1980s Brush pallette 🎨 #TMRGUK

Can you identify the loco? #TrainTwitter

NR14 and NR117 head Easter Sunday’s #Ghan🐪through Bookaloo, South Australia

#TwitterModelRoadTrainShow anyone?

Happy birthday Matt Dawson🐟 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎂🎂🎁🎁🎈🎈🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺

Gypsum empties leave Thevenard, bound for Kevin (South Australia) with a friendly toot and wave from the traincrew. This line is 3’ 6” gauge and isolated from the national network.

Aurizon’s ACN class locos 4172 and 4149 complete unloading their ore train at Geraldton, WA. Unknown loco/s at the rear. 23/04/24

Rio Tinto’s C44-9W Class 7087, 9430, plus ES44DCi Class 8127 power their 30,000-odd tonne train of iron ore ‘fines’ out of Tom Price mine, Western Australia.

Broome’s 3’6” tramway closed in 1966. Its two remaining Dorman Simplex diesels were sold to a scrap dealer. However in 1995 the Broome Historical Society & Museum managed to acquire what was left of them. Not on display, I found this ‘round the back’ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broome_Tr…

Woomera Prohibited Area, specially Woomera ‘village’ (2 hours north of Port Augusta, SA) has a hobby club, including HO and N gauge model railway layouts. Meets Wednesday evenings if you happen to be in the area. (Unfortunately, I passed through on a Sunday) #TMRGUK #TMRGUSA

In July 1979, #NASA was issued a Litter Penalty Notice by the Shire of Esperance, after debris from the Skylab space station landed in Western Australia.

If you are in Coober Pedy, SA and want to know when the recycling depot closes, check the thermometer. 🌡️

Bubble car in Purnululu National Park, Western Australia #TMRGUK

G’day from Katherine, Northern Territory. #TMRGUK Dapol #BubbleCar gdmkimages

Ravenshoe, Queensland #RateMyBuffers

It’s great to see that Queensland Rail’s Kuranda Scenic Railway and Skyrail schedules are on Google Maps, but a 1 min walk between them at Barron Falls is neither safe nor possible.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 37 years ago today, VLine diesel loco T334 painted in lurid pink Ozride livery sits in the depot at Traralgon, Vic, June 13 1987. Ozride was a fictional railway created to portray unsafe practices in a VLine staff safety video that was never aired.

“RAILWAY SIGNAL ONLY” Rockhampton’s signal RN140 includes a sign advising motorists to ignore it. #SignaloftheDay