I can smell the diesel. I like the red hens. When I traveled in them as a boy you could pull the doors wide open and wander from carriage to carriage freely.

Loved the Semaphore rail line. Wish it was still there!

@nswrailvideos7113

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful little line. If only our love of the car was so great the line may have survived.

Boy I grew up at Brighton in Adelaide. We travelled by train everywhere. I remember riding on the old puffing Billy.

Absolutely brilliant!! Thankyou for posting that😃👍

@nswrailvideos7113

5 ай бұрын

So please so many have enjoyed this old film. 😃

I was on RX 224 for the Centenary Train, fantastic day, even got to ride in the cab from Glanville to Semaphore...I was 16. Thanks for the excellent upload...cheers

@nswrailvideos7113

2 жыл бұрын

Mark i am absolutely delighted to hear that this movie film which sat dormant for close to 45 years can be shared and bring back good memories for you. Appreciate your comments and glad you enjoyed the film.

@MarkHenstridge

Жыл бұрын

@@nswrailvideos7113 I miss the "once-everywhere" railways we had in this state...As a teenager on a Sunday, I would catch the train from Semaphore to the City and then Catch the train up to Bridgewater...thanks for posting this video

4.23 is my Toyota Tiara 😂. Loved the Adelaide to Semaphore steam train.

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

That's amazing. Some good memories for you.

Thanks for posting this footage.

@nswrailvideos7113

2 ай бұрын

So wonderful it can be enjoyed all these years later.

This is fantastic. Thank you for the upload

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

I remember travelling to Adelaide from WA on the Indian Pacificin the early 70's and then transfering to another train at Port Augusta pulled by an SAR Alco and also remember that the train went down the main street of Port Pirie which I found truely bizzare.

2:11 I.C.I. doing a duet with VR in a phosphate haulage contract. Some of those boxcars are so grimy because they were first painted in 1973. Before then the logo was applied in small scale in the top corner of the door.

@nswrailvideos7113

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the info.

I still have my return ticket from Adelaide to Semaphore. Its 44 years old now.

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

Shame we can't post pics here !

A genuine XR GT Falcon @ 7.34!

@bobmarshall3700

Жыл бұрын

Yes and it was possible to identify many other different car types, unlike today, where they all look the same1

Awe.

Good footage. Just a point about the description though. Where you've said "In this 1977/ 1978 film Port Augusta celebrates the engineering marvel of multiple gauge tracks, to support the movement of broad and standard gauge rail vehicles", the scenes at the beginning of the film are of triple gauge track (broad, standard & narrow) & look to be filmed at Gladstone, not Pt Augusta. Port Augusta never saw any broad gauge. Cheers.

@nswrailvideos7113

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful - updated thank you.

What is the purpose of the overlapping double track seen at the beginning of the video?

@nswrailvideos7113

2 ай бұрын

Allowed the operation of multiple gauges.

Was this filmed with 8mm film?

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was. Professional uploaded through DVD infinity Five Dock Sydney.

@aussie_trainspotting_videos

Жыл бұрын

@@nswrailvideos7113 where did the sound come from

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

@@aussie_trainspotting_videos 1980s JVC handycam recordings.

Those Redhens were dirty noisy trains and fare evasion was a piece of cake.

@bas4903

Жыл бұрын

Yep they were great

@MartintheTinman

10 ай бұрын

Fare evasion still is if you don't leave the platforms at Adelaide

@davidbee3704

8 ай бұрын

I remember riding the Red Hens as a kid - you could sit next to the door with the door wide open. Used to catch them all the time from Croydon to Grange Beach in the summer.

3 questions- 1) & 2) Where was that bridge at 3:28? Does it still exist? 3) Is that your Kombi in every other video?

@nswrailvideos7113

11 ай бұрын

unsure of the locations as limited information was written within film reels. The Kombi belonged to Bert Scales, the person whom took the film. He and his wife would sleep in the Kombi lineside whilst away on rail filming trip, hence the Kombi is shown in most movie films !

@MarkHenstridge

10 ай бұрын

It is the railway bridge over the Murry River at Murry Bridge SA, It is still in use and it was converted from Broad gauge to standard gauge in the late 1990s

@baabaabaa-yp2jh

13 күн бұрын

Excellent mate!! Thanks for whackin this up! In 77 it was the centenary at Terowie, my grandad told me an old steam train was coming in.. "how's about you climb the overpass to get some photos?". Got covered in steam and soot, all for a cpl of blurry pics! Grandad thought it was the height of humour!!

Is that the old semaphore red?

1977??? This was filmed in 2018

@Kiwigeo8339

Ай бұрын

Nonsense...930 class diesels weren't hauling freight on a broad gauge line through the Adelaide Hills in 2018.

@bravelyHomosapien

Ай бұрын

@@Kiwigeo8339 It was a joke… Adelaide looks the same now as it did then 😊

I reckon the person who filmed this drove a Kombi Van...it's in a few scenes.

@nswrailvideos7113

Жыл бұрын

Bert and his wife toured Australia in it. You will see it in various films.