Sydney buses
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Buses operated by State Transit and various private operators around Sydney
Rescuing a failed D2 class tram, October 2013
Monday 7 October 2013
On 7 October 2013 D2.2009 failed somewhere on route 96, so classmate D2.5020 was sent out on a rescue mission to drag the tram home to Southbank Depot.
Motorists delaying trams
Friday 15 March 2024
Wherever you go in Melbourne you are certain to find some moron who doesn't know how to drive, either queuing through an intersection or overhanging a tram lane, resulting in delays to dozens of tram passengers.
E class tram testing
Wednesday 8 May 2019
The E class tram are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams built by Bombardier. From 2013 the first two trams spent a number of months in testing around the Melbourne tram network.
Wild winds delay Ascot Vale trams, October 2013
Tuesday 1 October 2013
On the night of September 30 strong winds blew the roof from an apartment block in Maribyrnong Road in Ascot Vale, blocking trams on routes 57 and 82 until the wreckage was removed.
Blackout at Newmarket railway station, September 2013
Thursday 26 September 2013
On September 26, 2013 a tree took out the mains power supply to Newmarket station, plunging the platforms into darkness, but not affecting traction power to trains or signalling systems.
Newport Railway Museum
Saturday 3 September 2022
Located off Champion Road in North Williamstown, the Newport Railway Museum hosts an open air collection of steam, diesel and electric trains from the railways of Victoria, alongside other railway exhibits. The ARHS operated railway museum was established in 1962, and was closed to public access 2010-2014 due to visitor safety concerns, but has since reopened and seen upgrades to place exhibits undercover.
Yarra Trams - Flemington Racecourse and Melbourne Showgrounds specials
Saturday 22 October 2022
Yarra Trams operates additional tram services for major events at Flemington Racecourse and the Melbourne Showgrounds.
Collins Street power failure, January 2013
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Power went out in the section due to a truck taking out the overhead at Collins and King Street, with recovery vehicle R10 needing to rescue the stranded trams
Yarra Trams - Grand Prix specials
Friday 31 March 2023
Each year for the Australian Grand Prix special trams are operated by Yarra Trams from the Melbourne CBD to the circuit at Albert Park.
Yarra Trams - diverted and out of place
Friday 16 February 2024
Usually Melbourne's trams stick to a home depot and set of usual routes, but when disruptions occur, trams can be sent along alternate routes in order to maintain a limited service.
Steamrail - Snow Train, July 2013
Sunday 21 July 2013
R761 and R707 lead a 14 car long train from Southern Cross to Traralgon and return, having to run from Newport to Southern Cross via Sunshine and Deer Park due to Regional Rail Link works.
Steamrail - Glen Waverley shuttles 2013
Sunday 30 June 2013
This year K153 and K190 were the two locos, working push pull on the shuttles.
Just another tram versus car, June 2013
Wednesday 12 June 2013
The tram I was on was heading north past peak hour congestion on Flemington Road when I heard a *crunch* - the tram came to a stop, as did the tram behind us. I opened the window and saw a Mercedes with a scratched up front panel pass the tram tooting their horn, while the driver left the cab and went back to talk to the other driver. We caught up to the car at the next set of traffic lights.
DERMPAV - Ballarat charter, May 2013
Saturday 25 May 2013
On May 25, 2013 a private group chartered RM58 for a trip to Ballarat and return, via Bacchus Marsh
Ballarat buses
Saturday 10 June 2023
Buses in Ballarat are operated by CDC Ballarat, formerly Davis Bus Lines, part of CDC Victoria.
Unsafe 'safety' zone in Ascot Vale
Tuesday 14 October 2014
Located on Epsom Road at Flemington Drive in Ascot Vale, stop 30 on route 57 seems to get wiped out by dimwitted drivers a few times a year. Southbound traffic is required to slew sideways to avoid a right turn lane, which seems to be too hard for some drivers, who plow straight into the safety zone fence.
Derailed tram on Elizabeth Street, May 2013
Saturday 18 May 2013
On May 18, 2013 tram works were underway on Elizabeth Street in the Melbourne CBD, with a temporary crossover in used just north of La Trobe Street. Z3.229 was headed south over the crossover when the trailing bogie derailed, leaving the tram skewed across the tracks. Once the tram was rerailed the crossover stayed out of use for the rest of the day, while the bolts holding it down were adjusted.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne's southern suburbs
Saturday 28 October 2023
Melbourne trams in the southern suburbs: routes 1, 12, 96, and 109.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne's northern suburbs
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Melbourne trams in the northern suburbs: routes 1, 8, 19, 96, 112 and 86 operated from the Brunswick and East Preston Depots.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs
Saturday 9 March 2024
Melbourne trams in the south-eastern suburbs: routes 3, 5, 6, 8, 58, 64, 67, 78 and 79 operated from the Malvern and Glenhuntly Depots along St Kilda Road.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne's north-western suburbs
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Melbourne trams in the north-western suburbs: routes 57, 58, 59 and 82 operated from Essendon Depot.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne's eastern suburbs
Monday 8 January 2024
Melbourne trams in the eastern suburbs: routes 48, 70, 75 and 109 operated from Kew and Camberwell depots
Crumbling station building at Newmarket
Sunday 27 March 2022
A look at the crumbling citybound station building at Newmarket station on the Craigieburn line, where everything is falling apart. The cantilevered platform verandah was reinforced with acrow props in 2012 and demolished in 2013. As for the piers holding everything up, even bigger acrow props have been installed to counteract the failing concrete piers and beams.
Steamrail - Western Rambler, April 2013
Saturday 27 April 2013
On April 27, 2013 Steamrail ran a 'Western Rambler' tour, with K153 leading T413. It ran from Newport to Sunbury via Sunshine, on to Southern Cross via Brooklyn and the Bunbury Street tunnel, up to Broadmeadows, back to Southern Cross then to Flemington Racecourse, and finally up to Upfield then back to Newport.
Metro Trains Melbourne stuffups, April 2013
Friday 26 April 2013
Over five days over the Anzac Day break there was a shutdown for Regional Rail Link related works at Viaduct Junction. April 26 was a normal workday but with limited platforms available at Southern Cross Station, resulting in all kinds of delays.
Steamrail - Williamstown shuttles 2013
Sunday 28 April 2013
On April 28, 2013 Steamrail run shuttles from Williamstown to Southern Cross Station, using K153 push-pull with D3 639
V/Line - 'Last' A class services, April 2013
Friday 26 April 2013
With the April 2013 timetable change, V/Line changed their working timetable to remove the need for their A class fleet to haul any passenger trains. The last service was supported to be the up Bacchus Marsh on April 26, 2013 - but both A66 and A70 were brought back into service in 2014, with A66 then allocated a regular weekday return trip to Bacchus Marsh in 2015.
Steamrail - Tocumwal March 2013
Saturday 9 March 2013
On March 9, 2013 Steamrail ran a a 11 car train from Melbourne to Tocumwal and return with locomotives S303 and S313. The entire down trip was a few hours late, the train having been timetabled by V/Line into platform 3 at Southern Cross where two S classes cannot fit! After all of the extra shunting was required, V/Line decided that a 40 minute window before the down Shepparton departed was not enough, so we got held until their departure at 0914.
Melbourne tram sidings
Friday 9 February 2024
Around the Melbourne tram network are a small number of sidings that lie off the main running lines, usually used to store trams before and after special events.
Melbourne tram tracks
Sunday 3 March 2024
Tram tracks, pointwork, junctions, signals and so on from around the Melbourne tram network.
Melbourne tram stops
Saturday 16 March 2024
Tram stops around Melbourne fall into three groups: platform stops, safety zones, and signs beside the road.
Melbourne tram termini
Friday 9 February 2024
Melbourne's tram network consists of 29 regular routes, and quite a number of regular termini!
North Fitzroy Depot
Sunday 17 January 2021
North Fitzroy Depot on Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy closed in 1993, but reopened in 2008-2012 to stable W class trams used on the City Circle while Southbank depot was undergoing refurbishment.
Yarra Trams - Melbourne CBD and Docklands
Saturday 16 March 2024
Melbourne trams around the CBD and Docklands areas.
City Circle Tram
Thursday 7 December 2023
Operating as route 35 and encircling the Melbourne CBD with an extension into Docklands, the City Circle Tram operates free for tourists with W class trams.
Prodata ticketing equipment on the Bucharest Metro
Wednesday 19 December 2012
In the capital of Romania, the Bucharest Metro uses a ticketing system very similar to Metcard, the equipment having been supplied by Prodata - the same company that supplied validators to Melbourne. Magstripe tickets are used for single trips, with smartcards for regular travellers, and the recent introduction of payment via credit card using the contactless Paywave/Paypass technologies
Steamrail - Link Tours charters 2012
Friday 7 December 2012
A series of charter trains run by Steamrail in the later half of the year for Link Tours, taking party goers from Melbourne of an evening out to the Macedon Ranges, then return
707 Operations - Seymour December 2012
Saturday 1 December 2012
Just before the summer fire bans kicked in, R707 lead a train from Melbourne to Seymour and return on December 01, 2012
Car crash and tram delays on Maribyrnong Road, December 2012
Friday 30 November 2012
One downside of trams sharing road space with cars: when dimwit motorists get caught up in a three car pileup on a road with trams, everybody else gets held up.
Kerrisdale Mountain Railway
Saturday 10 November 2012
The Kerrisdale Mountain Railway is a privately owned two-foot (610 mm) narrow gauge railway that zig-zags up a hill in the Tallarook Ranges outside Seymour.
NSW Rail Transport Museum - Melbourne Cup Aurora 2012
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Heritage locomotives 44211 lead 4490 on the 10 carriage train of ex-Southern Aurora carriages from NSW to Melbourne on November 06, 2012.
Keep clear of the tram tracks, October 2012
Thursday 25 October 2012
Where trams turn corners, there are yellow lines painted along the road so that cars know to keep clear. This bloke at the corner of Victoria and Errol Streets in North Melbourne didn't pay attention to them, which resulted in Z3.205 ripping off the rear quarter panel off his van.
Steamrail - Bendigo Line 150th 2012
Sunday 21 October 2012
On October 21, 2012 Steamrail relaunched steam locomotive R711 into service, hauling a seven car to Bendigo for the 150th anniversary of the line opening. T364 went along push-pull for the empty cars ride between Newport and Southern Cross, reversing at Sunshine due to an occupation on the line via Yarraville
X'Trapolis transfer, October 2005
Tuesday 25 October 2005
The Connex X'Trapolis EMU fleet required a number of modifications that were carried out at the Ballarat Workshops. Set 925M-1663T-926M + 919M-1660T-920M was transferred from Ballarat to Bayswater (via Geelong) with T377 as the motive power, with power van ZVDY 52 attached to the rear
Steamrail - Double R class to Bendigo, September 2012
Saturday 8 September 2012
R707 and R761 lead a 10 car train from Melbourne to Bendigo and return, connecting with a special train on the Victorian Goldfields Railway at Castlemaine. Along the way we were overtaken by a trio of PN locos headed towards Elphinstone to rescue a failed grain train.
Steamrail - Hurstbridge Wattle Festival 2012
Sunday 26 August 2012
On August 26th Steamrail took K153 and K190 along with five carriages up to Hurstbridge to run shuttle trips from there to Eltham for the annual Wattle Festival.
Sydney Tramway Museum
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Located south of Sydney at Loftus, the museum has an extensive collection of trams from Sydney, other cities in Australia, plus a few from elsewhere in the world. It operates two lengths of track: one heading 1.5 km towards Sutherland, the other heading 2 km into the Royal National Park.
Australian Technology Park, Sydney
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Located on the side of the former Eveleigh Workshops at Redfern, south of the Sydney CBD