Such great local history here. That memory etched vandalism poster in the red hens. The orange window tint and green moquette on the jumbo seats and the 6 car set from Noarlunga (73). Seagulls and _sunlight_ at Adelaide Station. We loved that front seat of the jumbo experience. Remember my sister expecting to see the driver's hand appear behind the glass where the emergency brake handle was. Thanks!
Fabulous footage…thank you. How wonderful to see extended footage taken at Adelaide Central when it was still open and airy, before it was ruined by plonking a convention centre on top of it!
When you came into Adelaide Railway station from the Northern end enterance (if you went for a swim at the old Adelaide Baths that were where the Festival Theatre is now) on the left of that enterance was the Lost Property Office. Every now and again they would have auctions to get rid of the stuff people left at the station or on the trains. You could buy an umbrella for a sixpence or sometimes even less. Bikes could be had for a 10 Shillings. There were heaps of things people used to leave on the trains. I always remember one particuar smell when I entered the station and that was the smell of oil mixed with dieseline. The tracks were covered in this mixture. Before we would take the train home to Kilburn or Islington (all depends which mate you were with) and if you had a pennies left over you could get a pie and sauce from the Railway Canteen and go halves or an icy pole, that was basically frozen cordial on a stick. they were threepence. One of you would eat half and leave the other for your mate.
very nice footage,and ur so lucky u have good memories of Adelaide,i l grew up near Hallett cove beach railway station in the 80's and spent a lot of my kiddie years at my nannas where she lived between kilkenny and Woodville park, train stations,So I have always had a passion for suburban trains,im still looking through ur vlogs so I hope I can find one of the outer harbour and Noarlunga line
I love all your old footage mate. Question: Do you remember the Victor Harbour rail service prior to the bluebird servicing it? I used to go to Mitcham railway station with my grandma (late 70s/early 80s) and see the Overland go by. (Around 7pm-ish) Then about 5 or 10 mins later, the train to victor harbour would come by - either pulled by a diesel loco or maybe steam?!? The carriages were the classic rusty brown colour with a single line under the windows. Anyways, I’ve been trying to find footage or photos or timetables to prove to myself any of it actually happened! 😂 if you had anything, I’d be real keen to see it :)
There was a discussion the other ay on 891 ABC radio. That they should bring the overland and Ghan into the city to embark an disembark and a lot of the people said there was no way you could get the platform long enough but I see, here and remembered that they used to go all the way to the bridge it could be possible if they weren't a different gauge. great video thanks for the memory lane trip..
The real reason for the move of country & interstate passenger trains to Keswick is the that that the South Australian government handed these services to the Commonwealth government, in the 1970s.From then on, Australian National Railways had to pay to use the South Australian owned Adelaide railway station.If they wanted to destroy rail in South Australia, between them, they sure achieved their goal.The twice weekly Overland train is the only not metropolitan train from Adelaide, that could be deemed a transport service (& it's future is far from secure)The other Great Southern Railways trains are not set up as transport services, but rather, luxury, rolling hotels.
Cities in Australia are too far away from Adelaide to make rail travel between them nothing more than tourist trains. They are not commuter trains and never will be.
@@AlonsoRules ,they were commuter trains..way cheaper than a plane ticket back in the day..my grand mother used to catch the overland from adelaide station to melbourne,, it was way cheaper than a 500 dollar plane ticket..3 air carrier services,,TAA Ansett and Qantas..
1986 i was 16 years old ... crazy how things have changed ..tube mills and islington station still had worker trains....GMH elizabeth and penfield RAAF base had stations too... non workers had to get off at salisbury station...probs 50 cent for minimum chips ... train tickets would have been around 50 cents...1980/81 tickets cost 20 cents .. 2 bucks would get a kid fare to town and back , and half a day in downtown or tilt .. pinball/game arcades.... both gone also ..
Super interesting footage, those tracks look like moldy cheese. Anyone that says Adelaide's network hasn't improved since the 80s, I wasn't alive then but the network looks like it's barely held together.
No, the last Bluebird uses (& limited by then) was at the end of the 80s, begining of the 90s, when last SA country trains ceased. Hen's did not start really vanishing till 92-3.
the big sheep paddock after parafield airport...lol salisbury highway started at waterloo corner rd and ended at portwakefield road..the section between the roundabout next to parabanks and waterloo corner was all houses and a train line..
Such great local history here. That memory etched vandalism poster in the red hens. The orange window tint and green moquette on the jumbo seats and the 6 car set from Noarlunga (73). Seagulls and _sunlight_ at Adelaide Station.
We loved that front seat of the jumbo experience. Remember my sister expecting to see the driver's hand appear behind the glass where the emergency brake handle was. Thanks!
Fabulous footage…thank you. How wonderful to see extended footage taken at Adelaide Central when it was still open and airy, before it was ruined by plonking a convention centre on top of it!
When you came into Adelaide Railway station from the Northern end enterance (if you went for a swim at the old Adelaide Baths that were where the Festival Theatre is now) on the left of that enterance was the Lost Property Office. Every now and again they would have auctions to get rid of the stuff people left at the station or on the trains. You could buy an umbrella for a sixpence or sometimes even less. Bikes could be had for a 10 Shillings. There were heaps of things people used to leave on the trains.
I always remember one particuar smell when I entered the station and that was the smell of oil mixed with dieseline. The tracks were covered in this mixture. Before we would take the train home to Kilburn or Islington (all depends which mate you were with) and if you had a pennies left over you could get a pie and sauce from the Railway Canteen and go halves or an icy pole, that was basically frozen cordial on a stick. they were threepence. One of you would eat half and leave the other for your mate.
very nice footage,and ur so lucky u have good memories of Adelaide,i l grew up near Hallett cove beach railway station in the 80's and spent a lot of my kiddie years at my nannas where she lived between kilkenny and Woodville park, train stations,So I have always had a passion for suburban trains,im still looking through ur vlogs so I hope I can find one of the outer harbour and Noarlunga line
I love all your old footage mate. Question: Do you remember the Victor Harbour rail service prior to the bluebird servicing it? I used to go to Mitcham railway station with my grandma (late 70s/early 80s) and see the Overland go by. (Around 7pm-ish) Then about 5 or 10 mins later, the train to victor harbour would come by - either pulled by a diesel loco or maybe steam?!? The carriages were the classic rusty brown colour with a single line under the windows. Anyways, I’ve been trying to find footage or photos or timetables to prove to myself any of it actually happened! 😂 if you had anything, I’d be real keen to see it :)
There was a discussion the other ay on 891 ABC radio. That they should bring the overland and Ghan into the city to embark an disembark and a lot of the people said there was no way you could get the platform long enough but I see, here and remembered that they used to go all the way to the bridge it could be possible if they weren't a different gauge. great video thanks for the memory lane trip..
The real reason for the move of country & interstate passenger trains to Keswick is the that that the South Australian government handed these services to the Commonwealth government, in the 1970s.From then on, Australian National Railways had to pay to use the South Australian owned Adelaide railway station.If they wanted to destroy rail in South Australia, between them, they sure achieved their goal.The twice weekly Overland train is the only not metropolitan train from Adelaide, that could be deemed a transport service (& it's future is far from secure)The other Great Southern Railways trains are not set up as transport services, but rather, luxury, rolling hotels.
Cities in Australia are too far away from Adelaide to make rail travel between them nothing more than tourist trains. They are not commuter trains and never will be.
the overland used to depart from platform 1 in adelaide train, station,,, way before Keswick was built for interstate services..
@@AlonsoRules ,they were commuter trains..way cheaper than a plane ticket back in the day..my grand mother used to catch the overland from adelaide station to melbourne,, it was way cheaper than a 500 dollar plane ticket..3 air carrier services,,TAA Ansett and Qantas..
was air travel really that expensive?
1986 i was 16 years old ... crazy how things have changed ..tube mills and islington station still had worker trains....GMH elizabeth and penfield RAAF base had stations too... non workers had to get off at salisbury station...probs 50 cent for minimum chips ... train tickets would have been around 50 cents...1980/81 tickets cost 20 cents ..
2 bucks would get a kid fare to town and back , and half a day in downtown or tilt .. pinball/game arcades.... both gone also ..
Super interesting footage, those tracks look like moldy cheese. Anyone that says Adelaide's network hasn't improved since the 80s, I wasn't alive then but the network looks like it's barely held together.
Was the blue bird still existing when the red hen and the super chook were around?
No, the last Bluebird uses (& limited by then) was at the end of the 80s, begining of the 90s, when last SA country trains ceased. Hen's did not start really vanishing till 92-3.
much has changed in 26 years
Where's Mawson Lakes :P
Not built yet LOL
the big sheep paddock after parafield airport...lol
salisbury highway started at waterloo corner rd and ended at portwakefield road..the section between the roundabout next to parabanks and waterloo corner was all houses and a train line..
There would have been a rail served feedlot for live sheep export!
Mawson Lakes the whole suburb was not yet built and thus did not exist until the late 90s, and the station wasn't built until the mid 2000s
Too bad the jumbos are almost out of service