Preservation of the Redhen railcars and the Superchook Adelaide eccentric suburban trains!

This is my video version of the preservation of the Redhen railcars and the Superchook trains. Key moments in the video: 1. Making this video in 2026: the Gawler - Seaford and Flinders lines are operated by the 4000 class Adelaide Metro EMU electric trains. 2. Rest of the Adelaide Metro suburban rail network now being run by the now Adelaide Metro 3000 class battery diesel Hybrid railcar trains on Belair, Grange, Outer Harbor and Port Dock lines. 3. Redhens moved to the SteamRanger Heritage Railway, and on private property beside the Belair rail line at Blackwood - easily viewed from passing trains. 4. Six Redhen railcars - and plus the three Superchook cars were privately purchased and transferred to the South Gippsland Railway in Victoria. It was a volunteer run tourist railway running between Nyora and Leongatha. They began using the Redhens including the Superchooks - Redhen railcars 402 and 311 began using into the 2000s. And they were transferred to Bendigo - again under their own power. These railcars have changed owners and they are now in storage on private property. 5. The Superchook trains were transferred to the Yorke Peninsula Railway in South Australia at about 2002 and the Yorke Peninsula Railway (YPR) Superchooks and the Redhen cars had a radical red white and blue livery which I think it looked really cool. They were moved in storage and are now on private property. 6. The Limestone Coast Railway: it ran out of Mt Gambier between 1998 and 2006. Like Yorke Peninsula, Limestone Coast Railway used their Redhens in an attractive red brown with a limestone coloured stripe and roof. After rising mobility costs, these Redhen cars were moved to the SteamRanger Heritage Railway. 7. The National Railway Museum in Adelaide had acquired these 2 Redhen railcars: 321 and 400. And as well as steel bodied trailer car 875. This car was kept in operational condition and ran as a three-car set up until 2006. There was a brief resurgence of mainline operation between 2013 and 2015 - as a 2-car Redhen set without the trailer ran a number of shuttle days between the museum and Adelaide Railway Station. 8. After 2015 - the challenges and costs associated keeping the Redhen railcar train mainline accredited became too much - and the trains run now within the museum compounds during special events. Passengers are lucky to ride these cars on the short museum line. 9. But the final and the most positive part of the Redhen train story belongs to the SteamRanger Heritage Railway - which is a really remarkable 82km long tourist railway running between Mt Barker and Victor Harbor. SteamRanger has 4 operational Redhen cars, the 820 class trailer cars, as well the steel bodied 860 trailer and as well as a number of types of trailer cars. The steel trailer one is 875, the one that used to be at the NRM. SteamRanger is the only place passengers can travel on the Redhen diesel railcars outside the museum - and they’ll put a link down below if they’re keen to experience them for themselves. 10. A small number of Jumbo railcars have also made them into preservation with a 2-car set - 2109 and 2010, going to the SteamRanger Heritage Railway, and the other 2-cars - 2006 and 2112, going to the National Railway Museum. Hypothetically, either one of the cars could be made operational telling them quite complex but there aren’t any spare parts for storage available - so only time will be able to tell. However the Jumbos ever run again - passengers will be the first to buy a ticket. At the moments, there is some easy public access to get a setup view at the NRM - so it’s still always impossible to get a closeup view of these remarkable Jumbo railcars. This is the ending part of the video, for people providing extra images and footage for this video, making that video production possible. Many of the people would like to thank themselves for many footages and no copyright infringements are intended. Many of them would have some many video of trains and the archival footage records and purposes.