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[EARLY VIDEO] A huge video about the Hurstbridge line!

🕑 Added 2023-05-31 03:35:05 +0000 UTC

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Taitset

Glad you enjoyed it! It was certainly very interesting having all that old signalling stuff in use at 'my' station when I was high school, and most other locals had no idea how unusual it was. I wasn't counting that road at Lilydale because it's a private railway access track - although to be fair the public do use it, and the Google streetview car drove down it (Marcus Wong wrote about that: https://wongm.com/2022/08/google-street-view-car-lilydale-line-trainspotting/) But the road I'm thinking about is a normal public road with a name. ;)

Alex Garner

Me and the kids will be watching this on the big TV after dinner tonight. Excite!

Alex Pennini

Amazing video! I didn't know there was that kind of 19th century signaling still in use in Eltham in the 2010s. I watched a video of drivers on the Upfield line in the 1990s and they used that rod on a hoop thing too, I thought to myself 'I wonder what that is!'. I know there's an unpaved road section near Lilydale when you're coming in past the quarry, as I used to catch the train to Swinburne Lilydale every day back in 2012/2013.