A collection of photos taken on the 27th of June 2009, during a trip along the former BG branch to Oaklands. At present, the line is currently SG to Yarrawonga, with only one siding now existing, that being at St.James. Beyond Yarrawonga, the line is still BG, but conversion is immenent. This collection also contains photos of a station on the Former NSWGR branch to Oaklands, that station being Urala.

The Lilydale to Warburton Line opened on Wednesday the 13th of November 1901. The lines main purpose was to haul timber and to transport goods & passengers to the communties along the line. By the early 1960's, the line was losing money. The passenger service ceased in 1964 and the line was closed on Thursday the 29th of July 1965. There was a Railfan special to mark the last train on the Line. The track was removed in the 1970's. The line has now been converted to a rail-trail.

A collection of photos taken on the 2nd Of May 2009, when steamrail ran their Ballarat Discoverer. This collection also contains photos of the stations between Ballarat to Maryborough, and some stations along the now mostly disused cross country line between Maryborough & Castlemaine

This collection contains photos that were taken in the 8th of March 2009, when i travelled with several others to inspect the progress of the gauge conversion along the North East Main Line between Seymour and Albury. At the time of this collection being taken, the gauge conversion was around Locksley, with the spike removal gangs were about 10km north of Avenel

Miscellaneous Photos that don't need their own collection

On Saturday the 8th Of November, the last day of Broad Gauge passenger operations occured on the Albury Line. N453 'City of Albury' had the honours of hauling the last up broad gauge train carrying passengers to depart from Albury's Dock Platform.

A South Australian Road trip, stopping at all of the closed stations between Roseworthy (north of Gawler) to Burra. The 5'3" presently terminates at Burra, however, the track has been booked out since early 2008. Several stations between Burra and Peterborough were also visited, this is still on the original corridor of the 5'3". The steamtown depot at Peterborough was also visited, and Peterborough is where the 5'3" terminated. Peterborough is famous, as it is the only location in the Southern Hemisphere where 3 rail gauges meet. Those being 3'6" (NG), 4'8.5" (SG) and 5'3" (BG). The NG was followed to the terminus at Orroroo. Port Pirie and Jamestown were also visited on the return to Adelaide

Collection Three of My Adelaide Travels.

19/9/08 = South Kensington photos during a rainstorm

21/9/08 = Steamrail's Camberwell to Mitcham Shuttles

On the 6th of September, the Victorian Goldfields Railway put on another fantastic show of branchline steam power. J515, J541 & K160 were all in steam, and are also all of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement. Another fantastic day put on the by the VGR

A collection including photos of R761 at Seymour, on the Grapevine Flier, A ride to Lakeside behind 6A on the Luncheon special, and finally, photos of the annual Wattle Festival shuttles, however this year they ran Eltham-Hurstbridge, instead of Diamond Creek - Hurstbridge

Collection Two of My Adelaide Travels. This collection contains photos along the main eastern SG line to Victoria, at places such as National Park, Long Gully etc... A visit to Dry Creek, and finally a trip behind a S.A.R 620 class steamer, number 621. This was it's first time in steam in over several years.

Not since 1970 had this been seen, Double headed J class steamers. And those from two different orders of locomotives, those being an Oil Burning & Coal burning locomotive. On the 26th of July, a sight that hadn't been seen in a generation occured.

A large collection of photos taken during the Winter Holiday period. Including several trips up the North East Broad Gauge

A long interstate gunzel trip. Departed Melbourne on Friday 27th and departed Adelaide at 8pm on Wednesday. All the TransAdelaide lines were covered, even Tonsley! The tram was also covered, from City West to Glenelg. This will be the keystone to many future collections covering Adelaide and South Australian Operations in general.

On Saturday the 14th, Steamrail ran a train to mark the last broad gauge steam train between Melbourne-Albury. The line between Seymour and Albury is being gauge converted later this year. The train was subjected to sucessive delays and constant mind-changing by V/Line. The train was disabled at Mangalore, due to poor coal. The R eventually made it into Seymour Station at 2am, where the train was terminated and passengers transfered to road coaches. The coaches arrived into the City at about 3.45am

A big trip taking in more action on the North East Broad Gauge. The closed stations between Avenel-Longwood were visited and a few of the sidings between Benalla and Yarrawonga

With the impending gauge conversion of the North East Broad gauge to Standard Gauge, i decided to travel to Violet Town and the nearby BG crossing loop to see the daily cross

Today marked the end of an era for Australia, the last lcocomotive hauled suburban train ran. That being the 7.58pm up Stony Point to Frankston Service, A60 'Sir Harold Clapp' had the honour. This collection contains a collection of photos that were taken lineside during the day and aboard the last down and last up services

On the 27th of April, the A class and MTH carriages will be replaced by sprinter railcars. Today's collection has a variety of photos around the Stony Point line, but primarly beyond Long Island Junction

A collection of photos taken over the Easter break. Includes photos of D3.658 at Spencer Street Station and a trip to East Gippsland to Bairnsdale

A collection of photos from Seymour Railway Heritage Centre's trip from Seymour to Geelong via Spencer Street. This trip was hauled by N463. This was believed to be the first time in history than a N class has hauled a heritage train intentionally. N's have however rescued a few heritage trips over the years. A fantastic trip all round, and was a great sucess

This collection contains photos that were taken along the Albury line, cheifly at closed stations. This collection has photos of the following stations:

Mangalore, Monea, Locksley, Longwood, Creighton, Baddaginnie, Glenrowan, Barnawatha.

Also in this collection are photos of Rutherglen and Wahgunyah on the disused Wahgunyah Branch

This collection of photos consists of two trips up the North East Broad Gauge Line
20/2/08: Consisted of a visit to Springhurst and Chiltern Stations. Chiltern station has a historically listed station building, which is listed at a state level by the National Trust. Springhurst station was once the former junction station for the branch line to Wahgunyah. The junction has now been removed however, the track still exists from the first level crossing onwards to Wahgunyah.
21/2/08: Consisted of another trip up the North East Broad Gauge, this time to Albury. Not much was seen, and was more a trip to ensure that if a possible conversion of the line to SG did occur, I had high quality images from ‘buffer to buffer’. This was the last time to date that #8324 orginated from Albury. It's now a bus to Wangaratta

Word got around that an Extra daylight Tocumwal was running due to the docks being so far behind, lots of containers had been left at Tocumwal, me and several friends motorcaded this train all the way to Tocumwal and back to Shepparton

Puffing Billy ran 'The Gembrook Mixed', to recreate a 1910 era mixed goods train bound for Gembrook. This trip featured serveral photostops and shunting at Clematis. I motorcaded one way, and rode the train back.

A collection of photos from Two Trips up the North Eastern Broad Gauge.

Wangaratta : 27th December 2007
Wodonga : 2nd Of Janurary 2008

On Sunday the 25th, the Department of Infrastructure and The Seymour Railway Heritage Center teamed together to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 'Spirit of Progress'. All the carriages (some have been modified) were all orginally on the spirit when it went into service in November 1937. The Parlor Car was a huge sucess throughout the whole day and this combined with the Dining Car made sure that the Spirit Of Progress is remembered for quite some time to come

On the 17th of November, Steamrail ran the 70th Anniversary of the Spirit Of Progress on the Broad Gauge track to Wodonga. The train got delayed due to lack of a train examiner at Spencer Street and was further delayed at Seymour, as it had to wait for the regular Albury bound passenger train to clear Riggs Creek Loop (near Violet Town) The train subsequently arrived in albury at 1.05pm, some 3hrs late

On saturday the 13th of October, steamrail ran the Vintage train to Seymour as the 'Grapevine Flier'. The tour was the first time the R had run at 115km/h on the main line as the Seymour line still has Mechanical signalling, which incidently, is more reliable than computerised signalling. The tour ran on-time all day and was a great sucess

A busy 3 days, with the first known hitachi run to craigieburn, a trip up on the North East Broad Gauge and finally, a trip to Ballarat and the surrounding rail areas

On the 30th of September, the Broadmeadows line was offically extended to Craigieburn. There was a ceremony at Craigieburn with the Premier John Brumby and Transport Minister, Lynne Kosky, who boarded the down service at Roxburgh Park.

Today marked the end of an era. It was the last time train number #8305 would double head to Albury and split to form 2 seperate trains upon arrival at Albury. N461 & N475 had the honours.

Train number #8318, the 2.25pm service from Albury To Spencer Street was the last regular Albury service to express through Chiltern, Springhurst, Violet Town and Avenel.

A collection of photos containing various trains on Glenroy bank on the 15th of September, including D3 658 on a New Zealand railfan charter and also photos of the VGR in the castlemaine area

On Sunday the 26th of August, steamrail ran Steam Shuttles for the annual Wattle Festival.

A collection of photos of The Yarra Glen-Yering-Coldstream section, a few night photos from along the banks of the Yarra River and of some photos taken on the Walhalla Goldfields Railway in the Alpine region of Victoria

A jounrney truly from 'Buffer to Buffer' on the North East Broad Gauge.

Part Two of my North East Photography Blitz. A very cold day greated me for this trip, with the temprature hovering around 4 degrees most of the day. Even two shirts, two jumpers and rain coat wasn't enough

Part One of my North East Broad Gauge photography blitz. More to come

A collection of photos taken on the Puffing Billy Railway on the 30th of June 2007. Also includes in-cab photos of G42 whilst in motion

A collection containing the following

1: Photos around Heathcote Junction & Kilmore East on the North East Broad Gauge

A collection of photographs taken on the Burnley Group. Includes photos of the Heatherdale Station Re-construction scheme

A collection of photos taken over the Queen's Birthday Long Weekend. The locations visited were
1: Newport Workshops
2: Avenel. On the North-East Broad Gauge

A collection containing photos of,
1: The Spencer Street Transport Mural, located in the DFO outlet above Spencer Street Station
2: The Weir over the Marybinong River near Melton. It's basically empty, which presents some very unique photo opportunities.

Please Note: Due to the recent rain, the weir has now filled up and these photos will not be able to be repeated until the weir level drops. The Ballarat side of the weir is now at full width across.

A trip to St.Arnaud behind R761 on a Classic Railway Tour. Sadly, the trip arrived into Spencer street when it was meant to leave, and it lost its path. It terminated at Sunshine on the way back at 2.15am Monday morning, due to an occupation occurring on the suburban tracks, even when they knew we were coming through. Due to the late running, not much time was allowed for photos

A collection of photos taken at the locations in the name of this Collection, with a few photos in between. I can't call Spencer Street by its new name, it was Spencer Street for over 100 years, and still is (not offically). This collection includes photos of the new overland cars.

A collection of photographs of the Geelong-Ballarat line in South-Western Victoria to the Western District. The line was built as Double track in 1862, and was singled due to its low usage in 1934.

There is a crossing facility at Meredith and it is the last place in Victoria to use a Double-Wire Frame. The frame was last used in Janurary 2004.

A Collection of Photos taken at the Australian International Airshow held at Avalon Airport over the weekend of 24-25th of March. I attended on the 25th of March

A Collection of photos taken from Friday the 9th (before the open day began) until the last day of the open day

A collection of photos taken on the SRV tour to Wycheproof. Wycheproof has the distinction of having the railway through the main throughfare.

A small collection of photos taken during a flying 20minute visit to Euroa

On the 13th of Janurary, Steamrail ran the Vintage Train to Tocumwal. The trip was a success and ran on time throughout the whole day

A collection of photos taken in Victor Harbor and a few photos taken at various stations on the Western Standard Gauge Line

Finding hitachis outside peak hours is much harder than it is during peak hour. I was lucky enough to find one running today on the Broadmeadows Line. Here is an assortment of images taken today

A collection of photos taken on a quick trip to Bunyip, on the Traralgon line. Photos of the heritage listed substation at Bunyip are included in this collection

A collection of photos taken in Wodonga and the surrounding rail areas on Tuesday the 26th of September