SRF777 BP 1986 SANDOWN LINE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- 1986 - Trip from Clyde to Sandown (Sydney, Australia)
Today we go for a ride on the now closed, and mostly removed, line from Clyde to Sandown.
Travelling to Sandown we view the trip from the passenger point of view.
On the return to Clyde, we take in the trip from the guards compartment.
Today the line from Parramatta Road to Hardies is removed.
From Hardies to around Goodyear has been converted for light rail access to a new depot, with the rest of the line to Sandown just abandoned and becoming overgrown.
All stations on the Sandown branch are long gone, while Rosehill Racecourse is supposed to disappear (may already have) as part of the Metro project out there.
In part 4 we go for a run around a few places, taking in Clyde, Flemington, Burwood, Sydney Terminal, and the former Punchbowl Car Sheds.
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Thank you. This is great ! I’ve been looking for some Sandown line pictures / video but it’s rare. It’s the first time I ever managed to see the old Goodyear station. Thanks !
Mate, thank you.
It is one of those lines that has long fascinated me. It is a shame to see it the way it is now.
You have probably already seen them, but I have a few other Sandown related videos on the channel, both when in use, as well as after.
My blog has many photos alcogoodwin.blogspot.com while I still have a lot to be scanned and go up.
There is also a FB group for it and Carlingford.
Carlingford / Sandown Railway Archive
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Thanks again for the comments.
Wow! Never managed to see an image of the Goodyear platform let alone a video till now. I’ve had the pleasure of crossing the lines that lead towards Hardies and Sandown when travelling to and from Camelia station during a two week IT support relief stint in the JH office building behind the former JH platform in 2000.
Thanks for posting this awesome clip.
Thanks for the message mate.
Like so many other places, I wish I spent more time out there.
Never went to Goodyear to actually get photographs.
Got a couple at Sandown station, and I think one or two at Hardies when we caught the last train to terminate there.
Like everything/everyone, just thought it was always gonna be there.
Brilliant bit of footage, as usual. Cheers!
Does my head in to think that there are kids in their 20s who've never known anything of an Australian manufacturing sector (that produced anything other than food).
Yep.
I guess we will never get it back again either :-(
Well done thank you.👍👍👍👍👏
Many many thanks mate.
Thanks for the video. I always wondered what it would have been like to have rode down this line. I would have thought the stations would have been spaced a little further apart.
It was a fascinating line to travel down.
Did it on a couple of sparks and CPH railmotors.
Seeing it all now, I kick myself for not going more.
I went along this branch one afternoon in 1990. It was in a three car red rattler. Very industrial with workers getting on and off.
I am astonished to see a more modern S set going on such a run down looking like like this. I was of that impression at the time I rode it that the railways relegated their oldest stock on this branch as well as the Carlingford line. This opened my eyes.
Actually, it now raises the question as to the most modern spark type to have gone out there.
I am assuming these were it.
Given the dates of construction, I guess it is quite possible C and K sets could have visited. Even the Tangara was in service when the branch passenger service was operating.
@@NeathSpadge The Tangara was the first of the increasingly power hungry sets and I believe it was possibly the Richmond line that couldn't accept them initially due to their power draw. I have a feeling Sandown couldn't either, at least a four car set which was the minimum for those. Perhaps the two car K sets used mainly in Newcastle were the only air conditioned trains that ever went there.
The first time I personally noticed Tangaras running on the Carlo line was well into the 1990s, after the Sandown branch ceased passenger services late in 1991 according to Wikipedia.
@jamesfrench7299 many thanks mate.
@jamesfrench7299 after commenting I got it in mind that I put a K set at Sandown of Facebook .
Have a Carl Millington photo of a four car K92 there that I scanned.
I wish there was a way to share stills in these threads.
@@NeathSpadge confIrmation on here with a brief description will suffice. A link to the photo online would be much appreciated though.
After finding out alternatives to the standard suburban sets went there makes me grateful I scored what I did the one time I explored that line.
It was very atmospheric and unforgettable, particularly the undercover Goodyear station.
First time i went on carlingford line was in 86, service was a 2 car s set, saw the yard at rydamere and carlingford, this set must have done sandown as well. Jm
Was a very interesting area back then. IIRC the two car sets were T sets, being changed to L sets with the introduction of the Tangara.
I remember going out to Hardies to get the very last service to terminate there. The 2-car sets, of which there may have been three, did both lines.
We are planning a day out there shortly to catch up with the latest developments.
I also remember in 2 car set, motor car facing down line carlingford for the climb, driving trailer to clyde, maybe drivers preferred motor up than trailer to detect wheel slip better? Jm
Wow! What a trip down memory lane.
(Story time)
When i was in my late teens, I lived in Werrington. I had a couple of city jobs at different times, starting in 1983 at 15. I went past this line too many times on a daily basis. I explored the Sydney network fairly extensively (only wish I had a camera). There were 3 occasions that I explored that line, but only one was deliberately. Embarrassingly, the other times were not deliberate explorations, but I enjoyed them anyway. They were times that I was daydreaming, forgetting (or not noticing Clyde).
By memory, there were fast trains from Town Hall (where I borded from work) out west, and I would sometimes be in a hurry, so I would take one to preferably St Mary's (if I was lucky), but often to Blacktown, Granville, Clyde, or Strathfield. I just ran to the station, looked at the boards showing what trains were going where, then made sometimes poor decisions on how to get home.
I would almost always be tired and sometimes fall asleep when i was supposed to be looking for a particular station to change trains for an all stations train, which were pretty much the only trains to stop at Werrington. One time I knew as I woke up and the doors closed, that I was at Clyde. This meant that I was heading up the Sandown line, so I was now wide awake and took the whole trip up and back, as a tourist. lol
I tripped out at how grubby and unkept the line was compared to the western line I was used to. It was functional, not pretty. It was also very quiet. I felt like the only person on the train.
Thanks heaps for this upload.
Mate, thank you so much for sharing.
I love hearing of people memories from back in my era.
Best wishes and thanks again
I remember working at the Shell Refinery just near Sandown Station! Good times 😀
Amazing to have seen such a very busy area gradually become what it is now.
2:24 - Now arriving at Rosehill Racehorse
2:44 - Rosehill station name sign
Excellent footage.
Thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed it.
One of the more interesting lines we had.
CAN IT START!!!!
I hope so. Otherwise it will be embarrasing.
Has now 🙂
yay! action
I waited 2 months for this
He makes it abundantly clear in his intros his videos are terrible yet you still chose to wait.
Sorry to everyone who were in live chat. I suddenly got side tracked. @alcopro
I remember it as a stinking, horrible, industrial wasteland.
I think that's what appealed to me about the place :-)
Looks set for a massive transformation.
Well dome
Thanks mate.
I wish these VHS tapes help up better.