Sydney CityRail Miscellany 5 - Harbour Bridge

[designline21]

Wow so awesome to see the red rattlers& Tulloch trailers look so new!

[TeeDeeCommunications]

I watched all 5 of your Sydney City Rail videos from 91 - brought back some great memorys for me Simon - glad you managed to dig up the 20 yr old footage. I agree with so many of the comments especially about being able to stand at an open door while the "Red Rattlers" were at full speed over the bridge or between Redfern and Strathfield. Top Job - thanks again for the memorys!

[zordmaker]

My definition of true freedom : Standing at the open doorway of a Sydney single deck 2 motor power car as it thunders it's way from Wynyard and over the harbour bridge. A 20 year old feeling my kids will never get to experience.

[CMCHRYSLERVALIANT]

@zordmaker yes it was more of a thrill going for a train ride back then, now its just getting from A-B I use to love the smells and the noises of the old red rattlers

[Hazboy666]

back then were Tangaras rare to see?

[citytransportinfo]

@Hazboy666 yes, they were still quite new.

[Hazboy666]

hey I saw a red rattler! Awesome they're so old and I've only seen one in a museum.

[citytransportinfo]

@Hazboy666 some of my other Sydney films have them as well - including a ride inside :-)

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

How come it is on the right side and not in the left? I know I am Canadian but at least I know that down there they drive on the left (plus I can see the cars driving on the left).

[mitch0088]

i like at the ~9:50 mark showing the tunnel portels there is debris in the foreground, including 2 spoked axles

[2502maffia]

that really looks like sumwhere in america lol

[gotheschmo]

City Looks alot different back then

[cityraildude]

There are still trains today that have windows that open

[cityraildude]

How come number 5 comes before number 4?

[citytransportinfo]

Yes, I should have started with film 1, then 2, etc., but then I found that I had so much videotape that it was not working out how I wanted.

I was going to make film 4 my super 8 cine films from 1988, but now this will probably be film 6. At present however my film projector is not working & until the repair shop can get a new drive belt I cannot digitise anything.

I can only digitise films in our winter, as in the summer it gets dark too late and the noise annoys people who are in bed.

[cityraildude]

@citytransportinfo Oh Okay!

[123yessure]

Thanks for sharing this mate. You're a legend. This is seriously rail porn to my eyes haha. I used to live in Syd at this time and I miss riding in the trains with the doors open, hearing all the strange sounds from the wider variety of models running back then. The experience of taking a train in Syd is slowly getting more and more sterile these days.

[citytransportinfo]

@123yessure pleased you liked it - there is more of these trains to come - look out for films 1 and 4. (film 4 looks inside these trains!) Film 1 is uplifting as I type this, film 4 should be ready within a week.

[slugnbozo]

7:19 - That was a pretty cool livery. The second best to the Red, Orange and Yellow of the C sets later in the vid.

Oh and the Tangaras looked very good back then... all glass looking front and the red stripe down the side.

[ForzaIV]

9:18 do I see 4 L sets coupled together? :O

[Bails992]

Drivers were lazy back then because your suppose to blow the horn entering and exiting tunnels, only a few drivers did itin this video, but i suppose i didn't really matter back then because safety wasn't a big issue back then. Cityrail is much different here in Sydney these days such as since July 2010 Cityrail drivers don't blow the horn departing station anymore.

[dan388]

C sets like the one at 11:11 don't run on Western/North Shore lines anymore :(

[clubpenguin777]

Wow CityRail was certainly 3rd world back then...

[citytransportinfo]

@clubpenguin777

I'm curious to know you say that? It was no worse than many other systems in Britain and Europe and probably better than most North American systems.

Simon

[T4799]

The M set at 10:30 is marshaled in a very strange way.

[citytransportinfo]

@T4799

That scene looking at the train from the side was filmed with the shutter speed at 1/1000th and therefore there is an element of special effects - which may explain why the train's composition looked to be somewhat odd.

Simon

[zordmaker]

06:05 : Oh that's gold. You never truly realise what you once had until it's gone.

[T4799]

@zordmaker The Third power car (Fifth carriage) seems a little silent.

[zordmaker]

@T4799

Its a 7000 series, much quieter than the 3000 series cars.

[citytransportinfo]

@zordmaker

and catching / filming it at that moment was quite something too - especially as the camera was looking at a different train...

[perrymak2000]

doors kept open during the ride~it would be a great experience...thx for the video

[citytransportinfo]

@perrymak2000

Before the days of powered doors trains had hand operated doors, and one type of such door was the hand-operated sliding door, as seen on the Tulloch trains.

Simon

[slugnbozo]

@citytransportinfo The Tullochs were electric. It was only the Red Rattlers (single decker) that had the hand operated wasn't it?

[citytransportinfo]

@slugnbozo Some red painted trains comprised of single and double deckers and I think these also had hand operated doors.

Simon

[slugnbozo]

@citytransportinfo I stand corrected. It's there on one of your films that there were double decker red trains (Tullochs) that had hand operated doors. I think the reason I was confused was that when the Red Rattlers (single decker reds) were discontinued, they kept the Tullochs going for some years after and I'm pretty sure they upgraded the doors to powered.

[slugnbozo]

@perrymak2000 I especially loved standing at those open doors when in underground. So loud and a bit dangerous feeling.

[carlohilton]

Wow amazing footage!

[knightman1970]

good to see the old rattlers again

[citytransportinfo]

@knightman1970

more to come... inside views too!

Simon

[citytransportinfo]

@knightman1970 there is one scene inside these trains I am unsure if I want to share online - basically I'm agreeing with someone who was saying that those are the best trains...

Simon

[Bails992]

@citytransportinfo Back then Tangaras and C sets had really good seats but now they had their seats covered in blue vinyl which i hate, S and R sets have the same seats except now they are blue, V sets have the same seats as well but are a greenish color 

[MrChowTheTroll]

@Bails992 Some tangaras have the M and H set seating now.....