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A Sydney train arriving at Platform 2 - Milsons Point Railway Station.
This is the first stop on the northern side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The T1 and T9 train lines.
This is the train I take back to the Hills District. I will often walk across the harbour bridge from the city, and then catch the train here at Milsons Point.
Travelling into the city I will get off the train here at Milsons Point and then walk across the bridge, or sometimes take the ferry from Milsons Point Wharf - where ferries take you to Circular Quay, Barangaroo, King Street or Darling Harbour, depending on what part of the city you wish to go to.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Food' filter.
Who'd have thought they finally got around to retiring these trains?!
If you’re in any train group on Facebook, you would’ve seen heaps of posts in relation to this historic event. So, to break it up here is one on Flickr!
V25: DIM8041-DET9216-DCT9039-DIM8039 & V10: DIM8073-DIT9137-DIT9119-DIM8044 pass by Blaxland (and Glenbrook due to a transposition to skip these stops and continue onto Emu Plains express from Springwood) with the 05:47 service from Lithgow to Sydney Terminal, once officially known as ‘The Fish’; however, the name silently disappeared in 2017 as part of a timetable change. Guess it's now just W524.
Now, instead of dribbling about how I got my first blowjob (I shit you not, some person commented on a Channel 9 Facebook post saying he got his first BJ on a V, lucky guy…) or how my life will never be the same without them (it won’t). I will leave you with a reworked quote from Jermery Clarkson;
“It’s what non‑rail people never quite grasp. They see EMUs as nothing more than a few hundred tonnes of aluminium, wiring, motors, purple seats, and control systems gliding along the rails. That’s all it is to them. But people like you or I know better. We carry this unshakable belief that trains are living entities. You can build a relationship with one, and that’s the part outsiders miss. When a set has its own quirks—when the traction whine has a particular cadence, when the suspension develops a little personality, when the braking feels different from one car to the next—it gives the train a strangely human quality. It behaves imperfectly, idiosyncratically. And it’s in those imperfections that a bond forms, a sense of character that only a train person would ever understand.”
Hopefully, that can be read without me coming across like a massive Tren autist who cried when they pulled into Sydney Terminal for the last time. But regardless, the V set will be missed in many forms, and for me, it’ll be making my late-night drives from Main West / Parkes less boring by pulling over to get a time exposure of one sitting at a Blue Mountains station to break up a long drive.
Rest in pieces... (1970-2026)
DIM8041 V25-V10 SydneyTrains W524 Blaxland 30-1-26
Between the eyes of love I call your name... vale Chris Rea.
DIM8084, making the front car of V3, is squeezing between Spring Creek and the Tasman Sea (I'll let you figure out which one is which :p). Working CH04 charter train from Kiama back to Sydney Terminal past Bombo.
I planned to get to Kiama Downs and put the drone back up whilst V3 was dwelling at Bombo Station; however, a 2-minute earlier departure time had thrown that out the window... oh well, to the beach!
DIM8084 V3 SydneyTrains CH04 Bombo 28-12-25 drone
Woollahra Station, located between Edgecliff and Bondi Junction in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, is alleged to finally be completed after sitting dormant for nearly 50 years. Originally constructed in the 1970s as part of the Eastern Suburbs rail line, the station was never opened due to community opposition and budget constraints. Despite its physical infrastructure being largely intact, it remained sealed off and unused—until now. The NSW Government has announced plans to finish and open Woollahra Station, marking a significant development in Sydney’s public transport network.
The decision to rebuild Woollahra Station is closely tied to the state’s broader housing strategy. The government aims to rezone surrounding land to allow for up to 10,000 new homes, including affordable housing options. Woollahra has been identified as one of the most suitable areas for increased housing density due to its existing infrastructure, proximity to the CBD, and declining population over the past five decades. By activating the station, the government hopes to support sustainable growth and improve accessibility for future residents. Although personally I expect that in 10 years time this scene will very much stay the same.
Travelling through the derelict state of incomplete Woollahra station is T77 & T18 working 652D, the 10:08 Bondi Junction to Cronulla service.
T77-T18 SydneyTrains 652D Woollahra 20-9-25
V3 working CH04 charter train back from Kiama to Sydney Tunnel bridges the gap at Spring Creek, south of Bombo. The fennel is alive and well on the creek bed.
DIM8084 V3 SydneyTrains CH04 Bombo 28-12-25
From Monday, 20/10, K set runs 38, 41, and 45 will be replaced (indirectly) by the OSCars, taking up 200, 201, and 202 runs on the T1.
With runs 41 and 45 gone, there will be no more East Hills PM peak K sets in revenue service on T8 past Sydenham. However, plenty of empty movements are still running past.
With the withdrawal of these runs, 8 eight-car sets will remain, with an additional 4K being utilised on the Lidcombe—Bankstown shuttles from Monday as 48 runs.
Pictured is today's 41-H (Also the last - 17:02 Central --> Campbelltown 8K) with C3540 lead car on K73 and K61 on the rear at East Hills. Which turned out to be the last as 41 run the following day was replaced with 25 run (Waratah) and 45 run cancelled with no replacement.
C3574 K87-K61 SydneyTrains 41-H East Hills 16-10-25
DKM8139, making up the first car on V46, poses for the camera in a big enough gap in the shadow at Leura with W555 14:09 Sydney Terminal to Mount Victoria pass (normally a Lithgow runner, but power was shut off further west of Mount Vic) to make me a happy man.
A scene virtually unchanged for 40 years, the only difference being the livery the V-sets wore.
DKM8139 V46 SydneyTrains W555 Leura 30-5-25
DIM8073 at the pointy end of V10 leads V25 over the Parramatta River moments before sunset with #N173 1720 Newcastle pass.
N173 differs from the other afternoon peak passes in the fact that it skips Epping and Hornsby, making a 59 minute non-stop journey between Strathfield and Woy Woy, a remnant of the Newcastle Flyer which was discontinued in April 1988 (although it never made a stop at Woy Woy).
DIM8073 V10-V25 SydneyTrains N173 Meadowbank Bridge 16-9-24
EDIT 3/12/24: N173 along with the runs prior was the first lot of V-set runs to be replaced by the NIF, guess just IF now, and also as part of the new timetable update in late October N173 now makes “pickup only” stops at Epping and Hornsby (meaning it won’t be displayed on station PID’s)
An inbound morning peak V set Intercity service passes over renewed turnouts at Illawarra Junction as it slowly approaches Redfern where it will roll through non stop en route to Sydney Terminal.
The Way
Fastball
Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved with gold
It's always summer they'll never get cold
They'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and gray
You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere
They won't make it home but they really don't care
They wanted the highway, they're happier there today, today
The children woke up and they couldn't find 'em
They left before the sun came up that day
They just drove off and left it all behind 'em
Where were they going without ever knowing the way?
Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved with gold
It's always summer they'll never get cold
They'll never get hungry, they'll never get old and gray
Quiet Sunday at home. Didn't get to shoot this weekend, but trying to keep motivated.
A bit of fun with the old escalator at Wynyard station
Hope you like "The Way"
Cheers, Mike
Two 4-car NIF sets D51 and D31 roll over the Hawkesbury River Bridge with N856, the 16:31 Newcastle Interchange to Sydney Terminal all stopper (from Newcastle Interchange to Berowra) service.
Though these trains have gained something of a controversial opinion through the public eye for not being a good replacement for aging Intercity V-sets, which yes there will never be a replacement as good as the beloved the V-set. I still think they are a worthy replacement for the GOATs.
Oh, and for the timetable nerds like myself. N856 (8D) replaced 204H (4H).
D51-D31 SydneyTrains N856 Hawkesbury River Bridge 9-12-25
The old Wynyard escalators have been re-installed as hanging tribute (I think that is what they are for?)
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4819 and 4827 return from Lithgow as they near Emu Plains running as HT82 to the XPT Centre at Sydenham.
Because of strict regulations when running trains on the Blue Mountains, 4827 was unable to return on its own back to Sydney, so 4819 and 4 carriages were sent West to retrieve the locomotive.
Monday 4th March 2019
Wendy's Secret Garden sits above Lavender Bay, just above the railway sidings. The rising spire of Barangaroo's Crown Sydney building is at the right, above the Walsh Bay apartments and Pier venues. At 275 metres tall with 72 floors, One Barangaroo will be Sydney's tallest building once completed (and probably most expensive at $2.2 billion), hosting 82 apartments, a 349-room hotel and a casino.
As an 8A departs Museum on the City Inner, the 1920's setting of Museum Station dawns over all the commuters using the station.
DJM8129 making up the front car of V50 twists through the Lithgow Valley with W554 (12:48 Lithgow --> Sydney Terminal service).
Annoyingly the little trees on the right obscure the view of No.3 viaduct on the original Lithgow Zig-Zag.
Though not the tightest curves in NSW (Dorrigo & Oberon branches took that title, nowadays North Shore line between Waverton and Wollestonecraft does) the curves through the Lithgow Valley are certainly a contender.
DJM8129 V50 SydneyTrains W554 Zig Zag 17-5-25
VL362 sits on the leading end of WK21 AK cars, with 4702 trailing. The cars were awaiting their departure for Lithgow.
A faded K80 (C3511-T4177-T4202-C3536) & K66 (C3512-T4178-T4212-C3546) though hard to tell with the sun off the front lead Sydney Trains charter train #888C from Kiama to Sydney Terminal.
The Historic Electric Traction group had chartered the train for its Silver to the Sea tour.
C3536 K80-K63 SydneyTrains 888C Como Bridge 26-7-25
Red Set 'F1' comprised of C7396, C3218, T4527 & C3426 rockets into Engadine before slowing down to 20km/h to pass the platform at Engadine station. Due to the upgrades made to a large majority of Sydney stations including extending the platforms closer to the track since the withdrawal of these trains, C7396 has been given a 20km/h speed restriction whilst passing platforms.
On this particular day, C7396 leads F1 past Engadine on Run No. 880J heritage special from Waterfall to Sydney Terminal as part of The Sydney Vintage Tramway Festival at Loftus. As Loftus has no facilites for a train to change ends the train continued to Waterfall sidings to layover and change ends.
C7396 F1 SydneyTrains 880J Engadine 26-2-23
Skirting the Glenbrook Creek within the Glenbrook Gorge, DJM8125 making the pointy end of V29 with V21 swinging off the rear begin their ascent up the Blue Mountains with #W559 the 15:09 pass from Sydney Terminal to Lithgow.
Not long left for the old girls now!
DJM8125 V29-V21 SydneyTrains W559 Glenbrook 17-12-25