Super 8 S QR Suburban Trains Part 2 - c1979
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Sorry, but i previously uploaded the wrong copy. This is the correct version with sound.
More scenes of diesel hauled wooden and stainless steel suburban trains in Brisbane around 1979. Includes scenes of the old Compton Road bridge just before replacement, the Wynnum Road bridge and the triangle at Lota.
Copied from my Super 8 films.
Plenty of holdens and Falcons back then😁😁😎😎 .I still Hear EMD's at night from my place but they're usually cattle or Coal trains heading to the port.
wow what a blast from the past! at 9:15 there in the video, the house on the top right is my Grandparents old place in Woolloongabba - I used to sit on that white fence as a kid back in the 90's and watch all the trains go past
Them were the days no electric trains 😢😮😅
Thanks for sharing Graham, this brings back my childhood memories!!
Fantastic Super 8, and puts VHS into perspective. These are the best films of the late 70s I've seen. And we can see why the current watered down electric timetables aren't really quicker. Those drivers were professionals.
Thanks for sharing another great 😊❤
Ah the good old days 😢
I worked @ Mayne & Sth Brisbane, 1974-1976.
nice old footage
I would love to know how this compares cost wise to run and maintain to modern electric commuter trains and speed wise??? I'm guessing slower in top speed an acceleration/breaking and more expensive to run, but wouldn't maintenance be easier being just being a loco, carriages just have bogies and brakes??
No one would use them. They were filthy, no air-conditioning and slow. Not to mention the noise and pollution from the locos. So there would be a net loss from patronage alone.
@@stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 True...but they were FUN!
@FishplateFilms Had a great time going to and from school on them in the late 70s early 80s. But the Cleveland line was last to be electrified, we envied those who got to ride in the new flash EMUs.
you can see clearly marked PARK ROAD and FAIRFIELD and I spotted BANOON station. they do not look like that anymore
Awesome video!
At the end there was a scene with a loco turning on a triangle, where was that?
Lota
5:24 - 5:45 How is that train running with most of the front carriage doors open ?? I realize there were no alarms, interlocking etc. etc. back then but wouldn't someone have noticed something ??
from what i remember they were never locked as there was no locking mechanism on them,,,it was common for them to be left open as the train was moving
Wow aluminium carriages that was first class back in the good old days.
Stainless steel.
Those were going to be the first electric trains and you can see the blanked off headlights at the ends! A change of government stopped the project back in the late 60's I think?
Gregg.