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Last electric loco to Sandown - 4615 - December 2002
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2014
- Scenes recorded on Friday December 20th, 2002 of the last electric locomotive to run on the Sandown branch, 4615, before the removal of the catenary the following day.
The Sandown line is now closed. It ran off the Carlingford Line. Remnants of the line can still be seen. In the background was two 442 Class locomotives. My father helped build them in the '70s.
18 years later and the closure of the whole line.
Now Parramatta Light Rail
I lived in the area as a kid but never got to see the Sandown line in all its glory but walked it long after it closed. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Gee I especially love the 4.35 to 5.55 part in this beaut clip with the (close up) 1500v DC sizzle and crackle (pantograph to wire contact)
Overhead take down, lines taken up
Couldn't work out why the 46 looks odd, until I realised the rain strip is not flat across the windscreens.
46 one of the nicest an easiest to operate so smooth these where a pleasure
For many years there was an old 36 class steam locomotive stored in the disconnected Wingfoot (Goodyear's) Siding.
Good to see the original style of pantagraths on the 46! Well done
Not only the "last" electric loco to work the line, but also the FIRST, as far as I can find out. Never seen an electric-hauled revenue working at Sandown. I think electrification was to allow flexibility should electric traction be used, but was only ended up used for stabling EMUs during race events and running workers' trains (single-decks, marshalled as three-car Y sets). Really hope someone can show me otherwise, but none of the sidings had wires, so no electric-hauled oil trains, etc. which I originally thought would've been the case. A great bit of the metropolitan freight network, nonetheless, despite the absence of my beloved electric locos. ;)
It looked like a scared puppy coming from underneath the overpass.
Hehe. I've always thought 4615 looked like that - even more so with one sun shade (eyelid) down. Haha. Compared to the rest of the class, 4615 has a unique shape of guttering above the windscreen, which gives it that "scared" look with worried "eyebrows".
I spent a year working in Sydney in 2009. I would often drop into Sandown on a Saturday morning on the off chance of a stabled locomotive (rare) or a train being assembled in one of the compounds (rarer). Looking on Google maps just now it would appear the branch is completely closed 😐
I think in the last few years, as tenancy of some of the industrial properties has changed, the branch is still open, but not electrified. If you get the ferry to Parramatta (as pictured in the video, hehe), you can get a good view of very new ballast and track that's been laid. I'm fairly sure there's freight still coming out of there, but definitely no oil trains anymore. :(
@@PBeringer the line hasnt been used for 10 years now, and is closed
Good stuff as always, thanks for sharing.
Never was a fan of the blue/yellow FC livery. SETS have done a magnificent job in restoring this loco with the indian red with yellow whiskers livery. Out of 5 46's that remain it's the only one that is operational (as far as I'm aware). SETS also purchased 4627 off Rothbury, which has seen better days, not sure of it's status now.
Really? Wow! That's great news. Hoping they'll have it out and about more. :)
I like the FC livery, just on the 46’s. The FC livery looks much better on an 81 class or one of those jumbos, the 48’s also look better in the FC livery too
Majestic.
A game i play is based off the sydney network. There is a small branch off one of the branch lines ending at “Sandersford” is it based off this?
Very sad
Now I've had time for reflection, this is NOT the Sandown line. This is the line that went to the Shell Oil Refinery. There are no buffers because I believe the 46 Class were withdrawn at this time.
it technically is still
@Milan Terzic Sand down is where the Shell™️Oil refinery and railroad sidings used to be for the oil wagons.
It is the Sandown line. Shell siding was never electrified and long closed by 2002. The rails from the siding were donated to the Sydney Tramway Museum in the mid 90’s.
Sorry, mistaken. It is the Sandown line.
Shell refinery Siding left the Sandown Line beside the old Sandown Signal Box before crossing Grand Avenue and running into the Shell Filling Sidings with sidings branching off a short loading siding for loading general freight and another long siding into the Emoleum and Mobil area.
Last??? It was probably the only.
Well that was a cool vidio !!!
Why no buffers on the loco?
no need for them with autos
Bullshit, the buffers where on there for years, afterwards.
@@fh276 until all the old crap with buffers was pissed off and then there was no need for them to be retained
@@Aaron-uf3sl thank you for your insight, but when I started driving them, they where there.
As for the old crap, it was all we had.
WHERE WAS PLACE IN NSW OR VIC
Robert Lewis NSW.
@Robert Lewis it was at the railroad line that branches off to sand down
The area behind the Rosehill Racetrack adjacent and further on from the 2000 and 1500 metre starts
made history for the wrong reason