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Great footage mate, I love our old locos

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I worked at Roma Street after the standard gauge was extended over the river so seeing this was an eye-opener.

Great footage, particularly of the electrification rollout.

Thanks for posting this great footage which rekindled many memories as travelled the Lota line in those days. It's kinda unbelievable that those like our family who lived on the southside of Brisbane couldn't travel directly into the city by train until many years later. We had to catch a train which terminated at South Brisbane and walk across the Victoria Bridge to get to the city. The area around South Brisbane station for many years was quite run down and not a great place to be at night! It was like the proven to be corrupt Bjelkie-Peterson government was more concerned with other matters and a priority on snuffling out any outcry or public criticism against the government, rather than fixing the glaring issues in an antiquated and ineffective public transportation system. I recall those aged "brown carriages" (as we called them) which were long overdue for replacement even when this footage was shot, having to be structurally strengthened in the 70's due to actual and visible flexing when coming to stops at stations. I recall a story in The Courier Mail in the mid 70's which basically called the old brown carriages "death Traps" that would dramatically splinter in case of an impact causing horrific injuries/ death toll. As a kid i just loved them as they were obviously from the 1930's. And painted inside that awful caramel colour!! Then QR put old long distance passenger carriages from the 20's into service on Southside lines in the mid 70's. Pretty run down but time capsules of travel from a bygone era! I note we NEVER rode in those more modern and much safer aluminium carriages which were only utilised on Northside lines. Talk about those who lived on the Lota and other southside lines feeling like the poor cousins!!

My dad and I intended to catch the first ICE revenue services from Brisbane to Nambour and back again. We waited, and waited, and the train was late.. replaced by an EMU instead. A few months later we moved away from Brisbane and I never had the chance to ride an ICE.

Really was a mixed bag in this era, electric trains, silver rail motors and those fabulous old brown carriages pulled by the blue QR locos.

Some locations I recognize from my youth: Yeronga (@3:49) Southbank/West End/Centeneary Drive/Brisbane River (@10:40) Electrification @5:00 (hanging up the catenary as the electrification scheme- all these routes are now electrified, I think) Oh my god those alarms are adorably derpy. The way the arms flap about and strike the bell!

9:53 im pretty sure my dad worked on that one ^ :) 1558 ive got a big picture form when he was working up north in the late 60's ealry 70's. Pic is of it going over the burdickin river up north through cane fields. I can upload a pic in my community posts if you want see?..

Wow, what a treat! it's the first time we see a video from that trip. I tok part in that tour (at that time young and innocent...) 🤣🤣 An enormous thanks for posting!

obrigado por compartilhar, nossa muita história envolvida.

Great program Graham

Very good cinematography, thank you.

OMG! My dad driving the 7108! I never thought that i would see a video of him when he was young and how i remember him! Priceless. Is there more unedited footage please?

Avellaneda , “Provincial Railway “

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excellent images. Is there more from Argentina?

7:43 Alfios river bridge

I noticed in the 70s you could cross the tracks and get away with it. Nowadays you would cop a fine for trespassing

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Thank you so much for this!

16:00 I have never seen a Wig Wag like this anywhere. 0r even any type of Wig Wag in Australia. Great film thankyou.

cool l remember that

What a treasure!!!! Thanks for the post!!!!

EXCELLENT!! What a nice surprise!!! The LCGB Steam Tour of 1980 is a myth to all of us, the Greek trainlovers who know it only from photos. Thank you very much for uploading it.. it is a real document....

Klasse Film. Danke für das Einstellen.

That's an amazing document! Thanks for sharing it!

Excellent presentation of the greek railway pride in the 20th century, instead of the shame in the 21rst...

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

I managed to work out quite a few of the locations. This is a real piece of History. Brisbane was still pretty much a big sleepy town when most of this was shot.

I worked at SBE from '10 to '12 or so. We had an awesome team then. I would look around for any signs of history, other than the station building itself. A few little clues here and there, but otherwise, they did a good job of stripping away 99% of it. When they were getting ready to do the restoration I suggested they put up bill boards on the ConCen side so if you stood on the platforms facing west, you could see how it was on the bill boards. Also pictures in the pedestrian tunnel... I was amazed that it took until then to actually build a bridge across the river to Roma St.

Great footage Graham. Your foresight to record this era is appreciated. Did you venture down the Shorny at all? A few of my colleagues have been there for quite some time and have waxed about shunting etc as station staff. I missed all the fun stuff as it was before my time.

Taken back when Brisbane was a divided hick country town, the only thing that has changed is that it's no longer divided.

Fairfield has really changed since then.

Please take me back to this time...... Brisbane has become an overcrowded multicultural shitshow nowadays

Big memories starting in 1980 travelling from Gailes to South Brisbane or Vulture Street to attend Brisbane State High School. Does anyone know where to find related historical rail records? We "lost" a student that was hit by a train carriage door in the Roma Street tunnel. We both punched-on earlier the day before putting that aside to play rugby together at another school on the Beenleigh line after school then he was never seen again.

I remember going to South Brisbane station.I was going to South Brisbane Tech Colledge where South Bank is now

Wow Graham, this is some of the best QR footage that I have seen from this era! Too have colour and the original sound is very rare indeed and that camera gear of the day was not cheap! Brings back memories of my rail fanning days in Brisbane back in the 80's , when we had decent trains to look at , and such a variety of locos ! As a signal sparky for the last 20 yrs in Brisbane, I missed the golden age of QR and it's all very boring now, so thanks so much for posting these wonderful clips. CHeers Gregg.

1988 likely the radio was playing 4KQ

Steam locos &;trains in Greece, what a winning combination! Great video. Judging by the smoke though, oil burners…

Beauty!

You could feel the sadness from the RM2000 in the background at Nambour :)

Great video!

Another great video!

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Outstanding, thank you.

Thanks Graham for sharing 😊❤

Them were the days

Nice Job, Graham! Enjoyable viewing.

Excellent footage. I did a quick search and discovered Baddow and Pallas Street were Maryborough (Qld) suburban stations! That whole line to the centre of Maryborough appears to disused now. No sign of either station on streetview unfortunately.