Hotham Valley Tourist Railway - 13th October 2013
A return journey on the Steam Ranger service between Dwellingup and Isandra Siding on Sunday 13th October 2013. The Hotham Valley Tourist Railway is located 100 km south of Perth, Western Australia and the 13.4 km stretch between Isandra Siding and Dwellingup involves a climb through the Darling Range of about 210 metres, or almost 700 feet: the steepest gradient being 1 in 30 . The 3' 6 gauge line was originally completed in 1910 as part of the route between Pinjarra and Narrogin. Motive power on 13th October was provided by W Class 4-8-2 No. W920 Pinjarra, one of 60 built in 1951 by Beyer Peacock of Manchester, UK. The video concludes with some clips at Pinjarra, the operational centre of the HVTR, including the remaining ultra-short mainline platform used by the twice daily Australind DMU services between Perth and Bunbury. Further information can be found on a range of websites.
My trip on the Hotham Valley railway in WA (including the Australind express)
During the Month of January I was in WA and went on the Hotham Valley railway and went on it, it's a Rare Vacuum braked experience (with only 5 railway who use this type of brake)
Dwellingup Hotham Valley Tourist Railway
Dwellingup Hotham Valley Tourist Railway
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway.
W945 & F40 climbing the Darling Scarp to dwellingup October 2019!
If you have any plans on visiting the beautiful town of Dwellingup, please check out the old trains and history of Hotham valley, link for their website down below.
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, Dwellingup
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, Dwellingup
The Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, October 2005.
Something a little different that I found in the video vault.
My wife's parents went for ride on the HVTR in Oct 2005, and we spent the day chasing the train. The HVTR runs from Pinjarra in Western Australia, up the lightly-laid former timber logging line to Dwellingup. The line runs over the steepest section of railway in WA, so on peak days two locos are used, and worked hard. The light axle loading of the W class engines leads to some spectacular slips, and an incredible aural experience.
The first shot is on the flat just beyond Pinjarra, with the engines beginning to pull as the line steepens. A few minutes later, though, they came to a stop with what appeared to be a brake hose issue between the second loco and the carriages. After a few machine-gun slips the train headed off up the hills, where the line follows the road some way.
The road crossing is just after the steepest section of track, and is one of the best spots to see the engines working at their hardest, and sounding spectacular. The non-HD video may be a little grainy, but the sound is excellent!
At Dwellingup the line climbs into the station over a crossing that was then un-gated. The train runs gingerly into the station with some more impressive slips (one right next to my camera).
The Etmilyn Forest train is seen arriving pulled by veteran Glasgow-built G123, and the locos were turned while we had lunch in the excellent Dwellingup Hotel. This was before the H&S obsessed culture of today and the locos were turned on a triangle which ran (unfenced) around the picnic area. Nowadays they return to Pinjarra tender first.
The next shot shows the train leaving for the return to Pinjarra, whistling impressively and delighting a small boy who insisted on talking to me while I was filming! My then three-year-old son blagged a ride back to PJ with his grandparents and can be seen waving out of the train window.
Finally a couple of shots of the train running (with boy waving!) through the bush.
The line was devastated by a vast bush fire a couple of years later, but is now rebuilt and recovered and a modified service is now running.
Australian Trains 69 - Hotham Valley Railway Steam Ranger 12/07/2017
A ride on the Hotham Valley Railway steam ranger service.
Steam has returned as summer has gone, and its very wet LOL
this is our first visit tot he steam railway, in Western Australia. Located in Dwellingup, this is one of the services run on the line. They also run a dining service, and a woodland service, and details can be found on their website
There are several loco's parked around the station site, but it is unfortunate that they are not on general display for the public to view whilst waiting for the train, that said, the staff were very nice and did let me get some photo's of the shunting locomotives outside the shed.
The locos on the train were an ex midland railway, English Electric F class loco number F40, and the steam loco was W class W920
The line runs down hill from Dwellingup, but on return, the steam loco has a challenge climbing the 1:30 grade, but does have a little assistance from the F class. Unfortunately 2 coaches were removed from this trip, as the first trip had 5 coaches plus the locos, which would have made them work harder.
all video was done with my iPhone, and trying to keep the water out of it was a challenge.
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway Steam Ranger
1st Steam Ranger train for the 2017 season. 14 May 2017.
Hotham Valley Steam Ranger
My trip in 2016 where I got up nice and close to a running Steam Train. This was my first experience with a running Steam Train and one ill never forget. Filmed in Dwellingup, Western Australia
Hotham Valley Railway Anniversary Festival 2019
HothAm Valley Railway Anniversary Festival 2019,Dwellingup Western Australia.
Compilations of loco steam trains,steam engine,steam Tractors family rides,steam train ride.
#HothamValleyRailwayAnniversaryFestival2019#DwellingupSteamFestival2019
Dwellingup Steam Festival 2019 Western Australia
Dwellingup Steam Festival 2019 Western Australia.Updated 30/08/2019
2019 Anniversary Festival,15th September 2019
With both the Steam Ranger & Forest Trains operating, craft and entertainment stalls, live music and much more, the 2019 event will be huge
Compilations of Steam engines,steam Tractors,steam trains,at Hotham Valley Railway Dwellingup Perth,Westen Australia. hotham valley railway anniversary festival 2019 steam whistle perth city narrow gauge
#DwellingupSteamFestival2019#HothamValleyRailway
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, Sunday 16th June 2013.
W920 'Pinjarra' crossing Pinjarra Williams Road.
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, Sunday 16th June 2013.
W920 'Pinjarra' crossing Pinjarra Williams Road.
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway, Sunday 16th June 2013.
W920 'Pinjarra' crossing Scarp Road.
Australian Trains 71 - Hotham Valley Railway, final W920 Steam Ranger service 2017
A video of the last day of steam on the Hotham Valley Railway’s 2017 season
This video also includes some English electric thrash from the F class locomotive
The last clip,well it was great, the loco sounded great,I framed it beautifully, but didn’t press record.so unfortunately the best clip of the day got replaced by a clip of the floor ????
Hotham Valley Tourist Railway
If you are planning on visiting Western Australia, then have a look at this...
Hotham valley Railways 42nd Anniversary
Hello and welcome today on the 16th of September is we celebrate Hotham Valley Railways 42nd Anniversary. The film that you see is all mine apart from one which credit goes to a WA RAILROAD VIDEOS for filming but all rest a re mine that i put together so i hope you enjoy and a huge thanks to all of the Hotham valley volunteers they all made this day possible so thankyou
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Hotham Valleys PM 706 in full action heading to Fremantle on the Kwinana Passing Loop ,on a Wizards Express Special 09-10-2002.(Note the Vic K class Whistle)
Hotham Valley Railway Dwellingup station yuneec 4k low battery
Super quick video as my battery's were exhausted
at least i got to test battery fail-safe
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Smooth Sailing (with Guitar) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
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