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

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Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, 42109, running no 2 end first, hauls the northbound Cooma Mail into Queanbeyan, NSW, February 15 1986.

The Cooma Mail was a passenger #train connecting Cooma with Sydney via Queanbeyan and […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A 421 class streamlined carbody style diesel locomotive in Indian Red livery running flat-end first, hauling a 5-car long train of passenger and baggage carriages in Candy and Indian Red liveries, calls at a single platform passenger station in a regional city. A well maintained and silver painted standpipe for watering steam locomotives is at the near end of the platform, an elegant cream-painted brick station building is to the left of the train, and the station rail yard is to the right.
February 15, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Melbourne's only Y class #tram no 469, sits awaiting a potential return to duty at Camberwell depot, Hawthorn East, August 1 1987.

469 was built in 1927 to test the Peter Witt design for adoption as a new standard for […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
An electric tram in M&MTB green and cream livery in distinctive (but unusual for Melbourne) Peter Witt layout of a saloon with automatic folding entry doors at the front and centre of the car leading up from lowered stepwells, sits just outside of a tram depot on the fan. The front wall of the depot is visible behind with the track numbers 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 above the respective tracks from left to right, and visible just inside the depot on track five at left is an orange liveried Z1 class tram no 29, with just the rear door of a Z3 class tram in green and gold livery just visible abutting the front of no 29.
February 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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This report from San Francisco on the situation facing BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is dire. Options being considered include station closures, reduced service frequency, shorter hours of operation and ultimately even closure.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xuldB-DfxdA
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Looking across to the southbound platform at the #railway station at Burradoo, NSW, November 9 1985.

Burradoo is a small station in the NSW Southern Highlands just south of Bowral, 139km from Sydney on the NSW main South […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A double track standard gauge mainline railway runs through a two platform passenger station in a regional location. The platform on the other side is backed by a cyclone wire fence, and has a number of large leafy green trees immediately behind the platform. A large white nameboard with black block letters announces BURRADOO as the station name.
February 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: 8170 and the Melbourne Express at the end of its journey from Sydney across the Maribyrnong River at Footscray, Vic, October 19 1986

The Melbourne Express was a Sydney-Melbourne overnight #train that, along with the Sydney […]

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Looking across a river, we see a loco-hauled passenger train crossing a rail bridge across the river away from us. The locomotive is an 81 class carbody style diesel loco painted in SRA NSW Candy livery. Immediately behind the loco is a two-deck car carrying wagon fully loaded with 1980s style cars. Next is a blue and gold liveried former Spirit of Progress Buffet car, then is a stainless steel fluted train hotel-power car, and then is a stainless steel fluted former Southern Aurora sleeping car.
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: 4439 and the set for the Southern Highlands Express sits stabled at Canberra Railway station, Kingston, ACT, December 8 1985.

The Southern Highlands Express departed Canberra on Sunday evenings just half an hour or so after […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
An Alco World model 44 class diesel locomotive, flat end leading, in Indian Red livery sits at the head of a rake of five non airconditioned passenger carriages in a mixture of candy and Indian red liveries, on the third track across from the station platform on which I was standing. In the background at right, the very end of a rake of preserved carriages in Tuscan and Russet livery is just visible.
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: The railway #station at Meeniyan, Vic, December 31 1984.

Meeniyan is in south-eastern Victoria about 150km from Melbourne on Victorian Railways' broad gauge former South Gippsland main line. Located just beyond Leongatha […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A small rural railway station seen from the track side.  A single concrete-faced platform stands alongside a main line broad gauge track and a loop track.  On the platform are two buildings, both constructed of vertical weatherboards: - a small, cream painted, peaked-roofed station building with a small awning, and a light green painted awning-less goods shed.  A small enamel station nameboard is affixed to the side of the goods shed announcing MEENIYAN.  A third shed is in the distance to the right.  A pair of levers sit in the centre of the platform between the two main buildings. Two large trees growing on the platform provide ample shade.
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 41 years ago today, #train S37, the Canberra Monaro Express from Sydney to Canberra then Cooma, formed of a 4 car candy liveried DEB set with power cars PF903 leading and HPF953 trailing, heads west just east of […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A view of a wide landscape of rolling hills covered with dry late summery grassland, and with a pine plantation in the foreground, with a four car diesel multiple unit train in candy livery crossing the scene from left to right in the distance. A two land road climbs the hill in the far distance behind the train.
February 9, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: The Winton to Hughenden mixed, one of Australia's last mixed #trains prepares for departure on its day-long trip to Hughenden at Winton, Queensland, July 20 1986

Mixed trains were goods trains that called at small wayside […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
Taken from a passenger platform at a station in a remote location, looking along the platform towards the station building we see a train of wooden bodied carriages standing at the platform. The station has an arched all-over roof reaching from the station building and covering the platform, the train and another track beyond the train.
February 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: A70 hauls VLine passenger #train no 8105 from Melbourne to Dimboola onto the western line as a grain train hauled by X31, S313 and T377 arrives from the Maryborough direction at at North Ballarat Junction, Vic, November 7 […]

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A bulk grain train hauled by three diesel locomotives approaches us from the right as a loco hauled passenger train in VLine orange livery heads away from us on a line curving away to the left.
February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Train S15 the Riverina XPT headed by XP2014 'City of Grafton' calls at Cootamundra, NSW, October 26 1985.

Cootamundra is 430km south of Sydney on the NSW Main South line - also the main Melbourne to Sydney interstate […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
An XPT in Candy livery stands at the main platform at a passenger station in a regional town. The station building at left has multiple transverse gabled roof segments, and an awning that projects towards the train. A white painted wooden sign also projects towards the train lists the platform numbers in black lettering and numerals with platform 4 at left and platform 2 at right.
February 6, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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Look, it's not the most egregious thing he's done, but it could be the most pitiful.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/schumer-trump-ny-funding-rename
February 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Tracks leading to Adelaide's then-new #tram depot under construction, at Glengowrie, SA, April 25, 1986.

After closure of the majority of Adelaide's tram network in 1958, the sole remaining line from Victoria Square to […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
Looking across an off-road double track electric tramway towards a new depot under construction in the left background. New track curves, as yet without any overhead wires, have been connected to the main line and cross the road adjacent to the tracks. Trackwork detritus including rails, track segments and wooden sleepers are strew around the scene. Concrete and steel Stobie poles stand along the main line supporting span wires for the tramway trolley wires.
February 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Melbourne W6 class #tram no 979 on a Camberwell route 72, turns from Malvern Rd into Burke Rd at Gardiner station, Glen Iris, Vic, November 30, 1986.

Note how near the kerb the tram is here; this was at a time shortly after […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A Melbourne W6 class tram in green and cream livery takes a left hand curve on tracks that are very close to the edge of the road and the awning on the corner shop. A bluestone church is in the background.
February 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 41 years ago today, a decrepit then-90-year-old mansard-roofed L class #carriage (is it HFL992?) in the set of the Southern Highlands Express stabled in the station yard at Canberra station, Kingston, ACT, February 3 […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A mansard roofed, tuscan liveried L class carriage attached at the rear of a carriage set is stabled in a railway yard. The carriage is looking borderline decrepit, with its paint job quite faded and with a large blemish on the roof above the passenger entry door.
February 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: VLine diesel-electric #railmotor 64RM and trailer car 34MT await their next turn of duty at Spencer Street station, Melbourne, September 28 1985.

Built to a design from the USA (where they were known as Doodlebugs), DERMs […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A VLine DERM railcar in blue and gold livery, attached to a wooden bodied carriage painted in the same blue and gold livery sit on a dead-end track at a passenger platform in a city terminal station.
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: exactly 40 years ago today, Alco diesel loco 4860 hauls the Sydney bound Cooma Mail #train out of Queanbeyan, NSW, February 1 1986.

Queanbeyan is 321km by rail south west of Sydney on the Goulburn to Bombala and Canberra […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
As seen from atop a lineside bank, a loco-hauled passenger trains runs along a track in a cutting beneath us. The train is hauled by a small hood style 48 class locomotive in Tuscan 'whiskers' livery. The single track is curving to the right (a left hand curve for the train), and a light road overbridge crosses the track in the middle distance. Dry, late summer grass covers the banks on either side of the track as they slope upwards.
February 1, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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My Melbourne Train & Tram map, now in its 30th year online, has been updated to show the new train line colourings and routings for tomorrow's "Big Switch".

See it online now at https://railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm

or download it as a high resolution image […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
Screencap of a part of Australian Rail Maps Feb 1st 2026 Melbourne Train and Tram map, showing train and tram routes in the region from Collins street in the north to Commercial Road in the south and from Elizabeth Street in the west to Burnley and Hawksburn in the east.
January 31, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: The #railway station at Healesville, Victoria, December 21 1986.

Healesville is 64km east of Melbourne at the terminus of a Victorian Railways broad gauge branch line from Lilydale. The line from Lilydale had been closed […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
An abandoned railway station as seen from an elevated position above the second track. A standard Victorian Railways weatherboard station building with awning stands on the platform. An unpainted area in the shape of a roundel and crossbar is visible on the station wall from where the station nameboard had by this time been removed. The whole place looks quite neglected.
January 31, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Today’s historic photo of the day: Exactly 43 years ago today, EMD branchline diesel loco 4910 on a southbound Gwabegar tour #train just north of Coonabarabran, NSW, January 30 1983.

Coonabarabran is 508km from Sydney on the 430km-long Wallerawang to […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
Taken from a very low angle, at ground level looking up at a train crossing a wooden trestle overbridge carrying a single track railway over above a roadway, we see a NSW Railways 49 class hood style diesel locomotive in Indian Red livery. The space for the auto staff exchanger is clearly visible from this angle, and the driver's assistant is looking down at us through the open window at his seat in the cab.
February 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: A British Rail Southern Region 4EPB third rail electric multiple unit set dating from the mid 1950s, with MBSO car 14510 at left, prepares to run the 1402 #train to Orpington from Victoria station, London, UK, March 29 1988 […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
As seen from an adjacent platform, an electric multiple unit train panted in British Rail blue and cream livery sits at a dead-end platform beneath a glass-panelled arched overall roof in a central city terminal station.
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Melbourne SW6 class #tram no 963 on route 1 nears Graham Street in Victoria Avenue, Albert Park, Vic, November 1 1987.

Route 1 runs south from Coburg East via Nicholson Street Brunswick East, Lygon Street Carlton, Swanston […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A green and cream liveried Melbourne W6 class tram runs along a suburban street lined with late 19th century commercial buildings. The tram is displaying route 1 and a desto of East Coburg Moreland (which had already been reset for the return journey). 1970s/80s era cars are running either side of the tram.
January 28, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 41 years ago today, the then recently-closed #station at Gundagai, NSW, January 27 1985.

Gundagai was 484km from Sydney by rail on a branch line that connected with the main South line at Cootamundra, then ran south […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A photo of a railway station taken from the street side. The station is of an elegant single-floor design with multi-hipped roof and gables punctuated by decorative finials. A low level veranda faces the street and an amount of corrugated iron fencing obscures the near end of the building. In the distance is a range of hills that are covered in summery dry grass.
January 27, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, we see the #railway station at Blayney, NSW, January 26 1986.

Blayney is in Central West NSW, 290km from Sydney on the NSW Main West line. The station is today served by the daily Sydney to Dubbo […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A brick railway station building stands on a platform at a station in a provincial town. The building has an awning projecting from the building towards the platform edge. A white painted station nameboard with black block letters announcing the station name as BLAYNEY is in the centre of the platform at right.
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Nine years and ten months ago today, on March 25 2016, I started my 'Historic photo of the day' series with this Twitter post of a coupled set of Adelaide H type trams. So, two months from today, the series will reach its tenth birthday of daily posts. It has […]

[Original post on mastodon.online]
A screencap of a Twitter post dated Mar 25 2016 from @Railmaps The caption reads "A propos of nothing, just because they're great vehicles, here's a 2004 photo of coupled Adelaide H class trams.' And the image is of a coupled pair of pantograph equipped, indian red liveried H type trams running along an on street section of track.
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM