Bridgewater to Adelaide front view - Redhen railcar 30/12/1986, Barrie Hawes Collection.
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- A video of a trip from Bridgewater to Adelaide on 30/12/1986, filmed from the front of a Redhen railcar. Part of the Barrie Hawes Collection.
National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.
I grew up in Bridgewater and caught a red hen many times. I remember how beautiful the trip was, and how earnestly we supported the train crew when the service was canceled. Fabulous memories
Thankyou for posting this. I grew up un Aldgate and caught this train as a child. Spent many a day around the train line (getting up to trouble) watching the Red Hens, Bluebird, Overland and freight trains pass. Remember all the old stations like it was yesterday.
Stations & points of interest:
0:00 - Bridgewater
1:40 - Carripook
3:25 - Jibilla
5:43 - Aldgate
7:18 - Madurta
9:01 - Heathfield
12:43 - Mount Lofty
15:01 - Upper Sturt Rd Tunnel
15:53 - Upper Sturt
18:34 - Long Gully Tunnel
19:21 -> 23:37 - passing goods train (2x BL class locomotives)
19:39 - Long Gully
25:12 - National Park
25:55 - National Park Tunnel
29:16 - Belair (Redhen visible)
31:33 - Pinera
32:52 - Glenalta
33:51 - Blackwood
36:18 - Coromandel
36:44 -> 36:49 - passing passenger train (1x single-end Redhen, 1x double-end Redhen)
38:44 - Shepherd's Hill Tunnel
39:49 - Eden Hills
41:20 - Sleeps Hill Tunnel
42:59 - Lynton
43:23 - Clapham
43:48 - Torrens Park
44:25 - Mitcham (disused track is visible to the left between Torrens Park and Mitcham)
45:26 - Hawthorn
45:49 - Unley Park
46:33 - Millswood
47:07 - Goodwood Junction
47:31 - Goodwood (2x single-end Redhens visible)
48:33 - Keswick
48:58 - Keswick Terminal (overland coaches visible, 500 class locomotive visible at 49:08)
49:15 - Mile End Goods
49:46 - Mile End
49:58 -> 50:21 - passing goods train (800 class locomotive)
50:30 - Adelaide railcar depot (redhens visible)
50:52 - Adelaide north yard/sheds (2000 class railcars, redhens & super chooks visible)
51:45 - Adelaide
after Upper Sturt, train only stops at Belair, Blackwood & Adelaide
8 stations on your list now gone.
Sad.
I believe Upper Sturt is a crumbling ruins?
I haven't heard anything about it surviving, so you're probably correct about that, sadly
@@liammatthews5656 Ok. I went to look at it around 2005. Wasn't great.
Adelaide is fascinating! I was very young at the time and used to always get off at Millswood - I don't remeber Adelaide not being under cover, and being open like it is shown here. You can see the construction under way already at the end of the video.
@@darwiniandude yeah, iirc even by the end of the year this was filmed the platform cover and reduction would have already happened (although it wasn't quite like what it is today back then)
I’ve always wanted to see what all those old stations on the Bridgewater Line would have looked like. Thanks so much for posting!
What a blessing to be able to view this irreplaceable footage! Thankyou.
When I was a kid my grandfather took my brother and I on many joy rides. We just caught trains around all day. Spent many hours staring out these front windows, we did this trip many times before the trains no longer went as far as Bridgewater. Some great memories here, thanks for the share.
What a great piece of iconic SA history to share! Thank you NRM!
Wow, takes me back, used to ride my bike to the city then back home to Upper Sturt by train. Different world now.
You'd be rushing your life riding on upper Sturt road these days
Thanks for this historic ride!! Greetings from Apeldoorn (The Netherlands).
What an excellent look back. Thanks!
My grandfather Vladimir was a ticket collector on this line until maybe 1979.
Well respected man.R.I.P
Loved going to bridgewater as a kid up the front of the train, always tried to get on an earlyish one so we wouldn't have competition up front! I also remember the anxiety not really understanding as a kid how signals worked, and the possibility of an oncoming train on those single tracks. Still remember a couple of times a freight train coming towards us but of course it was a tree shaped funny on the side of the track, a log, a mirage etc - yet I still stayed up front! I also loved the feeling when you were in the corner you were not on the tracks, it felt like the train was never on the tracks, lol.
Thanks for a great memory. I rode that train to and from Bridgewater in 1972, on a wet day, sadly. Just sad about the lighting. Ladies in dresses. Don't see that much now. I am a new subscriber.
I'm another one for whom a school holiday train trip to Bridgewater was a special day. Hoping to get that front seat, even though I would have to stand most of the way, so I could see out of the front window.
It's such a pity that this trip is not possible today.
that was fantastic, brought back a lot of memories, such a loss when this service closed.
This is great! I used to regularly commute between Aldgate @5:43 and Millswood @46:33 till they closed the passenger service past Belair - and had to endure many hours of busses into the city and back out again. Was so frustrating. Had for gotten the long waits for passing freight trains. Until this video I'd long forgotten there were two stations between Aldgate and Bridgewater.
This is the first time I have seen this trip to Adelaide. Must try it one day..
You can't, sadly. The train only goes from Adelaide to Belair now, the Belair - Bridgewater section hasn't run for decades.
This absolutely takes me back. I used to catch the red hen from blackwood through the 70's then joined army and got out 87. I would have caught this train a few months later from when this was filmed. Blow me away!!
lovely to revisit some of these stations......I remember kicking around Long Gully gangers yard when I was a kid....train to Belair then bike through the park, pick up lunch in the Red Gums cafe, then scrounge around the yard at Long Gully then board and back to Adelaide....good life as a couple of 10yr olds without adult supervision
And you could eat Balfours pasties and drink farmers union ice coffee slide the doors wide open as the train went along or open the windows, people smoking in the other half of the carriage. Wow totally different to today.
oh yes those were the days before every Mum was scared for their kid, and started to drive them to school in a tank....media drives out rational thinking. There were always perverts out there, and ofcourse in church groups, but our peer group looked after each other.
In April 1983 (as a 13 year old) I went to Bridgewater by train by myself to see how devestating the Ash Wednesday fires (16/02/1983) were. And the damage was really bad. Exposed me to how out of control mega bushires can get.
Wow thats pretty lush forrest up there in the hills of Adelaide
Old mate at 10:45 just casually walking next to the track 😂
I was convinced halfway through the video that the train couldn't possibly make it to Adelaide by the end. I know express helps but this is FAR quicker than the trip (from Belair) is now - 22mins here vs 39!. Such a shame the passenger service doesn't extend to Mt Barker (or beyond) these days as well, and all we are left with now is joy trips on the steamranger run by volunteers.
single track doesn't help, trains have to run at restricted speed pretty much the whole way
Ripping up the broad gauge line and effectively terminating passenger service to the Adelaide Hills main towns was a ridiculous decision. More should be said to condemn those responsible even 30 years on. Those towns have grown astronomically and should be serviced by train, not bus.
What a great snapshot in time
Bloody outrage it doesn't go back to Bridgewater or through to mt Barker way better than a bus
Backward State, with stale GDP, crap football teams and miserable population. Still love SA though, and always will.
@@sacpac8480 Oi! Only one of the teams is crap!! Go crom.
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. I hope there's more to come.👍
That was a fun ride until you get to Adelaide Station, the mutilation of the station had begun. Platforms 1, 2, 3 & 4 is now part of the Convention center car park and today there is no more day time Sun shining on any remaining platforms. A big thank you to NRM & The Barrie Hawes collection for posting this gem.
I say turn them into platforms
Used to catch the Sunday Morning train to Bridgewater to ride BMX down Mount Lofty. They had a WHOLE carriage without seats, just for bikes....
More of this NRM!
Yes please! I’d like to see a ride along the Port Adelaide-Dry Creek line and see the old stations along that line. Although I’m sure they were just small little platforms and barely actual stations
love every second
@49:46 I used Mile End yesterday - it looks exactly the same still!
Great when you had a guard pressing a buzzer to let the driver know that all was okay - not like today where it is all up to the driver and doors shut on people.
Why would you get rid of a line that goes to bridgewater?? Now look at population up there now😂. Anyways what a view of the old Adelaide railwaystation classic😃👍
didnt 2000 class jumbso go to Bridgewater as well, if so, please make some footage available online.
Is it a low speed indication entering Long Gully?
this was fantastic to watch! I didnt know there was a 2nd & 3rd tunnel around the National Park area - what road overpassed it? Thank you!
Upper sturt road is one…. The National park the other..
@@defman70 Yes, the upper Sturt Road was the first one, but I am unfamiliar with the next two tunnels which seem to pass through National Park - would this be correct?
@@davidjohnalpha That’s a Roger..!
@@davidjohnalpha correct on the first being Upper Sturt tunnel. The next is Long Gully tunnel then National Park tunnel.
The National Park tunnel goes under Queens Jubilee Drive in the park.
reality on rails
Was that railway broad gauge?
At 10:35 mark, I saw a guy walking along the line. Sure that wont fly today.a
@48:14 No Wayville Showgrounds station :)
Bridgewater to Adelaide?
How did they get to run this train on the mainline with all the Melb to Perth freight trains going through?
via morse code buzzers and relay lights....and conscientious staff
@@glenn9229 Hmmmmm, obviously.
Mt Barker would be the ideal terminus now however you'd need to build a tunnel reasonably direct and link up near Mitcham station.
@@garynewton1263 Why on Earth would you need a new tunnel?
@@garynewton1263 not needed me thinks.
anyone know how fast these hens could go?
OVERLAND CARS AT THE YARD
12:42 Mount Lofty
totally unrecognisable