Author: John Gaydon

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

There is a reason I, and several others chose Fassifern, an area 16 miles or 26 kilometres south of Newcastle as a template for our model railway layouts.

As many readers will know, from the time the Hawkesbury River Bridge was open 1889, it was possible to travel from Sydney to Newcastle by train. While today

Back in steam days, there was still a mixed train out of Sydney. It usually had a 38 up front and travelled with steam as far as Goulburn.