Recently, I visited the Railway Portraits exhibition in the Newcastle Library Lovett Gallery. There are a large number of the photos featured in the railway portraits series, some

The latest edition of the Railway Portraits series brings more great images and stories to life, recreating many precious memories of NSW steam days.

In the last few years of steam operations in NSW, there were still a few trains operating out of Sydney. The most well known of these was the

In 1973, 3801 and 3820 headed to Melbourne. By this stage, I had a car and my friends and I decided to chase the trip south. The car

Back in the 1960s, our emotions were split between travelling on steam hauled tours and trains in regular service. Tours spread out to all parts of the state

Recently, a model railway friend of mine did a video review of “Smoke” You can find it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2YUoCugiA He talked quite a bit about the difficulties of

While there was plenty of action around Sydney station, Darling Harbour and its wharves were dominated by ancient 19 class, built before the turn of the century. These

When my fascination for steam was ignited back in 1964, one of the delights were after school trips to Sydney Terminal and surrounds to watch the many movements