Pete_W
Well-Known Member
I am currently at home recovering after surgery and can't go out with my camera, so I decided to go back through some unprocessed photos from last year.
This one was taken at a favourite regional town named Cootamundra, 430 rail kilometres from Sydney on the main south line which is about half way to Melbourne. The railways station dates from 1877 and is a junction with a regional line that runs west mainly for grain haulage. It's a good place to photograph trains.
This is the inter-city XPT which runs twice a day from both Sydney and Melbourne (i.e. two trains departing from each city daily) . The XPTs trains are now about 40 years old and well overdue for replacement. The new inter-city train sets are being delivered to the operator now and should be running later this year after testing, so these old trains will be retired.
ST24 XPT at Cootamundra by Peter Watters, on Flickr
This one was taken at a favourite regional town named Cootamundra, 430 rail kilometres from Sydney on the main south line which is about half way to Melbourne. The railways station dates from 1877 and is a junction with a regional line that runs west mainly for grain haulage. It's a good place to photograph trains.
This is the inter-city XPT which runs twice a day from both Sydney and Melbourne (i.e. two trains departing from each city daily) . The XPTs trains are now about 40 years old and well overdue for replacement. The new inter-city train sets are being delivered to the operator now and should be running later this year after testing, so these old trains will be retired.
