Perth's First Generation Diesel Suburban Trains Part 2

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In this episode, Part 2 of "Perth's First Generation Diesel Suburban Trains", we will travel over the Fremantle Line in the Cab of an ADG Diesel Railcar, stopping off at each Station on the journey. Before we embark though, we will first spend a bit of time at Perth Station, watching some departures, then backtrack to see the Steam locomotive facility at East Perth, and then returning to catch our Fremantle Train. The footage shot from the Railcar's Cab was filmed the week before the Fremantle Line permanently closed on 1st September 1979, to be replaced by buses. Genuine sound, which I had previously recorded on a portable open reel Tape recorder, and from my archives, was added by me to produce this video. The music, once again, is courtesy of Purple Planet Music. You can find them at www.purple-planet.co. Thanks, Terry. (The Terrysaurus Rex)

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@davewilson7313 10 күн бұрын

Thanks Terry , bring back alot of memories , 1972 - 1976 , I used to travel everyday from Fremantle to East Perth in the morning and Claisebrook to Fremantle in the afternoon , I did My apprenticeship at PWD - MPE at Jewell St (another place long gone) . Used to walk along side the track to and from the respective stations to get to work , it seems to be the done thing back the , no one said or stopped Us , couldn,t do that today . The Midland workshop had a special train which ran especially for their workers , from Perth - Midland morning and afternoon .... Cheers ....

@FalconXE302 5 күн бұрын

One of the things I often note about Perth and Fremantle from these times... which I remember with fondness, is the stark lack of tree's in many places. The whole metropolitan area has grown so much greener and nicer over the years.... this type of video certainly certainly reminds us of how many places were if we are honest, quite bare and ugly.... but we still loved our home.

@utha2665 5 күн бұрын

I remember traveling as a very young child on what must have been an ADG as I recall it changing gears. We'd all be taken on a train ride a treat and we'd go from Perth down to Fremantle. The carriages were green, from memory, old rattlers. It was great to see the old trains and what Perth was like back in 1979, brought back some good memories.

@Northernwanderer8350 5 күн бұрын

Great footage. In the mid 1970’s I caught the train from Fremantle to Perth on a Saturday morning and the young fella in front of me was excitedly telling the chap beside him that he was going to Perth and he had only ever been to Perth 3 times in his life! My great grandfather was killed by a goods train at about 10.30pm near the Burswood station and the paper said he was mangled beyond recognition. It was New Year’s Eve and he worked in a woodyard in Stirling Street,North Perth. The family has it that he was walking along the line (including across the river) to get home in Victoria Park. My grandfather and his two brothers worked their whole working lives for the WAGR as did my father and aunt in their early days. At one time the WAGR was the State’s biggest employer.

@darylephillips6778 24 күн бұрын

Thankyou for sharing the History

@user-jf3bz4kp9l 23 күн бұрын

I remember there use to be a rail siding out the back of bibra lake dad use to take us and we would clamber through the old wooden carriages. Years ago on a road trip out east i saw a adg rail car dumped in a paddock

@ianoverton1733 27 күн бұрын

I had just finished watching part 1 and had to watch part 2 as well. The stations on this line are full of nostalgia such as the Showgrounds for the show, Leighton and Cott for the beaches, Claremont and Subi for footy and to the city for shopping, movies and concerts. It was lucky the tracks weren't ripped up as one of the plans was to build a highway on the railway reserve. Fast forward a few more years and Freo was bustling again. The passenger service was temporarily extended to South Beach during the Americas Cup but never used again.

@colindaniels3086 Ай бұрын

Thanks again Terry for another wonderful video, really appreciated the photos of the East Perth loco depot. I had forgotten about all the coaling that was done there and your photos jogged my memory about this. The Fremantle line was a big part of my childhood and I certainly have fond memories of the port, Leighton yards and Royal Show station. Your video does a superb job of capturing an era in time that we have have sadly lost. I am sure other viewers of our era will relish the memories that you have recorded so clearly. The absence of traffic, litter and graffiti is a real standout, plus you can’t help but feel this was era when we all had more time to take in what was around us and enjoy Perth for what it was! Thanks again for sharing your wonderful and historical footage it is truly a treasure.

@Mrbullet1952 25 күн бұрын

Good stuff. As a Fremantle-ite, it was a total disgrace when they closed down the Perth to Freo line. Now we are nearly at an excellent rail system around the metro area.

@RingLordSonic Ай бұрын

Great work here Terry and side fact at time index 12:32 those are the very 1st set of traffic lights installed ever in Western Australia. The proof is shown as you look at its control box with the number’0001’

@terrymercer2379 Ай бұрын

Wow. Love it, thanks for sharing.

@29brendus 29 күн бұрын

Well spotted. I'm a traffic signal SCATS engineer (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and have visited No. 0001 in Sydney at Market St & Kent St, installed in October 1933, and of course modernised many times since with the march of technology as has happened in Perth. I live in Perth these days, so I guess I'll have to visit West Perth, and those signals better be working OK when I get there? LoL!

@Slightlydishonnest 27 күн бұрын

Ah the memories, I used to catch these every day from Armadale to Midland when I was an apprentice at the WAGR workshops 1984 😂

@mickeysmiths 12 күн бұрын

I remember them well 😅

@adx6662 Ай бұрын

Wonderfull memories thanks Terry

@MitchellFreeway Ай бұрын

A few more addendums. 1. All ADG were fitted with Voith transmissions by 1973. A quick way to spot a railcar fitted with a Voith transmission from a distance is to look for the stripe above the cowcatcher. 2. The D Class in the VHS footage is shunting country passenger coaching stock, not departing. 3. The second livery worn by the ADG/ADH had silver fronts with red chevrons. There's several colour photos in the RHWA archive. 4. The new West Perth station west of the Sutherland Street Subway was opened on 18 June 1986. The date quoted in the video is when it was renamed from West Perth to City West.

@terrymercer2379 Ай бұрын

Thanks. Well done.

@paulaus Ай бұрын

I remember the switch to what we as kids called "The Bendy Bus" quite well. It was the done thing to stand in the middle section while it turned. Looking at the footage everything about the railway line looked a bit tired and outdated so I can seee how they thought a modern bus fleet would be better. Lucky they didn't get to ripping out the tracks. I grew up in Mosman Park but rarely used the train apart from probably the show as we were very close to a bus stop that would take us to Perth or Fremantle.

@rodneyandbrendamay6463 Ай бұрын

Great videos thanks Terry. I lived in Mosman Park in the 1950-mid1970s so remember the Fremantle line well, including lots of steam! Great memories.

@paulaus Ай бұрын

Was there a spur to the Holden Factory? I don't remember any remnants of a line in that area. The spur to the Sugar Refinery was still active when I was a kid.

@rodneyandbrendamay6463 Ай бұрын

@@paulaus No spur line to Holden factory. The car bodies were trucked from Cottesloe yard, then Leighton yard after SG line was built.

@micksbackyardaquaponics1408 17 күн бұрын

That was amazing to see that old video clip there off the old train back in the days there it was great to watch it to the end there an keep up the amazing video clip there 👍👍👍

@Raptor50aus Ай бұрын

Thanks Terry, brings back lots of memories.

@29brendus Ай бұрын

Great Vids Terry and full of nostalgia. Great to see Fremantle is a bustling station now in 2024.

@gt-lv3zo Ай бұрын

Well done Terry. i watch a lot of KZfaq vids from all corners of the world - way too many in fact - and yours are amongst the best; best made, best produced and always interesting.

@terrymercer2379 Ай бұрын

Wow. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

@MarkHenstridge Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed watching this, I didn't know much about WA railways and its history. Thanks for your video, you did a good job. Cheers from Mark in SA

@tomb1315 28 күн бұрын

Fantastic video Terry, very well put together and a great insight to a time in Perth I never got the opportunity to experience.

@dallas184 Ай бұрын

Hi i absolutely love you videos and I enjoy sharing them with my father he used to work for the wagr and i used to work for labor hire in the railways

@jamesgovett3225 Ай бұрын

Great video very interesting m, I lived in Perth for two and a half years from 1971 when a sixteen year old and always wanted to take a trip on those Rail motors to Fremantle after arriving in Perth on the old Trans Australia coming from Melbourne but it wasn’t to be unfortunately, just an aside for a bit of further accuracy on dating, those FB Holdens could may well have been the first half of 1961 also as the EK came out in the latter part of 1961 into 1962

@1toonhead Ай бұрын

That is some great footage Terry. Your a ledgend for putting it up.

@michaeltunbridge9323 Ай бұрын

Great video Terry. Every time I see those ADKs they look like silver rockets

@chuckmaddison2924 Ай бұрын

Your videos are amazing showing Perth . Not much on KZfaq, its all kings park ,and kings park. Even if you put in Joondalup it's all. Hillarys Marina.

@pixeldyne_mac Ай бұрын

another great video, thank you

@darylcheshire1618 16 күн бұрын

I’m from Victoria, I remember watching an orange railcar in 1986, it burbled to itself and then the engine accelerated for a few minutes before going back to a burble. I guessed it was recharging the air cylinders for the brake system. Am I right? A few days later I rode The Australind which was loco hauled wooden cars. You can probably date it as the train arrived at the new Bunbury station and they were demolishing the old brick Bunbury station. I wondered why as I had a lenghty walk to the central part of Bunbury.

@markhobson5769 Ай бұрын

All the WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcars were withdrawn from Transperth railway service in 1992.

@MitchellFreeway Ай бұрын

Not all of them. Some were withdrawn earlier. ADG604 and ADG616 was written off on 14 November 1983, and ADG601 was written off on 9 August 1989 after it was set alight by vandals at Challis on 27 April 1989.

@markhobson5769 Ай бұрын

@@MitchellFreeway Oh really? Well, I didn't know that! So you're saying that WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcar Trains#s ADG604 & ADG616 were both withdrawn from Westrail railway service being written-off after they were either damaged or destroyed by something in 1983 & WAGR ADG-Class Diesel Railcar Train#ADG601 was withdrawn from Transperth railway service being written-off after it was destroyed by fire being set alight by vandals in 1989, I hear?

@CultureSchock 16 күн бұрын

Who spotted the Golden Fleece Service Station?

@vsvnrg3263 Ай бұрын

enjoyed. will there be a part 3?

@terrymercer2379 Ай бұрын

No unfortunately. I do however, have a project in the pipeline, waiting for the new Ellenbrook Line to open at the end of the year.

@Tanzadog1 Ай бұрын

@@terrymercer2379 Love your videos Terry .... being a frequent user of the service during my teen years 1978-1985 approx mainly from Queens Park, but also Cannington Station and then from Maylands 1985-1986. Loved the "diesel" smell of Perth Railway station, the huge red vinyl (I assume) bench seats in the waiting area there. Back when Perth Railway Station seemed to have a heart and soul, even if a bit grimy. I used to love climbing those old steps, with dents from all the people over the ages walking over it - I used to wonder how many and which of my ancestors had trodden on those very same steps. Today's station is a soulless monstrosity herding people on and off like cattle IMHO. Then crossing at the pedestrian crosswalk in front of it and going past all the little shops of the Padbury building, the lovely smell from the greengrocer shop on the corner of Forrest Place and Murray St Mall and I think the bookshop next door to that, then meander in a few more feet to the lovely old Boans building, loved the smell in their, the hot food and other yummy treats and going the other way on Murray St, the Coles Cafeteria, which was always a great place for lunch etc. (Sorry for waffling on).

@FalconXE302 5 күн бұрын

This is why we must still watch carefully over any Liberal Governments we have in the future as they are not intent on proving the city and the state with good infrastructure for the masses. Could you imagine Perth with no Freo line now.... without the insight of the Labor Government.