All Manner of Trains -- Australian Railways in 1962.

[JCitron]

This video documents a journey across Australia and the various gauges of track prior to the regauging of the railways in 1962. It's nice to see the classic "golden age" locomotives in this video.

http://youtu.be/usi4LM_iVuw

 

[captainkman]

I knew I'd heard the name somewhere. Then I went through my train video collection, and found it in a video combined with other articles from the ABC. Thanks for linking this so I can watch it without having to go through the whole video!

The video is called 'All Australian Trains" and contains the following articles/motion pictures:

The Railway
Shades of Puffing Billy
Journey of a Nation
On Time
The Ghan to Alice
All Manner Of Trains
A Steam Train Passes

It goes for almost 2h 30min!

It's a bit boring to watch end-to-end, but it's great to be able to see them separately on Youtube.

 

[Enkidoh]

Even though it was a government propaganda film, the many views of Aussie trains of the time still make this an absolute treat to watch. Most interesting is the images of less well-known railways, especially industrial lines like the Victorian coal railway and the old Mount Lyell Abt rack line in Tasmania (the later now a tourist line - the West Coast Wilderness Railway).

Also it was great to see a film of Australia's railways actually showing railways from every state, including Tasmania and WA (seeing the old loco-hauled Australind especially was a real highlight for me ).

Anyway, thanks for finding this!

 

[glt0145]

OMG just watched this great piece of rail history. I was amazed at the array of different rollingstock shown in this short 36 minute film. Certainly I remember as a small kid listening to the last of the steam and the start of the diesel traffic running past my parents home on the north coast line near Maryborough Queensland. I was amazed at the upgrade to the Mt Isa Line a unique opportunity that was missed to upgrade the line to standard gauge when the rebuild occurred.