I’ve just gotten home from a two week long trip ‘across the ditch’ to New Zealand, so here’s a quick trip report. Arrival into Auckland I flew into Auckland Airport on the North Island. And immediately made my way to the Glenbrook Vintage Railway, where steam locomotive WW 644 was running for the day. I […]
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 […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is January 2011. By the beach We start the month down at Queenscliff. Where I found the Queenscliff-Sorrento car ferry. A bridge to the secretive military base on Swan Island. And rode the Bellarine Peninsula Railway. Passing through Marcus station. In […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is May 2009. We start over at Flinders Street Station, where Hitachi trains were still in service with then-suburban train operator Connex Melbourne. Connex was replaced by Metro Trains Melbourne in November 2009, but the Hitachi trains hung on until December […]
Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is December 2008, where I spent the month travelling around Victoria on the hunt for trains to photograph. Roadtrip! I started my journey in the south-west down at Camperdown, where I caught up with this short train made up of just […]
