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A 5-car CountryLink Xplorer comprising a 3-car and 2-car sets, looks like its running an a dirt road as it kicks up ballast dust from the newly-completed 3rd track at Belford in NSW's Hunter Valley. Nov 24, 2012
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Destination senior session.
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Lighting - Flashpoint xplorer 600 in a 36 inch softlighter
Class leader XP2000 and XP2006 bring the return Elvis Express through Bribbaree.
Bribbaree is a locality on the cross country line between Parkes and Cootamundra. Typically this annual train to Parkes uses the main west, however this year it was diverted as bushfires had closed the west. The XPT is a rare visitor on this line and even more so with passengers onboard as seen here. Over the coming months, the Broken Hill Xplorer, another passenger train, would also transverse this route in service.
Bribbaree, NSW.
Monday 13 January 2020.
Most of the stone structures comprising Dubbo Railway Station were built between 1879 and 1881 in preparation for its opeining in 1881. The station master's residence was completed that same year. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries some additions were made to the precinct, including:
1891 - construction of the lamp room and wool stage;
1893 - Dubbo West rail siding;
1897 - carriage shed;
1898 - the western end platform extension;
1803 - opening of the Dubbo-Coonamble rail line;
1904 - installation of a 20 tonne cart weighbridge and extensions to the Sydney end of the platform;
1908 - grain shed.
Numerous additions and alterations were made in the first two decades of the early 20th century, decreasing in frequency into the 1930s and 1940s.
By 1975 passenger services to Bourke, Cobar, and Coonamble were replaced by a road coach services connecting with the trains at Dubbo Railway Station.
The 1980s saw demolition of several by-then anacrhonistic structural elements including the municipal gas siding, the livestock loading facility, the Darling Street gate house, and the Institute Hall (relocated elsewhere). In 1988 the Dubbo-Molong line was decommissioned in 1988.
Dubbo Railway Station remains an operational station on the western line, operated by RailCorp, although the station master's residence is now in private ownership.
In February 2019 New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Transport Minister Andrew Constance in Dubbo announced a $2.8 billion rail project to be based out of Dubbo. The new Rail Maintenance Facility would be based in the city, but the announcement of a new fleet of trains to take the place of our current XPT, XPLORER, and Endeavour trains. This entire project, which includes maintenance services for the first 15 years, will ensure the Dubbo electorate becomes the hub for rail in New South Wales.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
CountryLink Xplorer DMU 2507 at Sydney Central, New South Wales, Australia on the 9th November 2006.
4 First West of England buses stand at Wells Bus Station, all ready to head out on their respective routes. Closest the camera, Mendip Xplorer Wrightbus Streetdeck 35160 (SK65PVY) awaits departure towards Street on a 376 service from Bristol, then unbranded Dart/Pointer 42953 (WX06OMK) gets ready to head out towards Yeovil on Route 77, Buses of Somerset Enviro 200 44637 (MX14FUH) stands ready to run on Route 75 towards Bridgwater and finally Wright Eclipse 66725 (WX54XDJ) loads up for a 126 service towards Weston-Super-Mare.
We are.
Week in, week out. We try to bring new ideas, mix all of them together, set the exploration date, get together and have fun.
Starting from a simple egg whip, a simple chain, some packs of steel wool, our props have grown so much into varieties of light sources.
Hopefully this new concept of photography will keep on going and never ending.
Photography is, after all, about capturing light.
Lastly, thanks to all who've been doing this together, for all the endless support. Looking forward to the next exploration.
PN Grain Train 7KC6, led by 8152/66/39, approaches a red signal in advance of Town St, Junee, NSW awaiting a cross with Griffith-Sydney Xplorer SP42.
SN65 OMS is a Wright Streetdeck H45/28F new Oct 2015 to First Bristol at Hengrove depot. 10 of the batch of 12 had red fronts and route branding for service 90. 35148 had its red front repainted grey in Aug 2016 to act as a spare bus.
In November 2016 it was repainted again into Mendip Xplorer livery and transferred to First Somerset and Avon to join the 8 similar vehicles new to Wells.
The climb over the Mendips proved too much for the Streetdecks and in late 2019 they were transferred to Bristol and replaced by Enviro 400s. 35148 regained its original livery in November 2019.
With the start of the summer timetable in April 2023 all remaining 65 registered Streetdecks have been transferred to Weston-super-Mare except for 35162 .
Today service 20 is being worked mainly by Steel blue Streetdecks , and service 7 by red fronted examples.
35148 is arriving at the Worle terminus on service 7.
A three car Xplorer from Canberra powers towards Sydney Central.
Marulan, NSW.
Saturday 20 September 2018.
XP2002 (City of Brisbane) leads the way through the sweeper on the DOWN just north of Goondah Rd and adjacent to the Burley Griffin Way, XP2004 (City of Kempsey) was tailing.
4204 and 42103 shunt at Stockinbingal to pick up 4908 and 4911 to assist with the return Blue Suede Express into Forbes station. 4917 spectates on the action.
Typically this annual train to Parkes uses the main west, however this year it was diverted via the main south as bushfires had closed the west. Trains with passengers onboard are rare visitors on this line. Although over the coming months, the Broken Hill Xplorer would transverse this route in service.
Stockinbingal, NSW.
Monday 13 January 2020.
In Midsomer Norton on the 09:20 173 to Bath with sister Enviro 400 33840 SN14TSZ waiting in the High Street on a 174 to Wells.
SP32, the morning Canberra to Sydney Xplorer, sails through the leafy Wollondilly Shire.
Picton, NSW.
Friday 24 July 2020.
First West of England - Mendip Xplorer - Wrightbus Streetdeck 35160 (SK65PVY) pulls out of Wells Bus Station working a Route 376 trip from Bristol to Street, while another Mendip Xplorer Wrightbus Streetdeck, 35164 (SK65PWJ) pulls in from the depot after having its ticket machine checked part-way through its run from Street to Bristol.
NP23 down Xplorer to Werris Creek and beyond passing through the locality of Belford on 28th Dec 2016. At Werris Creek the train will split into two sections with the three leading cars continuing to Armidale and the last pair to Moree.
8155 leads two 82 class through Joppa Junction after waiting for a northbound Xplorer to depart Goulburn
With the Moree portion's two-cars bringing up the rear of the six-car Northern Tablelands Xplorer service, NP23 accelerates away from the station stop at Murrurundi on an overcast day in 2000.
Frame:*BROMPTON*S2L/C-Line
Handle:*NITTO* b802 aaf handle bar (silver/660)
Grip:*OURY* mountain grip (blk)
Saddle:*GILLES BERTHOUD* aspin leather saddle (stn/black)
Frame pad:*BLUE LUG* frame pad for brompton
Bag:*EERDER METAAL* xplorer front bag
On a humid overcast day at Goulburn, on the Northern end of the Southern Highlands in New South Wales, Pacific National's NR20/ NR97 sit at the head of 3PW4, Perth To Port Kembla Steel train as the up Canberra to Sydney Explorer service passes by on the up running via the down main having come off the Canberra Branch at Joppa Junction and has run wrong road from Joppa to Goulburn and returning to the up main at the country end of the up platform. This move came about as 3PW4 was divided into 2 separate trains at Goulburn for the run down the Illawarra mountain to Port Kembla as the Illawarra line was shut for trackwork. NR47 is at the head of the 2nd train 2920 sitting at the up home signal behind PW4.
Saturday 15th March 2014
SN12 AEK is an Alexander Dennis E40D Enviro 400 H45/28F new to First Devon and Cornwall in March 2012. All nine of these were transferred to First Bristol at Hengrove around the end of 2016 and painted with orange fronts on urban livery for service 50. With the timetable changes at the beginning of September 2017 33666 and 33667 were transferred to Weston-super-Mare , and repainted in Excel livery for North Somerset X services.
Service X5 from Weston-super-Mare to Cribbs Causeway was handed over to Stagecoach West from 1st September 2019 and 33666/7 were transferred from Weston to Wells.
33667 is now in Mendip Xplorer livery and is working on Wells service 172 in Paulton.