The standardisation killed the overland and most other rural travel in South Australia. Well done to steamranger for keeping the line from victor harbour to mount barker
It also killed rail services to the West of Victoria and is increasingly making Victoria into a state divided by two incompatible gauges. Something that was NOT intended to be a plan for the future. Given that at the time only a SINGLE state had 4'8 1/2" I wonder if that particular choice was the worst choice that could have been made. PS Beaufort has not been regauged so passenger services now reach Ararat and Victorian steam could pass this way if they wished to
621 has beautiful lines, there is a mix of stylistic elements from various other locomotives I see in it. French style smoke deflectors, the smokebox front like a Belgian type 1 or a Gresley P2, cab in South African Watson style but with a French style round roof, and it all fits wonderfully together into a handsome machine. The R class looks far more chunky in comparison, it is also built to a more generous loading gauge.
The narrator has said only one other 620 class survived and it is stuffed and mounted in the Mile End Railway museum...Wrong, it is at the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide in South Australia....Since 1988?
624 has been in the mile end museum before 1988, but since this was 1994, i dont understand why the narrator said this, as the mile end museum moved to port adelaide in 88'.
@@aussie_trainspotting_videos The narration also says the 620 class were built in 1938? The 620 class and the first being streamed lined(620) did haul the Centenary train for South Australia first one hundred years in 1936, that's how the carriages got the nick name Centenary Cars, they were painted in the state colors.
i think he also said that it’s the first time an SAR locomotive went to Victoria, when the 500 and the 600 class ran the overland before the diesels took over.
@@aussie_trainspotting_videos the 500 and 600 class only took the overland as far as serviceton (admittedly in victoria), which was where the two systems met
Except that the broad gauge engines still exist and still run on the broad gauge. It seems that gauge standardisation is now a mess. There is no policy to convert ALL of the broad gauge lines anytime soon.
I miss steam locomotives in the world so much.
The standardisation killed the overland and most other rural travel in South Australia. Well done to steamranger for keeping the line from victor harbour to mount barker
We owe a lot to Steamranger's Dean Harvey R.I.P
It also killed rail services to the West of Victoria and is increasingly making Victoria into a state divided by two incompatible gauges. Something that was NOT intended to be a plan for the future.
Given that at the time only a SINGLE state had 4'8 1/2" I wonder if that particular choice was the worst choice that could have been made.
PS Beaufort has not been regauged so passenger services now reach Ararat and Victorian steam could pass this way if they wished to
621 has beautiful lines, there is a mix of stylistic elements from various other locomotives I see in it.
French style smoke deflectors, the smokebox front like a Belgian type 1 or a Gresley P2, cab in South African Watson style but with a French style round roof, and it all fits wonderfully together into a handsome machine.
The R class looks far more chunky in comparison, it is also built to a more generous loading gauge.
Beaufort is still, in 2024, on broad gauge. Broad gauge passenger traffic still runs from Melbourne to Ararat. Beaufort included.
Australia had a rich history of steam, variety of track gauges from 2ft, 3.6, 4.8, 5.3, most of their engines were sourced from Britian, some Garratts
5:18 was my favourite moment!
I was on board...will post video later.
I agree!
Quite spectacular
17:22 bro got that jiggle on.
oh this is the first time steam Australian locomotive make an enthusiastic ......oh ..............
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The narrator has said only one other 620 class survived and it is stuffed and mounted in the Mile End Railway museum...Wrong, it is at the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide in South Australia....Since 1988?
well we knew that at least!
624 has been in the mile end museum before 1988, but since this was 1994, i dont understand why the narrator said this, as the mile end museum moved to port adelaide in 88'.
@@aussie_trainspotting_videos The narration also says the 620 class were built in 1938? The 620 class and the first being streamed lined(620) did haul the Centenary train for South Australia first one hundred years in 1936, that's how the carriages got the nick name Centenary Cars, they were painted in the state colors.
i think he also said that it’s the first time an SAR locomotive went to Victoria, when the 500 and the 600 class ran the overland before the diesels took over.
@@aussie_trainspotting_videos the 500 and 600 class only took the overland as far as serviceton (admittedly in victoria), which was where the two systems met
what documentary is this?
Part of "World Steam Today" series. Not mine, but presented for historical interest.
The time is coming rapidly when broad gauge running will be history and the cost of converting a steam loco to standard is way to costly
Yes, true for main line steam.Conversion can, and has been done recently, but future economics will not be kind to this idea.
Except that the broad gauge engines still exist and still run on the broad gauge. It seems that gauge standardisation is now a mess. There is no policy to convert ALL of the broad gauge lines anytime soon.
Too much water in y=the V
Video distroyed by some woman yaking