Posts Tagged ‘Yarra Valley 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: July 2010

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is July 2010. Down on Spencer Street For Melbourne Open House 2010 CitiPower opened ‘JA’ zone substation – a key part of the power supply to the Melbourne CBD. For historical reasons the substation was divided into two – the State […]