TENTERFIELD STATION MUSEUM

Thank you to all the people at the 'Tenterfield  Railway Station Museum'  who work so hard and made me feel welcome during my visit.
If travelling somewhere via the New England Highway, you would be doing yourself a great injustice if you did not stop by and look at what these guys have achieved.

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I shall aim to put up more shots from the visit shortly.

Howdee and welcome back to 'Brad's Archive' where I place up endless amounts of unrelated bollocks from my earlier days of foamerdom.

Much is related to trains, because that was once my sole purpose in life, but some are of other topics that show parts of Australia in the 80s and 90s.

Please enjoy with someone you love - or at least someone who fills in the time between people you love.

CASA are constantly complaining about the huge increase in

birds around the airport.

Whiging bastards, I have no problem with them and, quite frankly, they are even better photographic material than a Qantas 747.

65.9 - Remember bitching about that price?

Ampol at Mascot Airport.

Philippine Airlines RP-C3335 during an extended layover in Sydney, reason unknown, but enough to get one very excited.




Oops, crap, what happened there?

Our guard cat Midi.

Mongrel was caught sleeping on the job.

Stirling North, South Australia back in the 1990s.

Location of some famous Stephen Miller incidents.

MrX in search of a FACILITY on Robertson station.

Wallangarra Triangle back in the mid 1990s.

The hornigatingly rare sight of a Philippine Airline 747 taken late

last year at Mascot.

Seagull at Maroubra Beach in the late afternoon sun.

This is another recent one, taken while trialing a new backup camera.

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Hello ferals, foamers and regular members of society who have managed to stuff up and find themselves on my website.

I recently was shovelling through the crud I call an archive in search of things Philippine related, when low and behold I come across a couple of boxes of photos that I haven't seen in well over a decade.

The boxes are from an era that I gave up cataloguing and thought it would be a damn sight easier just to shove them altogether in boxes and push them to the bloody side. After all, I was getting married, and you all know whats on the mind when your getting married hey, heheheehehehe, yes, hmmmm, well some of the railfans may know anyway.


The boxes contain older trains shots, as well as piles of shots of people I've known and places I have been.

While rooting through them I had one of those rare good ideas, I could do a serious of them on the website. I mean they are no bloody good to anyone here other than the occasional cockroach that tends to treat them as a dump for its faeces.


Thankfully the novelty of life has long since worn off and I have nothing better to do than catalogue these photos finally and share them with anyone who gives a left testie about old railway photos.

I am not a selfish prick, like so many others, so if by chance something may be of use for an article, book, or just a general whinge to some railway publication, please feel free to ask. I am not going to sodomise you for doing so.


Where I am able, I shall try to fire up the decaying memory and share any stories behind the photos, why I was there, who I was with. I suppose, in many ways, it will be just like those life stories that super stars write, and like them, I am sure nobody will give a right toss.


Thoughts, comments and additions are always welcome - should you have the time.


Cheers

Brad

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WALLANGARRA

Its a name guaranteed to raise tent shapes in almost any railfan's durps, a huge yard, dual gauge, border station for the NSW and Queensland Railways. Even from a modellers viewpoint it is an awesome subject, having been attempted as a layout a few times, but as yet I am unaware of anyone who has completed the feat.


By the time I got the shots above I had already been through 'The Garra' on a few occasions, but on this 90s day we actually spent the afternoon covering the place for the purposes of our own attempt at a HO scale exhibition layout.

We didn't intend to get here, actually we departed Brisbane in the early hours to go to Toowoomba, first to check out Willowburn depot, and then go to a local model railway open day.


The model exhibition was not all we had hoped for, sort of like the first girlfriend when she tells you she is waiting for marriage before doing the SPECIAL thing, so we decided to check out the Millmeran branchline. Headed south, we managed to cover it all before lunch and, following much discussion found ourselves penetrating deeper into the cavity of south Queensland, our destination being the Texas branch.


Texas itself must have been an interesting yard, comlete with triangle.

If I recall correctly, the station building still existed at the time of our visit. I remember walking across a field with MrX to photograph a old railway building, then leaving in a hurry when a bull started its approach with a look of hate on its face. Despite the possibility of a severe bovine violation, I am sure we obtained some photographs and these will likely surface eventually.


With the afternoon getting on, we again set sale, this time into NSW again, then along the border to Wallangarra.

Thankfully daylight was still plentiful and the next 3-4 hours were spent combing the yard, photographing, discussing and occasionally letting out a strangely erotic grunt when something of interest appeared.

All to soon we were headed back to Brisbane, rabbiting on endlessly about the plans to build the Wallangarra layout, a layout that 13 years later still ain't happened.

BROKEN HILL

God knows what year this was, it was in the 90s and it was part of a two week triangle trip from Sydney to Port Augusta, Whyalla, Adelaide,

Melbourne and back to Sydney.

Have done this run a few times, this trip being with one Bob Gioia (aka alco4833).

I, ahhhhhmmm, buggar. Sorry am having a bit of a rum block.

Perhaps Google Broken Hill to source further info on Broken Hill.

More random shots coming soon.