3:15 VG Valiant. Id say this might be later, say ‘72? Love it. Trains built in the Victorian age, electrified in the Edwardian period, and serving us the era of the Concorde.
XA Falcon black cab too , so after March 1972. George V was king from 1910 , so Georgian when the dogboxes got converted in the late teens and early twenties.
priceless! dog boxes i love them. i don't ever remember the sandridge bridge being painted. it was always rusty as i remember it. and if you photoshopped the colour onto it, it looks convincing. i personally lay claim to being the person who saved that bridge from demolition. i convinced our local member of parliament of it's potential future value and that there was something innovative about how its foundations were engineered. i've since found out sir john monash worked for the company that designed it. it came out in kit form from england, i believe. the valiant taxi under the kerford/albert road bridge helps date this clip.
Most of the scenes on that film were faulty or of low quality and were found in a heap having been rejected many years ago. Because we can't just go down and take more shots to replace them any more, I decided to doll them up and make them digital and into a film before they deteriorated away further. You did a good job regarding the bridge. The bridge over Clarendon Street wasn't so lucky. I'd say they needed to make the right of way for the railway obsolete as Kennett and Packer obviously had the casino in mind to be built on part of it. They were very secretive about that before it happened! They used to say the camera never lies. Not so true these days, but No I didn't change the colour of the bridge; must have been that colour on the day. That's a clip from the time (02-03-1968) they had a tour to Glen Waverley, Port Melbourne and along the former Fitzroy branch. Two E class electrics followed to tow the train back from Port Melbourne and to Glen Waverley from where K184 took the train to Fitzroy. .
@@reidgck, it was a labor government who planned to remove the bridge and therefore probably the viaduct and clarendon street bridge. one of my arguments to bunna walsh, a friend of my old man and old enough to remember ww2, was that a labor government does not remove a railway connection to a port for defence reasons. if it is converted to a tram line, it must remain connectable to the network within short notice. and tram lines are sg- good for a connection to other states. when i returned to melbourne a couple of years later, i examined the size of the tram track to port melbourne. it was far in excess of requirements for a tram. as for that bloody den of inequity, who's to say some deal wasn't already being talked about with the cain government? i know they wanted a footpath beneath princes bridge but there may also have been other reasons for eliminating bridges, like a casino. anyway, i've seen it written that the tram is so popular now that it looks like it was a bad idea to remove the train line.
The eighties Labor government saw themselves as promoting Victorian made trams but calling them light rail vehicles to the world, but mainly Hong Kong was the only one interested much. When asked where is your light rail line to examine that was the big part of the conversions to tram lines. The Casino might have influenced the slower route but it could also be the numerous stops of tramline thinking.
Brilliant work..I live in rural Japan now, and sadly, I see some rural rail lines facing eminent closure - under the guise of reconstruction work due to landslides. It saddens me, but i hope somehow they can survive. I know of Aussie up in Hokkaido who have saved a line @@vsvnrg3263
Another great film of our Port Melbourne heritage Graeme. As with your previous films showing Port, may I again have permission to post on their FB site with your credit. Cheers, Allan.
I remember it had skids and it had the word “Ansett” on the side. Once it suffered a forced landing on the banks of the Patterson River, not landing on the river itself.
Lovely memories!! Thank you for posting 🙏🙏😊😊
Looks like bits from around 1973 also as there’s a Black cabs XA Falcon taxi in there
Brought back such wonderful memories! Thank you for posting!
Can still smell the motors and see the posters for the Mt Buffalo Chalet.
3:15 VG Valiant. Id say this might be later, say ‘72? Love it. Trains built in the Victorian age, electrified in the Edwardian period, and serving us the era of the Concorde.
XA Falcon black cab too , so after March 1972.
George V was king from 1910 , so Georgian when the dogboxes got converted in the late teens and early twenties.
Classic. Footage. I remember the Allen's factory on the other side of the Yarra River. Crown casino and restaurants in its place now.
If the railway was still there it would run through the casino.
@@reidgck And shake all the players chips, wouldn't that be something?
@@reidgck Jackpot
The Allan’s factory had a rather elaborate neon sign. I thought it was heritage protected like the Skipping Girl but I don’t know what happened to it.
Awesome
This video is gold. Thanks for sharing.
Much faster than the current tram trip! And I bet they wish the Port line was still there when cruise ships arrive.
They'd have to run the line through the casino now. They obviously wanted the right of way to build it on.
Brilliant footage. I used to work at the Allens factory and lived close to the Ritz and the George. Had the choice of train (quicker) or the tram.
priceless! dog boxes i love them. i don't ever remember the sandridge bridge being painted. it was always rusty as i remember it. and if you photoshopped the colour onto it, it looks convincing. i personally lay claim to being the person who saved that bridge from demolition. i convinced our local member of parliament of it's potential future value and that there was something innovative about how its foundations were engineered. i've since found out sir john monash worked for the company that designed it. it came out in kit form from england, i believe. the valiant taxi under the kerford/albert road bridge helps date this clip.
Most of the scenes on that film were faulty or of low quality and were found in a heap having been rejected many years ago.
Because we can't just go down and take more shots to replace them any more, I decided to doll them up and make them digital
and into a film before they deteriorated away further. You did a good job regarding the bridge. The bridge over Clarendon Street wasn't so lucky.
I'd say they needed to make the right of way for the railway obsolete as Kennett and Packer obviously had the casino in mind to be built on part of it.
They were very secretive about that before it happened! They used to say the camera never lies. Not so true these days, but No I didn't change the colour of the bridge; must have been that colour on the day. That's a clip from the time (02-03-1968) they had a tour to Glen Waverley, Port Melbourne and along the former Fitzroy branch. Two E class electrics followed to tow the train back from Port Melbourne and to Glen Waverley from where K184 took the train to Fitzroy.
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@@reidgck, it was a labor government who planned to remove the bridge and therefore probably the viaduct and clarendon street bridge. one of my arguments to bunna walsh, a friend of my old man and old enough to remember ww2, was that a labor government does not remove a railway connection to a port for defence reasons. if it is converted to a tram line, it must remain connectable to the network within short notice. and tram lines are sg- good for a connection to other states. when i returned to melbourne a couple of years later, i examined the size of the tram track to port melbourne. it was far in excess of requirements for a tram. as for that bloody den of inequity, who's to say some deal wasn't already being talked about with the cain government? i know they wanted a footpath beneath princes bridge but there may also have been other reasons for eliminating bridges, like a casino. anyway, i've seen it written that the tram is so popular now that it looks like it was a bad idea to remove the train line.
The eighties Labor government saw themselves as promoting Victorian made trams but calling them light rail vehicles to the world, but mainly Hong Kong was the only one interested much.
When asked where is your light rail line to examine that was the big part of the conversions to tram lines. The Casino might have influenced the slower route but it could also be the numerous stops of tramline thinking.
There is an XA Falcon black cab also. So filmed after March 1972.
Brilliant work..I live in rural Japan now, and sadly, I see some rural rail lines facing eminent closure - under the guise of reconstruction work due to landslides. It saddens me, but i hope somehow they can survive. I know of Aussie up in Hokkaido who have saved a line @@vsvnrg3263
Good old Melbourne when the city was a simpler place to live and the pace was a bit slower, those were the days............
Fantasic nostalgic trip!
In the days of seven car Taits, you’d ask the Station Master “how long is the next train”? And he’d reply “About seven carriages”.
Another great film of our Port Melbourne heritage Graeme. As with your previous films showing Port, may I again have permission to post on their FB site with your credit. Cheers, Allan.
As a small child travelling by myself I was always fearful of the dog boxes. Quite tricky to open the doors for a little fellow.
Perhaps Sir Reginald Ansett was in his helicopter.....
Maybe. He used to fly to and from home to Mt Eliza or somewhere near there.
I remember it had skids and it had the word “Ansett” on the side. Once it suffered a forced landing on the banks of the Patterson River, not landing on the river itself.