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Richard Felstead's 1969 to 1970's Railways.
Richard Felstead's Railway page 1980.
Richard Felstead's Railway Page 1990's
Richard Felstead's Railway page 2000
Richard Felstead's Railway Page 2010 - 2019
Richard Felstead's Railway Pages 2020.
Richard Felstead's Railway page 2021.
Felstead Circuit Thurgoona NSW Australia.
1968 Railways.
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Richard Felstead
's
Railway Page.
1966 and 1967
including SYDNEY 1967 & 1968
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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.
I found this sign, below, on the WWW.
It's not mine.
Victorian Railways bus leaving Keys Street Beaumaris for Sandringham where
it will connect with a suburban electric train to Flinders Street and
(in those days) onto Broadmeadows.
Down Sandringham Line "Tait" electric suburban
arriving at
Hampton
.
Spencer Street Station is now called
Southern Cross Station
.
Seymour
.
Seymour Station
Refreshment Rooms.
Springhurst
.
Chiltern
.
The now-dismantled
Billy Hughes
Bridge
about 12 kms north of Albury NSW.
Same location 24th February 2008.
The former Table Top Station
is now a crossing loop.
4458 heads a down freight as an
up special awaits safe-working clearance to Gerogery.
Down freight at
Gerogery
in Southern NSW.
Note the 2 position signals.
Belgrave narrow gauge station
home of Puffing Billy.
Pre-metric
Puffing Billy
information.
Up platform of Middle Park Station on
Flinders Street to St Kilda branch
.
This line is now a standard gauge tramway.
Approaching
Maryborough
from Castlemaine.
Dunnolly & beyond line on right.
Avoca
.
Re-opening of broad gauge line to Ararat
which was later converted to standard gauge.
There is not a reflective-vested security person in sight.
Approaching
Elmshurst
on way to
Ararat
.
Australian Railway Enthusiasts Down Special
at Ingliston Bank 22nd July 1967.
I tried an "arty" photo and deliberately
placed a person in front of me.
Les Brown
has confirmed it is him.
Please click
here
to see this photo as well as
others he took on this Skipton Special.
Graeme Reid's 8mm
silent movie
of this event.
Andrew Waugh's Victorian railways maps
.
Smythesdale Viaduct on former
Ballarat to Skipton branch.
Newtown was on Ballarat to Skipton line
and a junction to
Colac via Cressy
.
Recent photos of former Newtown Station
.
Skipton terminus of branch from Ballarat.
This is now a
Rail Trail.
Recent photos of former Skipton station
.
Same view 2012.
Healesville
terminus north east of Melbourne.
View from Spencer Street to Daylesford
passenger train at
Carlsruhe
looking towards Bendigo and beyond.
T 336 at Daylesford.
The
Central Highlands Tourist Railway
operate part of the former
Carlsruhe to
Daylesford
branch.
Upside of Daylesford with left line
to Melbourne via Carlsrhue
and to right formation of former
line to Ballarat via
Creswick
.
Up freight train (on then broad gauge)
approaching
Gheringhap
.
Melbourne skyline from
Richmond
station
with a departing up Harris suburban electric.
The
Melbourne Tennis Centre
is now situated on left of picture.
Melbourne skyline a year later
about 500 metres on upside of Richmond.
On left railway workshops and
on right
Melbourne Cricket Ground
.
Sandringham Line
on left with
Dandenong (since extended to Pakenham)
&
Frankston lines
in middle
and
Lilydale
,
Belgrave
and
Glen Waverley
lines nearest to camera.
Up Harris suburban electric at
Cheltenham
.
B 76 on a "Victour" Special
at Spencer Street Station.
SYDNEY & ENVIRONS
1967 and 1968.
Up freight train decending Blue Mountains.
Site of
Zig Zag Railway
with
Main Western Line
at bottom of picture.
A north bound (down) freight train hauled
by a 46-class locomotive passing along
Mullet Creek before approaching
Wondabyne
.
Driver's view of
Hawksbury River Bridge
from up train.
Mount Ku-ring gai
with an up inter urban electric heading
for
Central
via
Hornsby
and
Strathfield
.
Hornsby.
A down suburban arriving at
Turramurra
.
Wikipedia link.
North Sydney Car Sidings.
This was the terminus of the
North Shore Line
before
the Harbour Bridge was built.
Circular Quay
looking towards
Wynyard
.
Milsons Point
with a down North Shore suburban electric.
View from south east pylon of
Sydney Harbour Bridge
as an up suburban electric descends
into underground towards
Wynyard
.
After exiting
City Circle
the next station is
Central
.
Next station after Central is
Redfern
.
Audio of a "Red Rattler"at Town Hall & Wynyard.
Carlingford.
Campbelltown
with a down rail motor.
Don't you just love the OH&S?
Melbourne bound
Inter Capital Daylight.
Melbourne's
Jolimont Rail Yards
looking east.
A down
Upfield Line
suburban electric
arriving at
Royal Park
.
Immediate down side of Royal Park is the now
dismantled (closest to camera)
Inner Circle Railway
which originally
went via
Northcote Junction
to Whittlesea but
by 1967 had terminated at North Fitzroy.
The abandoned
North Carlton
Station
on the now-dismantled Inner Circle Railway.
North Fitzroy Station
.
To the right is the branch to Fitzroy and straight ahead
the former line to Northcote Junction and beyond to Whittlesea.
Google Earth view in 2012 of former North Fitzroy Rail Station location.
South Morang line is on right where former triangle can easily be seen.
Site of original
South Morang
station
on former Whittlesea line.
Site of former junction of
Hawthorn to Kew Branch
in up direction where it
branched from Lilydale Line.
Hawthorn Football Club
is on extreme left.
Down direction from previous photo.
Royal Melbourne Show
.
Upside of
Echuca
with
Seymour
via
Toolamba
to left and
Melbourne
via
Bendigo
to right.
Visitors since 13th December 2009.
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