SOUTH AUSTRALIA

1992

A selection of videos taken around the Adelaide Hills, Dry Creek, Two Wells and Tailem Bend.

A look through Tailem Bend Locomotive Depot

And

Tailem Bend Signal Box.

BROADMEADOW LOCO 

VIDEO

Plus Toronto & Stockrington

Stay Tuned For Many More.

SYDNEY IN 1986

Single deck red (and some blue) sets.

Pagewood Bus Depot (after closure)

Anniversary 4836 on the Mossie Pass

Grey Ghost 4499.

Locos at Sims Metal for scrapping.

UTA 50th anniversary Mercedes

Class QANTAS jumbo

86s on the Indian Pacific

4801 4896 48102 shunt condemned livestock wagons into a Harden 

siding for burning and scrapping.

Following this, the Alcos would take a rake of empty wheat hoppers to Kingvale for loading.

SANDY SYDNEY

I guess most Sydney members would remember this day a few years back. 

Could not resist heading down to the airport to attempt a few shots, and probably shorten my life expectancy, of planes enduring it all.

The Emirates A380 was the first I had ever seen use the East-West Runway.
Have seen very few since.

22-9-2009

A6-EDC Emirates A380

Singapore Airlines 747 Freighter

VH-VOM

Air Canada.

CENTRAL COAST BUSES

1986

The Entrance - Gosford - Woy Woy - Umina

Back in the days when Central Coast bus operations were interesting.

Penisula Buslines - Brisbane Water Coaches

The Entrance Red Bus Service.

Two parts taken on an old Hitachi VHS video camera of dubious quality.

MV Port Venture 

Built 1984 (Brisbane)

This is getting a tad strange. Like the shot of the MULGI that I put up last month, the MV Port Venture (photographed on the same night) sunk two years later as well.

In this case, it was near Gladesville Bridge after hitting a pier that pierced its hull.

Of more interest, for me, is that we rode her some years back at the invitation of a band we used to follow 'The Kamis'.

After being salvaged, she was taken to Rozelle Bay and subsequently scrapped there.

Of the second shot at Darling Harbour. 

MV Port Venture is scrapped.

SOUTH STEYNE has been removed and place on sale.

Monorail had been removed.

CALTEX/AMPOL FUEL SIDING

Bomen (Near Wagga Wagga)

At the time, fuel tankers had been stored in these siding since the cessation of rail hauled fuel trains. Not long after these photos were taken, it is believed all were purchased by Manildra and railed to Narrandera.
Information on their future use would be appreciated.

During the 80s and 90s I spent a huge amount of time around Victoria.
I recently came across the first large bundle of shots from these trips and have started scanning them to show here. During the course of 2017 I will be pre-programming this new series to appear monthly.
If your not a big fan of the railways in Victoria (what is wrong with you?), there will still be the other regular variety of posts that probably go largely ignored.
  So sit back and enjoy the series, one that I am actually putting together way back in October 2017.

Took me some time to work out what station this was. :-)
The 'All Stations To Broadmeadow' ended up being the pivital clue.

Not a thing was rostered to run in daylight on the day we arrived in Maryborough.
Luckily this was sitting in the yard and that it was in the pre-rail nazi days.

930s just float my boat.

V/Line orange and grey. It was Victoria's candy livery.

Even on the quietest of Main South days, at least you had the two 'Intercapital Daylight Expresses' to pass some time. At this stage it was normally either an 81 or a G.

Fare evader.

The Overland arrives from Adelaide after it's long overnight journey.

The Overland arriving Keswick (Adelaide) at the other end of it's nightly journey.