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Just wondering if you had any material on the Carpolac line, particuarly the Goroke area, I’m interested in the history of the line but haven’t been able to dig up any photos of it while it was in operation apart from a small photo of a T class hauling a grain train…
I’ll put the question to the man with the photos and let you know Simon. I’ll probably drop an email back at you once I get the answer.
Can I purchase copies of the Pialba Brach pictures please?
@Cliff – Reply sent to your email address.
Excellent stuff guys, keep it coming, got anything on South Gippy Railway, especially Leongatha.
Hi Ian,
Yes, I’d like to get that line done. I’ll ask the chap with the photos and find out what he has in the way of stuff from that region.
Hi guys,
I just discovered your site and think it is truly brilliant! I especially like the strong focus towards infrastructure including signals and signal boxes which is an area which has been largely ignored by most rail fans. Keep up the excellent work!
Well done with your site – an important record of SEQ rail history. I’m interested in photos of Lowood and Fernvale for a local history collection. Are file copies available for community use? (ref: Lowood District Community Website – http://www.lowood.qld.au) ‘Unknown’ station between Fernvale & Lowood was Vernor – although it’s now gone that area still retains the name.
Thanks
Jeff
Hi Guys,
I love the old station fodos. Thank god somebody took the time to take these classic shots and to now publish them.
I’m chaseing station and infrastructure photos of St. Lawrence, a station between Rockhampton and Mackay on Queensland’s central coast. Can you help?
Great stuff. Now what about some Leongatha Line?
I notice that you don’t put acknowledgement to photo ownership in the file name, in fact you don’t put any useful information in the file name. I know that it takes time but it keeps the provenance of the photo intact.
Hi David. Acknowledgements are in the captions, and the captions stay intact with the photo metadata. On this site, all photos that are not credited belong to either Dave Philllips or myself, and is sort of explained in the site intro and on the acknowlegement page. Personally, I abhor large filenames, and keep them to within 10 characters if possible. The filename was never designed to be an all round font of information . For indexing, searching and even owners info, I use ‘Tags’ (sometimes called labels) which is pretty much what they were designed for. Of course, I acknowledge that where this falls down is when you mouse over the thumbnails here… the ‘help’ text is the file name. Thus you need to click the thumbnail and let the image open to get info that is in the caption. Cheers…
Awesome job with this site. My Grandfather (Jack Cody) worked in Ballarat B and C boxes, so to see the internal photos of these signal boxes was very emotional.You have a photo of what you called the coal siding (now a car park) between B and C boxes which is on Doveton St. I remember him with his wooden trolley with steel wheels going down the hill to get a bag of briquettes. He lived at 423 Doveton St.
Do you have any more photos of the buildings beside B box which were used by the Signal maintainers or the Ways and Works siding and buildings beside C box. I have seen a photo taken from C box into the W&W siding but I have lost it.
Cheers….. Wayne
Hi Wayne,
Thanks for the comments. Davo thinks what’s on the site is all we have, but he said he’ll have another check anyway. The buildings you mentioned are referred to, and their disappearance (along with the hedge and fence) is certainly noticed and commented on in the captions.
This looks like a good website – I hope to see additions re SA – especailly the Metro Area
Hi Tom,
Thanks for you comment. I believe there are some more South Australian images being prepared, although they might be a little outside of the metro area. Angaston I believe was mention. This won’t appear until early next week due to work commitments however. But there is plenty more Adelaide Metro to come.
Hats off to you for preserving images of our rail heritage!
In the Victorian section you use a lot of incorrect terminology when describing signals. Many photos of home signals are described as inner or outer starting signals. In Victoria a starting signal NEVER protected points, (if it protected points it was a home signal)
When we did have starting signals they were called either “starting signals” or “advanced starting signals” (there were only a handful of advanced starting signals in the whole state) We NEVER called them inner or outer starting signals.
Victoria never had shunt signals, they are called disc signals.
Hope this helps
best regards
Mark Bau
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the corrections and I will admit to being advised about this some time ago. For the sake of accuracy I will search out the errors and correct them, once I find a bit of time. Must also admonish the git with the NSW safeworking background who put up the original captions 🙂 .
Oh, and thanks for the acknowledgement of the site. I am happy to admit that the work that you have done over on victorianrailways.net was one of the inspirations, or perhaps motivations, for getting this site off the ground. So well done back!
Cheers,
Mike
Does anyone have any info history or pics of the closed Cecil Plains line that ran from Oakey Qld some sections of track are still there along the route and the station has been renovated and turned into a museum next to the grain silos at the station.
There was a line that ran from Toowoomba to Crows nest Qld pulled up in 1964 mainly used for hauling timber the old Kleinton station is now a private residence and evidence of the bridges and cuttings along the route still exist.
I have submitted many pictures of southern NSW stations & branches on a photographic tour in 1980 to another site but would you like some?
Where’s Armstrong in your list? It was a station between Stawell and Great Western. My late father, William Humay, Retired RSM was a VR employee at Armstrong.
Hi Joanne. We haven’t progressed beyond Ararat as yet so Armstrong does not get mention just yet.