Southern Cross Station trackwork 2019
Wednesday 23 October 2019
On the weekend of 19-23 October 2019 Southern Shorthaul Railroad operated works trains to Southern Cross Station, carrying ballast, rail, sleepers and everything else needed to replace two double compounds in the yard at the north end of platforms 3 and 4.
Southern Cross Station works trains
Friday 18 August 2006
During 2004-06 short trains operated between Southern Cross Station and the Creek Sidings at North Melbourne, carrying spoil, asphalt, and other materials for the station redevelopment project. CFCLA and SSR T classes were the usual motive power
Southern Shorthaul Railroad driver training
Saturday 18 November 2017
In July 2017 Southern Shorthaul Railroad commenced operating driver training runs north and west of Melbourne, in preparation for the operation of grain trains on the standard gauge.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad Kensington grain
Saturday 13 April 2024
In November 2017 Southern Shorthaul Railroad commenced operating broad gauge grain trains to the Kensington mill in suburban Melbourne.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad launch train to Bairnsdale
Tuesday 17 May 2022
On Tuesday 17 May 2022 Southern Shorthaul Railroad ran a short empty container train from Melbourne to Bairnsdale for the public launch of the new Fenning Intermodal Freight Terminal (FIFT) at the former Bosworth Road log sidings, returning to Melbourne on Thursday 19 May.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad NSW grain trains
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Southern Shorthaul Railroad operates grain trains throughout New South Wales to both domestic customers and export terminals.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad Victorian standard gauge grain
Saturday 13 April 2024
In August 2017 Southern Shorthaul Railroad commenced operating grain trains on the standard gauge in Victoria.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad works trains
Saturday 13 April 2024
Since August 2019 Southern Shorthaul Railroad has been operating works trains on the Melbourne suburban rail network on behalf of Metro Trains Melbourne.
Sydney freight terminals
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Freight trains around the metropolitan Sydney area
Tottenham Yard
All sorts of stored and damaged wagons clogging up Tottenham Yard in Melbourne's west, with a few operational ones thrown in for good measure
Track machines
Monday 9 January 2023
Pictures of ballast tampers, ballast plows, sleeper wagons, rail layers, overhead wiring trucks, rail grinders and other trackwork machinery and trains
V/Line 'Green Star' parcels
Tuesday 1 October 2019
For many years the ‘Green Star’ parcel service transported parcels onboard V/Line trains. The public parcel service was wound up in 2010, but V/Line still continues transporting blood products for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service as part of a separate agreement.
V/Line hired locomotives
Monday 24 July 2006
Occasionally V/Line has motive power shortages or failures, and need to hire locomotives from other operators for use on their own trains. In the photos here it is Freight Australia / Pacific National as the hirer
V/Line trackwork and maintenance
Friday 26 January 2024
Trackwork on the V/Line network that stretches across Victoria
Wagons and containers
Wednesday 13 March 2024
Photos of various freight wagons - if I know what train they are on then the photos are sorted into albums by operator and service, otherwise they are in albums by wagon code. You can view the new wagon and container photos in the order they were uploaded at this page.
Waurn Ponds cement train
Sunday 27 August 2017
Since the 2000s the main cement traffic in Victoria is from the Blue Circle Southern works at Waurn Ponds, outside Geelong. The major destination of the traffic was Lyndhurst in the south-east, which last saw a train in 2009, and Mildura and Somerton which saw the cement traffic end in December 2015.
Western NSW freight
Friday 31 March 2017
Freight in New South Wales from the Blue Mountains and further west.
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