• An up 280 Walker arrives Musk, March 2018
    Musk 2018
  • An up Bendigo to Melbourne service. Malmsbury2017
    Malmsbury 2017
  • A Melbourne to Bendigo V/Locity approaches Taradale loop 2017
    Taradale loop 2017
  • A 66's last run on a Seymour is paralleled into Tallarook by the up Albury pass. Photo courtesy Scott Gould.
    Tallarook 2017
  • An up Bendigo service arrives Woodend, Feb 2016
    Woodend 2016
  • A down Bendigo service departs Kyneton, Feb 20 2016 Photo courtesy Kris Govett
    Kyneton 2016
  • The Swan Hill to Melbourne pass arrives at Woodend Feb. 2016
    Woodend 2016
  • The 1515 Spencer Street to Bendigo service approaches Woodend. July 15 2010
    Woodend 2015
  • An El Zorro grain train approaching Woodend.
    Woodend 2011
  • To celebrate the reopening of Clunes station a special was run, here it is seen returning to Ballarat approaching the highway level crossing a few Kilometres south of Clunes near the site of the former Tourello loop. Dec. 3 2011
    Tourello 2011
  • A down bendigo service, having exited Elphinstone tunnel, drifts towards the site of Chewton. March 2 2011
    Chewton 2011
  • A Steamrail special from Bendigo pauses at the platform at Kyneton, June 13 2011
    Kyneton 2011
  • A Steamrail special from Bendigo pauses at the platform at Kyneton, June 13 2011
    Kyneton 2011
  • An up Bendigo VLocity service pauses at Kyneton. April 20 2011
    Kyneton 2011
  • An up Traralgon service departs Flinders St as a silver awaits platform space during the afternoon peak. Jan. 6 2011
    Flinders St viaduct
  • A down, (northbound) QR National goods powers through Somerton on the standard gauge. Jan 6 2011
    Somerton 2011
  • A 66 heads into the back platform at Sunshine on a down Bacchus Marsh commuter service. Jan. 27 2011.
    Sunshine 2011
  • #9162 Sea Lake to Appleton Dock grain train operated by El Zorro passes through Arnold led by S 303, B 74, T 357, T 378 and T 413. Feb. 10 2010 Photo courtesy Jim Gordon
    Arnold, 2010
  • The only place to get a feeling of the old VR is on the wonderfully preserved tourist railways. Here K 160 runs a mixed consist on a Castlemaine to Maldon service on a cold, wet winters day. Aug. 24 2010
    Muckleford 2010
  • Spencer Street sidings Dec. 13 2009
    Spencer St 2009
  • A westbound SCT waits to depart its home terminal. Dec. 2009
    SCT at Laverton 2009
  • Down Geelong passenger train pass the works for the new track into Laverton. Dec.2009
    Laverton 2009
  • Down Geelong passenger train pass the works for the new track into Laverton. Dec.2009
    Laverton 2009
  • A 85 hauls a Somerton to Waurn Ponds empty cement train through Werribee. Nov. 17 2009.
    Werribee 2009
  • My train is sitting at the up home signal waiting for the up V/Line service to depart the centre platform whilst a down Pakenham and a down Cranbourne depart Dandenong. Nov. 2009
    Dandenong 2009
  • A 6 car Xtrap departs Blackburn on a Flinders Street service as I wait at the home signal. Jan 10 2008
    Xtrap at Blackburn 2009
  • I ran the Comeng on the left to Sydenham empty cars and formed an up football special to Flinders St. The Siemens on the right is the regular up Sydenham service. Aug 29 2009
    Watergardens 2009
  • BL 34 running "light engine" waits to follow a spark back to Melbourne whilst Sprinter railcar 7013 is about to depart for Stony Point. Oct 19 2009
    Frankston 2009
  • In the last months of the Connex franchise a 6 car Comeng sits at Sydenham waiting to return to Melbourne. Oct 24 2009
    Watergardens 2009
  • A 6 car Comeng on the down between Flinders Street and Spencer Street as viewed from the cab of the train I was driving. This new viaduct was built in the 1970's as part of the city loop works. Jan. 2008
    Flinders St viaduct 2008

 

 

 

 

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