Super 8 S Brisbane Suburban Trains - late 1970s.
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Various scenes around Brisbane showing:
- loco hauled wooden and SX cars.
- Exhibition trains from the Southside c1977.
- scenes around Bowen Hills and Central.
- electrification wiring trains
Copied from my Super 8 films.
Ahh.. the days of long end leading, when a loco looked right.
Love the old trains, and the scenery as it went past the old PA hospital 😮
Great long shots ! Most folks using 8mm kept shots extremely short due to the small spool size and cost.
Well done! Brings back memories, especially old Tennyson Power Station at the start.
More great memories. Thanks again Graham!
Brown carriages up through electrification. Amazing. I remember when Fortitude Valley was open to the sky. Big ramp from Brunswick St. down to the platform. Me and my sister used to tear down there at full speed. Much to the consternation of Mum who seemed more concerned about us dirtying our going out clothes in a fall than injuring ourselves. Great times and happy memories.
It looks so different, but I immediately recognised the old Yeronga station.
Thankyou Graham, I grew up in those neck of the woods in the early. So many memories.
Got to laugh at the relaxed style of workplace safety. The EWT workers and no restraints. The fact this could be filmed trackside. The railways were great in terms of accessibility I remember been a teenager able to go to Mayne and lol, around the loco and railmotors. Simply see the OIC and signed an indemnity form made from a metho machine.
These days the railways understandably are very risk adverse, wonder why they struggle to connect with the community.
Love the sound of the pomy engines.
I live in Brisbane since the mid eighties and love trains.That was realy cool thank you..watching the catenary being put up at Runcorn i think was a nice touch and those spinning signals with the bells at the railway crossing are awesome i have heard about them but were replaced from the Brisbane system by the time we got to Australia from Hungary.
It is ashame that the stainless steel passenger cars never got finished for use as a electric cars themselves 😮😢
Thankyou Graham, I grew up in those neck of the woods in the early. So many memories.
Got to laugh at the relaxed style of workplace safety. The EWT workers and no restraints. The fact this could be filmed trackside. The railways were great in terms of accessibility I remember been a teenager able to go to Mayne and lol, around the loco and railmotors. Simply see the OIC and signed an indemnity form made from a metho machine.
These days the railways understandably are very risk adverse, wonder why they struggle to connect with the community. Where are the open days at Mayne showing the EMUs to the public or Aurizon or PN showing what they do at Acacia Ridge or Moolabin yards.
So disconnected.
Brilliant scenes Graham.
excellent stuff
Great old video! I was recently watching a video of the Savannahlander. Very similar train at the end. I'll have to look up the history.
GREAT film. ever film at KURABY, BETHANIA,BEENLEIGH, EXHIBITION STATION, BOWEN HILLS and any footage of QR GARRATTS and GOLD 1461 and 1231 diesels. I guess that is what most people want to see as well as the ORIGINAL SUNLANDER and QUEENSLANDER express trains
@@GeorgeRainey-s4v Apart from some scenes at Bowen Hills in this film, I haven’t found any others that you mention yet. There may be some views mixed in with various tours which I have yet to scan.
Loved the film, thanks.
And there's poor old 1251 in it's heyday, sorry site now.
Great original footage. Whats bizarre to me is no overhead wiring but yet silver stainless steel carriages. Them crossing bells are pure Aussie design?
yeah, impressive. i think these are the wigwams. a bit of an optical illusion happening with them. i hope some train museum has an operating set.
Yes wig wam. Must be on the Cannon Hill line. I think they were the last set operating in the 80s and I think they went to Rosewood after that.
Wow. Three carriage SS set! Must have been a transfer or a special. Overpowered!
This is the only video I've ever seen of trains running on the Bulimba branch. Are there any others?
I haven't found any others in my films yet. The only ones I might have would be tours. If I find any, I will post them.
here in perth, we had qr rail motors to top up the local rail motor services before the electrification in around 1990. i was expecting to but did not see any of these qr things in this film.
@@vsvnrg3263 I am not aware of any QR rail motors going to Perth. Perth did get some surplus QR SX stainless steel carriages though.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , they were rail motors. they had qr on the side. they powered themselves. i'll get a channel for you to check out.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , yes, they were common towards the end of unelectrified trains. they had qr on the sides. i think terry mercer has videos showing them in amongst the local stuff.
Interesting as a Scot to see what the railways in Australia were like in the 1970s! The "modern" diesels with brown coaching stock which looks (IMO) like it dates from about 1900, whereas the silver stock looks like the locos are hauling EMUs around. The new catenary being installed looks the same as UK catenary from the same era. The EE engines sound a bit like our class 37s, also EE products 👍
The scene with the level crossing in the middle of the roundabout, was that an active suburban line or was that a set of the old coaches on an industrial siding en-route to a scrapyard?
Thanks for sharing this piece of history!
@@harviemilligan1887 The wooden carriages were built in various designs between around 1912 to 1953. The SX silver carriages were in fact designed to be converted to EMUs as part of an early electrification scheme. That scheme never progressed and. By the time electric trains came to Brisbane, the design of the SX cars was outdated. QR adopted the 25kV system based on UK practice and built a new design of air conditioned train.
The level crossing you mention was on a goods only line serving a small goods yard and some industries - all now gone. The carriages were stabled in the goods yard during the day between peak hours possibly due to construction work at the normal stabling area at Mayne. The train shown is about to enter peak hour service and still had a few years of service left.
Before electric power and air-conditioning
OH&S!!🤣🤣🤣
Tennyson looks so bleak in these videos.
It would of been interesting to see what the station looked like in the 1970s
@@davidmobbs2340 maybe the same as the late 90s?
Do you HAVE to use that fake film click shutter noise on your videos?
Its presence over the top of any audio the films had, makes your videos unwatchable.
NO fake sound added. The sound is as recorded by the camera. Sometimes, the camera noise is heard and other times if others are nearby their camera shutter noise may be heard. Unfortunately, I don't know how to remove unwanted sound. If you don't like the sound, turn it off.
@@grahamwatkins9575 , i thought it was faked sound too. its just old film with a deteriorated sound that i'm still happy to watch.
lol, you must be young. Super 8 makes that noise. So good that they had film with sound. My dad's sadly didn’t.
@@JGrandcourt Don't know if near on 60 is actually young, but I'd never heard how noisy super 8 audio was.
To me that clicking noise, sounded like some sound effect added to video transfers of 1920s and earlier silent films, to add to the feel of how old they are.
@@JGrandcourt , thanks for that crack about my age, but a girl at the local supermarket says i look like a wizard. i didnt know what she was on about but i think there is a lord of the rings and harry potter thing about it. ive watched old films before and i think this has more noise than other stuff ive watched. lol!