More Abandoned & Closed stations of Melbourne
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- This is Abandoned & Closed stations of Melbourne (2)
This video covers some abandoned and disused stations of Melbourne, this is a part two of the original video seen here: • Abandoned & Closed sta...
More stations will be covered in part 3, and more to come, as there is a lot of abandoned stations around Melbourne.
Please keep in mind that the majority of photos taken here aren’t mine, and all credit goes to the original authors.
Enjoy the video.
VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Mobiltown
0:41 Port Melbourne
1:18 Mernda
2:12 Mount Evelyn
2:51 Langwarrin
3:18 White City
3:42 North Fitzroy
4:33 St Kilda
5:23 Outro - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Part 3 is out now! th-cam.com/video/_Go79GuYtxE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rbqi09hKdpAq8wWX
I grew up mainly in St Kilda in the 80s, when it was a ghetto. It was exactly 10mins to town by train. Sometimes it'd be on a red rattler. Loved that area. Hooker's & junkies running from cops thru your yard. Meeting soon to be famous music artists unloading their gear down the lane behind _The venue_ , Frosty boy ice cream, St Moritz ice skating, Luna Park during school holidays. I'd get 10 rides on the big dipper, 10 go carts & 10 on the hurricane with my mates, per session. Family used to bartend & bounce in the snake pit at the George hotel. It's all gentrified now (but still with junkies & homeless)
>It's all gentrified now (but still with junkies & homeless)
Lmao pretty much sums up Melbourne
Grew up in Windsor around the same time... You paint a very familiar picture. #goodtimes
Did you ever read mullaway? I didn't realise they had ice skating at St Moritz
The Big Dipper brings back so many memories
I remember catching the train to St Kilda , and the red rattlers. Hate that the southern end of Acland Street has been blocked off and is pedestrian access only.
Hey Everyone! Recently this video has garnered alot of attention, I am working on a part 3 of this video soon so look forward to that!
Wow thx for the video. Brings back memories as I’m 51 this year. I recall most of these train stations. Hitachi old trains and the older trams like the StKilda one AND the still older ones that were chitty chitty bang bang lol smelling the brakes and NO air con stuck there for like 20 mins in the heat of summer lol good times😂 PS: if you like ALL of the history of the older Hitachi trains I highly recommend the rooftop restaurant in Fitzroy just off Smith st they have a old Hitachi train converted into a diner take the lift up and sit in a booth and great views of Melbourne especially on a dark clear night! Enjoy mateys! 😊
That sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing your memories. It must be quite nostalgic to recall those train stations and ride on the old Hitachi trains and trams. The experience of being stuck in the heat without air conditioning for 20 minutes sounds challenging, but it seems like you still have fond memories of those times. The rooftop restaurant in Fitzroy that has an old Hitachi train converted into a diner sounds like a unique and interesting place to visit. I'll definitely keep that in mind. Thank you for the recommendation!
As a Mt Evelyn native, they only restored that when they decided to fix the Warburton trail. It took them long enough too.
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Thanks
I like the word for cat in your language, its cute😅.
@@HazptMedia you're welcome 🙂
This is a great presentation Harry. The only 2 that I remember as heavy rail are Port Melbourne and St Kilda when visiting in 1974. Thanks for the memories Harry.
Thanks!
Many fond memories of my childhood and early working life catching the train from St.Kilda station. Often used to go into the city or South Melbourne market. Thanks for the video.
You're welcome! It sounds like you have a lot of cherished memories from your childhood and early working life. Taking the train from St. Kilda station must have been a convenient way to get to the city or South Melbourne market. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video!! Such a shame the Warburton, and Healesville, lines aren't still in use as with the population growth out there, it would surely be well used. Not to mention both being the most picturesque lines!!
What does "population growth" mean, though?
@@Scotty-P I am reading that it's needed now more than before. Thanks Kennet. :-)
Yes. Warburton line is too far gone sadly however the Healesville line is easy to rebuild as 99% of the line is still accesible.
People in Coldstream and Yarra Glan would welcome a train service and of course Healesville is growing.
I didn’t know that 75% of these exist lol
Nice video comrade
Thank you
When I was a train guard, we pulled the overhead wires down at Mobiltown on the down run to Werribee. Nothing particularly strange about that. What was strange was that it happened twice while I was running the exact same train (same run on the WTT and on the same rostered shift). I ran many trains on the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines too, happy days!!
Wow, that's an incredible coincidence. I was a Guard from 19980 to 1990. I was at the ERD in Batman Avenue for the first 5 years and then transferred to Ringwood. I used to love running the Port Melbourne St Kilda shuttles. You would see some pretty odd characters, particularly on the St Kilda line. I also remember White City and Mobiltown.
As a Ringwood guard you would probably remember Wally Spooner then. He stitched me a nice leather pouch for my H-key! @@mendocinobeano
Correction: The footbridge was not at North Fitzroy. It was at the site of the old Fitzroy station where the timberyard was.
I visited the Inner Circle line many times as a teenager in the early 80s.
North Fitzroy station was still intact in 1986 with both platforms in good condition.
My father and I travelled to Brunswick occasionally on saturday mornings and I remember seeing it then.
North Carlton station was also in good condition in 1983 when my friends and I rode from Burnley and spent time there.
A short goods train came through one sunday afternoon unexpectedly.
I think it was a Y class loco with a coal or flat car and a red guards van headed east towards north fitzroy station.
Thankfully they turned most of these stations into something useful or back into nature
Great video. You left out General Motors between Dandenong and Hallam. It closed in 2002. I remember going through there at speed in a Harris train and the body of the carriage was hitting the platform as it rocked from side to side. A combination of old rolling stock and poorly maintained track I guess.
Regarding General Motors station, I remember one sunday in 1983 my father and I took a train trip to Pakenham.
When we approached the up train at Pakenham we were talking to the driver entering the cabin.
He invited us to stand in there and watch as I wanted to become a train driver myself.
We could only stay in until General.Motors as he explained at Dandenong there would be Vi Rail staff watching.
It was a Hitachi and boy did those trains get up speed along that section.
They put it in part one.
I covered General Motors in the first part
Great video. I appreciate the work and knowledge that goes into making these videos. 👍
Glad you like them!
Nicely researched and edited
Thank you!!
Interesting video, I never heard of the White city station, but travelled on that line for years, very informative and entertaining..
Glad you enjoyed it
I live in Berwick so go past that General Motors station on the way to and from the city. Creepy, desolate place, particularly in winter.
White City. My Father worked at Olympic Cables (Olex) and would have used this Station from time to time. I remember when the old Tottenham Railway Gates were still in operation. When they did away with the gates and elevated the Station they had to do away with White City because it was now on the downgrade from Tottenham
Mernda is a funky one, ancient yet born again
I have memories of White City 'station' through the 80's. White City being the most bitterly ironic name now.
That's funny
Clarify how you mean, "funny"?!@@mendocinobeano
I remember the old White City station - I recall going through it on the way to Albion in the late 1970s. I can't be sure but I think the station was already closed by then but the building and platform were still there. And wasn't the station there to serve a greyhound racing stadium that used to be in the locality and was also known as White City (or have I got that confused with White City in London)?
excellent. keep them coming.
Great Video!!! 👍👍👍👍
Am I right in thinking you missed a significant detail about Port Melbourne - that it was the first railway line in Australia, built in 1854 to service Station Pier and receive incoming migrants to the gold rush?
That is correct - it was originally operated as the Hobson Bay Railway Company.
The stations building has been converted to like a dental place iirc, the tram stop doesn’t use the station platform or building it uses a stop just across the track.
I was on the last train out of StKlida back in the day, IIRC it was a Tait but it was sometime ago!
I was keen to watch this, but your choice of ‘music” killed it for me.
Good job
Very nice north Fitzroy was interesting.
Ive also been to Mount evelen station nice rail trail along there.
Yes it is
Do you know if it’s possible to follow the rail trail all the way to Warburton?
@@trctrainspotting2945 yes you can
@@joelpackett7582 ok thanks
I cannot wait!
Yeah that’s one good video Hazza
nice video
Thanks
I thought the Paisley Sidings was the old sataion. However, it would be a great location for a new station as there are no stations on the Werribee line between Newport and Laverton which is over 10 km away.
I think you are talking about Paisley station. Mobiltown was on the Eastern side of the refinery near Kororoit Creek Road
As the commenter above me has said, you might have Paisley and Mobiltown mixed up.
@@HazptMedia I must be confusing the Paisley Sidings? It is located right next to the Mobil refinery which made me think it was the old station. I can see on google maps some rail lines that run right next to the refinery.
@@JohnnyG-hq6wo I made a mistake as I saw what I thought was an old platform. I found on Google maps some old rail lines that run closer to the Mobil refinery. PAisley would be a good spot to open a station with Millers Junction growing.
In the late sixties, the Mobiltown Station was on the Newport to Altona line, not the Werribee line as stated. Used it often as a teenager coming home late to North Altona with a short hike through paddocks. I also used Paisley Station in the mornings and afternoons to go to and from school in the city. This was on the Geelong line and had diesel trains, not electrified. I believe that there is a mound where Paisley Station was.
I've seen parts of the Langwarrin platform many years ago, not much now, just a radio comms station at the end now exists. I never knew what it served as its near a nature reserve and no houses etc. However a Military reserve! I never knew there was anything military anywhere in the area.
Nice.
Shame they closed the warburton line !
I grew up in South Melbourne ,I used love the old red rattlers, then they closed the station, put trams.
Forgot about White City (for the nearby Greyhound track,which has closed as well,in 1981.),North Fitzroy and Mount Evelyn (closed in 1965,as with the rest of the Warburton line closure.)
I did include those in the video?
The footbridge that was moved to Moorooduc was at Fitzroy (Goods) , not North Fitzroy.
NOOOOOOO I MISSED IT BECAUSE I AM ADDICTED TO TRAINZ
Oops 😂
I can confirm there is none there because of the rebuild to Mernda was skyrail and that look out the old platform at old Mernda/Hawkstowe
Wasn’t the old Mernda near where Hawkstowe is now
Also Holden on Gippsland line.
There are still a few you haven't mentioned in either your videos, including Lyndhurst, Lyndhurst, Lyndurst, Clyde and Lyndhurst.
Yeah I’m not going to do every station 🫠
Mernda platform still exists, it is heavily used by goats.
Also an interesting fact is the completion of the Mernda line was followed closely by the great depression. This lead to the line closure and as a result it is the only line that was built in Victoria that didnt result in a population expansion and migration to follow.
4:48 what train is that? Is it an old version of the comeng?
Oh I just realised its a refurbished Harris train in a the met livery
Ahah it’s a refurbished harris, they were refurbished by Comeng so they made it look similar.
@@HazptMedia ok
What about all the stations that were on the St Kilda line?
Another one, I think it was missed, General Motors station next to Dandenong
I covered that in the first video
i will watch it. thank you@@HazptMedia
What about Sydenham station in melbourne?
I will include that in a future video
Hazza I’ll send you a dm of the photo of what the former platform at St Kilda looks like
Paisley, Galvin & Aircraft on the Weribee line
Aircraft is not abandoned
Bad news, another 2 Comeng sets have been transferred to Geelong. (301M-302M and 303M-304M)
I know, I was gonna see it but couldn’t
@@HazptMedia I have a feeling the next transfer might be 307M-308M and 338M-484M
Yeah only a bit of the platform is still there, with some bricks as well as the trial going over the former platform
Mobil towns station structure is still there but it is over run by grass.
Are you sure? I thought it was removed after the Kororoit Creek Road level crossing removal?
@@HazptMedianope! I’m pitching for the council to reopen it. All it needs is a little weeding ❤
Oops my mistake! As a Altona local my grandfather worked at Mobil and all the workers the considered Mobil town and paisley the same! So yes you are correct and it was removed. :)
I’m an Altona local aswell 😉
@@HazptMedia😂
Mernda aged well
Some of the grammatical errors in this video made my mind weep.
good 🥹
you surley forgot about rose hill
Rosehill is located in Sydney. This video is specifically about closed and abandoned railway stations in Melbourne.
4:51 false, that’s Port Melbourne
Read it again
Don’t forget to mute that horrible audio people
No need to be so rude mate 👍
I use copyright free music
Mate, this video is incomplete. You failed to include the station at General Motors. The last time I passed through there in 2017, the Station was still in existence but was abandoned. Looking at Port Melbourne railway station made me feel quite nostalgic. On Sunday 23 April 1961, our ship RMS "Oronsay" of the Orient Line arrived at Station Pier after a long trip from Tilbury (London) to Port Melbourne. I remember it being quite a wet drizzly day, when we walked from Station Pier with all our luggage to Port Melbourne Station. We had to wait almost an hour for a train to Flinders Street, and a furter hours wait at Flinders Street to get the Frankston train to take us to our eventual destination BONBEACH which was to become our home for the next 15 years. Thereafter, I used to travel from Bonbeach to Port Melbourne to visit my dad, who worked at the then Commonwealth Government Engine Works at Port Melbourne as a Marine Engineer. I feel quite sa to be honest that Port Melbourne station no longer accommodated trains, but now uses the Light Rail. Cheers and thanks for reviving the good old days for me.
This is part two, I have included General Motors in my first videos
@@HazptMedia Many thanks for this advice. I will try and find it. Great podcasts mate!