Last Train from Barry Beach June 1992 South Gippsland Railway

[GeriatricDinosaur]

I've finished the movie montage on YT.I've also shared it on FaceBook.

[GeriatricDinosaur]

You're welcome reidgck.

[GeriatricDinosaur]

I have a few photos on my 1969 rail page.At the moment I'm making a movie using a lot of the 60's & 70's photos I took.When its finished I;ll upload it onto You Tube.

[GeriatricDinosaur]

I used to be a fireman @ Korumburra from February to Aparil 1969.Went to Barry Beach once...at 2.00am so never saw anything.Furthest I went was Foster and also went on Wonthaggi branch several times

[reidgck]

@GeriatricDinosaur 2AM is probably a good a time as any to go to Barry Beach. Having been a fireman you can no doubt tell some good stories. Thanks for both your comments.

[undertaker19909]

@GeriatricDinosaur Do you have any photo's from back when you were done there as i always love seeing more photo's of any of the lines past Cranbourne

[flyingscrapyard]

Great footage from a beautiful part of the world. That wasn't your Kingswood at the level crossing was it?

[reidgck]

@flyingscrapyard - Yes to the Kingswood question.

[trainguyrocks]

wow

so good well done

[tommey123]

i used to love watching the goods trains come through and pass the staff to my old man who would go and then put it in the machine

[reidgck]

@tommey123 It's all history now. There was a train that passed through Caulfield about 8:30AM weekdays heading down the South Gippsland line. It was generally an articulated Walker railcar but sometimes it was replaced by a 2 car + van train pulled by an R class steamer. That was in the days when a train of 2 cars and van pulled by two swingdoor dogbox electrics passed Caulfield about the same time for Stoney point. The swingdoors were replaced by an K class at Frankston. They were the days!

[tommey123]

the derm if thats what it was called used to arrive at 5.15 pm if i remember correctly

[tommey123]

the t class were amazing i love the sound even to this day loved the steam engines too then they closed the line from cranbourne

[tommey123]

My father was a bridge ganger on the Cranbourne Korumburra line all his life. The goods trains going through not just at night but during the day was awesome . My mum was the station master at Tooradin from when i was a little tacker. Some great memories . As kids we got rides in the gaurds vans all with their little pot belly stoves

[reidgck]

@tommey123 Sounds really good. I lived beside the line at Oakleigh and saw them there too. Pity to see things the way they are now. You could tell when a steam train was coming even often before you heard it as the house started to tremble. Funny that! Diesels overcame that predicament. You knew when a diesel was coming though; especially those new T class ones when new. Don't think they had mufflers, could hear them 2 suburbs away. I suppose they had more power without mufflers being 2 strokes.

[tommey123]

if you look at the bridges they would have cost millions of dollars to replace

[reidgck]

@tommey123 Yes that's right. And money is the root of evil anyway. Its value is based on debt creation. If those in debt can't repay it and particularly the interest, then the economy collapses. When they send the productive jobs to cheap labor countries and then import from such countries and go into debt with such imports, it helps the elite who speculate with debt which they treat as their own wealth based on interest owing. The system is self destroying. Bridges are a misfit in the system.

[rivercaptainboi]

line should of never been ripped up

[reidgck]

@rivercaptainboi -- It would be nice if the railway was still there. It was a victim of the 'secretive' agenda called "Project Victoria: an agenda for change" which was written up by the think tanks - Tasman Institute, and Institute for Public Affairs in 1991 for the Kennett government to implement when brought to power by them. Their boards represent big business, like media, financiers, retail and more. - Railways, electricity, health, education and much more were on the hit list.

[Skyhawk501]

i dont think these 2 T Class are in Service anymore

[reidgck]

@Skyhawk501 -- You could be correct on that. The locomotives in the video are probably not in service anymore. After the system was deregulated under the Kennett government allowing private concerns to take over the freight and much of the passenger services which practically all went to road, rail services were discontinued, and railways were closed everywhere, freight rolling stock was practically all scrapped and such locomotives would have become unnecessary in their scheme of privatisation.

[undertaker19909]

@reidgck T396 Pacific National BG In Service

T386 El Zorro SG In Service

[reidgck]

@undertaker19909 Sounds as if 386 and 396 made it through to today. Thanks a lot for the information.

[CAD390]

I remember beign stuck at partent-teacher interviews at school on this day when I heard this train going through Koonwarra. I wanted to race down to see it but the teach and my parent wouldn't let me and it ate my hear out! Thank god I can see it now but man it was a bloody shame the line closed. Many of the lines closed last century may have to be rebuilt one day when global warming gets out of control! Why close these lines when you know they'll have to come back one day?

[reidgck]

@CAD390 And the teachers were likely teaching garbage they were taught to teach to get their qualifications to teach it. That's what we concluded. Man made global warming is but one example. It can be proved to be based on lies and deceit and flawed computer programs. Carbon dioxide is not carbon, it is a harmless inert 'necessary' gas of minute percentage but we are being brainwashed it is carbon. Carbon is black!

The rubbish they spin is designed to deindustrialise, depopulate and destroy.

[reidgck]

@reidgck Further to-CAD390 -- The scenes in the video are rather long but I left it that way because it was the last train and it was a popular line. The wooden trestle bridges had speed limits on them and that's why the trains were crossing them slowly. In 1994 heavy rail recovery trains were run across them. The train in the video didn't waste any time going through Koonwarra so you would only have had a quick look. I have more video rail revovery trains loading and departing Koonwarra in 1994

[CAD390]

@reidgck

In terms of the last recovery train that ripped up the last tracks on the main line in '94, from what I remembered all FL warning signals were demolised just days after this train set wheels back towards Melbourne. So in this case, did flagmen have to get out at every single crossing or were tempary mobile FL signals installed like those generated traffic lights at roadworkds?

[reidgck]

@CAD390 A flagman was at level crossings for the recovery trains. All he had to do was drive ahead of the train. I have video of a flagman at Koonwarra. The last two trains were loaded with rail there so the last 2 trains from beyond Leongatha were from Kooonwarra. Rails from the section to Leongatha were dragged to Leongatha and stockpiled beside the platform where they were loaded. The rail-road tractor that was dragging them, had a major transmission breakdown before the finish. No wonder.