looking at the re-opened and fully booked every trip Zig Zag Railway, you're right but too much politics in the way I guess and who was going to pay for it?
Thank you for sharing this with us.👍. I was holding the banner with my brother at East Greta Junction with 22 steaming through to close out steam operations on the line. I have had the privilege to fire 24,25 and 30 at Richmond Vale Railway museum with my father driving. Happy times. And thanks again.
16:04 The narrator states the date for when State Government Rail took over from SMR Steam locos as 10th June, 1983. If this documentary was made in 1981, the narrator would most certainly *NOT* have had that precise knowledge. Thus, the date of this production would have to le late 1983 or early 1984, depending on how much work was involved in the production of this documentary.
From memory, Coal & Allied gave me permission to access to all areas of the SMR and RVR in 1981 and production commenced soon after. Filming progressed on a part time basis but there was no hurry to complete the work until the SMR suddenly ceased operations. Script writing & Post Production was complex so the final edit and release of the film on VHS & Betamax may not have been until 1983.
@@neilforbes416 Not really. Betamax offered a higher picture & sound quality than VHS at the time so it remained a popular format among video enthusiasts but I did sell two VHS for every Betamax.
@@neilforbes416 The Video Cassette Player was indeed around back in 1981 I remember seeing an artical in a tech magazine and this is when my High School was still using Reel to Reel Video Discs.
A great piece of history... I love those mighty 10 class locos.
Awesome footage Craig. My father was a fettler for SMR for 20y+. was hoping to catch a glimpse of him in there somewhere.
It's a wonder they didn't run a tourist railway after the coal finished? Would have been a gold mine use some of the 10class locomotives.
looking at the re-opened and fully booked every trip Zig Zag Railway, you're right but too much politics in the way I guess and who was going to pay for it?
Thank you for sharing this with us.👍. I was holding the banner with my brother at East Greta Junction with 22 steaming through to close out steam operations on the line. I have had the privilege to fire 24,25 and 30 at Richmond Vale Railway museum with my father driving. Happy times. And thanks again.
I enjoyed this , Really great to see as late as 1983!
Really interesting, thanks very much.
Huge super 8 fan this is great thanks for sharing!
my pleasure!
What happened to the steam tourist railway idea?
The last coal train happened early last year. But now the 10 classes that are still there are being rebuilt for heritage trains.
Well Done. It's a time capsule, the subject and the method of capture. Both lost.
16:04 The narrator states the date for when State Government Rail took over from SMR Steam locos as 10th June, 1983. If this documentary was made in 1981, the narrator would most certainly *NOT* have had that precise knowledge. Thus, the date of this production would have to le late 1983 or early 1984, depending on how much work was involved in the production of this documentary.
From memory, Coal & Allied gave me permission to access to all areas of the SMR and RVR in 1981 and production commenced soon after. Filming progressed on a part time basis but there was no hurry to complete the work until the SMR suddenly ceased operations. Script writing & Post Production was complex so the final edit and release of the film on VHS & Betamax may not have been until 1983.
@@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K Betamax? Geez, I'll bet the cassettes in that format were slow to shift of shelves!
@@neilforbes416 Not really. Betamax offered a higher picture & sound quality than VHS at the time so it remained a popular format among video enthusiasts but I did sell two VHS for every Betamax.
@@neilforbes416 The Video Cassette Player was indeed around back in 1981 I remember seeing an artical in a tech magazine and this is when my High School was still using Reel to Reel Video Discs.
@@neilforbes416 Regional stations were still using them in 1986