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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
Darkness Falls: Trains by Night - Chris Walters believes that if you love photography and railways, that's a marriage made in heaven, for trains make fascinating and even dramatic and evocative subjects. However, traditionally when the sun sinks below the horizon, many photographers pack away their gear. Chris has always felt that this was a bit of a shame, for the night time has the potential for some very interesting photographic opportunities, as he discusses and demonstrates.
A Bridge too far...The story of the Avon River - A major piece of engineering on the railway into Gippsland in eastern Victoria was the crossing of the Avon River, a short distance on the Up (west) side of Stratford, by a long bridge running roughly north/south with the southern approach being at the Up end. As David Campbell relates, ongoing problems with the bridge - a result of spanning a river that has changed course over the years and is notorious for its ability to transition from a trickle to a flood in a matter of hours - led to the decision to replace it with a new bridge on a more suitable alignment.
Regulars:
Rail Industry
Railway people
News
International Operations:
- Travels along the South West Main
- The Quintessential North Coast
Preservation and Tourist
Readers Write
Cover: A typically eclectic SSR 'lash-up' as Goodwin/Alco unit 4532, Clyde/EMD unit 4904, MKA/EMD 'Streamliner' CLP12 Casper and Bendigo Workshops/EMD unit BRM 001 cross Jerrawa Creek, between Oolong and Jerrawa on the NSW main southern line, with 2349 empty grain train from Allied Mills, Maldon to Graincorp, Henty West on Sunday 23 August.
Opposite: On Tuesday 5 July, Aurizon Clyde/EMD units 2391 and 2194F round a curve at Monklands, just south of Gympie, with WC4L empty cattle train from Dinmore, near Ipswich, to Winton in central west Queensland.
Back cover (upper): Wires and wind turbines that constitute key components of the modern electricity grid dominate this late evening scene as NRs13 & 120 glide down the undulations from Stirling North to Lake Knockout with Melbourne - Perth intermodal service 5MP5 on Friday 28 August. The gleaming wall of double-stacked metal has been cleared to enter the Port Augusta city precinct. Malcolm Holdsworth Back cover (lower): On Tuesday 18 August, Pacific National train 8938, the 'Manildra flour train', led by Clyde/EMD units 8241, 8119, 8149 and 8238 rounds the curves of Brewongle enroute to Manildra's Bomaderry (Nowra) facility.
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