Posts Tagged ‘Victorian Goldfields Railway’

A new life for retired V/Line carriages

Since 2005 over a hundred VLocity trains have been delivered to V/Line, but with patronage also exploding over the same period, they were used to expand the fleet rather than to replace older rolling stock. But this changed in 2022, when V/Line started retiring locomotive hauled carriages dating back to the 1980s, and delivering them […]

Photos from ten years ago: February 2010

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is February 2010. Changed scenes Back then the tram stops along Swanston Street were at ground level. The platform stops at Collins, Bourke and La Trobe Street weren’t completed until July 2012. And the Melbourne CBD skyline was much smaller, as […]