SLIDING

SLIDING

Storm approaching Eugowra Yard.

Exeter Station - Australia

East Greta Junction.
Start of the South Maitland Railways

Eugowra yard

Grenfell station

Goulburn Roundhouse

Galong Yard layout

Another riveting selection of slides from back in the days before hatred and ego controlled the railfan hobby. They were great days, no internet, just lineside mateship.
You can excuse anyone for being bitter. Years of trying to make a better hobby, trying to further railway preservation in NSW, just to be attacked endlessly from people professing to run the railway heritage industry, or who run mediocre Facebook groups while carrying a huge chip of HAYte on their shoulders.  At least I have close friends, and a massive pile of memories left to enjoy. All of which I am happy to share with like-minded people who still care about the railfan hobby.

Beautiful Exeter station remains very much the same in 2018.

East Greta Junction on the South Maitland Railway.

Eugowra (terminus of line from Cowra)

Goulburn before the museum moved in.

Galong before a container train went through is.
Stay tuned for video footage from this station.

More old 80s/90s images (and videos) shortly.

As part of the task of cataloguing the massive collection accumulated over the years, I recently decided to start going through all the slides.
The of the 80,000+ print collection has been gone through numerous times, but the slides have not been looked at for a couple of decades.
Needless to say, I am finding a huge amount of surprises within the confines of those dusty slide boxes and, being the generous chap that I am, I shall be bringing forth a lot of these for your enjoyment.

Boorowa had not long seen it's last grain train when these shots were taken. The yard, such as it was, was still intact, as was the bridge approaching the yard, signalling and turntable.
In 2017, it is far from a pretty sight.
The classic truck in the top shot is believed to be an International.

One of the lesser known stations on the Sydney network.
Hope Street was a railway employees platform to the south of Delec.

Galong track diagram.

Galong station, facing north towards Sydney.
photo taken prior to the derailment that saw a good portion of the

down building demolished.

Grenfell station a few years after closure.

Forbes station, on the Stockinbingal-Parkes line, has not changed much more than a paint job into different colours.
Forbes opened in 1893.

Candy, it just improved the look of everything.

Not much was left of Sodwalls in the late 80s, but there was still 

far more than exists in 2017.
The station, complete with passenger amenities, first opened back in 1872.

As was the custom of the day, every Hunter trip commenced with a visit to the Toronto branch, before heading around to the Belmont line.
This morning we were a little earlier, being there to watch the sun rise up over Lake Macquarie. Sadly those shots did not scan well.
The morning sun had just fully lit the whole station when this shot was taken. Soon we would send the next couple of hours chasing spuddies back and forth to Fassifern.

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More slides from the SRF and S*M*U*T archive coming shortly.