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December 2011 trip to Adelaide: Part 1
If you are wondering about the lack of photos uploaded over the past few weeks, it is because I went on a trip to Adelaide.
I have finished uploading the first round of photos, which are a bit of a mixed bag...
Back from New South Wales
I'm finally back from a roadtrip up to New South Wales, and have uploaded a huge collection of new photos to the site.
They include...
- Trestle bridges on the Orbost Line
- Wandering around stations on the Main South and a number of closed branches
- Trains on the Skitube rack railway in the Snowy Mountains
- Freight, CityRail and CountryLink services around the Southern Highlands
- Wandering through the bush to the incomplete Maldon - Dombarton railway bridge at Maldon
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Follow us on Twitter!
For all of those people out there on Twitter, we now have our own account delivering updates right to you! Follow us today!
http://twitter.com/wongmsrailpics
(For those not on Twitter, don't forget we also have a Facebook page to get your train photos fix)
Something different: Hong Kong
If you have been following my photo uploads, then you might have noticed a big gap in late November / early December. That was because I was on holiday in Hong Kong!
Another backlog of updates
Over the past week or so I have been out chasing El Zorro grains up north.
On Friday July 9 I headed down to Geelong to see a down train depart, on the way I saw the up Mildura pass through Melbourne, a PN grain at North Geelong, and the GWA sleeper train for Adelaide at Inverleigh. The El Zorro locos were getting service at Geelong Loco, Y168 being taken off the train after suffering a hotbox on the trip from Tocumwal. The locos ended up getting stabled, leaving me with nothing else to see.
On the morning of Monday July 12 the El Zorro train was due to depart Geelong for Birchip, I headed out to St Arnaud to wait for it at sunrise, but nothing came though. It turned out the train was delayed at Warrenheip due to a (...)
Updates from South Australia
I have finally gotten around to uploading my photos from my recent week long trip to South Australia - it was the reason for the two weeks when to new photos appeared!
What did I get up to?
- I stayed at Mt Lofty station to see the trains go past, plus a side trip to Dry Creek to see some double stack trains.
- Visited the National Railway Museum at Port Adelaide.
- Had a trip or two on the TransAdelaide suburban network.
- Discovered how weird a bus on a concrete track is.
- Went for a ride on Steamranger between Goolwa and Victor Harbor, and visited their Mt Barker depot.
- Had a quick look at the (...)
New Facebook page
If you are on Facebook, you can now join up to the new Wongm's Rail Gallery page and find out straight away when new photos have been uploaded! Just follow the link, then click 'like'.
http://www.facebook.com/wongms.rail.gallery
New page for wagon photos
I have added a new page that just displays wagon and container images, sorted by when I have uploaded or updated them, not by when they were taken like the rest of the site. Before you could only go to the the list of albums by wagon type.
I usually upload wagon photos after my 'usual' train photos to avoid clogging up the recent upload page, plus I have a large backlog of photos I am currently uploading that would otherwise go unnoticed. You can visit the new page at:
V/Line's new livery - Part 1: carriages
V/Line commenced repainting their carriage fleet into a new grey, white and red livery in late 2007, the offical launch being on September 12th at Southern Cross Station. So where have they gotten up to since?
It took a year for a final version to appear, with carriages being progressively repainted with just a few remaining as of 2010.
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Wagons for Metro works trains
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of articles and photoessays on various railway subjects - there are times when an album or sequence of photos are just not enough to tell a story.
Metro Trains Melbourne have previous announced that they will be running their own works trains, insead of contacting out to other operators as Connex did. To acheive this, they are leasing locomotive and rolling stock from CFCLA.
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