Neerim Rd manual Gates

[Metrotrainsmelbourne]

VERY unreliable old wooden gates! now the electrical ones are way awesome! well in 86 not much people had brains smart enough to think about upgrading boom gates!

[Metrotrainsmelbourne]

are those the new boom gate barriers at 5:23? the electric ones?

[vk3ase]

Would say they were, no doubt that the the vid was shot as the the manual gates were on borrowed time.

[Metrotrainsmelbourne]

is that you opening and closing them?

[vk3ase]

No

[uploadJ]

Cut it kinda close at 4:36 in the video didn't he !!??

The train stopped by the looks of it, and whistle might have been a bit of a chastisement by the engineer to the gate operator ...

Thanks for the vid BTW.

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[Tarrant1976]

I don't suppose you know what year this is from? :)

[vk3ase]

@Tarrant1976

Friday 29 August 1986

[johno01970]

Nice film....Thanks again!!

[funkieboy1]

people didn't die back then doing this type of work, because then we had brains, we're only stupid now.. you need a flashing light to walk on the footpath these days.

[aussiewongm]

I notice the servo in the background had 50.7 cent petrol - but was it super or unleaded!

[redhead3199]

@aussiewongm It would have been super.

Unleaded wasn't the normal back then

[vk3ye]

No high-visibility vests back then... and too close to operating trains by today's safety standards