Wongm's Rail Gallery

1000 likes on Facebook

It has taken a few years, but the Wongm's Rail Gallery page on Facebook has hit 1000 likes.

(And if you take a really close look at the image, you might see a few familiar photos)

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If you haven't already, now is the perfect time to follow Wongm's Rail Gallery on Facebook or Twitter.  Find out when new photos are uploaded to the site, peek into the archives with my daily 'on this day' posts, and take a deeper look back in time with my 'photos from ten years ago' series each month.

Unusual workings for the V/Line P class locomotives

Over the years V/Line's fleet of P class locomotives have been seen on some unusual workings. Here is a selection.

Freight Australia liveried P23 on hire to V/Line, leading an eight car push-pull H set out of Geelong on a Commonwealth Games special (March 24, 2006)

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This website is now mobile friendly

If you've tried to visit this using using your mobile phone before now, you've probably had to do lots of scrolling around in order to see the photos.

But scroll no more - I've updated the look and feel of this site so it automatically resizes for smaller screens, so that it doesn't matter what device you are using.

Yet another visit to Hong Kong

Time flies as you get older, and for me it is no different - I've just returned from yet another visit to Hong Kong. This time around my young son was also along for the ride, with twelve days spent visiting family and sightseeing around Hong Kong, plus a short stopover on the way back home from somewhere else.

I still managed to visit a number of new places in Hong Kong - the village of Tai O on Lantau Island, Shek O beach on Hong Kong Island, a visit to the quiet island of Peng Chau, and a night spent in a hotel overlooking Hong (...)

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Playing catchup after a trip to New South Wales

In October I spent a week up in New South Wales, and managed to see some trains along the way - the photos of which I have just finished uploading!

As to what I saw:

• Day 1 and day 2: driving north from Victoria via Albury and Goulburn.
• Day 3 and day 4: out and about in Sydney.
• Day 5: Cootamundra, Junee and Harefield.
• Day 6: Wangaratta, Benalla and Violet Town.

Photos from my 2013 trip to China

It has taken me almost two years, but I have finally finished uploading the photographs I took on my 2013 trip to China.

I spent a week on the 'mainland' visiting the cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Xi'an:

• Day 1: arrive into Shanghai from Melbourne, riding the Maglev from Pudong Airport, and checking out The Bund.
• Day 2: Visiting Pudong, riding the Shanghai Metro, inspecting the rubber-tyred Translor tram, and watching mainline trains at Shanghai Railway Station.
• Day 3: Shanghai to Beijing by high-speed train, and exploring the Beijing Metro
• Day 4: Template of Heaven.

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Short trip to the Gold Coast

Last week I paid a short visit to the Gold Coast - you can find my photos from the day here.

Trip to Adelaide, plus R707 on the side

I've been busy for the past few weeks, but I've finally caught up with my backlog of photos.

First up - a long weekend featuring Melbourne to Adelaide on The Overland, a day exploring Adelaide, and finally catching The Overland back east.

 And I also went out to see R707, R711 and R761 run a triple headed steam special to Seymour the week after.

Final batch of Queensland photos online

It has taken me a while, but my photos from the second half of my Queensland trip are now online.

You can find the photos here:

• April 21: trains and infrastructure between Bowen and Proserpine
• April 22: more trains and such around Airlie Beach and Proserpine
• April 24: Brisbane trains from the air

I also have photos from the Workshops Rail Museum and Whitsunday Transit buses.