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Recent albums

Occasionally I will add new albums that contain older photos, here are the most recently added. There are 1,880 in total.

Comeng train scrapping

Sunday 21 May 2023

In January 2022 the scrapping of the first Comeng trains commenced at Newport Workshops, with the cut up trains transferred to a scrap yard at Dandenong South for further component separation and recycling. Further trains have been stripped at the McConnell Dowell yard at McIntyre then trucked complete Infrabuild Recycling yard at Laverton North, and the SSR North Bendigo Workshops.

Volgren Dandenong

Friday 11 November 2022

Volgren builds bus bodies on imported chassis at Dandenong South, Victoria.

Quince's Coaches

Friday 28 April 2023

Quince's Coaches is a school and charter coach operator in Melbourne.

Western Coach Services

Sunday 19 February 2012

Western Coach Services was the charter coach brand for Kefford Group.

Sita 'Avalon Airport Transfers'

Tuesday 3 January 2017

Sita Group operated the 'Avalon Airport Transfers' service between Melbourne and Avalon Airport between 2004 and February 2017, when the service was sold to SkyBus.

V Bus Coaches

Tuesday 5 November 2019

V Bus Coaches was a tour and charter coahc operator in Melbourne.

Seymour Coaches

Tuesday 4 July 2023

Seymour Coaches operates school bus and charter coach services out of Seymour, Victoria.

Latrobe Valley Bus Lines

Monday 11 February 2019

Part of the Dineen Group, Latrobe Valley Bus Lines operates route buses in the Latrobe Valley, as well as charter coach services from their base in Morwell.

Cole's Coaches

Tuesday 29 October 2019

Cole's Coaches is a school and charter coach operator that operates out of Geelong, Colac and Warrnambool.

Mitchell Transit

Tuesday 4 July 2023

Seymour Coaches operates town bus services in Seymour, Kilmore East and Wallan under the 'Mitchell Transit' brand.

Coach Tours of Australia

Tuesday 11 October 2022

Coach Tours of Australia is a school and charter coach brand of Donric Group with depots in Sunbury, Kyneton, Woodend, Romsey, Gisborne and Bendigo

GLV Coaches

GLV Coaches is a Melbourne tourist coach and day tour operator.

Jacobson Coach Tours

Friday 15 November 2019

Jacobson Coach Tours operates school and charter coach services out of Mooroopna.

Murrays Coaches

Murrays Coaches is an Australian express and charter coach company.

Trotters Coaches

Monday 16 December 2019

Trotters Coaches operates school and charter coach services from their base in Ballarat.

Simcocks' Bus Services

Simcocks' Bus Services operates bus and coach services in Melbourne’s outer South Eastern suburbs.

SuitJet

Wednesday 29 October 2014

SuitJet was an express coach service transporting commuters from Point Cook, Eltham, Doreen, Mernda and Templestowe to Spring Street, Melbourne Town Hall, and Docklands at a cost of $30 return. Run using Dysons Group buses, the service was launched in October 2014, but was shut down a few weeks later.

Cobb & Co Coaches

Friday 16 December 2022

Cobb & Co Coaches is a charter coach brand of Dysons Group.

AAT Kings

Monday 3 February 2020

AAT Kings is an Australian coach tour operator.

Gray Line Melbourne

Sunday 18 September 2022

Gray Line day tour and sightseeing tours in Victoria are operated under licence by Driver Group.

Skylight Buslines

Tuesday 14 November 2023

Skylight Buslines operates school and charter coach services in Melbourne.

Melbourne tram and train passenger counting

Wednesday 14 September 2022

Various technologies have been used to count passengers on trains and trams - old fashioned counting, and hi-tech Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and CCTV based system.

Metro Tunnel intake substation

Monday 30 October 2023

The Metro Tunnel intake substation at North Melbourne will convert 66kV and 22kV high voltage power to lower voltages for transmission to services inside the tunnel.

Failing tram infrastructure of Melbourne

Melbourne's tram network is held together with bubblegum and duct tape - here are examples of the way that it is falling apart.

Comeng scrapping transfer, January 2022

Friday 28 January 2022

On 28 January 2022 retired Comeng sets 325M-1013T-326M and 479M-1090T-480M were transferred by T385 and T386 from their storage location at North Shore in Geelong to Newport Workshops for supposed scrapping.

Rebranding to Transdev Melbourne

Tuesday 26 August 2014

Transdev commenced their Melbourne operations in August 2013, and was required to rebrand the buses passed over from previous operatoes Melbourne Bus Link, Ventura and and National Bus Company.

Crown Coaches

Wednesday 16 August 2023

Crown Coaches operates school and charter coach services in Melbourne.

Greyhound Australia

Sunday 2 October 2022

Greyhound Australia operates intercity coach services around Australia.

Gotta Go Charters

Saturday 8 January 2022

Gotta Go Charters is a bus hire copmpany based on the Geelong suburb of Corio.

Outback Spirit Tours

Saturday 8 January 2022

Outback Spirit Tours is a tour company wholy owned by Journey Beyond; who operates the Indian Pacifc, The Ghan, The Overland and Great Southern rail services.

Victoria University shuttle bus

Wednesday 25 October 2023

Transit Systems Victoria operates a shuttle bus service for Victoria University between Footscray Station, their Footscray Park Campus and the Riverbank car park at Flemington Racecourse.

Sunshine Tours

Sunday 21 May 2023

Sunshine Tours operates charter coach services in Melbourne, alongside V/Line and Metro Trains rail replacement services.

Gull Airport Service

Gull Airport Service runs a shuttle services between Geelong and Melbourne Airport.

Carbridge

Friday 1 December 2023

Carbridge operates airside and landside bus services at Melbourne Airport.

P&O Trans Australia wagon transfer

Saturday 25 June 2011

In June 2011 P&O Trans Australia transferred a number of AFGF wagons from Adelaide atop standard gauge AQPY wagons along with a set of broad gauge for use in the upcoming Deniquillin rice train.

SCT Logistics - steel transfers

Monday 11 March 2024

In 2021 SCT Logistics commenced transporting BlueScope Steel products on the East-West corridor, after winning a 10 year joint contract with Qube Logistics from Pacific National in 2020.

Qube Logistics Long Island steel train

In January 2022 Qube Logistics commenced transporting BlueScope Steel products to the BlueScope Steel mill at Hastings, south of Frankston, after winning a 10 year joint contract from Pacific National in 2020. The steel is transferred from broad to standard gauge trains at the Melbourne Freight Terminal at South Dynon.

Evergreen Coaches

Saturday 1 January 2022

Evergreen Coaches operates a fleet of charter coaches around Melbourne.

Steamrail - 2021 members special to Bendigo

Sunday 19 December 2021

On 19 December 2021 A66 lead Steamrail Victoria's members special train to Bendigo. The tran was made up of PCP 292, Moorabool, 269 BZ, 14 BRS, 17 BE, 25 BE, 46 BE, 68 BW, 1BCE,
18 CE.

Comeng retirement transfer, 17 December 2021

Friday 17 December 2021

On 17 December 2021 retired Comeng sets 341M-1021T-463M and 376M-1038T-362M were transferred by T381 and B75 from Newport Workshops to Tottenham Yard via Brooklyn for long term storage.

Pacific National wagon scrapping at Dynon

Thursday 5 October 2023

In December 2021 Pacific National commenced the scrapping redundant grain hoppers and Sadleirs louvred van at North Dynon.

Kinetic Melbourne

Wednesday 13 March 2024

Kinetic Melbourne took over the Melbourne Bus Franchise from Transdev Melbourne in 31 January 2022.

Metro Tunnel early works at South Kensington

Wednesday 27 June 2018

To make room for the western Metro Tunnel portal beside the Sunbury line at South Kensington, freight sidings at North Dynon were relocated to the south, which made room for the relocation of 220 kV high voltage transmission lines from the future rail corridor.

Lively Bus

Tuesday 7 December 2021

Lively Bus is a smaller charter bus operator in Melbourne

Hallam level crossing removal project

Tuesday 7 December 2021

The level crossing on the Dandenong line at Hallam Road in Hallam will be removed by raising the railway on a bridge, with a new station to be built at Hallam.

South Gippsland Highway level crossing removal project

Friday 25 February 2022

The South Gippsland Highway level crossing on the Dandenong line at Dandenong South has been removed by raising the road on a bridge.

North McKinnon Centre level crossing removal replacement buses

Monday 8 August 2016

During 2016 buses have replaced trains while three level level crossings on the Frankston line were removed - North Road, McKinnon Road, and Centre Road with Ormond, McKinnon and Bentleigh stations also being rebuilt.

Qube Logistics wagon transfers

Friday 31 December 2021

Qube Logistics occasionally operates empty container transfers from NSW into Melbourne.

Comeng retirement transfer, 30 November 2021

Saturday 4 December 2021

On 30 November 2021 Alstom Comeng set 538M-1119T-537M transferred stripped Comeng set 362M-1038T-376M from Westall to Newport Workshops. T385 and P17 then transferred sets 537M-1119T-538M and 359M-1030T-360M to Tottenham Yard on 3 December, with 537M-1119T-538M being transferred onwards to the SSR workshops at North Bendigo on 4 December.

Steamrail - Sandringham suburban shuttles 2021

Sunday 28 November 2021

On 10 and 11 November 2021 K183 and K153 ran suburban shuttles from Flinders Street Station to Sandringham. The train was made up with carriages 17BE, 46BE, 7ABE, 25BE and 1 BCE.