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RICHARD FELSTEAD'S RAILWAYS 2008 THESE IMAGES CANNOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES WITHOUT MY EXPRESS WRITTEN AUTHORITY. THEY CAN BE USED FOR FOR FREE -ACCESS WEB SITES.ALL I ASK THAT YOU PLEASE PLACE A LINK TO THIS PAGE ADVISE ME BY EMAIL. All Victorian railway lines mentioned can be found at Andrew Waugh's 1940 map of Victorian Railway 's main and branch lines. For NSW equivilants please check Rolf Bozier's nswrail.net where you'll also find some of my photos.
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13th January N467 on a down BG Pass
Departing for Albury. Chiltern S G Crossing Loop is on right  Chiltern is the home of Chilternwood Studios is situated on the  17th of February
Up direction
Down direction
Bonegilla, on the now dismantled Wodonga to Cudgewa line, was close to the former Bonegilla Migrant Hostel where many European migrants were housed after World War 2 to the mid 1970's 15th of March Up direction
Down direction
Up direction
Down direction with former goods shed in background
When Lake Hume is full this site is underwater.
Cairns is situated in Far North Queensland. Where IS Cairns? 31st of May to 5th of June Up "Sunlander".
Up "Tilt Train".
Up Tilt Train & Down Kuranda Scenic Train at Cairns Railway Station.
After leaving Cairns ,the Kuranda Scenic Train stops at the northern suburb of Freshwater.
Stoney Creek Station can be used as a crossing loop if required.
Barron Falls Station.
Barron Falls Station from Skyrail.
The train terminates at Kuranda. An interesting chair.
Kuranda from Skyrail.
There appears to be hundreds of kilometres of 2 feet narrow gauge tracks around Cairns. Sugar cane wagons waiting to carry soon to be harvested crop near Mossman.
Looking up
Looking down
Infrastructure Trackside System (Locomotive) Depot in Cairns. A QR employee kindly escorted me around the yard and allowed me to take any pictures I wanted. Due to O H & S regulations,I was required to wear a reflective jacket.
Gordonvale , 20 kms south of Cairns,station looking up.
QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS INTEREST GROUP. On 14th of June Steamrail Victoria ,utilizing R 761 ,ran the last steam hauled broad gauge train to Albury NSW. Whilst waiting this special, a north bound standard gauge goods thundered through Albury.
R 761 could not proceed in number 2 road due to a spectator parking too close to the line.
The bemused crew.
Eventually R 761 was able to proceed to the turntable in Wodonga,return to Albury and proceed home.
7th July. Upside of Albury Yard with Harold Mair Bridge in foreground.
Disused A Box. Junee now controls Albury Yard.
Unusual train,possibly used for sleeper replacement.Please enlighten me as to its function by email.
28th of September. The Melbourne bound Countrylink arriving at Albury.
5th of October. Wangaratta and Bowser are situated on North East Victoria's Rail Line.
Down broad gauge line passenger trains terminate at Wangaratta due to poor state of the line down to Albury which will soon be converted to standard gauge. From November 2008 broad gauge trains terminated at Seymour whilst the BG line to Albury was converted to SG which was finished during 2010. Buses ran between Seymour to Albury.
Passengers were conveyed to Springhurst , Chiltern, Wodonga and Albury by bus.
The train waits for the buses to return before heading back up to Melbourne.
Standard gauge platform.
Bowser is about 8kms on the downside of Wangaratta.
It used to be the junction for the Peechelba branch
to the north (left in next photo) and the Everton branch ( right) to the south east.
Everton was the junction for the Yackandandah and Bright branches.
Site of former Bowser signal box and station looking in up direction. In foreground is broad gauge track which was converted to standard gauge in 2010 whilst original standard gauge is in background.
8th November. The last broad gauge passenger train from Melbourne to Albury.
Tim Fisher , rail fan and former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
N 453 controls.
15th November. A down Sandringham suburban electric between Windsor and Balaclava from Alma Road bridge.
Down train. Up train on newly completed bridge which replaced a level crossing at Taylors Road.
17 November. Arriving
and about to depart.
Metcard ticket dispenser.  18th November. with site of Heathcote line platform.
RAILWAYS 1968. 2009. 2010. ++
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