Perth's First Generation Diesel Suburban Trains Part 2
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2024
- In this episode, Part 2 of "Perth's First Generation Diesel Suburban Trains", we will travel over the Fremantle Line in the Cab of an ADG Diesel Railcar, stopping off at each Station on the journey. Before we embark though, we will first spend a bit of time at Perth Station, watching some departures, then backtrack to see the Steam locomotive facility at East Perth, and then returning to catch our Fremantle Train. The footage shot from the Railcar's Cab was filmed the week before the Fremantle Line permanently closed on 1st September 1979, to be replaced by buses. Genuine sound, which I had previously recorded on a portable open reel Tape recorder, and from my archives, was added by me to produce this video. The music, once again, is courtesy of Purple Planet Music. You can find them at www.purple-pla.... Thanks, Terry. (The Terrysaurus Rex)
Your little hobby, Terry, has turned into a significant collection of historical documentation. 👍
Thank you Terry. As a bus driver at Claremont depot in the 70’s till closure in 1983 I observed these scenes every working day. The X class locos leaving Perth for Fremantle were a sight to behold as I enjoyed a smoke between city beach bus runs.
The dmu’s laying over all day in the yard certainly cleared their lungs of oily smoke when starting off for their pm run after idling ALL DAY!
Great stuff I really enjoyed this.
Excellent Terry was an era id gladly go back to without a thought given the way the world is today
Great shots of West Leederville - as an ex Perth Mod bogun - this takes me back... thanks for sharing!
Good stuff. As a Fremantle-ite, it was a total disgrace when they closed down the Perth to Freo line. Now we are nearly at an excellent rail system around the metro area.
Thank you Terry for posting this fantastic flashback to the seventies. What a trip down memory lane, so much of what you have captured I remember well and it was wonderful to relive those precious moments again. You can almost feel the atmosphere of freedom we all enjoyed living in a world before political correctness and OH&S restrictions slowly but surely stole peoples common sense and dignity. This goes to prove that Progress does not necessarily mean things get better.
Loved your comment feel the same back the time when people talked not just looked at their phones
I visited Perth in June 1975 and much of what you've shown is very memorable. Many thanks for the history refresher. It's noteworthy that (although not shown) the Indian Pacific is probably the only train of that era that still runs!
Look at the fantastic old buildings as well
The changes to Perth and the rail system since this was filmed are utterly phenomenal. In comparison in my home town of Glasgow you can look pictures taken 100 years ago and apart from modern traction not much has changed.
Great footage.
In the mid 1970’s I caught the train from Fremantle to Perth on a Saturday morning and the young fella in front of me was excitedly telling the chap beside him that he was going to Perth and he had only ever been to Perth 3 times in his life!
My great grandfather was killed by a goods train at about 10.30pm near the Burswood station and the paper said he was mangled beyond recognition. It was New Year’s Eve and he worked in a woodyard in Stirling Street,North Perth. The family has it that he was walking along the line (including across the river) to get home in Victoria Park.
My grandfather and his two brothers worked their whole working lives for the WAGR as did my father and aunt in their early days.
At one time the WAGR was the State’s biggest employer.
This made me a little nostalgic. I remember sitting on the floor by the open fibreglass-shelled door of a brown and orange carriage on 40 degree summer days as a boy. And as a young teen without money for the fare, being ready to jump out and scuttle over the tracks as soon as the conductor came into the carriage. The orange and brown manual trains were so slow in summer, they’d only get a bit faster than running speed between Swanbourne and Grant street.
I loved these two videos and your commentary gave me some insider knowledge that really helped me understand the Perth rail system from back when I was a young lad.
Classic stuff, can almost smell the diesel. Thanks M8.
Thanks again Terry for another wonderful video, really appreciated the photos of the East Perth loco depot. I had forgotten about all the coaling that was done there and your photos jogged my memory about this.
The Fremantle line was a big part of my childhood and I certainly have fond memories of the port, Leighton yards and Royal Show station. Your video does a superb job of capturing an era in time that we have have sadly lost. I am sure other viewers of our era will relish the memories that you have recorded so clearly. The absence of traffic, litter and graffiti is a real standout, plus you can’t help but feel this was era when we all had more time to take in what was around us and enjoy Perth for what it was!
Thanks again for sharing your wonderful and historical footage it is truly a treasure.
I remember traveling as a very young child on what must have been an ADG as I recall it changing gears. We'd all be taken on a train ride a treat and we'd go from Perth down to Fremantle. The carriages were green, from memory, old rattlers. It was great to see the old trains and what Perth was like back in 1979, brought back some good memories.
Thanks Terry , bring back alot of memories , 1972 - 1976 , I used to travel everyday from Fremantle to East Perth in the morning and Claisebrook to Fremantle in the afternoon , I did My apprenticeship at PWD - MPE at Jewell St (another place long gone) . Used to walk along side the track to and from the respective stations to get to work , it seems to be the done thing back the , no one said or stopped Us , couldn,t do that today . The Midland workshop had a special train which ran especially for their workers , from Perth - Midland morning and afternoon .... Cheers ....
Fantastic video, Terry. Absolutely amazing footage.
Great Video, thanks for sharing this. Only being 10yo in 1979, I can recall bits of this, mainly the Perth Station and buying a ticket at the window. And the Midland line, which went over the Swan River in Bassendean, with the doors open usually, imagine that today, the OHS people would be having kittens. Great Videos, I reckon it was a labour of love, to edit them and put the great backing music onto it , with the sounds from your reel to reel tape recorder.
Wonderfull memories thanks Terry
Ah the memories, I used to catch these every day from Armadale to Midland when I was an apprentice at the WAGR workshops 1984 😂
Thank you Terry Many memories for me
Ah, the glory days...Thank you.
Great Vids Terry and full of nostalgia. Great to see Fremantle is a bustling station now in 2024.
That was amazing to see that old video clip there off the old train back in the days there it was great to watch it to the end there an keep up the amazing video clip there 👍👍👍
Great videos thanks Terry. I lived in Mosman Park in the 1950-mid1970s so remember the Fremantle line well, including lots of steam! Great memories.
Was there a spur to the Holden Factory? I don't remember any remnants of a line in that area. The spur to the Sugar Refinery was still active when I was a kid.
@@paulaus No spur line to Holden factory. The car bodies were trucked from Cottesloe yard, then Leighton yard after SG line was built.
A few more addendums.
1. All ADG were fitted with Voith transmissions by 1973. A quick way to spot a railcar fitted with a Voith transmission from a distance is to look for the stripe above the cowcatcher.
2. The D Class in the VHS footage is shunting country passenger coaching stock, not departing.
3. The second livery worn by the ADG/ADH had silver fronts with red chevrons. There's several colour photos in the RHWA archive.
4. The new West Perth station west of the Sutherland Street Subway was opened on 18 June 1986. The date quoted in the video is when it was renamed from West Perth to City West.
Thanks. Well done.
Great video Terry. Every time I see those ADKs they look like silver rockets
I had just finished watching part 1 and had to watch part 2 as well. The stations on this line are full of nostalgia such as the Showgrounds for the show, Leighton and Cott for the beaches, Claremont and Subi for footy and to the city for shopping, movies and concerts.
It was lucky the tracks weren't ripped up as one of the plans was to build a highway on the railway reserve.
Fast forward a few more years and Freo was bustling again. The passenger service was temporarily extended to South Beach during the Americas Cup but never used again.
I've been hunting for a long time for one of the old ticket issuing machines the train and bus drivers used to use in the 70s and 80s. Then paper tickets with purple print .
@person McPherson
‘TIM’s’ they were called (ticket issuing machines)
Kept your fingers agile👍
Fantastic video Terry, very well put together and a great insight to a time in Perth I never got the opportunity to experience.
I really enjoyed watching this, I didn't know much about WA railways and its history. Thanks for your video, you did a good job.
Cheers from Mark in SA
Hi i absolutely love you videos and I enjoy sharing them with my father he used to work for the wagr and i used to work for labor hire in the railways
Well done Terry. i watch a lot of UA-cam vids from all corners of the world - way too many in fact - and yours are amongst the best; best made, best produced and always interesting.
Wow. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
I remember the switch to what we as kids called "The Bendy Bus" quite well. It was the done thing to stand in the middle section while it turned. Looking at the footage everything about the railway line looked a bit tired and outdated so I can seee how they thought a modern bus fleet would be better. Lucky they didn't get to ripping out the tracks.
I grew up in Mosman Park but rarely used the train apart from probably the show as we were very close to a bus stop that would take us to Perth or Fremantle.
Great work here Terry and side fact at time index 12:32 those are the very 1st set of traffic lights installed ever in Western Australia. The proof is shown as you look at its control box with the number’0001’
Wow. Love it, thanks for sharing.
Well spotted. I'm a traffic signal SCATS engineer (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and have visited No. 0001 in Sydney at Market St & Kent St, installed in October 1933, and of course modernised many times since with the march of technology as has happened in Perth. I live in Perth these days, so I guess I'll have to visit West Perth, and those signals better be working OK when I get there? LoL!
I remember there use to be a rail siding out the back of bibra lake dad use to take us and we would clamber through the old wooden carriages. Years ago on a road trip out east i saw a adg rail car dumped in a paddock
That is some great footage Terry. Your a ledgend for putting it up.
I still work on the Network thank you for filling in some gaps.
Its like a hypnosis memory watching this.
Thankyou for sharing the History
i remember we all caught trains on the last day of the deisels. we went from victoria street to claremont and back.
and then were no trains for about a decade. it was kinda weird.
Old WAGR railcars badly smoking us usual - especially at 4:24. The WAGR was never much into proper maintenance, as shown by the smoking of X-Class and smoking of railcars. I can remember being a passenger on a railcar in about 1972. It was time to move out and the driver revved the guts out of the motor, but the railcars barely moved.
Thanks Terry, brings back lots of memories.
I remember them well 😅
another great video, thank you
Great video very interesting m, I lived in Perth for two and a half years from 1971 when a sixteen year old and always wanted to take a trip on those Rail motors to Fremantle after arriving in Perth on the old Trans Australia coming from Melbourne but it wasn’t to be unfortunately, just an aside for a bit of further accuracy on dating, those FB Holdens could may well have been the first half of 1961 also as the EK came out in the latter part of 1961 into 1962
Ha ha yes I remember being on this train and the kids from Hollywood High opening the doors between Shenton Park and Karakatta stations. Not sure if anyone ever actually fell out!
I’m from Victoria, I remember watching an orange railcar in 1986, it burbled to itself and then the engine accelerated for a few minutes before going back to a burble. I guessed it was recharging the air cylinders for the brake system. Am I right?
A few days later I rode The Australind which was loco hauled wooden cars. You can probably date it as the train arrived at the new Bunbury station and they were demolishing the old brick Bunbury station. I wondered why as I had a lenghty walk to the central part of Bunbury.
Aahhh... Remember it all...
Your videos are amazing showing Perth . Not much on UA-cam, its all kings park ,and kings park. Even if you put in Joondalup it's all. Hillarys Marina.
All the WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcars were withdrawn from Transperth railway service in 1992.
Not all of them. Some were withdrawn earlier. ADG604 and ADG616 was written off on 14 November 1983, and ADG601 was written off on 9 August 1989 after it was set alight by vandals at Challis on 27 April 1989.
@@MitchellFreeway Oh really? Well, I didn't know that! So you're saying that WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcar Trains#s ADG604 & ADG616 were both withdrawn from Westrail railway service being written-off after they were either damaged or destroyed by something in 1983 & WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcar Train#ADG601 was withdrawn from Transperth railway service being written-off after it was destroyed by fire being set alight by vandals in 1989, I hear?
Who spotted the Golden Fleece Service Station?
Victoria Street
I saw the horse shoe bridge but where was the train station?
Thanks. The Station was under the Bridge, one third being on the west side, and the balance including the buildings on the East. Have a look at my Part one, where I feature it.
enjoyed. will there be a part 3?
No unfortunately. I do however, have a project in the pipeline, waiting for the new Ellenbrook Line to open at the end of the year.
@@terrymercer2379 Love your videos Terry .... being a frequent user of the service during my teen years 1978-1985 approx mainly from Queens Park, but also Cannington Station and then from Maylands 1985-1986. Loved the "diesel" smell of Perth Railway station, the huge red vinyl (I assume) bench seats in the waiting area there. Back when Perth Railway Station seemed to have a heart and soul, even if a bit grimy. I used to love climbing those old steps, with dents from all the people over the ages walking over it - I used to wonder how many and which of my ancestors had trodden on those very same steps. Today's station is a soulless monstrosity herding people on and off like cattle IMHO. Then crossing at the pedestrian crosswalk in front of it and going past all the little shops of the Padbury building, the lovely smell from the greengrocer shop on the corner of Forrest Place and Murray St Mall and I think the bookshop next door to that, then meander in a few more feet to the lovely old Boans building, loved the smell in their, the hot food and other yummy treats and going the other way on Murray St, the Coles Cafeteria, which was always a great place for lunch etc. (Sorry for waffling on).
The semaphore signals
I used to go fishing at Victoria quay at Fremantle Australia and go eat fish and chips at cirilos seafood restaurants ion fisherman's wharf in Fremantle Australia with my grandparents