I rode the Diesel Trains from Melbourne > Foster every School Holidays 1965 to 1971. 4 hours trip. Sad the line was shut down. Foster Station often won the Prize for best kept Station in that era.
What a pure delight to watch this video. Thank you so much for posting and sharing. We drove along some of the old track yesterday. Would you have any pictures of the Gelliondale railway station? It’s long gone now (nothing left but a mound where it once was) but I would love to see a picture of it. Thank you again.
I travelled on this train, it ran tender first and I took a photo from inside Yarra with the front of K190 visible through the big window. On the way back we had dinner at Meeniyan in a public hall and the locals lined up electric frypans with casseroles in them.
@@baku6722 I used to travel to Yarram on the pass leaving from the Princes Bridge platform at around 6:30, in it’s last few months the consist was 3 or 4 louvre vans and 2 passenger cars. One was always the BG I forget the number, it was a composite open and compartment car and was air conditioned, there were two BGs but one was damaged in some incident so this BG was the last of it’s kind. As it slowed to a stop the lights dimmed. Around 1980 the VR started to bulldoze platform edges presumably to constrain maintenance costs and the train stopped at Buffalo which had the quaint station building with the platform edges gouged away and the guard provided some steps for the two old ladies to alight. After departure from Yarram in the morning the guard would collect money from passengers to buy newspapers at Welshpool. Another memory was of the up train arriving at Meeniyan and the early morning sun shone through the gum trees. It was here that passengers who boarded the train after Yarram could see the guard to buy tickets. (my ticket was an Edmondson ticket). On the Tuesday after Easter the VR was expecting more passengers so three extra cars wete attached at Korrumburra. It was a five hour journey and the VR had closed the Korumburra Railway Refreshment Room so before departure from Princes Bridge I purchased a whole chicken and some bread and other nibblies.
Wow! a blast from the past.... I rode on K190 in that era. I think it was to Nyora and then caught a ferry to Stony point and rode K184 back to Melbourne...
There was another round trip too about 1968 or so. The D3 and a K and trains ran parallel to Caulfield where the K diverted to Stony point and the D3 to Nyora where it was turned and ran tender first to Anderson. A ferry trip across Westernport bay and bus trip between Cowes on Phillip Island and Anderson in each direction completed the loop. The D3 was able to run funnel first all the way back to Melbourne from Anderson without having to turn. There was no turntable at Anderson which was the closest station on the Wonthaggi line to Phillip Island
After the Wonthaggi line closed there were one or two trips to Nyora, I travelled on the Leongatha pass and the driver spoke to Norm De Pomeroy who was waiting at Nyora with the K.
There are a great many things we will never see again. It is ironic that we will protect, preserve and even recreate other cultures yet our own is mercilessly sacrificed in the name of progress.
I rode the Diesel Trains from Melbourne > Foster every School Holidays 1965 to 1971. 4 hours trip. Sad the line was shut down. Foster Station often won the Prize for best kept Station in that era.
What a pure delight to watch this video. Thank you so much for posting and sharing. We drove along some of the old track yesterday. Would you have any pictures of the Gelliondale railway station? It’s long gone now (nothing left but a mound where it once was) but I would love to see a picture of it. Thank you again.
I travelled on this train, it ran tender first and I took a photo from inside Yarra with the front of K190 visible through the big window. On the way back we had dinner at Meeniyan in a public hall and the locals lined up electric frypans with casseroles in them.
Sounds absolutely amazing, wish I was alive back then to go on it myself
@@baku6722 I used to travel to Yarram on the pass leaving from the Princes Bridge platform at around 6:30, in it’s last few months the consist was 3 or 4 louvre vans and 2 passenger cars. One was always the BG I forget the number, it was a composite open and compartment car and was air conditioned, there were two BGs but one was damaged in some incident so this BG was the last of it’s kind. As it slowed to a stop the lights dimmed.
Around 1980 the VR started to bulldoze platform edges presumably to constrain maintenance costs and the train stopped at Buffalo which had the quaint station building with the platform edges gouged away and the guard provided some steps for the two old ladies to alight.
After departure from Yarram in the morning the guard would collect money from passengers to buy newspapers at Welshpool.
Another memory was of the up train arriving at Meeniyan and the early morning sun shone through the gum trees. It was here that passengers who boarded the train after Yarram could see the guard to buy tickets. (my ticket was an Edmondson ticket).
On the Tuesday after Easter the VR was expecting more passengers so three extra cars wete attached at Korrumburra.
It was a five hour journey and the VR had closed the Korumburra Railway Refreshment Room so before departure from Princes Bridge I purchased a whole chicken and some bread and other nibblies.
17:41 That's at Hedley, FYI.
Nice bells on the crossings too.
Always wondered why they run the engines backwards sometimes...obviously so it can go to back of train to return...ahhh moment
Wow! a blast from the past.... I rode on K190 in that era. I think it was to Nyora and then caught a ferry to Stony point and rode K184 back to Melbourne...
There was another round trip too about 1968 or so. The D3 and a K and trains ran parallel to Caulfield where the K diverted to Stony point and the D3 to Nyora where it was turned and ran tender first to Anderson. A ferry trip across Westernport bay and bus trip between Cowes on Phillip Island and Anderson in each direction completed the loop. The D3 was able to run funnel first all the way back to Melbourne from Anderson without having to turn. There was no turntable at Anderson which was the closest station on the Wonthaggi line to Phillip Island
After the Wonthaggi line closed there were one or two trips to Nyora, I travelled on the Leongatha pass and the driver spoke to Norm De Pomeroy who was waiting at Nyora with the K.
Seems they left the van at Yarram, why was that?
well we're never going to see this again are we! :(
It doesn't look as if we will
There are a great many things we will never see again. It is ironic that we will protect, preserve and even recreate other cultures yet our own is mercilessly sacrificed in the name of progress.
take photos, I came this day and took photos.