Sometimes, when driving around you manage to get lucky.
No, not in that way (pervs), I mean something so worth a photograph (or twenty) that you are willing to hit the brakes, park, endure all the "Oh not again" moans from the passenger seats, and extract one's greatly aged body from the car.
Just the other day, while taking a different street to the norm, I chanced across this old, Victorian registered, Comair bus.
Poor old girl is a little the worse for wear and appears to spend it's time as a camper van, but given it has been some decades since I last saw one (late 80s in Melbourne), it soon had those dark Bunzel juices a flowing.
It looks like the occupants have been camped there for a while and, from all the guff outside, have made themselves at home. I suspect it will be there for a while longer.

If you want to know more about the type, I shall put some links at the bottom.

If anyone knows it's history, please email me and I shall add it here.

Enjoy......or not....thats purely up to you. :-)

Links Of Interest

Comair - Bus Australia
Comair - For Sale On Gumtree

#comair #bus #historic

Kids With Cancer Foundation Australia

BHP/BLUESCOPE - PORT KEMBLA 

FLATS AND COILS

Following on from my earlier post covering the Torpedo ladels at the Port Kembla steelworks, here we look at some of the many types of flat and steel coil wagons in use around the works.
I do not know a huge amount about each of these wagons, but what is included here comes from the excellent book 'Railway Freight Wagons In New South Wales 1982' 

by John Beckhaus.
I have only included a couple of examples of each type here, however there is a significant amount more should you be interested. Feel free to email me, or join our BHP Rail History SIG where all these shots are gradually being added.

FLAT WAGONS

JL Type (80-106) - Slab wagons.
JL84 and 91 (along with 104) are seen stored here next the the Steelhaven loco workshop late last year. They sit here with an old ballast hopper and a former Victorian T class locomotive.
JL type were built by Perry Engineering in 1979 

PT80 (Plate Transfer)
PT Type were built by Comeng 1969-71, 1973
PT80 was part of he 1973 batch.

CR Type - CR38 CR45 CR54

PLR49 - Not a very common type.

CW2, 3 and4 sit in Waters Siding.
CW type believed built by Tulloch, these three in 1965-6.

R30 - Pardon the window reflection. Sometimes you just have to make do.
R type build by numerous manufacturers from 1934 to 1973.
R30 built by Horan (1945-46)

TR Type - TR8 in Waters Siding

PT Type - PT94 and PT22 in steelworks.

COILS

JR Type - JR27 JR46 around steelworks.

CR Type - CR23 CR33

CT Type - CT2 (in works), CT12 (Waters Siding)

LW Type - LW63 and 67 inside the steelworks.
LW type (61-79) built by Comeng in 1972.

RLW Type - RLW 40 and 52 inside the steelworks.

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CARLINGFORD LINE

As with most of the railfan community, I headed out with some mates in the dying days of the Carlingford line.
While I was by no means a regular on the line, I have been on it, and it's branch to Sandown, on many an occasion. In fact, I have a video of the Sandown line, from the rear of a spark, still to come to my SRF YouTube channel.

So many memories came back during our day there, the afternoon Sydney Terminal to Sandown CPH, the red sets, the S sets, the two car L sets.
 Then there was the time we rode the last Hardies terminator, last Portlink service from Sandown,  the race train lineup and the once busy freight sidings. I have been blessed to see so much guff out there.

But like all good things over the last few decades, it has been destroyed in the name of progress and, once again, another nail was add to the NSW railway interest.

Clyde station - Opened 1882

The days semi-interesting adventure started at Clyde station, the then junction for the lines to Carlingford and Sandown.

Photo of Parramatta Road not long after closure.
Robert Parnell

Parramatta Road motorists would be among the few happy with the closure.

This Rosehill signal has been taken away for preservation.
Rosehill station - Opened January 1888

Camelia Station - Opened January 1885

Rydalmere Station - Opened April 1896

Dundas is the only station expected to not be demolished as part of the light rail conversion. Quite a relief as it is a nice heritage structure.
Dundas Station - Opened June 1925

Telopea station - Opened April 1896

Carlingford Line Video - Part 1

Carlingford Line Video - Part 2

Date information from nswrail.net