Town Hall Station signage up at Flinders.

See if I had a girlfriend I probably couldn’t just spontaneously decide to spend my day travelling down to finally ride Melbourne’s weird little forgotten diesel Sprinter boi. Today is the day.

The Glen Melton line via a new Collins St Subway.

Ballarat’s other station: Wendouree.

feat. new Overland merch.

God bless the Overland.

A 1 shilling ticket stub for the NSW government tramways. Not sure of the date, but both my paternal great-grandfathers were Sydney tram drivers.

The people of Ireland saw this and chose five more years of Fine Gael.

“Boroondara elects Teal mayor” deserves to be a big story.

Spent my evening listening to The Band. If you’ve never seen The Last Waltz, you must.

Earlier today some Gunzels were talking about the need for a next generation V/Line fleet, something other than the V/Locity. It’s got me thinking about some of the least vs some of the most comfortable rides I’ve had on a train, various V/Locity seats vs the old Amtrak Amfleet.

'Princeland Freight Rail Project' is what my brain demanded today. Linking the Yelta and Hopetoun lines, Hopetoun and Western at Dooen, with a new link from Horsham to Hamilton west of the Grampians. This features in the background of a story I've been writing.

Found this UK Network Rail consulting piece advocating for Victoria to adopt a Spanish style variable gauge system

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