On the weekend the Metro Tunnel project held a limited public open day for local residents at the recently completed Anzac station, and I was lucky enough to be able to take a look. So let’s head inside! Headed in The open day was held on the closed off section of Domain Road, east of […]
I realised the other day I’ve never written a complete piece about the history of V/Line operating nine car long trains – so here goes. In the beginning The story starts back in December 2005, with the introduction of the VLocity trains to the V/Line fleet. Each set consisted of two carriages seating a total […]
Australian locomotive #6029 – is it steam, diesel, or electric? Strangely enough, it is all three at once. The original The first locomotive numbered #6029 is a New South Wales AD60 class Beyer-Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4 heavy goods steam locomotive, which entered service in 1954 and is now preserved by Transport Heritage NSW. The young one The […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is June 2014. Regional Rail Link These has been an ongoing theme for many months now, but ten years ago Regional Rail Link was nearing the finishing line – the finishing touches were being applied to the new platforms at Footscray. […]
There are over two hundred railway stations across Melbourne, so for someone who has spent 15 years of photographing trains, and with over 100,000 photographs catalogued online, taking a photo at each station should have happened long ago. And I have – with some caveats! The back story I first looked into how many railway […]
