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Publisher of rail maps & public transport timetables. Photographer, public transport advocate and enjoyer of irony and life’s little incongruities. Ethics matter more than politics.

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jun 17

You know he’s an idiot, I know he’s an idiot, we all know he’s an idiot

We all know everyone knows we all know he’s an idiot. And you all know exactly who I’m talking about.

It’s time to break the kayfabe
Surely, regardless of our politics, we can all agree it’s not good to have an idiot in power

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of 📺

Sssssire.

Lancelot, Jester and Arthur on the cover of a DVD of the 1960s Australian animated series "Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table".

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2h

Don't even think about it.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 2h

And what's even more amazing to me is that everyone, friend and foe alike, knows it.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 7h

Here's a photo of the signal diagram inside Werris Creek Station signal box - the signal in the upper photo is shown as nos 22 and 19.

A track diagram mounted inside Werris Creek station box

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 7h

Today's historic pic: The bracket semaphore signal at the up end of the station at Werris Creek, NSW, April 1, 2007. Signal no 22 at left was for Up trains from the Wallangarra line, and signal no 19 at right, was for trains from Moree. These have since been replaced by modern colour light signals.

Taken from a low angle looking up, we see a railway signal mast supporting two bracketed semaphore arms, pointing left, set against a deep blue sky. Each arm stands on its mini-post which projects up from a horizontal mezzanine platform that sits atop the main post. Both arms are painted red with a white vertical bar indicating that they are home signals, and both are in the horizontal position indicating stop. The signal head at right is a little lower than the one at left, and is turned very slightly to the right to better face trains coming in off the branch line platform. A black painted counterweight is mounted just below each signal head, and a control wire with some chain segments around centrally mounted guide wheels can be seen leading from each counterweight down the main mast. In the foreground is a post fashioned from a section of white-painted re-purposed rail. Mounted on that post is a crossbar supporting some metal letters in faded black paint proclaiming NO WAY.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 21h

We've all done it.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 21h

It does say that.

Prospective tenderers will need to complete, sign and return the confidentiality deed) in accordance with the instructions in that deed) prior to being given the password to access the Request for Tender documents.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 22h

Gunzels are the modern day svengalis don't you know.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 22h

They'll want people to pre-register and they'll hand out the password only to approved tenderers.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 22h

Well, if it had kept heading straight down that track, that tram would have taken off at the ski jump. 😁

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 23h

#Metrotunnel is starting to look real.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 23h

New wayfinding signs at Melbourne Central station.

A sign on platform 4 at Melbourne Central station pointing to Exits 1-2, Lift to Swanston Street and 50m to State Library Station. A slightly out of focus Xtrapolis train destined for Alamein is in the platform in the background.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 23h

Number 57 tram traversing a temporary set of points laid on top of the roadway in Victoria Street at the temporary terminus.

Telephoto image of a Z3 class tram on route 57 tram traversing a temporary set of points laid on top of the roadway in Victoria Street at the temporary terminus.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Had a day in Melbourne today. There's so much going on at the moment.
Here's the new tram intersection being built at Victoria and Elizabeth Streets. Complete with world's first ever tram ski jump.

Telephoto image of tram tracks under construction in a city intersection. The pair of tracks leading away from us have their rails turned up and pointing skywards where they meet the sets of points making it look a bit like they would launch trams skywards.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

I remember my father telling me his first job was sewing wheat bags closed after they'd been filled so they could be loaded onto a truck (or horse cart maybe) to be taken to the nearest railway station. Nothing like that nowadays.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Yeah, they're about the only constant there.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

The place is almost entirely reliant on broadacre farming. And whilst it is more productive than ever, it has been substantially mexhanised in recent decades which means it's basically a big open-air wheat factory that doesn't require as many workers as once it did.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Exact same spot nowadays. B2 class tram also showing Not Taking Passengers!

A downtown city street with tall modern buildings on the opposite side, a few cars travelling each way, and an articulated B2 class tram travelling away from us on the far track - displaying 'Not taking passengers'

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Today's historic pic: Melbourne W5 class tram no 759 on a non-passenger-carrying run in Spencer Street, Melbourne, August 31, 1983. This section of Spencer Street north of Lonsdale Street carried no regular passenger routes at that time. Tram 759 was converted to an SW5 in 1985.

A Melbourne W5 class dropcentre tram in green and cream livery with three open doors in the centre section enclosed only by canvas blinds, heads away from us along a city street. The rear destination is displaying SPECIAL and a yellow supplementary board with the lettering NOT CARRYING PASSENGERS is hanging from the rear driver's cab. A large brick industrial building of brutalist design looms over the scene in the background with large lettering on it displaying THE AGE.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

I reckon a partnership with OBB ought to be one of the options considered.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Indeed. Mind you, in Brisbane, that's just about when the sun rises.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Overnight, speed is less critical, there's little point arriving at 5am. Reliability and comfort are very important though.

Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Well well well.
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 1d

Cryptocurrency and Trump: partners in bullshit. There's no substance to it, it's untraceable and unaccountable, few really understand it, it's manipulable, people are dazzled by it, and the rich get richer. And in then end, there's really nothing there.
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As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.