L 1162 & Tait to Warragul Part 1

Last day of Electric trains to Gippsland. Saturday 5th December 1998.
Sorry, sound in left channel only due to a problem with an audio lead in video capture.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 'L'
• class
• L1162
• Elecrail
• Gippsland
• Warragul
• electrification
• Tait
• last
• day
• parallel
• running
• eastern
• line

[the124Lscania]

i think 1162 is now in the old newport vr workshops

[emdB67]

@the124Lscania Yes, it was based there (with Elecrail) back when this video was made too.

[mick47willis]

my father joseph willis drove the first electric train to warragul 21 july 1954

[emdB67]

Wouldn't be many that can say that.

I'm sure that nobody on that day could've thought it would all be end 44 years later.

[G516R700]

Very good video mate. Thanks heaps for uploading, the L's are really good, it is a shame that L1162 can't run out on the mainline these days. But she will return some day, sometime.

[emdB67]

The lack of electrified mainline for it to run on will be the most serious impediment to that happening, but I know what you mean. I guess high-speed runs to Pakenham may still be possible in the future.

I lived at Longwarry in the 1980s and saw the Ls in their final 7 years of operation.

[mick47willis]

Yeah,what seems like the bees knees one day is gone the next. Everything changes.

[jamesclements997]

Thank you for a brilliant video. I wish I'd been there.

[Ken69a]

@mattmanroxs

Only had the one line....

Now the overhead lines had been taken off..

[mattmanroxs]

Omg that V/Line is electric how many of these operated

[Heihachi73]

I doubt we'll even see that (high speed runs) - Steamrail aren't even allowed to go at a decent speed with the two K classes on either end. The speed the red rattler is doing at the 3:00 mark is much faster than what they do in the Glen Waverley and the Camberwell to Mitcham shuttles.