Sydney's rail network | Australia's Railway History
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- Hello, I'm proud to present you the evolution of Sydney's railway network.
This video goes through the growth of Sydney's railway network in an easy format to show the building of the metropolitan railways of Sydney and their electrification.
Most of the narration done by Rose Beds.
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Sources:
Various Wikipedia pages
NSW railway history
Programs used:
Adobe Premier Pro
Adobe After Effects
Edited by True Believers
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RIP Carlingford Line.
I never saw anyone use it 🤷♂️
It is not gone, just being replaced with a light rail
The ladies pronunciation is a bit off with some of the stops which is okay. But with my preference I prefer you doing the voice-over instead of someone else. But still this is a good video
Thanks for enjoying the video. Glad you liked the history of Sydney's railway network.
An interesting video, maybe a little fast, but very accurate.
Not bad man! Love the animations. Living in Melbourne, this gave me and others lots of information about Sydney's awesome rail!
Thank you, yeah been working on this video for the last few weeks. Glad you like it. Hmm when in a video format it's much clearer to see the history.
i guess it's kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good place to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Colin Ashton flixportal :)
@Jase Jesse thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I really appreciate it!
@Colin Ashton glad I could help xD
This was very interesting! I never even knew there was a line from Westmead to Rogan’s Hill!
It was converted from a steam tram line FYI.
It closed 10 years after opening
This explains the large area outside Oakhill college where they can fit a few buses there
Great video thanks. This sets out the evolving history really well!
Agreed
Great video! I love how visual and easy to understand it is.
Thank you!
Well done, great video and very informative. Thank you for producing it.
Glad you enjoyed it! I love making quality videos about our railway system, helping others visualise and understand it in a very easy consumable form of media. The research, the planning and execution of the videos takes time but it's always worth it at the end result. I'm still working on improving and making more content, it's been a busy time for me.
Wow thank you so much! That was really interesting
2:57 Never heard of the Coranoola line before!
Same with macathur, sounds similar to macarthur down next to Campbelltown 🤔
It’s actually ‘Cronulla’ I don’t know why she called it Caronoola
@@LavenderHaze301 think it might be a case of mispronunciation
I used to take the train up the North Shore to school every day. Still love the Sydney rail system and make a point of taking the train whenever I'm back down there.
I've never seen the chronology of the rail system laid out like this before - thank you! I had no idea that so many lines were built and subsequently closed.
Same here! pretty cool right?
@@TrueBelievers As a kid in the sixties, for me the train was exotic. It was freedom.
I can recall standing next to an old Beyer Peacock about to pull a train from Central to Kiama as the signal dropped and it shot steam everywhere that erased the world with a deafening roar. I recall how much I liked the older red rattlers because the doors were not power operated and I could lean out of the car into the slipstream as the train rounded the long curve before the gasometers with the harbour vista behind between Waverton and Wollstonecraft. I was befriended by Mr Gale, the grandfatherly Gordon Station Master who invited me into his office with wooden phones on the wall (crank one to call Killara, the other for Pymble) and a roaring fire in winter. He kindly let a very impressed lad watch him throw the points, delicately wiping the handles of the levers with a grey cloth each time. On a rare day the tedium of third class was interrupted by the smoke and thunder of a Beyer-Garratt charging toward Hornsby (they usually took the Northern line).
The New York subway is larger, the Toronto and Montreal subways more frequent, but I will never forget the Sydney rail of my childhood.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
You're welcome!
Wow, there are a lot of stations here that I did not know about, great video! Btw can you do evolution of the Intercity line in Sydney too?
I'll think about that. Glad you enjoyed the video.
The Ropes Ck line was closed to passenger traffic in the early 80s. In 1986 the last passenger train (a tour) ran, then the overhead wiring was removed. (I think that was the last train to run the entire length of the line)
The St Marys end has been used on and off many times including for a period to allow for electric passenger trains shunting operations.
Now days the line is in use on;y for freight from between St Marys to just short of Christie St. Beyond that is abandoned or reused for other things.
This is great! A little surprised I only just found this
Yeah same, since I’ve really liked your channel. :) Although I make a variety of railway videos focussing on various of topics and areas.
good video it was edited pretty well
Thank you, glad you really enjoyed it, planning to make more videos soon.
I would call this the de-evolution of the network. Without the all important loop lines in the network that was part of John Bradfields original concept the Sydney network is a totally dysfunctional rail network that only required one issue in the city circle to affect the entire network.
Fascinating video. Thank you. A couple of the station names are mispronounced but somehpw that just adds to the fun
No problem, glad you enjoyed the video, even with those imperfections. I guess it makes it feel more homemade lol :)
The wolli creek one was kinda funny
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'......
.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)
In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name.
Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,
but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)
Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.
The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc.
Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like
Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on.
Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old.
Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye'
we got various spellings like;
Turq-uía (in Spanish),
Turch-ia (in Italian),
Turq-uie (in French)
Turk-ei (in German)
Turk-ey (in English)
Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'...
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German,
but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.
Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas.
Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
Very interesting seeing how the train line that I use every day was built
Despite my poor audio quality I'm glad you could "salvage" it lol I'm by no means a professional voice actor nor am I natively Australian so apologies for any mispronunciations this was a very nice video that you have put clear amounts of work into.
You did the best you could and I could of handled earlier stages of the youtube project better. Overall the video is watchable and for the most part the comments are really constructive and not personal attacks. Hope for the best for you and hopefully I find a way to manage my youtube projects better.
@@TrueBelievers I honestly really preferred your mic quality and I'm very appreciative that you did hire me for the lines, despite the quality not being the best it's put money toward care for my service dog and in general you were very pleasant to work with!
Hi there! I'm just wondering how you did this? As I will need to use software like you are using for a Sydney Trains project that I'm making.
I used Adobe After Effects for the animated graphics and put it together in an video editing software. I hope your project goes well :)
Well done
thanks mate
If you wanna add something extra. The line from tallawong to chatswood got extended to Bankstown in 2025.
Great idea, I'll add it when it actually is in operation, but until then, this video will stay as it is. Updates to old content will be a thing.
@@TrueBelievers its just metro not really train but you can include it
Wow Cool Vid with londoner style again, u should do south east queensland or adelaide
Or Melbourne's tram network
@@TrueBelievers Please don't do the History of Melbourne's Tram Network, cause I am currently making it.
@@melbournemetrotrainsvlogs9401 Hmmm maybe I should make it for more views.
@@TrueBelievers I am preferring to make it now
You should look at my Sydney Rail History which is very detailed.
I use to live in the shire and I always thought the stations there were old but I now live in Campbelltown which is developing lot recently has had rail since the 1850's
It is also close that you didn’t forget the Olympic Park, Airport line, The Epping to Chatswood rail link, The Leppington line, Thie city circle, and The line to Bondi Junction.
Thanks, glad I didn't forget those ones.
Nice video....
If u notice, the infrastructure is constantly evolving, and the people behind this are constantly working whether we hate them or appreciate them
Yeah thank you.
East Hill Line used to be a dead end and was not that important. Now with Airport link, K2 duplication is now extremely busy line. It also allows Macarthur/Campbell town to have a fast service to the city. Long time ago Campbelltown trains was via Granville.
tell me every platform which way the train goes to in stations from Campbelltown to Revesby and Penrith to city pls because I want to know
Also just a correction 4:40 its 2020 not 2019
Just wait a second it becomes 2020.
@@TrueBelievers i think he means that the carlingford line was closed this yr
@@TrueBelievers The Carlingford line closed on the 4th of January 2020 not 2019.
Richmond to Kurrajong- was that deleted because the North Richmond bridge was too low and flooded often?
You should make a video on Queensland rail,I would like it!
Yay I've completed that as of now.
Actually, the North Shore Line opened in 1890 to St Leonards, then in 1893 to the first Milsons Point station, now Luna Park.
The Lavender Bay area just behind Luna Park is still active in storing trains in during offpeak, and has to go to Waverton neck junction before sending it back to North Sydney.
What was close is that you didn’t forget the Sydney metro which is the northwestern railway.
Thanks it's just you commented it in a different video. Thank you!
Carlingford line actually closed in 2020 and Ropes Creek line was the shortest line to stay
When was the Castle Hill line closed please?
Just one thing, you forgot to mention the closer of the national park line. I know trams run by the Sydney tramways museum still run on it but this is about trains not trams. But other than that it is quite a good video
Oh yeah you’re right
*listens to outro music* ... waaaiiit a minute... You minecraft too, bro? Also good video.
Yes I do minecraft too
Just a correction, carlingford line was closed in 2020, not 2019.
Correct well spotted.
It seems Queensland doesn't get much attendtion for history videos,I agree with Oh hulio Julio Yeet. There should be a Evolution of Queensland rail network!
Good job. The Cumberland line opened in 1996
Thank you. Glad you enjoy the video.
@@TrueBelievers also the carlingford line closed in 2020
@@jaitheminecraftgamer5046 Converted to light rail, at least it's still existing in some form at least.
Carlingford Line closed in January 2020 to correct you there.
Thank you for the correction.
2:48 Small fact, this was the year the Harbour Bridge opened, allowing that connection to be made!
yup correct!
Oh wow the Sydney rail network it is so sad when the Carlingford line was withdrawn 😭.
At least it's being reused for trams instead, yeah the line could have been saved with an extension, but they've already made their minds on that decision.
i love the explaination of my trainline history....but i think this needs to be rerecorded, as some of the audio is very muffled
Agreed, I'll make an updated one in the near future, happy new year!
It says Ropes Creek was closed in 1957, but there is video of the line still being used in 1986. It was also electrified, So I assume it was re-opened?
No, it was a mistake on my part, it stayed open until 1986 and then it closed. In 1957 they added a station on the Rope's creek line, hence my mistake on the date. Other than that mistake the history is correct.
There was a rail line between Campbelltown and Camden at a particular period of time.
That's true but it was known as Camden tramway/light railway, rather than a heavy railway line. But it is true that it did exist.
What happen to T2 Innerwest line
Hearing cronulla being pronounced is kinda funny
4:13 the olympic park line is closed
4:23 walle creek Wolli creek actual name
Oop mistake
It's alright ^-^
You got the dates of the closing of the ropes creek line wrong.
On the way up! No pun intended!
Thank you, I deserve more subscribers and views. But CZcams algorithm says to me you don't upload enough. Alas once my life is in order I'll show them who is boss.
Good job. Nice overview. Tho you got some of the pronunciation of the station names wrong
That's not me who voiced the video, that's the voice actor I paid.
Alright. You might not want to hire a child next time. And preferably someone with a better microphone.
I thought Central was the first train station to be built?
You Should do one of these for Melbourne’s Future...
Alright I could do that, but it won't be 100% factual though. XD
That will be easy to do. Melbourne has no future
@@channelglenn not true
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*YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES*
Ummm I guess this means you really loved the video. Thanks. Sorry I don't upload often, I make high quality videos by myself, and it's tricky to deliver more content regularly.
Hate to tell you this but the Ropes Creek line didn't close until the 1980's (1986). I used to live near there and used to watch the train pull up at St Marys to load the ammunition workers onto the train. All non government passengers had to get off at Dunheved because Cochrane and Ropes Creek were on restricted land.
Correct, mixed it up with the information about the ropes creek line getting an additional station.
you forgot about the station "Royal National Park" which closed in 1990 or 1991 after the down incident
I think I showed that branch line right?
@@TrueBelievers yes you did
The Ropes Creek line was not closed in the 1950's. It was still open until the 1980's
I made the mistake there correct. I mixed the date from 1980s to 1957, which was date when the Rope's creek line had an additional station added onto it. Thanks for letting me know.
You missed the station in Berala of T3 line to leepiton
Thanks mate.
So sad to see the Carlingford line go.
They missed an obvious opportunity: if they had put the short y-junction from Parramatta to Carlingford, and then punched a short tunnel from Carlingford to Epping...
The population in the west could then easily access Macquarie park and Chatswood. At the moment, it is quite a journey.
Yeah that was an actual plan that got abandoned later. At least there's potential for the light rail line to be extended to Epping hopefully in the future.
There is a bus running from Parramatta to Macquarie Park
Wow they closed the line to castle hill and look at the area now....
Well they reopened the north west rail link now, so at least that helps.
excuse, were is the central coast and newcasle line, and the south coast line ? :)
All the intercity network/semi-rural lines were intentionally excluded, as the focus was on the Sydney train network. I could make a separate video focusing on the regional rail network of NSW.
I have a correction at one minute and 7 secondsIt says 1983 when you properly mean 1893
Yeah I'm aware of that mistake, I rewrote the script incorrect to the voice actress, and then hence why you hear 1983. The graphics show the correct date 1893. Though you can have a golden star for spotting the mistake. ^-^
This is the second video where they pronounce cronulla as coronulla
never ralised there were trains to castle hill before the metro
That's interesting how the Sydney trains were electrified in 1929, but they weren't electrified in Brisbane until 1979, 50 years later.
Yup and Perth were electrified till the 1990s and Adelaide electrified one line in 2014.
Brisbane was just a big country town until two or three decades ago. One of many in the state.
Its just history with sydney, compared to other Australian cities. Sydney is the place where it was developed the most.
Point of correction - Yoy say the Ropes Creek line was closed in 1957. Wrong, It was 1986
Yeah thanks for that, I've been pointed out that is a mistake. In 1957 it didn't close, it got a new station on the line, hence my confusion.
Evolution tram Sydney vs Melbourne
It’s sad that carping Ford where I live got removed
Yeah that's history for ya, times will change and stations may be born or Rest In Peace.
Good thing parramatta light rail do be coming along the way lol 😊
Wait a Second?! It was not always camillea. In 1885 it was Subiaco.
I didn't refer to any stations by their former names to make it simpler. But yeah many stations had different names in the past so would take awhile to go through them
The carlingford line is being redone due to it being that old
Carlingford line is being converted from heavy rail to light rail, due to low passenger numbers.
what about the intercity network
That's for a future video. ^-^
the mispronunciations of suburbs is just supreme
Wait richmond wasn't electrified until the 1990s?
Who knows what is the true answer.
The animation quality is so good, and yet the audio quality so bad - sounds like it was recorded over a voip call, it keeps cutting out.
Yeah you should of seen the audio originally, it was a miracle to get it sound how it is. Should have recorded the whole thing myself instead of hiring a voice over but yeah I worked really hard on the animation so I feel like I did a great job overall.
@@TrueBelievers yes you did!
@@TrueBelievers Should have, not should of :)
@@wertw120 thank you for the grammar correction.
@@TrueBelievers no problem, great video 👍 would be great to see tram history in Sydney video
I like the population at the bottom
Adds a nice little touch to the video!
What are the 306 stations exist in Sydney history
Impossible to list into a comment. ;) I'm sure there were plenty that could be listed in the video, but it would take too long to go through them all.
What about Sydney T9 and Sydney T10
Looked the contract but upgrade your mic!
Nice! Also “Cronulla” is pronounced Cro-Nu-lla
Yeah in retrospect, I should have done the voice-work myself, but wanted to try out something different for a change.
the pronunciation is a bit off for some stations, like Cambell(twon) is pronounced Cambelltown. (Wollie) Creek is pronounced Wolli (no e) Creek, but still a good video.
Hired a voice actor that was unfamiliar with Australian station names, but yeah good history video regardless.
Abattoirs Branch?
Mostly an industrial line by the looks of it, probably missed it since I don't think it served many passengers. I think it looks like it was used more like a freight line. Thanks for mentioning it though.
@@TrueBelievers It was mainly a freight line, but it did appear on the network diagram. Pippita only closed in 1995 to allow construction of the Olympic Park line. www.transitmap.net/sydney-1992/
@@gregessex1851 I had a quick look at the map, yeah doesn't quite appear as a new branch line on the map, yeah it's very minor detail to miss. Hope that doesn't spoil the rest of the video by missing it.
What is up with that girls pronunciation. She also said 1983 instead of 1893.
Yeah the 1983/1893 was an error with a script I sent to her. She tried her best to voice the script, but there are some minor errors. It's not a perfect video, but we tried our best to make it look good at least.
Rogans Hill Line was a tramway, not a railway line
The tramway got converted into a railway line. Check the history.
Animations were ok I just couldn't understand the voice over
That's the weakest part of the video, I hired a voice actor in the past and yeah I tried to make it work out. Anyways it could have been worse, at least the visuals help understand what's going on. Plus I'm happy to make improvements to older videos, so your comments are very appreciated.
This map looks like it is from 2016, not 2020
The style of the map probably referenced an older version of it.
@@TrueBelievers Yes, it is
or is it the city line
Your comment seems incomplete, what do you mean?
Can we just not talk about how they spelt Parramatta wrong
Apologies for that error, thanks for letting me know.
True believers, tell me about T9 and T10
What's T9 and T10?
@@TrueBelievers They both are new train lines
@NSW TrainLink Vlogs Clips But the 10th train line will come later and be built
@NSW TrainLink Vlogs Clips yeah T10 Will exist later because it will be the 10th train line in Sydney
T1 yes T2 no T3 yes T4 yes T5 no T6 (got removed) T7 yes T8 yes T9 no
Yup. Some remain, while some have been converted to other modes.
High speed rail Melbourne to Mildura now future
Bruh they forgot T2
Yeah lots of people forget about it bc its merged into T8
Australia victoria closed station old crazy Mansfield
co-ro-noola is not a station fyi
Same with ma-ka-fur
on the 23rd of June 1979. The Eastern Suburbs Line Opened to Bondi. Not Bondi Junction. Because, Bondi Junction Doesn't Exist and Trains Terminate at Bondi!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Not Bondi Junction!!!!!!!!1
Yeah
St James war world 2 abandoned
I'm sorry, it's metro northwest
Ok what? I live in Liverpool but why do you say coranoona? It’s Cronulla haha I thinck you did an oops. Lol
Yeah the voice actor pronounced it incorrectly. I’m the video editor of the video and the male voiceover in the video. Oh well I hope you liked the video regardless.
Great informative video. However, it was a waste of money hiring someone to narrate it. You're narration was far better!
Jeremiah Cuachon's railway studio hmmm thank you
would have to agree, still awesome video though
I can see u have copied Geoff Marshal lol
Not exactly, Geoff does UK transit, I do mostly Australia transit videos. Although I'm inspired by many transit creators.
The pronunciation is not that good with the ladies voice…
Yeah that's fine, at least she tried her best. Anyways at least I'm happy how the visuals look.