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Saturday, April 11, 2020

EAST HILLS STEAMERS

Happy Easter to all my fellow railfans, viewers my blog and, of course, all my irrational haters who work so hard to encourage me.
G'day Gordo.
Being stuck at home due to the Coronavirus, and interfering online weirdos, I have had a huge amount of time to get stuck into scanning photos and cataloguing a ridiculously messy archive.
This week I became quite concerned.
No, not about the ongoing pandemic that is gripping the world, but that I once invested so much time in photographing steam locomotives.
Yes, yes, I know. Very out of character.

3137 at Revesby station.

The steam program was huge during 1988, the
bi-centennial year. A few of my friends (creepy ones according to Gordo) and I decided to make the effort to cover as much of the action as possible.
In coming weeks I shall put a little of this up here.

3137 crosses the Cooks River bridge on approach to Tempe station.

One of the more interesting events were the steam shuttles from Sydney Terminal to the, still quite new, East Hills station using 3112 and 3137.

3137 at the new East Hills station.
R19 on the other platform.

3137 passes through Tempe station with a shuttle to East Hills.

3137 at Revesby station.

3137 arriving at Revesby station.

3112 approaching some station on the East Hills line.

3137 arrives at Narwee on the up.
This shot blows me away the most. I had a business in Narwee from 2010 until 2017 and just can't believe that it once looked like this. Those embankments are totally gone and the streets-cape beyond is visible.