Thank you for the memories. I would catch the train at Central and travel on the Royal National Park service and alight at a platform adjacent to the old museum. The transition to the new sight seemed to take many years and the volunteers should be proud of what they have achieved in making this a first class museum.
The museum has progressed in very major ways since those early days. It is now at a totally different site about a quarter of a mile away and even has a level crossing over a major road connecting Sydney with the city of Wollongong. There is a separate video here showing the workshop which undertakes major restorations not much less major than Critch does. Sydney Newcastle ACT Trams ua-cam.com/play/PLLtOIHp49XNDTtuzoqr_AzFOMRjdC4qNc.html
I remember the Sydney trams very well and can also remember the cable car. It was used from Erskine st and along King st. Not sure of the exact date though.
Well you would have to be 120 years old to have remembered seeing cable cars in King Street Sydney. Perhaps you remember reading about them. They ceased operation, the line being converted to electric traction, somewhere around 1905 from memory.
Your right. It actually ceased operating in 1905. I'm not sure how I even new it existed. I'm actually 78 this Sunday. Always been a crazy train/tram nut.
This must have been a world first, a diesel powered cable car dummy, and a dummy pushing the trailer. How controlled? Trailer converted to a 'control trailer' or just bellows or whistle signals from the conductor on the trailer?
It probably was the first one, at least in Australia, but the tourist ride in Portland Victoria uses similar technology but they turn their trams on a balloon loop at one end and a triangle at the other last time I was there. At one stage of the video you will see the driver operating the grip car. From memory a long lever which used to grip the rope has been adapted to control the speed of the internal combustion engine. Also from memory the dummy is largely a replica while the trailer is an original cable trailer and not powered. I’m not sure how the conductor signalled the driver to start the set off. Could have been something simple like a wave of the hand. I don’t think this particular dummy found its way to Portland but I’m not sure where it is now. I think it operated in a park at Kilmore which had been the destination for the line running from the Bylands tram museum but that ended years ago.
Trams and the Red Sets were similar and that both had spur gears but that is where the similarities ended. The trams were geared lower and had all axles powered so in normal operation their acceleration was very much faster than that of an electric train. Australian trams ran on 600 V DC.
Thank you for the memories. I would catch the train at Central and travel on the Royal National Park service and alight at a platform adjacent to the old museum. The transition to the new sight seemed to take many years and the volunteers should be proud of what they have achieved in making this a first class museum.
😊👍 museums like this are never finished and little improvements are still continuing to be made.
Crich down under! Superb.
The museum has progressed in very major ways since those early days. It is now at a totally different site about a quarter of a mile away and even has a level crossing over a major road connecting Sydney with the city of Wollongong. There is a separate video here showing the workshop which undertakes major restorations not much less major than Critch does.
Sydney Newcastle ACT Trams
ua-cam.com/play/PLLtOIHp49XNDTtuzoqr_AzFOMRjdC4qNc.html
That was really interesting. The film set footage especially. Thank you.
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Nice video!!
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excellent.
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I remember the Sydney trams very well and can also remember the cable car. It was used from Erskine st and along King st. Not sure of the exact date though.
Well you would have to be 120 years old to have remembered seeing cable cars in King Street Sydney. Perhaps you remember reading about them. They ceased operation, the line being converted to electric traction, somewhere around 1905 from memory.
Your right. It actually ceased operating in 1905. I'm not sure how I even new it existed. I'm actually 78 this Sunday. Always been a crazy train/tram nut.
😊👍
This must have been a world first, a diesel powered cable car dummy, and a dummy pushing the trailer. How controlled? Trailer converted to a 'control trailer' or just bellows or whistle signals from the conductor on the trailer?
It probably was the first one, at least in Australia, but the tourist ride in Portland Victoria uses similar technology but they turn their trams on a balloon loop at one end and a triangle at the other last time I was there.
At one stage of the video you will see the driver operating the grip car. From memory a long lever which used to grip the rope has been adapted to control the speed of the internal combustion engine. Also from memory the dummy is largely a replica while the trailer is an original cable trailer and not powered. I’m not sure how the conductor signalled the driver to start the set off. Could have been something simple like a wave of the hand. I don’t think this particular dummy found its way to Portland but I’m not sure where it is now. I think it operated in a park at Kilmore which had been the destination for the line running from the Bylands tram museum but that ended years ago.
Some of the motors sound like red rattlers. What voltage do they run on?
Trams and the Red Sets were similar and that both had spur gears but that is where the similarities ended. The trams were geared lower and had all axles powered so in normal operation their acceleration was very much faster than that of an electric train. Australian trams ran on 600 V DC.