Shorts with long socks, Mini skirts and 1720 Class Clydes.....the world was good back then! Such a great colour on the locos and I remember going for rides on the weekend and hoping to get a 1460 or English Electric if you were really lucky! Working for QR as a Signal sparky for 20 yrs, but just missed the good times -(. Thanks for these great memories! CHeers Gregg.
Interesting views of the mechanical signal box. There were not many like this one between here and Tweed Heads 108 km of line all up but Dutton Park and Yeerongpilly were the exceptions. You didn't come across those huge bracket signals after Bethania much either sans for Ernest Junction. Even in the era of this kind of QR lineside infrastructure everything looked smaller after there. It wasn't that long ago either when this area was like this. James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver were making the Aliens movie just before all this was closed and re-configured for World Expo 88.
……caught the old ‘woodies’ Cannon Hill to STH Brisbane, & return, every work day July 1974, to when the Electrics’ came in to service in 1978. Of an afternoon, a train left STH Brisbane, which ran Express Park Road to Murrarie, at 4:55pm. Those weeks’ which my work shift would allow to catch this, I’d leave work at 4:30pm, & walk to STH Brisbane Station. Got to Murrarie at 5:15pm, wonderful!
Lots of memories there Graham thankyou for sharing and posting!!! I was too young when it was operating as a terminal. 1720s rule the roost. It was great to see those sets with low numbers! It did trigger my memory helping the ARHS dismantling the signal box for its new home. Sad how that ended up.
I remember as a kid hearing and feeling those Clydes thunder through my body on the platforms of Darra. I could hear them through the night over at Jamboree Heights
Shorts with long socks, Mini skirts and 1720 Class Clydes.....the world was good back then! Such a great colour on the locos and I remember going for rides on the weekend and hoping to get a 1460 or English Electric if you were really lucky!
Working for QR as a Signal sparky for 20 yrs, but just missed the good times -(.
Thanks for these great memories!
CHeers Gregg.
Some absolutely wonderful shots, Graham. Pity we can't wind the clock back. Love the Quick turn arounds. Gives new meaning to changing ends.
OUTSTANDING. What a time to be alive.
Ah... South Brisbane looks beautiful back then compared to the concrete jungle its has become now.
you're kidding right??
Interesting views of the mechanical signal box. There were not many like this one between here and Tweed Heads 108 km of line all up but Dutton Park and Yeerongpilly were the exceptions. You didn't come across those huge bracket signals after Bethania much either sans for Ernest Junction. Even in the era of this kind of QR lineside infrastructure everything looked smaller after there. It wasn't that long ago either when this area was like this. James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver were making the Aliens movie just before all this was closed and re-configured for World Expo 88.
Brilliant to see. More please Graham!
Wow. That takes me back, got memories of sitting on the platform when we were down in Brisbane for a wedding.
……caught the old ‘woodies’ Cannon Hill to STH Brisbane, & return, every work day July 1974, to when the Electrics’ came in to service in 1978. Of an afternoon, a train left STH Brisbane, which ran Express Park Road to Murrarie, at 4:55pm. Those weeks’ which my work shift would allow to catch this, I’d leave work at 4:30pm, & walk to STH Brisbane Station. Got to Murrarie at 5:15pm, wonderful!
Lots of memories there Graham thankyou for sharing and posting!!!
I was too young when it was operating as a terminal.
1720s rule the roost. It was great to see those sets with low numbers!
It did trigger my memory helping the ARHS dismantling the signal box for its new home. Sad how that ended up.
Best original footage I seen. Thanks for sharing. 👍
We take sooooo much for granted these days.
Great video! It's interesting to see quite a bit of litter blowing around on the platform and track bed. Was there less focus on tidiness back then?
Awesome, thanks for putting this up 👍
I remember as a kid hearing and feeling those Clydes thunder through my body on the platforms of Darra. I could hear them through the night over at Jamboree Heights
remember all this so well
Joh Bjelke-Petersen driving a train... now ive seen it all!
Don't you worry about that!
He was just off to feed the chooks……..🤣🤷♂️
What you probably don't know is as he sat their in the window he was thinking "I bet we can get a compact nuclear reactor inside one of these things"
And the new bridge to roma Street 😮
My wedding day 18/11/78
Brilliant video!
He tried to promote hydrogen power for cars...a few decades too soon.
bring back diesel with the sliver carrier's
Queensland, Still building the cross River rail in 2024.
Back in the days before electric trains 😮😊