Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is April 2014. Regional Rail Link As with previous months, I was following progress on the Regional Rail Link project which was constructing new tracks from Southern Cross through to Wyndham Vale. At Footscray station the new V/Line platforms were taking […]
Trains have been around for years, as have intermodal containers, and the advent of double stacking enabled trains to carry twice as many containers as before. But what if you tried the same with a truck? Double stacking containers on trucks In 2023 Qube Logistics along with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and the […]
In recent years V/Line has been retiring their fleet of aging locomotive hauled carriages, with the long distance N sets given away to railway preservation groups, and the H sets sent for scrap. And with nothing left to haul, this has also rendered V/Line’s fleet of diesel locomotives surplus The story starts V/Line now has […]
How long does it take VicRoads to fix a failing retaining wall? Well, in the case of the Taylors Road underpass at St Albans, it only took them a decade. The story begins Once upon a time Taylors Road was a road in the middle of nowhere, beyond the edge of suburban Melbourne. Melway Edition […]
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 […]
