buildings as well

Thank you Terry Many memories

Thank you Terry Many memories for me

Awesome collection nice channel and beautiful archives.

Thanks Terry that was very enjoyable . I was a student in Perth during this time and remember the Fremantle fiasco well. Thank goodness the politicians have *hopefully * become a lot wiser to transport infrastructure

Bring back The Albany Progress too !

Bring back the Australind please

I visited Perth in June 1975 and much of what you've shown is very memorable. Many thanks for the history refresher. It's noteworthy that (although not shown) the Indian Pacific is probably the only train of that era that still runs!

I've always loved the whistle of the w class. It sounds nice to hear and unique to me.

It's weird watching this and knowing my nearest line the Joondalup line and even most of the suburbs around me didnt even exist then.

The changes to Perth and the rail system since this was filmed are utterly phenomenal. In comparison in my home town of Glasgow you can look pictures taken 100 years ago and apart from modern traction not much has changed.

Great Video, thanks for sharing this. Only being 10yo in 1979, I can recall bits of this, mainly the Perth Station and buying a ticket at the window. And the Midland line, which went over the Swan River in Bassendean, with the doors open usually, imagine that today, the OHS people would be having kittens. Great Videos, I reckon it was a labour of love, to edit them and put the great backing music onto it , with the sounds from your reel to reel tape recorder.

Thanks Terry. I remember many a Friday and Saturday night running to the bus station from Canterbury Court or the Embassy to get the last 255 back to Innaloo

Ha ha yes I remember being on this train and the kids from Hollywood High opening the doors between Shenton Park and Karakatta stations. Not sure if anyone ever actually fell out!

Nice one putting that together, great permanent recording mate for everyone to watch and learn from, thanks a ton! 👍

they call it the steam ranger for a reason

I didn't get to ride the rails while I was there, but had a great time anyway. A good video bringing back good memories. Onya, Terry.

Great history Terry. 👍👍

Thank you Terry for filming, recording the sound and editing it all into a great video. I appreciate the effort! I find this fascinating even though you filmed it two decades before I was born.

Classic stuff, can almost smell the diesel. Thanks M8.

Excellent Terry was an era id gladly go back to without a thought given the way the world is today

Your little hobby, Terry, has turned into a significant collection of historical documentation. 👍

Thank you Terry for all those fantastic days of Railways.

Thank you Terry. As a bus driver at Claremont depot in the 70’s till closure in 1983 I observed these scenes every working day. The X class locos leaving Perth for Fremantle were a sight to behold as I enjoyed a smoke between city beach bus runs. The dmu’s laying over all day in the yard certainly cleared their lungs of oily smoke when starting off for their pm run after idling ALL DAY! Great stuff I really enjoyed this.

Thank you Terry, I remember watching the steam trains pass under the North Cottesloe bridge on Eric Street while walking to school at North Cottesloe Primary School

Onya, Terry! This is a terrific piece of work, mate.

I've been hunting for a long time for one of the old ticket issuing machines the train and bus drivers used to use in the 70s and 80s. Then paper tickets with purple print .

Old WAGR railcars badly smoking us usual - especially at 4:24. The WAGR was never much into proper maintenance, as shown by the smoking of X-Class and smoking of railcars. I can remember being a passenger on a railcar in about 1972. It was time to move out and the driver revved the guts out of the motor, but the railcars barely moved.

Thank you Terry for posting this fantastic flashback to the seventies. What a trip down memory lane, so much of what you have captured I remember well and it was wonderful to relive those precious moments again. You can almost feel the atmosphere of freedom we all enjoyed living in a world before political correctness and OH&S restrictions slowly but surely stole peoples common sense and dignity. This goes to prove that Progress does not necessarily mean things get better.

Really amazing footage. I recognised some of the areas from Capel to Busselton? Would be great if you could label where some of these actual locations are. Good work 👍🙏

I still work on the Network thank you for filling in some gaps.

Ah, the glory days...Thank you.

Its like a hypnosis memory watching this.

I loved your video. One of the best I've seen about the Super pit. Thank you

Thank you Terry, a historical documentary gem. This made our day. Superb effort and presentation.

This is why we must still watch carefully over any Liberal Governments we have in the future as they are not intent on proving the city and the state with good infrastructure for the masses. Could you imagine Perth with no Freo line now.... without the insight of the Labor Government.

One of the things I often note about Perth and Fremantle from these times... which I remember with fondness, is the stark lack of tree's in many places. The whole metropolitan area has grown so much greener and nicer over the years.... this type of video certainly certainly reminds us of how many places were if we are honest, quite bare and ugly.... but we still loved our home.

Great footage. In the mid 1970’s I caught the train from Fremantle to Perth on a Saturday morning and the young fella in front of me was excitedly telling the chap beside him that he was going to Perth and he had only ever been to Perth 3 times in his life! My great grandfather was killed by a goods train at about 10.30pm near the Burswood station and the paper said he was mangled beyond recognition. It was New Year’s Eve and he worked in a woodyard in Stirling Street,North Perth. The family has it that he was walking along the line (including across the river) to get home in Victoria Park. My grandfather and his two brothers worked their whole working lives for the WAGR as did my father and aunt in their early days. At one time the WAGR was the State’s biggest employer.