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It may come as a shock to you nbut Heywood is now Standard gauge Unless Mt Gambier has a standard gauge link to the rest of the system there is no need for this line rip up rails and sell for scrap

Before coming to SA, my grandmother grew up in Neerim South and had to take at least 5 different trains to reach Casterton to see her cousin.

Love the Railway 🛤 lines and the greenery 🍃 happy holidays ❄️🍒❄️🍒

The Blue Bird Cafe scene is brilliant. The rail brought the prosperity that created that store then panning away from it's corpse reveals the B Double that changed everything.

Hi mate great video. My mum was brought up in Casterdon. When she married and lived in Melbourne, as a family we used to visit Casterdon. The line was closed then bur the tressal bridge was still there and the old railway lines. I used to walk down to the main street and there is a pathway that went across the tracks between the station and where the line stopped. Good to see a video of the Casterdon station. Cheers.

Great video and thanks for posting again. You have captured some beautiful scenery of the wonderful Western District, the region where I grew up, lived near Cavendish and went to secondary school in Hamilton. The Coleraine & Casterton railway stations have always intrigued me some what, very flash stations at the end of well you might say insignificant lines, but perhaps the quality of the buildings may have reflected each regions wealth or important people. The Hamilton railway station seems to be a rather bland building in comparison, to me it all but looks like the foyer of an Art Deco style town hall, were as the other two stations seem to me to be a typical Victorian regional Railway Station style of building. Growing up at Cavendish I remember well the closure our local line as well as the others, Branxholme also had a somewhat spiffy station in the day but it is long gone sadly. To add to this railway tale, as a young boy, probably 7 or 8 our local school travelled from Hamilton to Warrnambool by train and return, so that must have been around 1974 ish. Possibly this is where my attraction for all things railway comes from. Thanks for the clip again, cheers, Andy in Adelaide.

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You put some effort into this. The production quality is better than many 'professionals'. Well done. 🏆

I lived next to the track south of Mt Barker. Having a steam loco come past never got tiring.

Good vid. I remember catching the train to Mt Gambier. Amazing how many rail lines there once were in this part of the world. Now there aren't even busses connecting the towns.

Another good video,thanks. Worked on both lines in the mid 60s. Not Carsterton.

In this modern world there are so many people Vlogging about Aviation which opened up the world to those who can afford and have the desire to travel, also to deliver freight that people/companies want delivered in a more timely manner than by sea. It’s easily forgotten now that Railways opened up continents and are equally an important part of transport history. Very much enjoying your content. Cheers

You've probably moved on since you have uploaded this footage, however having just seen your Chowilla dam branch footage, I wanted to advise you, as you were in the Hamilton area of the short lived cross country line from Dunkeld to Penshurst which has quite a lot of archaelogy remaining. As far as I know the line was very short lived.

Fascinating Mike.

I remember the Derm rail motors being used on these two lines ,

Another line in Victoria the line to Bright was closed simply because two huge tresstles on it needed replacement.

Be interesting Mike to find out a quote to re timber one of those trestles. Once you have found those handsome gum trees I guess permits would be required to fell them. Nothings cheap or easy these days

Your doing a fantastic job with the channel. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work. Much appreciated. 👍

I’m really intrigued by that picture of an R class. Looks nothing like any R class I know!

It’s appalling that the state can’t run a passenger service to Hamilton. The line from Ararat is indirect and the VR ran a rail motor. Resd the history of “The Battle of the Coloured Lines” where there was debate about the route the rail should run to Hamilton. One proposal was to extend the Mortlake line.

Great video.

Thanks Mike once again cheers max

This was typical of many line closures in Victoria and New South Wales repairs and replacement of wooden trestles . The coonabarabran line in New South Wales was a graphic example it had several costly badly maintained wooden trestles

The reason both theses lines closed was the projected cost of replacing those two long wooden trestles It All comes down to future revenue over track repair .

Great stuff......these lines built a nation.

Thanks Mike for this video! 👍

When i was a kid we'd visit friends in Dartmoor and I'd know we were almost there when we crossed the line on Ascot St, I'd always wondered what kind of trains went through there, being so remote I couldn't imagine it. I used to like to imagine Red Hens making that long journey 😂

Thanks for that. I had a ride with Steamtown to Eurelia once. It was a shame to see it all closed. Cheers from Wagga Wagga.

Without a doubt, I think this is one of the best videos you have produced. I have been interested in the Glenreagh to Dorrigo branch line for many years, and in the last 12 to 18 months the urge to explore the full length of the railway has been getting stronger. I have spent hours over more than one night researching and pinpointing the line on Google Maps, and finding as many places that would be best to obtain shots of the railway from Glenreagh all the way up the Great Dividing Range to Dorrigo. The opportunity to finally travel to this part of the world looks like it is going to happen between January and April next year, and my plan is to follow the railway over a period of 2 days.

Good video. I wonder if standard gauge had been adopted on the SA and Victorian systems from the start, would this line still be open?

Great videos mate realy enjoying watching them 👍🏻 keep them coming

Great memories growing upin angaston in 1950s playing around the station one particular day a citroen rail car turns up with the payroll two men in the front one in the back with a machine gun no bull at least they have restored the station and should resurrect the whole line and make the Barossa even better over time would pay for it self ❤

Well researched and narrated Sir. Background music is also very easy on the ears. 10/10.

Very good thanks.

Great video Mike,

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Use to go to Henley beach allot by train you had to change at Woodville and because of the single line they had the ring to exchange so they new only one train was on the line at a time.The rail track on the south side of the Woodville station was added so you did not have to change trains.

I worked in Portland in the eighties, and this line was used to carry timber from Mt Gambier to Portland, then on to other parts of the country. Paper products, dolomite were also transported. A new bridge was constructed over the Glenelg River at Dartmoor, costing $6milion. The line was closed a short time later!.

The story of the rail line isn't over as there is a continuing campaign to reopen the line and convert ed to standard gauge.

Thankyou so much Mike. Wonderful, but sad, to see. Growing up as a teenage railfan in Mount Gambier in the 1960's, this was my "backyard." I was fortunate enough in those more relaxed times to make trips on the Mount Gambier - Heywood line on the footplate, in the guard's van and on a few passenger specials.Thanks for a great update on how it is now.

More government waste, in another 50 years from now they will be reopening lines like this.

I drove from Bordertown to Hynam yesterday & it’s the same! And I was following a B triple grain truck shift grain south on a road that Victoria would class a C class road at best & people wonder why the roads are stuffed! You can thank some lack lustre politicians and a particular local Mt Gambier transport magnate for the demise of the SE area of SA. Finally I noticed that between Murray bridge & Bordertown while the Dukes hwy had heaps of b triples, old style road trains and B doubles, not one train went by? Talk about under utilised! Anyway another great video mate! But sadly my guess is I won’t see the line from Mt Gambier to anywhere opened in my life time. Cheers

What a fantastic video. Its sad to see how far backwards Australia has gone with rail. Now everyone spends over $1million to live in the city. If we still had rural lines people could live in the country and travel via the train to the city. Today they get excited about the high speed rail which will take 10+ yrs to build but 50 yrs ago we had all this and more. Thank you again for this wonderful video.

I ran a Victorian Steam special with R 766 over the line in June 1991. Fun times. Cheers