A couple of weeks ago I went out to the @bluebell_railway Diesel Gala. This post features a whole bunch of trains – and the unlikely debut of a new lens.
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Crawfords container train from Sandgate to Port Botany at Berowra
This intercity has clean windows! So I bring you a 319-2 series diesel locomotive.
On this day in 2014, locomotives BL34 & G541 haul a steel train through a cutting, just south of Frankston station.
The things you see at Southern Cross station...
Heritage diesel locomotives S307 & C501 running around their excursion train this afternoon.
C501 entered service in 1977 and S307 entered service in 1957. Both are now operated by Seymour Rail Heritage Centre on standard gauge (1435mm) tour trains.
On a bit of a roll today sketching heritage rolling stock in Sydney. Put on my trainspotting hat (no anorak, though 😉 ), made myself a schedule, and managed five sketches in three hours at the Transport Heritage Expo at Central Station this morning. In order:
1st sketch of the day (done standing, for that special wobbly touch): 1920s wooden-bodied rail-motor carriage (ink in Hahnemühle Nostalgie A6);
2nd & 3rd sketches: Steam locomotive 3526 and diesel locomotive 4001 in the royal blue livery it was given in 1954 when it carried Queen Elizabeth II (ink and watercolour in Hahnemühle Watercolour sketchbook A5); 4th sketch: 4th sketch: Preparatory ink sketch of steam locomotive 3801 – a sleek American design from 1943 (ink in Hahnemühle Nostalgie A6); 5th sketch: Steam locomotive 3801 – a sleek American design from 1943 (ink and watercolour in Hahnemühle Watercolour sketchbook A5).
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