158F: Tempe Twenty-Seventh - Location Focus Ep. 4 (27/01/2024)

An in-depth history of Tempe Station and a selection of diesel and electric passenger trains on Saturday 27th December 2024, including 42103 "Chumster" on the Australia Day Picnic Train to Kiama.
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The pictures of Tempe House and the Vale of Tempe which appear at 00:49 & 00:58 are owned, respectively, by Vakrieger and Roman Klementschitz, Wien, and are both licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
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The Captain Cook portrait which appears at 01:12 was painted in 1775 by Nathaniel Dance-Holland and is public domain owing to its age.
Tempe is a station I seem to visit quite a lot. And why not? It's quite interesting historically with its 1884 buildings still present, it's got quite a story to tell and offers a fair amount of trains to shoot at the right times of day.
This film was planned to be the most extensive Tempe film I've made to date, covering the history much more deeply than in any of the four or so previous films which have featured the station and a wide variety of trains.
In this film, I look extensively at the station's story, from its opening in 1884 and the buildings it retains through to it becoming a junction in 1931 and subsequently losing this role in 2000. Essentially, I go full ‪@JagoHazzard‬ in the history segment to explore the unique story of this station.
When the action moves to the trains, there are eight, ranging from Tangaras and OSCARs to an Endeavour, an XPT and an XPLorer, although various trains appear throughout the history segment too from Millenniums to C sets and even F1.
The star of the show is of course 42103 "Chumster" passing through at the head of SRS' "Australia Day Picnic Train" to Kiama, though I may have been expecting it to pass Platform 2 rather than Platform 4...
All in all, this is a nice film about a station I genuinely like a fair bit, both for the trains to be seen and the historical story it has. It's a fine addition then to the "Location Focus" series, alongside Rhodes, Lapstone and Exeter, and being an Illawarra Line station, it means we've got one from each mainline!
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LEGAL STUFF
- Three still images noted above are not the property of TheBritFromOz and belong to their respective owners. The images of Tempe House (owned by Vakrieger) and the Vale Of Tempe (owned by Roman Klementschitz, Wien) are licensed under creative commons licenses. The 1775 portrait of Captain James Cook is public domain owing to its age.
- All content in this film was captured from publicly accessible vantage points.
- All history sources used in this film are credited in-video.
- All other content in this film, including the soundtrack, is my own work.
- This film is marked as "Not Made For Kids" as whilst it can be enjoyed by kids, they are not the primary intended audience.
158F: Tempe Twenty-Seventh - Location Focus Episode Four
C. Duck Wilson - TheBritFromOz
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - History Of Tempe
04:47 - The Trains
09:46 - Credits

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I filmed at Wondabyne earlier this morning during the peak