Just Australian Trains

This is a blog of my various train pictures of Australian trains in Victoria, Australia. I'm a guy who likes to go out every now and again and take pictures of Australian trains, of all shapes and gauges. All the photos I post belong to my camera and I. I hope you enjoy this blog. My Flickr feed is http://www.flickr.com/photos/toms_rail_photography

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An N class arriving with an up passenger train, while a Y class shunts a new train into Southern Cross Station. All in the late afternoon sun.

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This is it! I have finally snapped a picture of an A class to put here! A class unit number 70 was rostered on the 4:15 to Baccus Marsh. They're a very rare sight, the old A classes so I went out and grabbed a few shots while I had the opportunity. They're might favourite. I might even have a video to share with you guys!

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This is a 'superfreighter' on it's way to Brisbane from Adelaide, via Melbourne. On the front of it, we see two NR class units, originally built for the 'National Rail' Corporation, which was bought out by Toll Holdings and branded 'Pacific National'. This was taken at Broadmeadows (Vic.) on a road bridge overlooking the standard gauge line. It's one of my favourite pictures.

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This is a 'Sprinter' DMU railcar, and is used for light services on the V/Line network. They used to be a whole lot more common before the introduction of the V/Locity DMU sets. This scene is at Broadmeadows (Vic.) on a down Seymour Service.

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This is loco N451 with a Baccus Marsh passenger service. Sadly, the famous A66 wasn't there. An N is still pretty good! To the left is a V/Locity DMU set.

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This is N class locomotive number 459 on the Shepparton bound passenger service. I took this photo at Broadmeadows in Melbourne standing on a bridge overlooking the railway line. It's a simple shot, but I like it.

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Because I haven't uploaded anything in a while, here's something else that you guys might enjoy. Also at South Dynon we have XR554, A78 and X39 resting at South Dynon, having not been rostered on trains. It's one of my favourite photos, I hope you like it!

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This was taken at Melbourne's South Dynon workshops. Here, we have N459 with an unknown N behind it, and P18 off to the side. There was huge track work going on, so most of the V/Line locos were on a rest.

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Thank you, followers!

I started this blog as a place to put my favourite iPhone pictures of trains I saw, and now it has 27 followers. Not much, I know, but thank you for taking the time to follow my blog. I really appreciate it.

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This loco truly is a rare beast. This is G42, a Garratt steam locomotive built for the Victorian Railways by Beyer-Peacock in Manchester, England. The Victorian Railways had four Narrow Gauge lines built in total, and G42 served on two of them, the Walhalla line and the Colac-Crowes line. Today, it runs on the Puffing Billy railway, which is also one of the four Narrow Gauge lines built. G42 had a sister, G41, but she was scrapped after the closure of the Walhalla line in 1954 and G42  was transferred to the Colac-Crowes line, after operating on the Walhalla line. G42 is my all time favourite loco, I hope to get plenty more photos in the future.

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This is another shot of Puffing Billy, coming into Belgrave this time. 8A in particular is a very odd 'Na' class unit, as it is the only one with the stove-pipe type funnel. It's also in Matt Black, which is unique to that loco. It's seen here coming around the bend into Belgrave.

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Many of you have heard of Puffing Billy, (I would assume, if you're a rail fan) so I thought I'd share some of my photos. This is 8A just leaving Belgrave with a passenger service bound for Lakeside. The first two of the Na class were built by Baldwin in the US, and the latter 16 were build by the Victorian Railways at their Newport workshops.

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To celebrate the fact I do actually have a digital camera now, here are two photos I took today. Pacific National locos BL29 and X44 are on their way to the port of Long Island on the steel train that runs every day or so. The top photo isn’t as great as I had hoped because I somehow got water on the lens from the rain, but here are my first pictures of this train. Hopefully I can get out there soon and get some more pictures of it.

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These are my first two shots, hopefully I improve over time. This was a great spot though.

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To celebrate the fact I do actually have a digital camera now, here are two photos I took today. Pacific National locos BL29 and X44 are on their way to the port of Long Island on the steel train that runs every day or so. The top photo isn't as great as I had hoped because I somehow got water on the lens from the rain, but here are my first pictures of this train. Hopefully I can get out there soon and get some more pictures of it.

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To celebrate the fact I'm getting my digital camera on the 30 of November, I thought I'd upload another picture. This is the standard gauge turntable at Melbourne's South Dynon work shops. Most of the Victorian railway system in the Irish broad gauge, but in the latter half of the 20th century, standard gauge was built to connect all capital cities and other major towns along way. Some argue that has severed other lines from reaching their former beginning or end, but it has mostly been for the benefit of rail transport here in Australia. From left to right, there sits an unknown Y class, Y 152 and C501. 

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This is the Broad Gauge turntable at Melbourne's South Dynon workshops. Here we can see, from left to right, A73, A8?, A77, X49, T399, Y142 and what I believe is Y119, but I can't say for sure. The A classes are the ones that look like American EMD F units, but they're double cabbed, so they have the bulldog nose on both ends. The other classes you won't see another similar version of outside of Australia. The A classes are stabled there because they're going to be scrapped.

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This is a shot of a B class diesel in 'Metro' livery. This is because it is leased to Metro Trains Melbourne for repair and work trains on Melbourne's Suburban railway network. This is loco B76. There's a Y class diesel in the background.