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A train that first ran 1887 as the Adelaide Express with wooden carriages has changed so much over the past 126 years. It ran on the broad gauge till the 1st of Marsh 1995 when the standard gauge took over and has stayed the same since.
Here the modern version of the Overland with upgraded steel carriages of the old Overland cars prepares to depart North Shore with 4AM8 on the final leg to Melbourne - 30/1/2013
The daily overnight Melbourne to Adelaide 'Overland' service (broad-gauge) - which I travelled on that night - awaits departure from Melbourne's Spencer Street station during August 1993. The service still continues today (on standard gauge), but is now a daylight run and only operates on two days per week.
julie in the dining car of the overland, the interstate train that runs between tarndanya/adelaide, south australia, and naarm/melbourne, victoria
The last rays of the setting summer sun glint off the side of NR93 and The Overland as they pass through Ambleside on Dec 29, 1997. This shot was taken soon after PacNat took over the GSR hook and pull contract with NR class locomotives.
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. In the front of the tonga are Hillary and Sylvia; in the rear are Marie and Alan — this was on a tour of Lahore, Pakistan.
There might have been as many as 20 vintage cars visiting Bothwell, participating in the Peter Waddle 2016 Woolnorth to Cockle Creek rally. The oldest was reported to be a 1904.
Right time, right place.
The background was so important to this photo. I just did not want a modern background.
Persepolis, Iran: 25 December 1971
The almost 600 mile journey from Tehran down to Persepolis took two days; the first day we got to Isfahan in the early afternoon and spent the night there. An early start on Christmas Day enabled us to have a few hours looking round the spectacular ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis. Rather surprisingly, the place was deserted, not a soul to be seen – we had the whole site to ourselves. That night we stayed in Shiraz before heading back north towards Tehran, with another night in Isfahan on the way.
Considering that the giant stone blocks in the main terrace had laid there over two-and-a-half thousand years they were in remarkable condition. The joints between each block were so well made that you couldn't have slid a piece of paper into the gaps. Sometime in the first part of the fourth century AD the city had been sacked by the invading armies of Alexander the Great. Today can be seen evidence of the destruction and damage, but even so there is still a lot left to see.
The enormous bazaar at Isfahan had been very quiet; it was quite different to the one at Istanbul where you can be endlessly pestered to buy this and that. In Isfahan there was also snow on the ground; I hadn't expected to see it this far south in Iran, but the city is on a plain at over 5,000 feet elevation.
Overland 20 is the latest incarnation of the original Terrahawks supply delivery vehicle..
Built onto Hot Wheels chassis.
Inspired by the Gerry Anderson Series.
Seen here at EMAD base working 3 pods full of supplies.
Vehicle and Diorama scratchbuilt,
The Overland sits at Adelaide's Keswick Station
Probably April 1986. Scanned from slide. I suspect this was the evening departure .
Overland is a coffeetable book based on my four-week trip along the Overland Route in 2014 with some material from other trips added. Unmistakably the Big Boy 4014 makes an appearance, too. Unrestored and on the first road trip in 2019.
28x33 cm
hardbound with dust jacket
230 pages
230+ pictures in color and monochrome
€ 169
Turkey: October 1971
This notorious stretch of road from Horosan to Agri in eastern Turkey has now been abandoned as a new route was opened up later in the 1970s that bypassed the old Tahir Pass. Being a dirt, or gravel road it was never a good surface to drive on — in summer it was hard to see where you were going because of the dust; in the rain it became a river of mud, and in the winter it was under snow for months on end. This road was part of the so-called Eurasian (or Euro-Asian) Highway, yet a lot of it was little more than a farm track. There were more heavy trucks using this road than cars or buses as it was the main trunk route from Europe, eastwards to Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent.
Later in 1971, when I was driving the same bus from London back out to Kabul on this road, it was essential to use snow chains on the rear wheels, from Erzurum to Agri. The landscape is hostile and barren; the climate can be extreme – during that 1971/72 winter the temperature fell to around -40° C. This caused problems with diesel fuel 'icing up' so it was common practice to add a small amount of petrol or paraffin (kerosene) to the diesel tank – not something to be recommended, but sometimes you had no other option. A common sight in the winter was to see a truck stopped, and the driver had lit a small fire under the fuel tank to thaw the diesel.
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Composer: Charles D'Albert (1809-1886)
Publication Information: London : Chappell, [ca.1850?]
Catalogue ref: 781.4 DAV
Artist: J. Brandard
Technique: colour lithography
This was taken near the base of Overlander Falls. These falls are in Mt. Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. There is a short but beautiful trail that leads here from Yellowhead Highway.
To see more pictures from our 54 day road trip please check out my Road Trip 2009 set
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. We were waiting, in Lahore, for the usual few passengers who were nearly always late for a departure. From left to right are: Mike, Marie, Sylvia, Hillary, Alan, Dennis and Delicia.
Point Pass.
The early Travelling Stock Route between Point Pass and Eudunda was resumed for small farming blocks in the 1880s and 1890s.This would have been the route taken in the 1840s by many overlanders bringing sheep down to SA from NSW via Big Bend (Morgan). Near Point Pass is Immanuel Lutheran College and Church. The college was a Lutheran seminary and the head of one of the two major Lutheran synods in Australia (ELSA- Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia). The stunning Immanuel Lutheran Church with its fine gold coloured steeple and spire was built in 1876. The Lutheran manse opened in 1878. Immanuel Church has a Lemke pipe organ built in the Barossa Valley and installed in the church in 1876. A bell from Germany was added to the steeple spire in 1913. The Seminary opened in 1894 for the training of Lutheran pastors and in 1909 a school for children was also opened. . The college building by the old manse was extended in 1899 and again in 1914. Just after the founding pastor George Leidig retired in 1920, the Seminary and College was moved from Point Pass in 1922 to its current headquarters in North Adelaide (1923). The Lutheran Seminary remains in North Adelaide. The school part of the College remained in North Adelaide until it was moved to Walkerville in 1942. Immanuel College remained at Walkerville until a new college building at Glenelg near Cummins historic house was opened in 1956. The former Immanuel College and Seminary near Point Pass is privately own and was run as a bed and breakfast establishment for many years. The church is still used weekly for services.
It seems like a mystery as to why a strongly German settlement area like Point Pass should have an Irish town name. The explanation lies in the fact that Point Pass was named in 1867 by one of its first residents Anne Richards. The town was sited here because of a water spring and it was named after a locality in Ireland known to Anne called Poynzpass. Anne arrived in SA as Anne Redpath in 1853. Her Irish husband died in 1856 leaving her with a two month old child to support. She remarried two months later in Kapunda before moving to this new location 11 years later. A District Council was based in the town from 1878 and a Council Chamber was built in 1887. The hotel was built in 1876, as was the General Store of Carl Friedrich Leditschke (known as C.F.L.) In 1906 he built a new store which still stands. The old school opened in 1883 and became a state public school in 1892. Trains used to take children from the state school for an annual picnic to Semaphore to see the beach. This happened long after the arrival of the spur line from Eudunda to Robertstown in 1914. St. Peter’s Lutheran Church was dedicated in 1885 with the nearby manse completed in 1887. It first held some sermons in English in 1926 but did not completely cease German language services until 1939. St. Mary’s Anglican Church was started in 1895 but not completed until 1906.
Our first campsite in Tanzania, near Mbeya.
Note our long wrap skirts. We had just come from Malawi where all women had to wear long dresses and men had to wear stove-pipe trousers, narrow enough that a beer bottle couldn't fit up the trouser leg near the ankles. This was the era of flares, so the guys had to pin/sew jeans so that they were narrow. We bought our wrap material at the Lusaka markets. There were some interesting choices including the face of the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, which I didn't choose!
NB: Thanks to Philip Watson for the ID of the truck.
Looking south down the Tasmanian Overland Track from the ascent of Cradle Mountain. It takes at least 4 days to walk to the other end of it, but since I was only day-tripping to the most popular of Tassie's peaks, I was just happy that this day was pretty much perfect for the hike.
4 cylinder engine
3 spd transmission
140,000 produced in 1916
Fords main rival
Willys-Overland Company Toledo Ohio
Petersen Automotive Museum, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA
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