In the early 1980s I had a nerve injury which meant pain in my arms and temporarily stopped me working. train rides to the National Park station from Newtown and then walks through the park to either ferry to Cronulla or Otford station brought me peace, sanity and helped my recovery. I was often the only person to get off at Royal National Park station. An almost surreal experience. A lovely place to take a train to. We need more stations like it.
@markdebsauzzietravels
Жыл бұрын
Hi Sharath My dad and I worked on building the platform back in 79 I was a third year apprentice at the time and finished the copping course of brickwork as the other brickies to the money and ran. I remember spending weeks out there cutting and laying bricks on the platform , Thanks for bring back some found memories of yester year for me Cheers Mark
@hoyks1
Жыл бұрын
A minor point about military training areas: A lot of them are better managed than national parks and do provide a sanctuary for flora and fauna. Yes, some bits do get blown up, but its only a small part that is used as the impact area as they want to keep the potentially unexploded ordnance confined to a small area and around that area are massive buffer zones that are a minimum of twice the range of the weapon being used. The green clad campers in these ranges also take everything with them when they leave, unlike a lot of campers in national parks. Leave a mess and a grumpy Warrant Officer can make your life much worse than any Ranger could hope to.
@carolynbrightfield8911
Жыл бұрын
My Aunty lived at Loftus and had a small shack at Era (beach valley to south of Garie Beach. From around 1957 to 1961 we had no car, even though Dad made his living as a truck driver. He walked to work. We used to catch the train to Loftus from St. Leonards station (mum + 3 kids, dad worked). Stay with my Aunty Friday night, catch the train to RNP Saturday morning, then hike in to Era. We loved it! I remember Mum took us on a tram ride to Crow's Nest Junction from near home, and said this'll be your last tram ride ever! Glad they brought them back! Thanks for the memories
@KatoombaTourGuide
Жыл бұрын
Yessir
@stuartferguson7947
Жыл бұрын
Thanks - great memories; as you said the National Park line was electrified very early BUT didn’t take services away from the Waterfall line until very late because the Waterfall line was serviced by motor rail. It’s important to remember that even in the 60s many families didn’t have cars and the train was the only way to get to the National Park.
@gmc2418
Жыл бұрын
I grew up getting the motor rails from sutherland down towards waterfall.
@stuartferguson7947
Жыл бұрын
@@gmc2418 - my mothers family moved to Sutherland in 1885 when the rail was put through and both my mother and I grew up in Sutherland; I moved away at the end of 1977, I’m sure I wouldn’t recognise the place today.
@albert3801
Жыл бұрын
There were other ways to get to the Royal National Park, including by Ferry from Cronulla which until the mid 1970s went further up the Hacking River than the present day terminus at Bundeena. Also many people accessed the Royal National Park from Otford Station, which remained the boundary for Sydney Suburban train ticketing for many years for this reason.
@stuartferguson7947
Жыл бұрын
@@albert3801 - I remember the ferry too, from memory it was weekends only. I once took a boat from Yowie Bay up Port Hacking and the river to Audley and had to be careful, we needed 1.5 metres under the keel. Upstream of the causeway we used to hire boats and canoes from the boat shed too.
@geoffcrumblin7505
Жыл бұрын
what a great video, I will visit this and the museum
@wingnut6472
Жыл бұрын
Cool vid mate, shows how much hindsight Sydney planners had to Melbourne, removing all the old tram lines from Sydney and what they are spending now to put new ones in, lol
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't lack of forward planning. It was a deliberate act of corruption.
@xr6lad
Жыл бұрын
Another that falls to understand and looks at this simplistically. Sydney’s roads are and were a mess of narrow streets. Plus expanding suburbs trams could never keep up. Buses were more flexible. Melbourne was better for teams as their streets were at least 50% wider than many of Sydney’s Main Street so could cope and were not seen as much as a hindrance as in Sydney
@wingnut6472
Жыл бұрын
@@xr6lad Wow 50% wider, sounds like they planned well.
@cityplanner3063
Жыл бұрын
Look at the rest of the world. Idk how Melbourne managed to not scrap the trams. However, big problem now js the trams are always stuck in traffic so time to start making dedicated right of way for trams
@garynewton1263
Жыл бұрын
What are you saying? Are you criticising Melbourne? Or that dirty depressing shithole?
@philip4193
Жыл бұрын
I used to ride on the Vario tram all the time when I lived in Pyrmont and later Annandale back in the day, and found them to be very comfortable and smooth. I bet the government wishes that they'd kept them running now, seeing as the new replacement trams they brought in virtually cracked in half in only 7 years of operation & the entire Inner West Line had to be shut down (at the time, indefinitely) a couple of years ago as a result.
@wentalaswqut2764
Жыл бұрын
Yo mate ya got 5 more likes now ay
@brianb8516
Жыл бұрын
Those trams cracked because some dimwit in TfNSW ordered models which were not suitable for the track layouts. A bit like someone buying a 3 ton capacity truck when it has to cart 6 ton loads all the time; nothing wrong with the truck if you don't abuse it.
@lundsweden
Жыл бұрын
I caught the train to the Royal National Park several times in the 80s. There were very few passengers on board during the times I used it. One time a friend and I got stuck there at night, as the last train ran at about 6:30pm. We had to call, our parents to come and pick us up! I remember services stopped maybe in the late 80s.
@cwang6951
Жыл бұрын
Great video! As someone who spent hours on Google Maps looking for evidence of lost Brittish railways, it's interesting
@RGC198
Жыл бұрын
I remember the Royal National Park trains quite well. My family and I were living in Sydney until June 1981, when we moved to Melbourne. I used to visit the Sydney Tram Museum quite regularly at its former site and alighted the train at Loftus Railway Station which was within walking distance of the tram museum. Sydney actually had the second largest tram system in the world prior to their closure in February 1961. They were only surpassed by London UK' s tram system, which closed in July 1952.
@joools1953
Жыл бұрын
Had a fantastic day out at the Tramway Museum 30 or so years ago. Well worth a visit.
@tippo5341
Жыл бұрын
Great video as always Sharath...one of Sydney's hidden gems is the Loftus Tram Museum...remember going there many many years ago well before the line crossed the Princes Hwy...and the museum was a shadow of its current self...can imagine it is well worth the visit these days. Keep up the great work mate in bringing Sydney to the masses...pretty sure there is a plethora of stories from over the years that you can bring further life to...and deservedly so...the city is steeped in history...some good, some bad, and some just plain ugly...but all worthy of mention as they're all what's made this beautiful city what it is today!!!!
@coasterblocks3420
Жыл бұрын
I’m absolutely going the tram ride into the Royal National Park next time I’m in Sydney. Thanks for the great video!
@paisleejadegray11
Жыл бұрын
Nice vid mate. Need to visit!
@cme2cau
Жыл бұрын
In the early 1970s, as a preteen and young teen, I often caught the train to the Royal National Park. It was great. Another way I used to get to the southern end of the Park was to get the rail motor to Lilyvale station, between Waterfall and Otford. A short walk had you at Burning Palms beach, long before the figure 8 pool became a meme. The current Lilvale track carpark is where a sawmill used to be.
@BrianO-x7n
Ай бұрын
I remember as a young child in the early 1950's catching the train from Penshurst to Sutherland or maybe Loftes where we boarded the Railmotor to the National Park station. I am fairly certain that the Railmotor left from Sutherland. I remember walking down the track to Audley and watching people in the rowboats. We were not wealthy enough to hire a boat. Some years later in 1954 the pupils from Penshurst Marist Brothers were taken by bus to stand by the Princess Highway near National Park to wave at the young Queen Elizabeth as she drove by. Brian
@jack2453
Жыл бұрын
'Everyone was so friendly'... more proof that tram people are nicer than car people!
@tressteleg1
3 ай бұрын
I joined the tram museum in 1964, and even then members had their covetous eyes on the railway branch into the park. During train days, if you asked the driver at Sutherland would they mind stopping at the ‘Corroboree’ platform, they would let you off at the old scout platform right next to the then tram shed. And going home, give them a wave as they approached the platform heading towards Sutherland and they always picked you up ☺️. Railways were more friendly and less regulated in those days!
@brianquinn5060
Жыл бұрын
What a great video, loved it. Thanks.
@lachd2261
Жыл бұрын
The Tramway museum is awesome! Went there about ten years ago and had a brilliant day. They even have trams from other cities, I remember riding on one from Brisbane
@martinwallace5734
10 ай бұрын
There's even one from Milan, Italy!
@paulthompson3877
Жыл бұрын
wow , this brings back memories , when i was in my teens i had to work on some of the old trams as community service on weekends for my punishment orded by Sutherland local court house . these trams look so great when we restored them . great video thanks.
@johnledingham852
Жыл бұрын
Very nicely researched and put together, as an entertaining package. I left northern New South Wales with my parents to live in Brisbane in 1958 when I was a lad 11 years of age. I fell in love with this city. A major contributing factor was the train system, the tram system, and on a much smaller scale, the trolley bus system. The trams and trolley buses have long gone. The railway system is here to stay, and since electrification it has grown into a new, stronger dimension in south-east Queensland. However, new-age trams have been introduced on the Gold Coast very successfully. I'm sure they'd work well in other Queensland cities too with some genuine planning efforts.
@peterscott5462
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories. I used to travel on the 2001 class tram to school as a young boy and the 'Malabar/La Perouse' line was the last to close in Sydney. I also did a lot of walking in the National Park and as a young Army Reserve Officer out of Sutherland often took my troops into the old overgrown training ground in the north western part of the park.
@danielcallender8649
6 ай бұрын
What was in the overgrown training ground? I've heard stories of abandoned artillery pieces and trenches
@Richy.Boi.
Жыл бұрын
My, gosh, your content is so interesting. Please keep doing it
@johnhutchinson9714
Жыл бұрын
I remember catching the train to the National Park as a kid. Wonderful experience.
@PCLoadLetter
Жыл бұрын
Sydney trams often ran through bushland. This line's appearance isn't even remotely out of the ordinary. Well, aside from the railway style level crossing. Back in the day Sydney was barely developed and the trams ran in advance of it all. Many winding roads in the hillier bits of inner Sydney are converted tram reservations. Like Parriwi Road in Mosman, and across the bridge there was Linkmead Avenue and Kanangra Crescent in Balgowlah. They got converted into roads when the opportunity arose.
@TrainBloke38
Жыл бұрын
Nice doco on the Sydney Tramway Museum, also maybe you can a video on Zig Zag Railway when it reopens and the Thirmere Loopline they good examples of abandoned railways becoming successful railways
@patstevo
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating this video, you've inspired me to take a trip down to the Nasho and ride the tram down to this old station with friends. Your energy and passion for your channel is infectious, keep it up!
@joools1953
Жыл бұрын
I'd go there again if I lived a bit closer. My sons were about 8 and 10 when we went. there. It was great.
@starpawsy
Жыл бұрын
Crikey. Brings back memories. Rode that line once, would have been 1971.
@davidcarter4247
Жыл бұрын
The reason trains ran from all Circle Station to National Park was straightforward. Prior to the Eastern Suburbs line services on the Illawarra line went around the City Circle. Clockwise so the trains would return to the Illawarra line platforms at Central. Until 1980 the end of the Illawarra line for electric trains was either Cronulla or National Park. I think National Park line had an operational value as a place where trains could be turned around and that outweighed diminishing passenger numbers. When the electrified line was extended to Waterfall in 1980 and the Cronulla line was duplicated in 1985, National Park would have become an operational liability just finding a train to serve it. Expect politics kept it open as long as it did as it is a seat that does change hands.
@TheGadgetPanda
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Grays Point which is a nice walk along the trail through the park to the station. Occasionally (if the timing was right) I would catch the train to the park and walk home from there. It was nicer than catching a bus from Gymea or Sutherland.
@petergraves2085
Жыл бұрын
Very well-researched - thanks. Photos are great and very nostalgic. Go, go, go to the Museum - especially to see the prison tram. From which Darcy Dugan once escaped. Well worth it !
@pierremainstone-mitchell8290
Жыл бұрын
Nice one indeed!
@russellhammond4373
Жыл бұрын
Love the tram Museum. Great video.
@Fwdking
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in my early years at Loftus. I remember carrying by bicycle over the motor rail tracks , dodging Hwy traffic, then riding to the station , then down to Auderley. Thanks for memories.
@Fwdking
Жыл бұрын
@Dynevor thanks , it didn't feel right with that spelling. My defence that's 50 yes ago.
@malcolmduncan3047
Жыл бұрын
I remember the line over the Princes Highway being pulled up in the early '90's and Main Roads then laid new bitumen over where the rails used to be, and removed the warning signal lights It must have been a cock-up as about 6 months later the road surface was removed and the rail tracks layed again, and the lights installed again.
@kymmoulds
Жыл бұрын
Dear Sir a BIG thumbs up for your review of the Tram Museum and the old National Park line. Very, very well done and thanks a heap for taking the time to make such a professional presentation.
@youmi_shi
Жыл бұрын
it is cool, added to to-visit list😃
@PCLoadLetter
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: there was a major rail disaster on Cowan Bank in May 1990. 6 fatalities, 106 injured. The railways needed to test whether the sand dropped by a steam locomotive could insulate the track circuits on an electrified rail line, to confirm the suspected cause of the crash being flickering red to green signals that the 2nd train proceeded through. Oh, look, a barely used electrified rail line with similar signalling. Guess what the Royal National Park line was used for in its dying months?
@tressteleg1
Жыл бұрын
As for the former Scouts platform, I joined the tram museum in 1964 and even before that time if asked at Sutherland, the driver would stop the train at the ‘Corroboree’ platform for me to get off, and stop when waved down on the return. Could you imagine that today? It was right next to the original museum shed. I forget when it was demolished, but maybe after trains ended. As for scrapping Sydney trams, since the 1930s it had been the ‘modern’ thing to do, especially after New York and London disappeared. No doubt that is why the state government hired London Transport to recommend the future of Sydney’s trams. Hire the consultants who will give the report you want.
@hughboyd2904
Жыл бұрын
Another fab video - bravo! I’ve ridden this line into the park, but I had no idea of the long, long history of that line and station/ platform.
@jjangsaebyuk2707
Жыл бұрын
bringing back the trams (in the form of lightrail) has made me want the monorail line back. i was lucky enough to have been on the monorail a few times before they decided to shut it down and I believe it could be much more worth it to bring it back now and the old monorail stations still exist. it was honestly ahead of it's time back then, if it was brought back I'm sure it would get more exposure than it use to and I feel like compared to trams there would be less wait time as it's not on a shared area. and the fact that we use to have trams in the city (mid 2000s cause I clearly remember) only for the government to demolish them to only bring it back, makes me realise that our government doesn't like to ever plan things ahead. this video has brought back many fond memories of public transport and I'm only in my early twenties 😂
@chrisbenn8691
Жыл бұрын
And how about a feature on the zig zag railway at Lithgow? That one was brought back from being completely lost to time.
@rabidsminions2079
Жыл бұрын
Hey can you do a video on the old drivein movie theatres that existed in the past. One of them was in Matraville until about 1984, it has now been built over with townhouses.
@nswtrains3153
4 ай бұрын
Yoo I did the tram tour from Loftus to Sutherland it’s amazing!
@vinetak2645
Жыл бұрын
How fitting that I get this in my feed just as I've been through a massive delay in the train networks.
@griffinrails
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha, I’m still in that mess!
@FogartyAvenue
Жыл бұрын
Magnificent vid 👌 👏
@notthefez3634
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are getting better! Love learning the history around the Sydney area mate, keep it up!
@dcloder
Жыл бұрын
As a resident of this area, this has been very informative. Can tell you how often I drive past the museum and have thought about its popularity. Its great to see that there are passionate volunteers dedicating themselves to preserving a part of our history that only our parents and grandparents would be aware of. Thank you for another great video.
@rana-rq8on
Жыл бұрын
This is another great video Sharath, feel like I need to check these trams out. Also given the transit meltdown in Sydney today, I'd love to see a video from you talking about the problems of the train network and proposed solutions for greater reliability
@wahousekey
Жыл бұрын
Great video, I grew up nearby and visited the tramway a lot as a kid, it was a great way to go for a bush walk (plus I loved trams and trains as a kid)
@albert3801
Жыл бұрын
Great video! Would you consider a similar style video one day for a similarly repurposed line just outside Sydney? The Picton to Buxton “Loop Line” railway, once the main line from Sydney to Albury (connecting to Melbourne) and then bypassed. Only to be repurposed by the Rail Transport Museum / Rail Heritage NSW and once again carrying passengers?
@Nihilore
Жыл бұрын
love having google maps open on the other monitor and following along with where you're going from above
@SS-oh1vc
Жыл бұрын
Will be visiting on the 2nd April.
@terrapog8533
Жыл бұрын
This is honestly really cool this is definitely something i'm interested in doing sometime
@rbtmckone1
Жыл бұрын
I had no idea about the history of the Royal National Park Railway line until watching this video. It's amazing to see how the Sydney Tramway Museum has given it a second life with their parklink tram service. The museum's collection of trams and historical structures is truly impressive, and it's great to see such a dedicated group of volunteers preserving Sydney's rich transportation history. Thank you, Building Beautifully, for sharing this story with us!
@williamdom3814
Жыл бұрын
There are quite a few KZitem videos out there about the Royal National Park railway line and station, many well presented and filmed.
@peterzabilka3664
Жыл бұрын
Luckily I live close to the tramway museum and the national park station always fascinated me. Great video as always. Keep them coming.
@davidrayner9832
Жыл бұрын
I've driven trains on that line. I hate to see lines close but this one really went nowhere. It couldn't get down the hill to Audley and most people don't want to walk there and back.
@davidrayner9832
Жыл бұрын
@@dynevor6327 I've ridden a bicycle up that hill a few times and that's not easy either. Going down was great, overtook a few cars.
@lindsayrandall5488
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Sutherland in the 1940's, 50's 60's and there was many a time early on when we would walk to the station, catch the train to Nasho then the old green busses down to Audley , spend a fabulous day there and repeat the journey home. I think the busses were Whites and Internationals, even as a kid I always hoped the brakes were good!
@PaulinesPastimes
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video that has informed many people by the look of the comments. Just a couple of teeny weeny little things, sorry, sorry. It was Eddy Avenue, not Eddy Street and the 'Toast Rack' trams were called toast racks because they resembled toast racks, not toasters. In fact, they were very breezy and not toasty at all. A toast rack is....er, I'm sure you will find out if you are interested. BTW, I was born in Engadine! Yay! 😊✨
@gbsailing9436
Жыл бұрын
Well done buddy on another great video and your excellent research has come to the fore again here! A point of note in your commentary however is necessary I believe. Most people 'nowadays' all agree that the "Royal", or "Natio" as the locals call it, is the 2nd oldest National Park in the world. But it was only as little as 20 years ago that this so called fact was a disputed one, with the "Royal" being arguably considered as the 1st National park with Yellowstone NP. How this dispute was resolved, or just 'favoured' by the Americans over the Aussie's is still in questioning not well documented. Perhaps this is something you could look into. Was the documentation proving our National Park's creation lost, misplaced or just misfiled, so that the issue could never be resolved? Who knows. Or was it a a case of the Park's creation being established a one point in time, but the necessary paperwork not being lodged with the Fed. Govt. in time to make sure it was gazzetted until after that of Yellowstone? Did someone slip up there? I guess we'll never know now. I came about his information when talking to an American tourist once. I don't know the answer either. Great work. all the best from a "Shire boy"...
@lichengshen7546
Жыл бұрын
Good one. Can you also do a video regarding some notorious traffic congestion places like Epping Rd, Parramatta Rd at Auburn and Victoria Rd.
@Richy.Boi.
Жыл бұрын
I have no idea why we got rid of trams in Sydney, Melbourne is still thriving with their tram network
@Richy.Boi.
Жыл бұрын
That said, their hook turns are very confusing from a Sydney person
@johnhutchinson9714
Жыл бұрын
Politicians.
@carolynbrightfield8911
Жыл бұрын
Don't remember the details but a lot of it was political, and about making money. That good old competition between road builders (contracts = profits) and public transport has been going on a long time. I think it had something to do with the building of the Cahill Expressway. Remember reading about it years ago.
@carolynbrightfield8911
Жыл бұрын
@@anthonyj7989 henry ford? Early 1900s. Sydney got rid of trams late 1950s. Must have been Ford's ghost. That's some big flow on effect.
@L14MA
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe it. You did it! U legend!!!!! I commented on a previous video my enthusiasm to see a video on the trams (well I said plus one on the trams under someone else's comment who also wished to know more about the trams). But you did it and even went to the tram museum. You're the best and I hope your channel grows so much.
@johnchrysostomon6284
2 ай бұрын
When you think about it, the station isn't near the sights such as the weir, so it stopped in the wrong spot
@davidlang1125
Жыл бұрын
Such a valuable cultural asset! Thanks to all the volunteers and for the government officials who made the preservation possible. Great video!
@margarethennessey5182
Жыл бұрын
Loved this place. especially when we lived down there. The train went there then. Along time ago.
@brittenmusic6923
Жыл бұрын
Excellent - as always. Thank you for such an interesting episode. I have lived in Sydney for over 50 years and I had never known about the branch line to the national park and that the tram museum now uses it. I will be visiting and experiencing. Cheers - Mark
@jaxonitaliano8224
Жыл бұрын
please do a video on the sydney monorail
@mikebellamy4760
Жыл бұрын
Nice work, learned a lot, enjoyed it. Thanks!
@rhettcorbett3346
Жыл бұрын
Always wondered where that train line went to ? Does the tram travel to the end of the line & return ?
@247Coby
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Brings back memories of the day my dad took me down by train to Loftus to see the tram museum. I was a kid at the time and it was the 1980s.
@hiramhackenbacker9096
Жыл бұрын
Melbourne was planned. Adelaide was planned. Both were developed later and crucially both had flat areas to plan a city on. Sydney, as a city, was not planned in the same way. It just happened as a consequence of a penal colony expanding in a place not geographically suited to a planned city like those two
@MitchellBPYao
Жыл бұрын
That's why everything looks so mixed up
@jack2453
Жыл бұрын
"Inevitably closed in favour of buses..."? There was nothing inevitable about it. Ask Melbourne.
@DropJeongMi
2 ай бұрын
LOFTUS MENTIONED LETS FUCKING GOOOOO it is a bit of a hole but no where else do you get the rural feel so close to the city
@serena-yu
Жыл бұрын
I have been to the Royal Nation Park a lot, and have been to this station 2 years ago. It was completely empty at that time. I thought it was a lost station, but parts of it were surprisingly well-preserved. Now your video has explained why. I will go to the museum this Sunday.
@lmlmd2714
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe I've never actually been to the tramway museum, even though Royal Natl Park is one of my favourite spots. It's on our weekend day out list now, thanks to you guys :) Get a tram to the park? hell yes.... gotta ride the bush tram!
@aloysiusjones3985
Жыл бұрын
Can someone please explain why many cities seem to have trams coloured green and gold.
@jb7591
Жыл бұрын
there is some debate if yellowstone predates the royal national park with the latter established earlier but not officially.
@hughmcguinness7634
11 ай бұрын
speaking of trams - did you get to the Sydney Vivid exhibition in the old Wynyard tram tunnels?
@barryvaldek6882
2 ай бұрын
First National Park. America claims first by saying National Park had to be a Royal National Park
@Essdyn
Жыл бұрын
Great video bro. Absolutely in love with your channel. I work for a local council in central NSW so it's so interesting to listen to city planning history from you. This video is even more awesome to me because I lived in Kogarah for a while and loved visiting the royal national park. Keep up the good work man, you got yourself a fan here
@peterkirgan2921
6 ай бұрын
Personally I think alot of these existing trams should be brought back into service as a tourist attraction in the city of Sydney rather than gathering dust in a loftus museum!!!😮
@Coastal603
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I’ve been to this museum lots of times as a kid, it’s been a childhood memory of mine visiting this museum often and I never knew about the Royal National Park line’s history until I saw this video. And to know that this Tramway museum basically saved this line and made it functional again is impressive. Awesome sharing as always!
@galliman123
Жыл бұрын
As a Melbournian I love a good tram, fantastic video, I got to visit this museum next time I'm in Sydney! If only I could catch a tram there...
@jace888au
Жыл бұрын
Great video as always. I had no idea about the RNP line before but it’s great to hear how it’s been maintained even today as an attraction…. Who knows maybe carlingford line might become a similar attraction in the future!
@shriekingbushpigshrieking
Жыл бұрын
Very good doco! Keep 'em up!
@theaussiebackflipboy
Жыл бұрын
When I was a trainee Train Driver back in mid 1989, the line was used during training for faults and failures courses - since the line wasn't used during the day, they would send out a train with us trainees on it and we would just drive back and forth along it learning how to fix faults on trains in traffic without the need for special arrangements to be made within the system to accommodate us. After I qualified as a Driver at the end of 89, and was based at Central, there were a few jobs we had that went down there in the morning and afternoon and sometimes we would sit there for an hour or so and I would sit in the doorway of the train crew cab and eat my sandwiches just chilling before I had to take the train back to the city. Good times.
@lyndsaysmith
Жыл бұрын
brilliant video as always mate !
@Sydney_Mapz
3 ай бұрын
2:10 BMX Bandits!
@biosparkles9442
Жыл бұрын
I adore trams, as a Melbournian living in Sydney there's not a day that goes by that I don't miss the trams
@AcadiaB
Жыл бұрын
As part of the scouts I help run the bbq at the yearly open day for the tramway museum. It's such a fun day both watching the trams but also the 'tram fans'. Plus we get to jump on the tram and visit the abandoned plattfom in quiet moments
@officalblehcat
Жыл бұрын
wow great video
@DropJeongMi
2 ай бұрын
tramway museum is so sick sometimes they do doggy days where everyone brings their dogs and gets lovely instgram photos of trams full of lil dawgies
@normm
Жыл бұрын
Ah, the Coast Track in the RNP. One of my favourites hikes. Can't wait until they fix the Garie Beach section 😊😊
@samphelps856
Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@angus2377
Жыл бұрын
Excellent work Sharath! I'm shamed that I never knew about that train line even existed!!
@dazzlerjohnwatchman8215
Жыл бұрын
Well done great historical information on this unique line. The tram trip is awesome and is a reminder of gentler times in Sydney's transport network. Nice review of var up us trams. Glad you partnered up now. Adds much to your production authenticity.
@darylcheshire1618
Жыл бұрын
I am from Melbourne and I caught a train to RNP in it’s last few years. I remember the level crossing, it was a double decker train. An interesting tram at Loftus is a PCC from US.
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