Puffing Billy - Forward View - The Complete Route - Gembrook to Belgrave (Australia)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2019
- The surprising success of the recently posted Driver’s Eye View video using video footage taken
from the front of the engine prompted me to consider posting the footage taken by a camera fixed just above rail level. For those who have already seen the 4 Part series of videos covering Puffing Billy, you may recognize some of the shots used in those videos, repeated in this one.
This video covers the whole line from Gembrook to Belgrave, although just before Monbulk Creek Trestle the view switches to a camera mounted on the locomotive hand rail due to the batteries in the track level camera running out of power.
The view is unusual, giving a totally different prospective of the route as we leave the pleasant suburbs of Gembrook, passing into open countryside before plunging into the eucalyptus trees of the Wright Forest, our train crosses wooden trestles bridges and passing pretty wayside stations along the way.
Track Gauge 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) - Filmed - 23rd to 25th Feb 2019 (Australia)
To find more information and maybe book a ride please click on this this link -
puffingbilly.com.au/
Recommended reading - Puffing Billy, Spirit of the Dandenongs by Nick Anchen (Sierra Publishing)
Excellent trackside shot. Never seen Puffing Billy from this view EVER before
Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed the video, I couldn't find anywhere else to fix the camera, hence the unusual view 😉.
What a wonderful scenic journey through the Australian bush. 🥰👍🤗
Hello Larissa, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride 🙂.
Travelled this route many times both on Puffing Billy and by car with my partner
Quite surprising just how much the train moves around on the track. Particularly on the corners. I realist it is a part of railway design engineering but the low camera angle really shows it. Thanks
The low camera position gives a very different perspective, especially where there is quite a distance between the fixed driving wheels and the front of the engine.
Wonderful journey thru the great australian bush thanks tim,love the low down camera angle it's memorising take care cheer's bob.
Hi Bob, its nice to know you enjoyed seeing the Puffing Billy railway from this unusual perspective. Take care. Tim.
Once again, fantastic. Thanks.
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Thank you. A very picturesque and refreshing journey!
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride 😊
Nice video, the whole route looks well maintained.
Thank you I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride. The track, rolling stock and stations were all in very good condition.
Great video Tim, I love the sound of the whistles of the old steam trains. Puffing Billy should be classified by The National Trust. I think the sun filtering through the trees adds to the romance of the journey.............
Its wonderful ride, with an interesting history. I didn't know Australia has a version of the National Trust, I've just looked it up and sure enough the Australians have their own version of the Trust and I agree Puffing Billy would be a good candidate.
Awesome .......Thanks for sharing
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the ride.
즐거운 여행 감사합니다.thank you.
나는 당신이 타고 즐겼다 기쁘게 생각 합니다.
great journey. liked the angle of capture
Hi Kieth, glad you enjoyed this unusual view. A lot of the volunteers on this line were originally from the UK, many moved to Oz in the 60's, there is one guy who is a driver on the Bluebell Railway and the Puffing Billy, he enjoys permanent summer.
Very cool Tim. Love the spider at about 9.15ish and I see you met the people who love putting rocks in the track at Edenmont Rd. Must be a decent camera shell to have survived that at 51.00. O enjoyed watching this before hitting the rails again as we reopen in the coming weeks. Seems I still remember where everything is 😁
Hi, I didn't know what crawled across the camera at 9:15 and I wasn't sure where the debris came from at 50:58. I had wondered if the cow catcher had struck the road surface, fortunately GoPro cameras are pretty robust. I wish you all the best in reopening the Puffing Billy Railway and I look forward to visiting again some time. Take care and stay safe. Tim.
Hermosa travesia. Muy buen video. Felicitaciones, y saludos desde Argentina.
Gracias, me alegra que hayan disfrutado de este video. Saludos desde Inglaterra.
Super video!
Thank you :-)
Amazing . Keep it up bro
Cheers.
Wonderful 🙂
Thank you.
Thanks. Beautyfull ride!
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
@@Timsvideochannel1 but I like Wales much more!
@@annemaria5126 Wales is an awesome country.
@@Timsvideochannel1 indeed. Now the colemines are gone...all the grey dust made place for green nature and the people look nice and neat. I did not know Wales is so beautyfull and right next door! The same in the north of France (Nord Pas de Calais) and in Germany 'het Ruhr-gebied'...the Ruhr-Region/district...Nord-Rhein-Westfalen'. (Chemical)Industries still are there, but the grey dust has gone. I am just a realistic non-scientific, non green voter (not at all a voter), but I do like orderly neat clean green environments, with huge trees and flowers. I do not like insects and slimy crawling creatures, but they are needed, so I try to treat them well.
@@annemaria5126Hello Anne, North Wales looked grey in the past because of all the slate tips resulting from extensive slate mining, the slate mines were also the principle reason so many narrow gauge railways were constructed in North Wales. All but one of the Slate mines have closed and a terrible tragedy in the coal mining village of Aberfan in 1966 lead to the coal and slate tips being landscaped to make them safer and as time has passed nature has reclaimed these former tips. South Wales was known for coal mining where evidence of the underground activity was everywhere in the form of coal waste tips. The mines have closed and the valleys are once again green. The countries of the former Yugoslavia are some of the most beautiful places in Europe, especially Croatia and Slovenia. We are lucky to have so many wonderful places in Europe. When I'm waiting to photograph trains in almost all former Eastern block countries I'm amazed at all the pretty butterflies, most of these countries countries never used damaging pesticides such as DDT. We need insects to pollinate fruit trees and many bird species feed on insects. Like you say, we may not like them but we need them.
Yes I travelled over part of this railway back in October 2005
Hi, I hope this video bought back good memories from your own visit to Puffing Billy.
wow...nice Video!
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Good video 5 🎇🎇✨✨🎆🎆🎥🥇🏆🙌👌🙏👍👈👀
Wow, that's a lot of Emojis, thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Great video Tim. A lovely camera angle of the heritage ride through the forest. The sun glare was a bit harsh though. It does hinder the camera quality doesn't it?
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Sunlight can often be a problem, if I'd had more time I could have waited for a cloudy day, where the sun flashing through the trees would not have been so noticeable, sadly I usually only get one go at filming, I can only do the best I can on the day.
(1:14:48) Hello Tim, maybe you know why this guy is outside of his loco cabin? - Heinz
It is cramped inside the cab, I think he was just stretching his legs.
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ありがとう。
What the hell country is this as I was not able to connect them.
Hi, Sorry about that, I've added (Australia) to the title now.
En el minuto 9:16..? (ver en velocidad 0.5) sorprendente...!!!
Me pareceu um inseto .
Un insecto arrastrándose a través de la lente de la cámara, creo que era un Cicada - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
Google Translate - An insect crawling across the camera lens, I think it was a Cicada - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada
@@Timsvideochannel1 Gracias...!!! siempre veo tus videos, lindos paseos,
y fue Fabuloso....!!! el paseo en jet-boat de Australia..
Saludos...desde Buenos Aires ARGENTINA.
@@enriquealvarez1226 Gracias, me complace que disfrutes viendo estos videos. El Jet Boat fue divertido. Los mejores deseos, Tim de la costa sur de Inglaterra.
Uh oh! Chin bandage time!!! LOL
The cow catcher caught the ground on several of the road crossings.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Yeah, I noticed that! There was also a bug crawling across the lens of the camera early in the piece.
@@neilforbes416 I'm guessing the bug was a cicada, one jumped on me through the open window of our camper-van as I was driving, it was big, frightened the life out of me.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Yeah, they can be scary little buggers! When I was about 7 years old, our family used to pile into Dad's FJ Holden and we'd go camping in caravan parks up through the north coast of NSW. Staying in caravans or, if we couldn't get a caravan, put up our tent. One night in Lismore, in our tent, I was lying on a camp stretcher(fold-out cot bed) when something appeared beside me, chirping like a "cricket"(cicada), scared the living shite out of 7-year-old me. Slept the rest of the night in Mum's and Dad's bed with them.
@@neilforbes416 There was no escaping the noise of the cicadas in either New Zealand of Australia. Nice memories from days spent with your family on holiday. My parents used to take my family away in a tent, when we were a little older they bought a touring caravan ..... happy days.
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Thanks.