Even when this film was made we were still far behind the times. They were using concrete sleepers and continuous welded tracks and ballast machines overseas. We were still using so much back breaking work.
@ 3:50 S316 was destroyed in the Violet Town accident in Feb 1969 when it headed the Southern Aurora passenger train travelling to Melbourne.The pass collided head on with a freight train headed by S314 travelling towards Albury
Albury used to be a stop off point for Victorians wanting to play the Pokies. Only NSW had licensed the one armed bandits. A far cry from where we are today.
“Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth”. Mark Twain "Now comes a singular thing: the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most baffling and unaccountable marvel that Australasia can show. At the frontier between New South Wales and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern-light in the morning in the biting cold of a high altitude to change cars on a road that has no break in it from Sydney to Melbourne! Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth; imagine the bowlder it emerged from on some petrified legislator's shoulders."
Gezza, I don't know where you find this stuff but good on you. It's fantastic. Great footage of the old Spencer St station getting built. I found some great footage of the building it was replacing on u tube.
Ah but the far sighted subway built in Clapp's time has gone. So instead of passengers coming up in the middle of the platform next to their train we are back to a long walk from the "head end" Just as it was more than a century ago. Such is the march of "regress".
@@smitajky Exactly. The "new" Spencer Street of the 1960's and 70's was much more user friendly than the ugly looking monstrosity of today. And they still can't get communication right to passengers today when trains are changed from the original platforms they were to leave from. The PA system is almost third world. And calling the station "Southern Cross" is one of the biggest wankfests I have ever heard. Personal opinion.
I remember that tiny tea room as kid sell tea chesse tarmarta sangies ,then seen very same tea room in early 70,s film think had young Noni hazelhurst in it ,lot off our little old wodden stations and the brick ones same as ones England ,if old enough remember kids show early 70,s called CATWEAZLE, strange sort show Oldman big white beard pet toad lived in a old disused train station ,like stations left after inner circle Line shut down outer circle Line closed anyone into Melbourne rail ,well worth look into fasanating history,most people never even new we had ,miss smell of aspestos air red Tait rattlers ,blue Harris ,so much character ,better ugly trains ran Sydney
G'day shazam75, glad to read you enjoyed it. cheers Gezza p.s sorry due to copyright UA-cam have requsted i remove most of my 1400 uploads [Which including everything on Australian music,Footy,people and places}. Uploads that will potentially never be seen again unless there brought out on DVD, though thats dominated by US & UK products imported to Australia.
Gee gezza be sad day if ya were to conform to wank in Sydney office ,called edacaion history ,when young dumb ,didn't want know our history now we are bit older wiser want to see learn what can ,they want us pay for that dribble call pay tv like yanks been doin 50 years cable ,
Thanx so much I grew up around Albury I remember being told why the trains were late (Sydney/Melbourne)cause the driver etc got more money for being late !!!!
Used to love going to flinders st underground the dunnies cost 2 cents to get in ,if your small young you can get under the doors and do your thing, as long as you dont get caught, but they did have massive lines for blokes to piss in long lines of pisssing lanes, lol :) those days are gone now, all re done, but used to get on platform 10 i think which was the port melbourne line and platform 11 was the st kilda line and the old red rattlers and first class and also 2nd class and then the blue and gold stripped trains, then the silver futuristic trains, wish they put the old red rattlers back in service and the old ticket stubs as well.:) Also spencer st station had a 1/4 scale D class locomotive sitting there and it was perfect for little kids to go inside the drivers seat and look out of it. :) also the massive mural on the wall as well. :)
Are you kidding? I know I’m ugly - when I was born the doctor said ‘we did everything we could but he pulled through anyway’. I’’m fat too - when I go to the zoo the elephants throw me peanuts.
G'day Paparia1969, glad to read you enjoyed it. cheers Gezza p.s sorry due to copyright UA-cam have requsted i remove most of my 1400 uploads [Which including everything on Australian music,Footy,people and places}. Uploads that will potentially never be seen again unless there brought out on DVD, though thats dominated by US & UK products imported to Australia.
@@Gezza1967 O.K. I've just recently discovered your channel, and have been enjoying the contents immensely. Good work! It's all SO valuable, considering that we have vandals running the state now. Who knows what the future will look like?
It was always called the NSW/Victoria border, right or wrong that’s what people called it. As a frequent interstate traveler the term ‘State Line’ was or is never used. Maybe in the US and perhaps as a technically correct geographical reference, however not here in Australia.
1961? Really? I thought it was much older than that. Its now Australia's best railway station without a doubt. I prefered the old Spencer Street station when we went in early december c 1980-85 to book our tickets for the Overland to Adelaide for Xmas holidays. Back then it had 14 platforms, now there is 16, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 7A, 7B, vety confusing.
The Narrator mentioned something incorrect when he was commenting on the first trains to travel right through on the standard gauge line. Or did he? Let's see how many people know what really happened in 1962.
@@medullaoblongata9670 No the narrator actually said "early next year", meaning 1962. Yes it was 1962 as you say, but not "early" , because passenger trains did not start until April. I guess people can argue if April is "early" in a year, but I would argue it is one third into the year. haha. Oh how pedantic of me. I am familiar with the history as I worked on all standard gauge trains to Albury and Sydney from early 70's.
@@125sloth listen again, the goods service started straight through in 3rd January 1962. So early in the year. Listen again this states the date for the goods and passenger service being different. The more important and far greater tonnage of the goods service starting first. Goods transhipment being a much greater issue than subsidised passengers walking across a platform at Albury. So not impressed with your admitted pedantry as it is wrong.
Very sad back in old time the train rail was made by muscle and blood. That's the forerunners established the foundation of Melbourne Metro line. Now we got better instruments and mega tools to produce Metro Tunnel projects since 2019. It would be a mission impossible in 60s. Too hard to slow to make a miniature tunnel by hands......STF......
Shitney? Dirty c**t of a joint. Melbourne has always been THE Australian city, always lead the nation. Melbourne has been the benchmark of Australia since the 1850s, and still is.
Why do they refer people from other countries of Europe as migrants? Anyone who is not aboriginal should be a migrant because the aborigines were here first.
Even when this film was made we were still far behind the times. They were using concrete sleepers and continuous welded tracks and ballast machines overseas. We were still using so much back breaking work.
@ 3:50 S316 was destroyed in the Violet Town accident in Feb 1969 when it headed the Southern Aurora passenger train travelling to Melbourne.The pass collided head on with a freight train headed by S314 travelling towards Albury
😮😮😮☹️ omg that's awful
At Melbourne I remember my dad buying platform tickets. How things have changed Spencer St at night at busy times was a throng of people.
Albury used to be a stop off point for Victorians wanting to play the Pokies. Only NSW had licensed the one armed bandits. A far cry from where we are today.
And, in those days, 10pm closing for liquor sales where Victoria had the "six o clock swill".
Excellent video - a gem!
“Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth”. Mark Twain
"Now comes a singular thing: the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most baffling and unaccountable marvel that Australasia can show.
At the frontier between New South Wales and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern-light in the morning in the biting cold of a high altitude to change cars on a road that has no break in it from Sydney to Melbourne! Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth; imagine the bowlder it emerged from on some petrified legislator's shoulders."
For decades the locomotives were changed at Albury and Serviceton. In the ‘80s through running was introduced.
Just noticed I wrote bulit rather than built. Hehe
Gezza, I don't know where you find this stuff but good on you. It's fantastic. Great footage of the old Spencer St station getting built. I found some great footage of the building it was replacing on u tube.
cheers for sharing this mate
The new Station Building at Spencer St has come & gone, but most of the platforms are the old ones.
Ah but the far sighted subway built in Clapp's time has gone. So instead of passengers coming up in the middle of the platform next to their train we are back to a long walk from the "head end" Just as it was more than a century ago. Such is the march of "regress".
@@smitajky Exactly. The "new" Spencer Street of the 1960's and 70's was much more user friendly than the ugly looking monstrosity of today. And they still can't get communication right to passengers today when trains are changed from the original platforms they were to leave from. The PA system is almost third world. And calling the station "Southern Cross" is one of the biggest wankfests I have ever heard. Personal opinion.
I remember that tiny tea room as kid sell tea chesse tarmarta sangies ,then seen very same tea room in early 70,s film think had young Noni hazelhurst in it ,lot off our little old wodden stations and the brick ones same as ones England ,if old enough remember kids show early 70,s called CATWEAZLE, strange sort show Oldman big white beard pet toad lived in a old disused train station ,like stations left after inner circle Line shut down outer circle Line closed anyone into Melbourne rail ,well worth look into fasanating history,most people never even new we had ,miss smell of aspestos air red Tait rattlers ,blue Harris ,so much character ,better ugly trains ran Sydney
Amazing loved it
Great video Gezza. The Melbourne to Sydney train is great. I have been on it a few times to Sydney & Wagga.
Good one Kurt👍
The best part of it is from Melbourne to Wodonga, after that it's shit, as NSW is shit.
Victorian Railways have always been the best!
Awesome footage!
G'day shazam75, glad to read you enjoyed it. cheers
Gezza
p.s sorry due to copyright UA-cam have requsted i remove most of my 1400 uploads
[Which including everything on Australian music,Footy,people and places}.
Uploads that will potentially never be seen again unless there brought out on DVD,
though thats dominated by US & UK products imported to Australia.
Gee gezza be sad day if ya were to conform to wank in Sydney office ,called edacaion history ,when young dumb ,didn't want know our history now we are bit older wiser want to see learn what can ,they want us pay for that dribble call pay tv like yanks been doin 50 years cable ,
Thanx so much I grew up around Albury I remember being told why the trains were late (Sydney/Melbourne)cause the driver etc got more money for being late !!!!
That is just a Furphy story.
This is really good.
Amazing .
Used to love going to flinders st underground the dunnies cost 2 cents to get in ,if your small young you can get under the doors and do your thing, as long as you dont get caught, but they did have massive lines for blokes to piss in long lines of pisssing lanes, lol :) those days are gone now, all re done, but used to get on platform 10 i think which was the port melbourne line and platform 11 was the st kilda line and the old red rattlers and first class and also 2nd class and then the blue and gold stripped trains, then the silver futuristic trains, wish they put the old red rattlers back in service and the old ticket stubs as well.:) Also spencer st station had a 1/4 scale D class locomotive sitting there and it was perfect for little kids to go inside the drivers seat and look out of it. :) also the massive mural on the wall as well. :)
4:20 outside southern cross station where you can grab a 86 or 96!
😮😮😮 good spotting
thanks mate loved the vid
rachel gilmore cheers, good to read👍
3:20 Filling? the rocks are ballast.
That’s me in the suitcase, my dad used to transport me around like that to protect the broader public. Geez I was an ugly kid!.
Things didn’t improve much when you got older, I see.
Are you kidding? I know I’m ugly - when I was born the doctor said ‘we did everything we could but he pulled through anyway’. I’’m fat too - when I go to the zoo the elephants throw me peanuts.
James Davis : Contrary to most, I reckon you could actually make it as a stand up! 🤣🤣🤣
Vince Johns
Nobody delivers it like Rodney, but thanks anyway.
James Davis : I am a huge fan of him! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm surprised that as late as 1961, tracks were still being moved by men with crowbars, and the process wasn't mechanized in some way.
When people were not afraid of hard work.
People still work hard
Great vid 🙂🙂😊
G'day Paparia1969, glad to read you enjoyed it. cheers
Gezza
p.s sorry due to copyright UA-cam have requsted i remove most of my 1400 uploads
[Which including everything on Australian music,Footy,people and places}.
Uploads that will potentially never be seen again unless there brought out on DVD,
though thats dominated by US & UK products imported to Australia.
i should have downloaded them! shame. any chance they'll re-appear?
What happened to the subway that ran under Spencer Street? Did they fill it in?
Thanks to all our migrants passed an present Melbourne will not be a ghost town due to covid god bless
Note the size of the waggon wheels in the girls hands.
Can the title of this youtube be updated?
It says Bulit instead of Built.
Though, considering that the upload was in 2012, I guess it's history now.
Well spotted thanks Russell, unfortunately not from my Mobile phone. I’ll do it next time on my computer
@@Gezza1967 O.K. I've just recently discovered your channel, and have been enjoying the contents immensely.
Good work! It's all SO valuable, considering that we have vandals running the state now.
Who knows what the future will look like?
Now called Southern Cross station.
I still call it Spencer Street, it was nicknamed "Spenner" to the rail workers.
@0:51 This is called the State Line or Internal Boundary and a "Border" is referred to an International Boundary between two countries.....
Maybe ..however it was always called the Albury -Wodonga border. State line & internal boundary are definitions not normally used in Australia.
It was always called the NSW/Victoria border, right or wrong that’s what people called it. As a frequent interstate traveler the term ‘State Line’ was or is never used. Maybe in the US and perhaps as a technically correct geographical reference, however not here in Australia.
Really? Well Victoria is still the best state, always has been anyway. Always leads the nation we created.
There's an underground tunnel in Southern Cross Station?
Pedestrian Subway system, similar to what Flinders St has. It's only serviceable by staff and the passenger assist service
1961? Really? I thought it was much older than that.
Its now Australia's best railway station without a doubt.
I prefered the old Spencer Street station when we went in early december c 1980-85 to book our tickets for the Overland to Adelaide for Xmas holidays.
Back then it had 14 platforms, now there is 16, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 7A, 7B, vety confusing.
The station opened in 1859 but was rebuilt in the 1960s.
The Narrator mentioned something incorrect when he was commenting on the first trains to travel right through on the standard gauge line. Or did he? Let's see how many people know what really happened in 1962.
Brian Sloth My little cousin was born in 1962, and that really happened. She’s been on a few trains too!
@@medullaoblongata9670 No the narrator actually said "early next year", meaning 1962. Yes it was 1962 as you say, but not "early" , because passenger trains did not start until April. I guess people can argue if April is "early" in a year, but I would argue it is one third into the year. haha. Oh how pedantic of me. I am familiar with the history as I worked on all standard gauge trains to Albury and Sydney from early 70's.
@@125sloth listen again, the goods service started straight through in 3rd January 1962. So early in the year. Listen again this states the date for the goods and passenger service being different. The more important and far greater tonnage of the goods service starting first.
Goods transhipment being a much greater issue than subsidised passengers walking across a platform at Albury.
So not impressed with your admitted pedantry as it is wrong.
00.15 Wagon wheels !!!
Very sad back in old time the train rail was made by muscle and blood. That's the forerunners established the foundation of Melbourne Metro line. Now we got better instruments and mega tools to produce Metro Tunnel projects since 2019. It would be a mission impossible in 60s. Too hard to slow to make a miniature tunnel by hands......STF......
In the early 70's they built the city loop.
You can hardly call Albury a city of 51000 people a wayside halt!🤨
........but its not Victorian so who f******g cares.
Victorian railways are king. Always have been.
They are like ' prisoners ' working on the chain gang😅.
The announcer keeps talking about Sydneys Central Station?
Shitney? Dirty c**t of a joint. Melbourne has always been THE Australian city, always lead the nation. Melbourne has been the benchmark of Australia since the 1850s, and still is.
Why do they refer people from other countries of Europe as migrants?
Anyone who is not aboriginal should be a migrant because the aborigines were here first.
LIE MUCH? Spencer Street Station opened in 1859!!!!!!!!!!