Super 8 S QR Suburban Trains Part 1 - late 1970s.
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- Various scenes around Brisbane showing:
- loco hauled wooden and SX cars.
- Exhibition trains from the Southside c1977.
- scenes around Bowen Hills and Central.
- electrification wiring trains
Copied from my Super 8 films.
imagine workers dressed in shorts and hard hat only being allowed now!!!
The old red rattlers. As a school boy in the 70s, it was stressful leaning out of the carriage to open the door!
More great memories. Thanks again Graham!
This is the only video I've ever seen of trains running on the Bulimba branch. Are there any others?
I haven't found any others in my films yet. The only ones I might have would be tours. If I find any, I will post them.
My friend was killed at Fairfield Station around 1976. The accident involved an old red rattler carriage. This video brought back memories of the tragedy. RIP David.
Andrew
What happened exactly
Sorry for your loss mate RIP
People romanticise the old days, but plenty of my uncles and great uncles were injured and killed in accidents, some in the railways.
Was he mangled up by the train in a really gore accident?. Was he not the sharpest tool in the tool box?.
@@Secretlyanothernameyes perfect video of the lack of safety back in the day,,even that fella out for a walk in the rail corridor and the speed of passing trains whilst the electifaction was being installed and how it was installed.
It looks so different, but I immediately recognised the old Yeronga station.
Always loved the old blue locos, it’s a shame they got rid of them
How cold was the seats on the ol red rattlers during winter back in the day ..
Bloody cold i tell you ..
And there's poor old 1251 in it's heyday, sorry site now.
Great long shots ! Most folks using 8mm kept shots extremely short due to the small spool size and cost.
Well done! Brings back memories, especially old Tennyson Power Station at the start.
My Family and I migrated to Australia back in 1973 and lived in Woodridge, Queensland until 1990. When we saw these trains and wooden carriages for the first time in 1973, we thought we had been transported back to 1873. We couldn't believe how primitive Queensland Railway was. 😂
Was Woodridge as junky then as it is now
@@qrkid6253 It was a shithole in the 70's and 80's but I managed to get the hell out in 1991.
Loved in Woodridge too growing up
@@iamgod6464got out in ‘89
@@chriswaldron2617 Excellent! Not many who are forced to live in Woodridge ever manage to escape.
Brown carriages up through electrification. Amazing. I remember when Fortitude Valley was open to the sky. Big ramp from Brunswick St. down to the platform. Me and my sister used to tear down there at full speed. Much to the consternation of Mum who seemed more concerned about us dirtying our going out clothes in a fall than injuring ourselves. Great times and happy memories.
so do I, it was called Brunswick Street Station then. why change the name?
They used to call Brisbane "poor people's Sausalito" LOL. So. SF right around the corner. Thanks for memories.
Ahh.. the days of long end leading, when a loco looked right.
Love the old trains, and the scenery as it went past the old PA hospital 😮
A friend of the family worked for QR in the 70s and he took me for a ride along one day. Couldnt believe the view from the loco....the track looked so narrow! This 12 yo wondered how the damn thing stayed on there!
1700 Clydes were good locos [with the fast start ]spent many hours on them
These days the nanny's in workplace health and safety would be screaming blue murder at those guys working with no safety harness shirts or sun screen, happy days.
No railings on the top of the train for the cable layers. Wonder how many fell off the side.
I transferred to Mayne in 1979 , love those olds scenes. When life was simpler .
Watching this video brought back memories from my childhood of the smells of being on those old red rattlers, be it the diesel soot, or the coal dust stirred up as the train travel along Ipswich line and Tenneson lines
Oh for the return of the good old days when train travel was an absolute nightmare!
Love the sound of the pomy engines.
Thank you. I started with QR at Clapham in '83, went right through to Aurizon finished in 2017.
I actually miss the old Brisbane, a bit rough to state the obvious, but had a lot of character, not the sterile, sanitised, traffic ridden NPC shithole it is now.
It is ashame that the stainless steel passenger cars never got finished for use as a electric cars themselves 😮😢
They were designed for 1200/1600 dc but the decision to go to 25kv (a much better system) made them redundant.
Also a good tho g otherwise we’d have had unairconditiined trains floating around d the network for a much longer time
@nickclark2278 so true maybe it was meant to be that way
@@nickclark2278 you mean they may have been like the red rattlers on the nswgr system
Great footage of local stations & burbs --- wish I could remember more of them
And you'd lift the lid on the dunnie and look straight through a hole with the sleepers flashing past.
Did the suburban have drop dunnies, very flash.
@lesleypaterson1463 Some did yes. I have the memory from going in to the city shopping from banoon station. Definitely poor form (and an offence I think) to take a #2 at a station.
Before electric power and air-conditioning
Thankyou Graham, I grew up in those neck of the woods in the early. So many memories.
Got to laugh at the relaxed style of workplace safety. The EWT workers and no restraints. The fact this could be filmed trackside. The railways were great in terms of accessibility I remember been a teenager able to go to Mayne and lol, around the loco and railmotors. Simply see the OIC and signed an indemnity form made from a metho machine.
These days the railways understandably are very risk adverse, wonder why they struggle to connect with the community. Where are the open days at Mayne showing the EMUs to the public or Aurizon or PN showing what they do at Acacia Ridge or Moolabin yards.
So disconnected.
When I started at moolabin the local schools would do excursions through the yard which I thought was pretty cool. A lot has changed since then.
GREAT film. ever film at KURABY, BETHANIA,BEENLEIGH, EXHIBITION STATION, BOWEN HILLS and any footage of QR GARRATTS and GOLD 1461 and 1231 diesels. I guess that is what most people want to see as well as the ORIGINAL SUNLANDER and QUEENSLANDER express trains
@@GeorgeRainey-s4v Apart from some scenes at Bowen Hills in this film, I haven’t found any others that you mention yet. There may be some views mixed in with various tours which I have yet to scan.
AMAZING FOOTAGE Mate!! 0.25, the crossing between tracks... The loco, an English Electric...
Brown carriages at that moment, like in my country at that moment... All the best Aussie in everthing!! Kind regards from Bs As Argentina, Rodolfo
Loved riding on the red rattlers as a kid in the 70s. On a stinking hot Summer day you’d open the window to try and stop yourself sticking to the seats.
aaah, back in the day when a laraken knew when to act up lol, and Common Sense was.
You could flip the seats in the red ones, and the silver ones had a 'water bubbler'.
3.55, can see the old Yeronga Services Club to the left, and that big shed on opposite side of Fairfield Rd was an excavation company.
A lot of those locos made it to the Great Northern line, through Hughenden. I was a TA and serviced them. Fond memories of my workmates at the Shed.
OH&S!!🤣🤣🤣
I love watching this, I was a kid growing up when most of this stuff was around. I love the old level crossings with the wigwags.
The Pearson crossing signals (at the end) i restored one up at Rosewood railway museum, will be able to show it off when we finally get to open again
the crossing where Hardies building is shown us at Newstead.
Awesome compilation mate all the different types of infrastructure coming through the ages. Mile boards kph boards semaphore signals booked out semaphore signals RVDS signalling electrification and crossing flagman and I had never seen thoes spinning types of warning for level crossing b4. This is a great step back in time and thanks for sharing.
The footage of the wiring trains is cool. Though no way whs would let that happen now lol
Yer, always freaked me out that you could stick your head out the windows.
Great old video! I was recently watching a video of the Savannahlander. Very similar train at the end. I'll have to look up the history.
excellent stuff
ah I remember sitting in these carriages in 1974 and 1975 going from Milton to Oxley train station, the old bench seats. Can you buy these carriages in HO scale?? That is what started me on my model train journey 50 years ago.
I believe both the wooden Evans cars and the SX cars are available in models but as I am not a model railroader, I don’t know any details. Perhaps contact AMRA.
Use to catch one of those old wooden cairrage to work back in the 1980s.
Great original footage. Whats bizarre to me is no overhead wiring but yet silver stainless steel carriages. Them crossing bells are pure Aussie design?
yeah, impressive. i think these are the wigwams. a bit of an optical illusion happening with them. i hope some train museum has an operating set.
Yes wig wam. Must be on the Cannon Hill line. I think they were the last set operating in the 80s and I think they went to Rosewood after that.
Wow. Three carriage SS set! Must have been a transfer or a special. Overpowered!
i rode i the silver carriages regularly on the Petrie line for at least the last half of the 70's, red rattlers as well.
They are Wig Wags. There was a set at Exhibition when the road crossed the line. Now a bridge. I have worked on them in the 1970s.
I live in Brisbane since the mid eighties and love trains.That was realy cool thank you..watching the catenary being put up at Runcorn i think was a nice touch and those spinning signals with the bells at the railway crossing are awesome i have heard about them but were replaced from the Brisbane system by the time we got to Australia from Hungary.
Was there, bit square.
Grew up near the station and work station out west qld 70-80s kids play ground :) we Also had a junction across the road Great old trains, And the old steamer.
Tennyson looks so bleak in these videos.
It would of been interesting to see what the station looked like in the 1970s
@@davidmobbs2340 maybe the same as the late 90s?
Hassar
It's still bleak!
Talk about bleak. You should have seen Clapham Junction, where goods from NSW were transferred to Qld wagons by hand and by cranes. It was dry, hot, dirty and bleak. Workers there called it the Ars...e of the earth.
I believe this is a few years before the EMUs were introduced?
I worked in Queensland rail from 1995 to 2016. I recognised a lot of the lines. Very interesting seeing it before electrification.
Amazing vision!!!
Brilliant scenes Graham.
Remember all these areas in QR as a signal electrician. Even worked on the Wig Wags down Cannon hill way in the early days.
Thanks for your valuable video.
Out of gauge with Graham, Terry and Arthur. I assume you have now retired. Stay well.😊
I should have guessed it was you Mr Johnson from your youtube name. Been retired now for almost 12 years.
@@grahamwatkins9575 I took the vers from Aurizon which paid off my digs. Moved to sunshine coast hinterland because bris has become a shit hole. Sad as I was born and raised there and it used to be great. I like the videos. They take me back to my youth. Stay well.
Thankyou Graham, I grew up in those neck of the woods in the early. So many memories.
Got to laugh at the relaxed style of workplace safety. The EWT workers and no restraints. The fact this could be filmed trackside. The railways were great in terms of accessibility I remember been a teenager able to go to Mayne and lol, around the loco and railmotors. Simply see the OIC and signed an indemnity form made from a metho machine.
These days the railways understandably are very risk adverse, wonder why they struggle to connect with the community.
Great film mate. Loved it. ❤️
Interesting as a Scot to see what the railways in Australia were like in the 1970s! The "modern" diesels with brown coaching stock which looks (IMO) like it dates from about 1900, whereas the silver stock looks like the locos are hauling EMUs around. The new catenary being installed looks the same as UK catenary from the same era. The EE engines sound a bit like our class 37s, also EE products 👍
The scene with the level crossing in the middle of the roundabout, was that an active suburban line or was that a set of the old coaches on an industrial siding en-route to a scrapyard?
Thanks for sharing this piece of history!
@@harviemilligan1887 The wooden carriages were built in various designs between around 1912 to 1953. The SX silver carriages were in fact designed to be converted to EMUs as part of an early electrification scheme. That scheme never progressed and. By the time electric trains came to Brisbane, the design of the SX cars was outdated. QR adopted the 25kV system based on UK practice and built a new design of air conditioned train.
The level crossing you mention was on a goods only line serving a small goods yard and some industries - all now gone. The carriages were stabled in the goods yard during the day between peak hours possibly due to construction work at the normal stabling area at Mayne. The train shown is about to enter peak hour service and still had a few years of service left.
Now I am really feeling my age as I used to ride these things as a young bloke. I remember a trip to Sandgate one day on an old red rattler and because of the wet weather, I could not open the door when I arrived at the platform. I had to turn the knob which was of course outside and push the thing open from the inside with my knee. Those were the days on good old primitive Queensland rail! How things have changed?
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. I think I remember seeing trains like this in Brisbane, when visiting there back in August 1973. I remember taking a train from Brisbane to Ipswich and at every station, the station guard would slam all the carriage doors, when it was time for the train to head out of the station. I also remember that he trains from South Brisbane were more modern than the trains from Roma Street. The two train networks were not connected way back then.
Where was the location at 8:30 mark? I suspect possibly Newstead?
yes you are right. Newstead, where 3 or 4 roads converge. you can see the Gasometer in background. The frame is still there.
@@williamh2294 thank you for clarifying mate, I've always wanted to see what it looked like back in the day
@@glenn_outof_ten no problem. very industrialised area in those days. film is about 1970 maybe?
Great to see the old Tennyson power station, and the old Yeronga station. I lived at Yeronga and Tennyson for years, the late 70 s and early 80 s I remember well.
They really did flog the hell out of those old locos and rolling stock. But they took it!
Do you HAVE to use that fake film click shutter noise on your videos?
Its presence over the top of any audio the films had, makes your videos unwatchable.
NO fake sound added. The sound is as recorded by the camera. Sometimes, the camera noise is heard and other times if others are nearby their camera shutter noise may be heard. Unfortunately, I don't know how to remove unwanted sound. If you don't like the sound, turn it off.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , i thought it was faked sound too. its just old film with a deteriorated sound that i'm still happy to watch.
lol, you must be young. Super 8 makes that noise. So good that they had film with sound. My dad's sadly didn’t.
@@JGrandcourt Don't know if near on 60 is actually young, but I'd never heard how noisy super 8 audio was.
To me that clicking noise, sounded like some sound effect added to video transfers of 1920s and earlier silent films, to add to the feel of how old they are.
@@JGrandcourt , thanks for that crack about my age, but a girl at the local supermarket says i look like a wizard. i didnt know what she was on about but i think there is a lord of the rings and harry potter thing about it. ive watched old films before and i think this has more noise than other stuff ive watched. lol!
Loved the film, thanks.
here in perth, we had qr rail motors to top up the local rail motor services before the electrification in around 1990. i was expecting to but did not see any of these qr things in this film.
@@vsvnrg3263 I am not aware of any QR rail motors going to Perth. Perth did get some surplus QR SX stainless steel carriages though.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , they were rail motors. they had qr on the side. they powered themselves. i'll get a channel for you to check out.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , yes, they were common towards the end of unelectrified trains. they had qr on the sides. i think terry mercer has videos showing them in amongst the local stuff.
Like where is 1530 now?
What type of passenger carriages were those yellow wooden carriages and when were they built
@@davidmobbs2340 I know the one with the two lower windows at the end and windows in the end wall was an old travelling post office later converted to a passenger car. The others I think were just a variety of old carriages and vans. If you ask on the Facebook group QGR Days Gone By, I am sure someone will have a list.
Grandfather brother deid by a rail in the 50,s near Cannon Hill train station, RIP,,,SG.
5:25 Pretty neat to have footage of the electrification works in progress.
Would be interesting to do a follow up comparison of certain sections of the line that have changed radically. But I suppose nowadays with OS&H there is no way you would be able to get close-ups like in the film. Was fascinating to watch.