The Semi-Retired Foamer has been a railfan since he was around 5 years old, oh yes a very young age, an age when one really should avoid being involved with the gunzel community to any great extent. A few rather unsavoury people bringing that fact home.
After a few decades of train chasing, one decided to break with protocol and get married, thus leading to a severe cut in railfan activity.
Subsequent dealings with hate breeders, lunatics, mental defectives and self-appointed preservation overlords lead to an even greater decrease in my hobby participation.
However things have changed thanks to our small group of trusted mates, interest has returned, and now I have become a bit more involved yet again.
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Over the years I have tried my best to further both the hobby, as well as the friendships that it brings. I have done this by setting up proactive groups both here in Australia, as well as the Philippines. It is with huge honour that I am often considered the founding father of the railfan hobby in the Philippines (my second home).
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I don't take the hobby too seriously and I am a friend to anyone who is good and genuine. But never forgive those who have used their hate to destroy my hobby or hurt the friends within it.

Let's Make The Hobby Great Again!
I aim to share the era that I considered mine, the 80s and 90s. I also like to help promote, and even raise funds for, the various heritage societies that keep the era alive
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

STATION SERIES: MENANGLE

 




OK, this is to appease the couple of people who have told me the blog is far too loco-centric in nature.
Have you missed all the buses? :-)
Yes, I agree that my primary interest over the decades has been the noisy things at the front of trains, but on occasion I have photographed yards, stations and even, gasp, items of rollingstock.
To show that I care about people's opinions, no, seriously I do, I am going to try to include some rollingstock and railway station/yard guff amongst the good stuff (the locos that is).
In fact, if your less hateful than usual, I may even do a spark post or two. But I ain't promising anything.

What better a place to start than at Menangle station, where I spent many, MANY, a Friday night during the late 80s and the 90s.
Yeah, Friday nights. I do acknowledge how sad that sounds. However, I was far from alone.
Menangle station nights were like the Sydney version of the famed Sunshine nights in Melbourne.


Anyway, I decided to revisit my old haunt during a recent family trip to Picton to catch up with friends.
  Very different to our early days down there, but nice to see the main station building well looked after.


Opened: July 1863
Menangle is an Aboriginal word for swamp.
It is interesting to note that the local post office opened as Riverford in 1856, but was changed to Menangle nine years later.






Now for the moldy old shots.




OK, sorry, going back to those loco photos again :-)
4497 crossing the Menangle bridge.






One of those Friday nights I mentioned.
The light is fading fast, as 4456 approaches Menangle station as it heads to points south.




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Sydney to Menangle In The 80s


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Menangle Station - Transport NSW



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