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

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Today's historic pic: The construction site at Adelaide Railway Station, SA, April 9 1985. In lower numbered platforms in the background, you can see broad gauge Redhen and Jumbo sets ready to run suburban services. All Adelaide station's platforms today are now beneath hotels and convention centre.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 38 years ago today, Queensland Railways' 1067mm narrow gauge Rail Motor 2002 on the 16:46 train to Helidon from Roma Street station, Brisbane, July 16 1986. Most Helidon trains ran as shuttles from Ipswich, but a couple did run through from Roma Street.

Today’s historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, N469 heads a Melbourne-bound VLine train just west of Footscray, Vic, July 15 1989. These N class locos and carriages, dating from the 1980s, still run some VLine trains today. This section of line has since been expanded from 4 to 6 tracks.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 38 years ago today, a pair of NSW State Rail Authority 85 class electric locos hauls a goods train on the Sydney suburban goods line at Enfield South, July 14 1986. Just ten 85 class locos were built in 1979-80, and they were all withdrawn in 1998.

Today's historic pic: A rake of tarp-covered VLine 4-wheel GY wagons sits in the silo road at Katunga, Vic, November 22 1986. Katunga is 225km north of Melbourne on the broad gauge goods-only line from Shepparton to Tocumwal. VLine passenger trains ran through here to and from Cobram until 1993.

Today’s historic pic: Exactly 38 years ago today, two-car diesel set 725/625, before running a Telarah local, sits in platform 4 at the former terminus at Newcastle, NSW, July 12 1986. The 620/720 class were withdrawn by 2007, and the Newcastle line was truncated in 2014 so no trains now run here.

Today's historic pic: Two 6-car Hitachi suburban electric trains at Jolimont, Vic, August 31 1983. Jolimont is the first station out of Melbourne on the broad gauge electrified suburban lines to Hurstbridge and Mernda. It’s also one of two stations serving the MCG, which is just away to the right.

Today’s historic pic: Alco diesel 4461 is stabled and Tin Hare railmotor CPH16 is stored at Cootamundra, NSW, November 16 1985. The railmotor would, until 1983, have run connecting branch line services including on the Tumut line, which is just visible to the left of the main line in the background.

Today’s historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, W7 class tram no 1029 on a South Melbourne & St Kilda Beach bound route 10 trip has just crossed Spring Street and runs west along Collins Street, Melbourne, July 9 1989. Traditional safety zone tram stops like this are less common nowadays.

Today’s historic pic: A lower quadrant semaphore home signal shows a proceed aspect for the down Canberra Monaro Express to enter Canberra station, Kingston ACT, September 8 1985. 44228 sits in a siding with the Southern Highlands Express, and a set of ARHS(ACT) end platform cars is stabled at right

Today's historic pic: Diesel loco S300 "Matthew Flinders" heads a VLine passenger train in platform 1, Spencer Street station, Melbourne, February/March 1986. 18 S class diesels were built for the VR by Clyde Engineering, GM's Australian licensee, between 1957 and 1961. Some still run today.

Today's historic pic: The station at Tamworth, NSW, August 3 1985. Located 455km north of Sydney on the Main North line, in 1985 Tamworth was served by the overnight North Mail and the Northern Tablelands XPT. Today, the Northern Tablelands XPLorer DMU between Armidale and Sydney calls here each day

Today's historic pic: Exactly 37 years ago today, ANR Alco diesel 937 and VLine X46, having brought The Overland in from Adelaide, sit in a centre road in front of an all-blue and yellow standard gauge carriage set in platform 2 at Spencer Street station, Melbourne, July 5 1987.

Today's historic pic: Seen from a Wick/Thurso to Inverness train is the station at Forsinard, Scotland, UK, April 27 1988. Forsinard, 202km north of Inverness on the Far North line, is still a timetabled train crossing place. Though the station is now unstaffed, most of the buildings are still there

Today's historic pic: The station at Yass Junction, NSW, October 19 1985. Located 318km from Sydney on the NSW Main South #railway this was the junction for a 4km branch line to Yass. Today, all passenger trains use platform 1 and the platform opposite is disused though both tracks are still in use.

Today's historic pic: Coupled 1929-built H-type trams 376+377 before running a Glenelg peak express trip from Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA, Jan 19, 2004. Just a couple of these express trips ran each weekday. H types last ran in 2006. This terminus was bypassed when the line was extended in 2007

Today's historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, works tram 10W in Bourke Street, Melbourne, Vic, July 1 1989. Built in 1908 by Meadowbank for the NSWGT, it ran as Sydney K class number 763, then as scrubber 138s until it was withdrawn and sold to the M&MTB where it ran as Melbourne 10W until 2002.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 39 years ago today, 4480 and 4483, both no 2 end leading, heading the Canberra Monaro Express, sit in the platform, while a third 44 and the Southern Highland Express set sit in the car siding, Canberra Railway station, Kingston, ACT, June 30, 1985.

Today's historic pic: 38 years ago today, the Rialto building looms over the horizon as Melbourne Z3 class tram no 126, in original Marigold livery, runs a Sundays-only West Coburg to City Elizabeth Street route 68 along reserved track beside the Melbourne Zoo in Royal Park, Vic, June 29 1986.

Today’s historic pic: EMD-engined branchline loco 4910 running a 3-day LVR tour at Gwabegar, NSW, January 30 1983. Note the station name scrawled on the platform coping. Gwabegar, 603km from Sydney at the terminus of a 432km long branch line, has seen no trains since about 2005.

My real name is the sound made by a pair of six-wheel bogies rolling along pebble-ballasted timber-sleepered track of lightweight jointed rail.

My real name is the vile secret you hide in the corners of your mind, only taking it out on long lonely nights of introspection.

Today's historic pic: A St Kilda-bound 3-car broad-gauge Hitachi EMU runs between South Melbourne and Albert Park, January 5 1984. After 130 years of service, trains last ran to St Kilda in 1987 when most of the line was converted to standard gauge and integrated into Melbourne's large tram network.

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Today's historic pic: British Rail class 319 EMU no 319023 in Network SouthEast livery on a Bedford to London St Pancras run calls at Harpenden, UK, April 11 1988. This was just one month before these trains started running through the Snow Hill tunnel beneath London and were branded Thameslink.

500 followers on Blue Sky today! That has to be worth celebrating. My first post here was just over 10 months ago on August 14 2023, and every day I have posted a historic photo of the day from my personal collection of 35mm slides of trains and trams - most taken by me in Australia in the 1980s.

Today's historic pic: The station at Tallong, NSW, November 9 1985. Tallong is 185km from Sydney on the NSW main South line. The station is served by local trains to and from Goulburn. The buildings on the other platform have been demolished, but the skillion-roofed waiting shed this side remains.

Today’s historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, Melbourne Z1 class tram no 38 has just departed the terminus at Bakers Road as it heads south along Sydney Road, North Coburg, Vic on a route 19 service to the city, June 24 1989. Z1 class trams were introduced in the 1970s and ran until 2016.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 39 years ago today, disused track with rails with some sort of guard structures, crossing a culvert on the north side of the yard at Canberra Railway Station, Kingston, ACT, June 23 1985. Is there any chance this was part of the Civic branch line that closed in 1922?

Today's historic pic: A Pichi Richi Railway narrow gauge steam hauled heritage train at Quorn, SA, June 1986. The nearest carriage, Wandana, built in 1911 by the South Australian Railways, ran on both narrow and broad gauge over its lifetime, and has been at the PRR since 1974.

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