Waking up in Geelong

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time just trains around Geelong during November 2006.

We start with a special train operated by the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, with 50-year old museum pieces T320 and T357 leading an 11 carriage long train from Seymour to Geelong.

At the rear of the train was parlor car ‘Yarra’ with observation platform.

Over at North Shore I found a short freight train, shunting empty log wagons out of the Midway woodchip mill.

Outside of Little River I photographed a number of freight trains – here four diesel locomotives haul a SCT Logistics service from Perth to Melbourne.

Almost as long was this freight train from Geelong – made up of loaded cement hoppers and empty log flat wagons.

And this freight train from Mildura, made up of LCL cargo in louvred vans and export containers.

I did see a few passenger trains – like this Indian Pacific liveried locomotive hauling the Adelaide-bound Overland service.

As well as this dinky little V/Line service to Geelong, operated by a 2-car VLocity set.

Finally, something you don’t see too often – a works train dumping fresh ballast onto the tracks near Corio.

Footnote

Here you can find the rest of my ‘photos from ten years ago‘ series.

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