Brisbane.
at least the way I remember…
The Queensland house.
Head in’ up the coast.
Fremantle.
Perth.
Darwin.
Sydney.
New Zealand K class 4-8-4.
I think this is the museum in Auckland. I also went to the Ferrymead museum in Christchurch.
Pictures from long ago, and far away. I’m sure it has changed.
Great times, very friendly and kind people that I met. A highlight in my life.
I’m impressed by the range of your photographs, from Perth to Cairns.
I thought I’d comment on this one.
The train is departing platform 16 at Sydney Central and heading northbound through the city underground toward the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is most likely heading for Hornsby.
The leading power car is of the original design, dating to the mid 1920s.
The leading trailer car, partly in view is very interesting. It was built in the late 1950s as a power car fitted with power operated doors. Only forty cars of this type were built along with forty trailer cars in the late 1950s, but they had incompatible control equipment, using 120 volt control voltage rather than 32 volts in the older cars. By the 1970s spares were becoming difficult to obtain and some of these cars were stripped to provide spares gfor the remainder. They were converted to operate as trailer cars and the doors reverted to manual operation. I remember riding in one of these, but I never got a photo of one in service. You can just make out the blanked out side cab window near the front of the car, and the panel separating the two sliding passenger doors which was a feature of these cars.
I grew up near a station on that line, and rode those trains to high school and to university and later to work.
Sadly, the little garden has been fenced off as a security measure and is no longer looked after. The roadway just to the left of the photo was originally built for tramcars and it is again used for trams to Darling Harbour and Dulwich Hill.
Peter