I’m glad you like it. I was a Connie at Brunswick from November 87 until about May 1988 when I moved to South Melbourne as they at the time it quite a few interesting routes. One by one they were taken away, mostly after I had left.
What wonderful footage. Historical document. I loved the opening of the East Burwood extension with the kids on dragster bikes racing the tram. It is all great and fun to play spot the car as well.
Big thanks for uploading this. Brought back a lot of nice memories of growing up in Melbourne as a young boy. Riding the single line extension of the Wattle Park line from Warrigal Rd. to Elgar Rd, the single line on Truganini Rd at the end of the Carnegie line, the loop opposite the Caulfield Racecourse ( no longer there ) and so many others.
980 at 14:25: I remember that one as a kid (mid 1950s) on the 69 route (Malvern depot @ Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn Rd, Balaclava Rd, Carlisle St to the beach opposite Luna Park. When it was introduced, it was called "the silent tram" - which it really was.
980 was a prototype using American electrical equipment but probably because of the cost of this, the experiment was not carried on with. 980 still exists at the Tramway Museum at Bylands out of Melbourne but some parts were removed from it to build 1041 which led to the Z class being built.
Love this! I’m so glad I found it. I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. Great memories: Batman Avenue to Wattle Park along Riversdale Road; Elizabeth Street to Royal Parade and Melbourne Uni; Nicholson Street to exams at the Exhibition Building; out to West Coburg through Royal Park past the zoo. Thanks!
These videos not only bring back childhood memories, but also when i was an ambulance officer. (we were called paramedics later). The older W class trams, (which we called "real trams", when the newer, lighter ones were introduced), made a mess of a car if one ran into it, which was mostly the car drivers fault, however injuries on the actual tram were usually minor, if any. The newer lighter trams often derailed, and that's when people started getting hurt more on trams.But then it can be argued that the energy of a crash was absorbed by the newer trams, and derailing was part of that. but the W class, and other older trams rarely derailed in a collision with a car, (with another tram though, slightly different story sometimes.). But the reality was the tram collisions were, and still are, very few and far between, due to the professionalism and pro activity of drivers, and back in the old days, due to attentive conductors and conductresses as well. But way back, if a tram hit a car it was either minor, or quite a big deal. Great days all the same. Then I went to the ATSB, then to VR as an investigations officer. I don't know whether I was some sort of nerd or glutton for punishment.
Fascinating to see the #59 tram turning into Essendon Airport! The first edition of the Melway has this marked out, but I'm not sure when that section was closed. Anyone know?
Sorry for the slow reply. Not long ago I had an email exchange with a friend and I wanted to see if we worked out when the line was changed. It was going to the airport in the 1966 Melways but not in 1978. Maybe Wikipedia would give extra details...
For the first few mins of this film is the best bit (I loved the whole film) Many memories of happy times at my grandparents house they lived at 53 Matthews ave opp Essendon airport and I can still hear the noise of the big planes as they took off from the airport it was so loud and it would shake the house my grandparents had to have the house reblocked and i was thrilled to see a glimpse of my grandparents house in the film thanks again tressteleg1
My pleasure. I hope you can find some interest in others of my videos even though they will not be as close to your heart. One which may interest you is the one on Harris Trains, and a more recent on on Taits, Harris Trains and Parcel Vans, all of which are long gone from Melbourne.
@@tressteleg1 Very much so. All those old trams had such character. Loved seeing the horse tram too. Hard to believe that was once how people got around.
Unfortunately the supply of vintage Australian movie and video is rapidly running out. I have plenty overseas, but most of my viewers are not interested.
A very valuable record. Thanks for posting. However at 9:32 the railway station is North Williamstown not Royal Park. As discussed in one of your other videos. Pre signal box removal of course/
Damien Christidis At the age of 18, it would have been a wonderful job especially attending to the young ladies who would have boarded from time to time 😊😊😊
Damien Christidis Unfortunately as far as the young ladies are concerned, you would have missed the boat if you returned now. I was in my 40s when I was conducting. At least I could on odd occasions have fun with them knowing that I was too old to be in their sights. ☹️
g cantstansya Awesome to see hey👍 My first car was a Holden HK Monaro back in 1983 and i paid $999 in a Bayswater car yard i then sold it for $1000 in 1990 the only thing I kept was the original rear bench seats replaced by GTS rear seat and I sold the bench seat I kept in eBay 7 years ago for $1000
Glad I re-found the East Burwood opening day coverage in this at 29:00. I remembered seeing this quite a while back, but was searching for it in UA-cam by route 75 extension opening etc without any success. Was most disappointed when I thought it had been lost. Could I suggest a new short video be posted using this opening footage and perhaps the route 74 footage terminating at Warrigal road for context. With a title along the lines of "MMTB Tram Route 75 opening to Middleborough Rd Burwood East 1978" or similar I would think interested people looking for more on one the the early postwar tram extension (the first?) would be better able to find this historic footage of interest. Perhaps mention the Z class numbers, Premier Dick Hamer and the full date in the description if this helps search engines. Pacing by kids on Dragster bicycles and Police escort also provokes interest to people I have shown this to. Just a suggestion I hope you will like.
John D When I took all of this using movie film, something like UA-cam was not even a sci-fi dream. And quite a few rail fans were still taking black and white photographs. And what do people prefer to look at today? I must have known something :-) Until I put this on UA-cam, hardly anybody had seen it. I’m happy to share it here. Otherwise it would probably go to the tip unseen when I died anyway.
OHS in general is the biggest load of old rubbish ever invented. While I’m no fan of dangerous workplaces, the ludicrous laws that these zealots introduce overall are quite over the top and strangling industry. There was next to no danger with open doors on trams and trains until today’s idiots decided otherwise!
I guess it is just another occasion when I was taking movie or video when everyone else was taking photos, some still using B&W. Accidentally it now seems I was ahead of my time.
Look how much space there was to build the tulla freeway. Back then it was just a double side road named lancfield road. Oh how times have changed, back then there was so much open space
Yep! Tram drivers soon learned to gradually edge their way into a choked intersection and get through! We did lots of ‘impossible’ things in those days!
Sorry to say this but @9:38 the red rattler is not leaving Royal Park station. Signal box is on the wrong side. The road shows 2 seperate lanes. This never happened on Poplar Rd. Also in the back ground the track curved to the left in a cutting and going up hill.
I was a kid back then, white Australia, no refugees, no crime and no bullshit. And the cars, oh those were real cars, not the disposable shit boxes they make today.
@@tressteleg1 Sounds a likely explanation as I have searched high and low for it. I would very much like to see it again so if you come across it please post as really these should be in the public domain as they were also shot by amatuers and are 60+ years old.
Hi. I contacted the guy who I thought had produced the DVD and he has replied that his copyright assertion is within the the copyright act. But you are welcome to purchase the DVD (VR Tramways in the 1950s), by contacting him on efftech(at)bigpond.com Use the normal symbol instead of (at). I believe you will find on the disc a lot more than was ever on UA-cam. But he will be happy to give further details.
At 46:18 it looks like we're looking north to Grantham Rd & Brunswick Rd (pub on the corner) and with Park st (crossing in the foreground). Ahh yes, Burwood extension - pollies taking credit for a previous govts initiative no doubt. Here's something kinda boring for ya, I lived not very far from Truganini Rd on the east side of the 64 route near North and Hawthorn Rds, and i just used Google Maps to look at Truganini Rd since I couldn't recognize the location and I can honestly say though I thought I knew most of Melbourne's network I have never ridden the 67 to that location - and more embarrassingly, I never knew the 67 ran up there. It just never occurred to me where the 67 terminus was and I only lived not far away. I never thought where the route went after it crossed the Frankston line. I can't believe it! I just used Google Street View to confirm it since I was so unbelieving. This isn't old age setting in as I'm not that old (yet). Heavens! Thanks for this BTW. Great vid, just... well great.
Sorry I did not see the rest of your comment earlier. I have not seen the rest of Truganini Road myself. But there is a lot of Melbourne I don’t know anything of because trams don’t run there 😊
+planetx15 Not in Melbourne as the trains run on broad gauge tracks, 1,600 mm. In Sydney in earlier times electric trams were towed by steam tram motors to the ‘isolated’ lines such as North Sydney, Rockdale, Enfield and Newcastle, and others but due to Trams having much smaller wheel flanges special equipment was needed at junctions and crossings. This was to simply transport the trams at night without passengers.
The Victorian Railways use to run a tram line from StKilda railway station to Brighton via Elwood. It was broad gauge and when the trams needed major work done they would be be run on the rail network to the depot. I read that some where.
+Steven Pam Thanks. I was also amazed just how good some scenes turned out, considering just how small the film is. It looks even better on a TV screen! A Wolverine is a converter machine which reads the 8mm or Super 8 film one frame at a time, 2 frames per second. It is slow but gives good results with good quality film. I always used Kodak. iMovie was needed for a lot of post-production work.
+Steven Pam Almost. All Kodak movie film and most colour slide film made by Kodak was sold with the developing cost included. An envelope was included and it was used to post the film to the Coburg Kodak factory for developing. It was then posted back to your home and took a week or so. Luckily Kodak was the easiest film to get and has kept its colour quite well. That certainly cannot be said about some of the cheapie film makers. Luckily I never used those. A future movie/video will centre around Taits, especially on the St Kilda line.
Yes, nearly all mine with Standard 8 movie film. I think some scenes were from a roll of film taken by somebody else but I never found out who the cameraman was.
They wanted to get rid of Batman Avenue in its entirety to make way for the sporting precinct, tennis centre etc. But ALSO politically to make the argument for the Burnley tunnel.
Thank you Tressteleg1 - I thoroughly enjoyed the tram rides through the suburbs and city back in the days I remember well. Thank you!
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Seeing the tram with advertising for Newsday brought back memories. Newsday an afternoon newspaper only lasted a few months.
Maaaaate this is just so priceless!!!!!!
The year I was born 65!
Thanks for sharing 👍 🚃
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Me too!
I am a tram driver from Brunswick and this footage is very interesting. Melbourne used to be a lot better before...
I’m glad you like it. I was a Connie at Brunswick from November 87 until about May 1988 when I moved to South Melbourne as they at the time it quite a few interesting routes. One by one they were taken away, mostly after I had left.
What wonderful footage. Historical document. I loved the opening of the East Burwood extension with the kids on dragster bikes racing the tram. It is all great and fun to play spot the car as well.
I thought you would like it 👍
An excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing quite like the Melbourne trams, especially the ones from yesteryear. Amazing how quiet the city streets are compared to today’s congestion.
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A really enjoyable one to watch. Thank you
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Big thanks for uploading this. Brought back a lot of nice memories of growing up in Melbourne as a young boy. Riding the single line extension of the Wattle Park line from Warrigal Rd. to Elgar Rd, the single line on Truganini Rd at the end of the Carnegie line, the loop opposite the Caulfield Racecourse ( no longer there ) and so many others.
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Wow!!!! It brought back so many memories of my childhood thanks
That’s what my videos are all about - Bringing back memories and showing the younger ones what they missed.
I caught those trams many many times. Good times.
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980 at 14:25: I remember that one as a kid (mid 1950s) on the 69 route (Malvern depot @ Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn Rd, Balaclava Rd, Carlisle St to the beach opposite Luna Park. When it was introduced, it was called "the silent tram" - which it really was.
980 was a prototype using American electrical equipment but probably because of the cost of this, the experiment was not carried on with. 980 still exists at the Tramway Museum at Bylands out of Melbourne but some parts were removed from it to build 1041 which led to the Z class being built.
Amazing footage. And this is how we loved our beautiful Melbourne, nothing like today, full of mixes and population explosion.
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Love this! I’m so glad I found it. I grew up there in the 50s and 60s.
Great memories: Batman Avenue to Wattle Park along Riversdale Road; Elizabeth Street to Royal Parade and Melbourne Uni; Nicholson Street to exams at the Exhibition Building; out to West Coburg through Royal Park past the zoo. Thanks!
Heather Gordon I’m pleased to bring back happy memories for you 😊
These videos not only bring back childhood memories, but also when i was an ambulance officer. (we were called paramedics later). The older W class trams, (which we called "real trams", when the newer, lighter ones were introduced), made a mess of a car if one ran into it, which was mostly the car drivers fault, however injuries on the actual tram were usually minor, if any. The newer lighter trams often derailed, and that's when people started getting hurt more on trams.But then it can be argued that the energy of a crash was absorbed by the newer trams, and derailing was part of that. but the W class, and other older trams rarely derailed in a collision with a car, (with another tram though, slightly different story sometimes.). But the reality was the tram collisions were, and still are, very few and far between, due to the professionalism and pro activity of drivers, and back in the old days, due to attentive conductors and conductresses as well. But way back, if a tram hit a car it was either minor, or quite a big deal. Great days all the same. Then I went to the ATSB, then to VR as an investigations officer. I don't know whether I was some sort of nerd or glutton for punishment.
Heather Gordon Yes, I remember exams at Exhibition Building so well, particularly on a hot summer day.
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Fascinating to see the #59 tram turning into Essendon Airport! The first edition of the Melway has this marked out, but I'm not sure when that section was closed. Anyone know?
Sorry for the slow reply. Not long ago I had an email exchange with a friend and I wanted to see if we worked out when the line was changed. It was going to the airport in the 1966 Melways but not in 1978. Maybe Wikipedia would give extra details...
@@tressteleg1 thanks - Wikipedia did have more info. The line into the airport closed in 1976.
Thanks for going to the trouble. I will have to take a note of that.
The W Class really defines Melbourne
I could have some more later in the year taken by a friend from early 1980s.
I Remember the transfer from mph to km everyone had stickers on the odometer showing km over the miles numbers
Or had a gear mechanism to change the speed 😄
Wow cool to see the old trams!
Crazy Railfan 😊👍
For the first few mins of this film is the best bit (I loved the whole film) Many memories of happy times at my grandparents house they lived at 53 Matthews ave opp Essendon airport and I can still hear the noise of the big planes as they took off from the airport it was so loud and it would shake the house my grandparents had to have the house reblocked and i was thrilled to see a glimpse of my grandparents house in the film thanks again tressteleg1
My pleasure. I hope you can find some interest in others of my videos even though they will not be as close to your heart.
One which may interest you is the one on Harris Trains, and a more recent on on Taits, Harris Trains and Parcel Vans, all of which are long gone from Melbourne.
Thanks for post this, it was fantastic. I love seeing scenes from the past.
Emma S 😊👍. Melbourne Trams have totally changed since those days.
@@tressteleg1 Very much so. All those old trams had such character. Loved seeing the horse tram too. Hard to believe that was once how people got around.
Continue to love your work.
Thank you for sharing it with us all. Helps us oldies remember this stuff. :-)
Glad to help and possibly show some younger ones what they missed.
Don’t miss tonight’s offering. Probably Ballarat next Friday.
When ever I feel homesick, I watch this video!
Apart from 6 heavily rebuilt Ws, not a single tram in this movie is still in service. It might be best to stay away and watch this movie again.
The ol' videos are my favorite.
Unfortunately the supply of vintage Australian movie and video is rapidly running out. I have plenty overseas, but most of my viewers are not interested.
@@tressteleg1 It's all good.. Thanks
A very valuable record. Thanks for posting.
However at 9:32 the railway station is North Williamstown not Royal Park. As discussed in one of your other videos. Pre signal box removal of course/
When I was 18 my first job was a Connie out of Malvern depot. It was a fantastic job!
Damien Christidis At the age of 18, it would have been a wonderful job especially attending to the young ladies who would have boarded from time to time 😊😊😊
@@tressteleg1 Absolutely! I am a Teacher now at Tafe but if they ever need connies again I would consider it.
Damien Christidis Unfortunately as far as the young ladies are concerned, you would have missed the boat if you returned now. I was in my 40s when I was conducting. At least I could on odd occasions have fun with them knowing that I was too old to be in their sights. ☹️
@@tressteleg1 LOL AGREE!
Im loving the old cars more than the trams
Wash your mouth out with soap! 😄
g cantstansya Awesome to see hey👍
My first car was a Holden HK Monaro back in 1983 and i paid $999 in a Bayswater car yard i then sold it for $1000 in 1990 the only thing I kept was the original rear bench seats replaced by GTS rear seat and I sold the bench seat I kept in eBay 7 years ago for $1000
"Malcolm" would love this documentary.
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Many thanks for publishing this very good historical movies!
So pleased that you liked it!
Fantastic video, so nostalgic. Credit to you.
Thanks! You may also like Melbourne Trams 1983 and 1990 with W2s Part 1. It has city scenes with trams flowing almost non stop. Part 2 out soon.
Glad I re-found the East Burwood opening day coverage in this at 29:00.
I remembered seeing this quite a while back, but was searching for it in UA-cam by route 75 extension opening etc without any success. Was most disappointed when I thought it had been lost.
Could I suggest a new short video be posted using this opening footage and perhaps the route 74 footage terminating at Warrigal road for context.
With a title along the lines of "MMTB Tram Route 75 opening to Middleborough Rd Burwood East 1978" or similar I would think interested people looking for more on one the the early postwar tram extension (the first?) would be better able to find this historic footage of interest.
Perhaps mention the Z class numbers, Premier Dick Hamer and the full date in the description if this helps search engines. Pacing by kids on Dragster bicycles and Police escort also provokes interest to people I have shown this to.
Just a suggestion I hope you will like.
I will keep it in mind but I’m not sure I have enough footage to make it worthwhile. Wait and see.
@@tressteleg1 Thanks for your reply and for going to the expense and trouble of recording all this history as well as making it available on UA-cam.
John D When I took all of this using movie film, something like UA-cam was not even a sci-fi dream. And quite a few rail fans were still taking black and white photographs. And what do people prefer to look at today? I must have known something :-) Until I put this on UA-cam, hardly anybody had seen it. I’m happy to share it here. Otherwise it would probably go to the tip unseen when I died anyway.
The lack of OHS is evident. Seeing all those open doors on the trams and trains.
OHS in general is the biggest load of old rubbish ever invented. While I’m no fan of dangerous workplaces, the ludicrous laws that these zealots introduce overall are quite over the top and strangling industry. There was next to no danger with open doors on trams and trains until today’s idiots decided otherwise!
Here in Helsinki Finland the color of trams is exactly the same :D
Jaakko Yes, the colours are extremely close but unfortunately largely extinct in Melbourne.
The opening of the East Burwood extension is classic footage.
I guess it is just another occasion when I was taking movie or video when everyone else was taking photos, some still using B&W. Accidentally it now seems I was ahead of my time.
Excellent, I really enjoyed watching this one.
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❤thankyou so much. I love Melbourne.
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At 5:43 it's actually Gordon Street outside the Ammunition factory, not Raleigh Road.
Guess I misread a map.
Look how much space there was to build the tulla freeway. Back then it was just a double side road named lancfield road. Oh how times have changed, back then there was so much open space
Holy crap!! No traffic lights at the camberwell junction!
Yep! Tram drivers soon learned to gradually edge their way into a choked intersection and get through! We did lots of ‘impossible’ things in those days!
Ist scene looks like the No. 70 on Riversdale Road, Surrey Hills. Probably heading east towards Wattle Park. I recall this view from the 1970's.
Very likely as I did have scenes from that route. Usually I put locations in subtitles.
Great vision, thanks
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Sorry to say this but @9:38 the red rattler is not leaving Royal Park station. Signal box is on the wrong side. The road shows 2 seperate lanes. This never happened on Poplar Rd. Also in the back ground the track curved to the left in a cutting and going up hill.
True, I did later identify the location (or somebody said it). I forget just where, but maybe Southside somewhere.
The bouncy Stick day's!
I was a kid back then, white Australia, no refugees, no crime and no bullshit. And the cars, oh those were real cars, not the disposable shit boxes they make today.
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You dont leave captions up long enough !
Somebody else said the same. I’ll make them longer as appropriate. Still, anybody watching it at 2x speed will still find them too short.
@@tressteleg1 THANK YOU
At 16min mark it says "High ST, Rt48 North Balwyn" it is actually Kew not North Balwyn as it is outside the Boroondara Cemetery in Kew
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There used to be a video showing the trams up to Brighton in the 50's- can't find it now
For a while somebody was stealing parts from commercially sold DVDs but were stopped by the producer. I think this may have been one of them.
@@tressteleg1 Sounds a likely explanation as I have searched high and low for it. I would very much like to see it again so if you come across it please post as really these should be in the public domain as they were also shot by amatuers and are 60+ years old.
I will contact the producer and see what he has to say. I will reply here but may take a few days.
@@tressteleg1 Thanks
Hi. I contacted the guy who I thought had produced the DVD and he has replied that his copyright assertion is within the the copyright act. But you are welcome to purchase the DVD (VR Tramways in the 1950s), by contacting him on efftech(at)bigpond.com
Use the normal symbol instead of (at). I believe you will find on the disc a lot more than was ever on UA-cam. But he will be happy to give further details.
At 46:18 it looks like we're looking north to Grantham Rd & Brunswick Rd (pub on the corner) and with Park st (crossing in the foreground).
Ahh yes, Burwood extension - pollies taking credit for a previous govts initiative no doubt.
Here's something kinda boring for ya, I lived not very far from Truganini Rd on the east side of the 64 route near North and Hawthorn Rds, and i just used Google Maps to look at Truganini Rd since I couldn't recognize the location and I can honestly say though I thought I knew most of Melbourne's network I have never ridden the 67 to that location - and more embarrassingly, I never knew the 67 ran up there. It just never occurred to me where the 67 terminus was and I only lived not far away. I never thought where the route went after it crossed the Frankston line. I can't believe it! I just used Google Street View to confirm it since I was so unbelieving. This isn't old age setting in as I'm not that old (yet). Heavens!
Thanks for this BTW. Great vid, just... well great.
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Sorry I did not see the rest of your comment earlier.
I have not seen the rest of Truganini Road myself. But there is a lot of Melbourne I don’t know anything of because trams don’t run there 😊
Just wondering.....
Could a Tram ride on Train tracks and visa versa?
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Not in Melbourne as the trains run on broad gauge tracks, 1,600 mm.
In Sydney in earlier times electric trams were towed by steam tram motors to the ‘isolated’ lines such as North Sydney, Rockdale, Enfield and Newcastle, and others but due to Trams having much smaller wheel flanges special equipment was needed at junctions and crossings. This was to simply transport the trams at night without passengers.
The Victorian Railways use to run a tram line from StKilda railway station to Brighton via Elwood. It was broad gauge and when the trams needed major work done they would be be run on the rail network to the depot. I read that some where.
Amazing and beautiful! Thanks for sharing. What's a Wolverine?
+Steven Pam
Thanks. I was also amazed just how good some scenes turned out, considering just how small the film is. It looks even better on a TV screen!
A Wolverine is a converter machine which reads the 8mm or Super 8 film one frame at a time, 2 frames per second. It is slow but gives good results with good quality film. I always used Kodak. iMovie was needed for a lot of post-production work.
I suppose you took the films up to Coburg to get them developed?
+Steven Pam
Almost. All Kodak movie film and most colour slide film made by Kodak was sold with the developing cost included. An envelope was included and it was used to post the film to the Coburg Kodak factory for developing. It was then posted back to your home and took a week or so.
Luckily Kodak was the easiest film to get and has kept its colour quite well. That certainly cannot be said about some of the cheapie film makers. Luckily I never used those. A future movie/video will centre around Taits, especially on the St Kilda line.
Wow Great video!!! Did you film this???
Yes, nearly all mine with Standard 8 movie film. I think some scenes were from a roll of film taken by somebody else but I never found out who the cameraman was.
tressteleg1 ok😁
Aspect1 Thinking back, I think that most of the scenes which were not mine were those taken around Camberwell Junction and Depot.
tressteleg1 ok
Really diggin' your channel!
Thanks. There is getting to be quite a lot of my videos now. Don’t get Square Eyes from watching too much :-)
The number 70 along Batman Ave to wattle park was always my favourite line!
Luckily I knew the single track was to be duplicated so covered the line fairly thoroughly. Lucky for you too.
Great stuff! Do you have any more film of Truganini Road, Route 67?
Have you seen my video Driver’s View Rt 67. Part 2 covers Truganini Rd.
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Hi, I haven't seen all your videos. I meant to say old video of Truganini Rd, pre 1980's.
Keep up the good work.
No I don’t think I have any more vintage video of Melbourne. I think the scenes in Truganini Rd are a mix of movie film from myself and also a friend.
Why did they get rid of the old batman Avenue tram
They wanted to get rid of Batman Avenue in its entirety to make way for the sporting precinct, tennis centre etc. But ALSO politically to make the argument for the Burnley tunnel.
It’s really Crazy that no one is, explaining it!!!!!!!
Explaining what?
I miss Batman ave tram rides
Yes it was a reprieve from the bustle of the city and Richmond. The tennis centre detour is not a match (not tennis match, either 😆)
Fascinating stuff .. :)
There will be one on Taits, Harris Trains and Parcel Vans in a day or two :-)
My dad driving @ 11:52 :)
I’m very pleased that I captured your dad at the right time. And the image is reasonably clear. I bet you got a nice surprise!
12:52 Route 96
Yes, when the tracks ended just before Spencer St.
Right, so the route didn't always go to St Kilda beach beach.
No, not until 1987.
i thought it's was 1983
Well some of it was, but the earlier scenes were from 1965, my first visit to Melbourne.