Back in the days before select individuals ruined the S*M*U*T group, and the hobby as a whole for myself, we would run the occasional bus tours around Sydney, checking out former rail locations.
This was our second tour, this one covering the former lines of the south-west, along with visits to the 'Campbelltown Steam and Machinery Museum' and the model railway club at Menangle.
Picking up passengers at Sydenham station.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Remains of former railway station inside Rookwood station.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Busing it along the old cemetery formation.
Photo: Brad Peadon
2716 visiting a very wet Warwick Farm Racecourse platform.
Opened: 1889 - Closed: 1990
Opened: 1889 - Closed: 1990
Since this visit, most of the platform has been removed for some sort of redevelopment.
Photo: Brad Peadon
What Warwick Farm Racecourse used to look like.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Former Holsworthy branch line from Liverpool.
The wet road makes the former trackage obvious. The track in front of me is the main track to Holsworthy (ahead), and Liverpool (behind).
In the distance, the line curves right under Newbridge Road, while a former siding branched off to the left of the shot.
In the distance, the line curves right under Newbridge Road, while a former siding branched off to the left of the shot.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Above: where the siding ran into the factory.
Below: where the line ran under Newbridge Road.
Below: where the line ran under Newbridge Road.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Mr Phil Harrison.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Special train ride kindly operated by the museum.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Menangle railway station.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Campbelltown railway station.
Dropping off passengers not coming to Merrylands RSL for dinner.
Photo: Brad Peadon
Scoffing our faces at Merrylands RS.
Photo: Brad Peadon
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Thanks:
Thanks:
Nathan Lyons (our driver)
