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Mountain High Railway


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The Mountain High Railway was begun around the late 1980's and was on the line from Tumut to Batlow. It folded around 1991 through lack of interest being too far away from Sydney. 

Here are three videos of the railway filmed in 1989 using a small shunting 0-6-0 diesel of unknown origin with an ex NSW railways passenger coach and a bogie flat converted into an open air coach. This is all raw unedited footage.

 

In video number 2 is a view of the wide Gilmore Valley

In this the third and final video of the line we have two ex NSW railway coaches and D10 and English Electric Diesel. She was a shunter at the Port Kembla Steel Works. Looking up on info for D10 it's stated she has since been scrapped. Being a EE she has a sort of class 37 sound to her. Since this video was taken Batlow Station has been demolished in an unbelievable idea of "preserving" the station precinct. Humm. Batlow station is where you see a lot of small wooden boxes which apples were packed into as Batlow is a huge apple growing area.  

It gets very cold here in the wintertime as Tumut is close to the Ski slopes. Tumut is also the area for the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme which was built in the 1950's by European Immigrants mainly Italians and Hungarians.

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