Wongm's Rail Gallery

707 Operations - Ballarat September 2009

September 13, 2009 16:54 PM

R707 lead a 7 car train push-pull with T413 from Melbourne to Ballarat and back, via North Geelong

Ballarat line infrastructure

August 29, 2010 14:40 PM

Photos of Ballarat station - a lot more are on my other site, Rail Geelong

Ballarat Tramway Museum

May 29, 2011 11:10 AM

Located on the shores of Lake Wendouree and with about a kilometre of single track with a single crossing loop, and a 7 road shed, the museum has a collection of trams representing those used on the Victorian provincial tramways

Ballarat Workshops

March 26, 2011 17:08 PM

Currently operated by United Group they carry out work for Metro Trains Melbourne, Great Southern Rail and a number of other operators

First day of VLocity operations - Ballarat line launch

December 22, 2005 18:28 PM

December 22nd 2005 was the entry of V/Line's new VLocity trains into revenue service. I managed to catch the 1406 service to Ballarat, and the 1629 service from Ballarat. In this collection I've got pictures of the VLocity arriving at Southern Cross Station, for the first time with paying passengers on board, as well as the services that I travelled on.

Geelong - Ballarat Railway 150th

April 14, 2012 18:28 PM

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Geelong Ballarat rail line opening, a special charter train ran from Geelong to Ballarat and return on 10th April 2012. Steamrail's T364 led the train, which included carriages 1BCE, 3ABE and 7ABE

Hitachi transfer - January 2009

January 18, 2009 15:37 PM

El Zorro took CFCLA liveried T369 out light engine from Dynon to Ballarat to pick up a refurbished Hitachi set from Alstom's North Ballarat Workshops. The set was 23M-2007T-233M + 9M-1919T-144M and was taken to Newport Workshops

Hitachi transfer with T378 to Ballarat

August 31, 2008 11:31 AM

SRHC's T378 took the Elecrail Hitachi set from Newport to Ballarat Workshops via North Geelong for refurbishment. Here are some shots between Lara and Warrenheip.

Mildura freight

September 23, 2011 10:42 AM

The Mildura freight runs from Merbein (just north of the town) to Melbourne and return for Wakefield Transport. The train is made up of standard and refrigerated containers, as well as a small amount of cement loading. Until recent years oil tankers, louvred vans and LCL containers were also attached to the train.

PCJ van transfers to/from Ballarat - September 2009

September 15, 2009 12:18 PM

El Zorro ran a transfer between Melbourne and Ballarat via North Geelong, T357 took V/Line power van PCJ 491 to the Ballarat Workshops for refurbishment, bringing back completed van PCJ 493 (formerly PCO 2)

SRHC - Ballarat Blue Train Tour December 2007

December 12, 2008 07:45 AM

The Seymour Railway Heritage Centre ran their 'Blue Train' from Ballarat to Seymour via Southern Cross, with locomotives B74 and T357, with Parlor Car in the consist

SRHC - Ballarat Blue Train Tour May 2008

May 24, 2008 22:27 PM

On May 25 the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre ran a special train from Seymour to Melbourne to Ballarat and return. New V/Line liveried locomotive N468 took the train of blue S cars

Steamrail - 'Ballarat Discoverer' May 2009

May 02, 2009 14:26 PM

R761 lead a 5 car train from Melbourne to Ballarat and return, via Bacchus March both ways.

Steamrail - Ballarat driver training September 2009

September 13, 2009 13:18 PM

Recently repaired R761 took 5 cars on a driver training run from Melbourne to Ballarat - via Geelong on Saturday 12th, and back via Bacchus Marsh on Sunday 13th

Steamrail - Cup Weekender October 2010

November 01, 2010 18:21 PM

Running from Melbourne to Quambatook and Sea Lake over the Melbourne Cup weekend, the consist was S313 - S301 - PCP - Goulburn - LAN - Moorabool - BZ - BRS - Werribee - Indi - Coliban - Inman - AK - BCE.

Steamrail - Mildura 2009

November 02, 2009 20:43 PM

S301, T395 and S313 lead the train of 15 carriages, R761 was added to the train on the return leg between Ballarat and Melbourne (via North Geelong)

Steamrail - Y112 Ballarat shuttles - August 2010

August 23, 2010 11:12 AM

Steamrail - Y112 Geelong shuttles - April 2011

April 17, 2011 21:49 PM

T356, Y112 and D3 639 ran shuttles around Geelong on April 16th and 17th. The diesel was only used on the first morning, Y112 having run light engine from Ballarat for the occasion.

V/Line - Maryborough line launch

July 25, 2010 19:58 PM

V/Line services to Maryborough were officially launched on Saturday July 24, with VLocities VL34 and VL38 running special trains on the day, and Premier John Brumby and Public Transport Minister Martin Pakula there for the opening ceremonies.

The train carried passengers from Melbourne as far as Ballarat, then took invited guests to Creswick, where an opening ceremony for the new station was held. Locals were allowed to catch the train to Maryborough where another opening ceremony was held. Five shuttle trips were run between Maryborough and the 214 km post for the locals (originally six were planned) before VL38 headed back to Melbourne, VL34 stabled to run the first up service the next day.

V/Line around Ballarat

April 10, 2012 13:38 PM

V/Line services around Ballarat: since Regional Fast Rail started in 2006 boring old VLocities are the only trains used beyond Bacchus Marsh.

XTrapolis transfer - April 2011

April 03, 2011 13:48 PM

Y168 and a power van transferred brand new XTrapolis set 81-82M and 83M-84M from Ballarat to Newport via North Geelong, one of the newly assembled sets at the United Group Rail workshops. Y168 is the current Ballarat Workshops shunter, having taken over from Y145 a few weeks earlier.

XTrapolis transfer - August 2009

August 29, 2009 12:02 PM

T357 hauled 6 car XTrapolis 893M/894M and 955M/956M from Newport Workshops to the United Group workshops at Ballarat, a GVDY guards van with generator also went along to power the auxiliaries of the suburban set. T357 and Y145 had brought the van to Melbourne the night before

XTrapolis transfer - February 2010

February 28, 2010 21:27 PM

T413 transferred brand new XTrapolis set 5M-1303T-6M and 7M-1304T-8M from Ballarat to Newport. So new that it had no identifying marks (other than 'unit 3' and 'unit 4' taped in the windows) the set had been taken directly from the docks to Alstom Ballarat to fix up the floor, the interior fitout was also carried out.