Climax Dinner Run | CLIMAX - Paradise Hotel Dinner Train - Puffing Billy...

Howdy all,

We're back for this week's video, and once again because of the flexible scheduling, the video is now online 14 hours earlier than our recommended schedule. Today's video, we head back to Puffing Billy to see the Climax once again. This is her first trip for the year, where hopefully there are a lot more to come.

This will be the only video for this week, so cheers all. Catch you all next week.

Next week's video will be back to something bigger, as there will be a follow up post on the Facebook page tomorrow night. Cheers!

First Day of Trains at the New Deer Park Station - V/Line Regional

Newest video has now been uploaded, and yes it's an extra for this week. On Monday we announced there would be and extra video for this week, meaning that this will conclude three weeks of double videos. We plans to return to a single videos per week next week, but anything can change as we continue to evaluate the amount of new videos heading into the backlog (there's still an unboxing video in there that is waiting since March).

Anyways, today we go away from heritage trains, and instead see the newly rebuilt Deer Park Station, that opened on the 24th of April, 2023. As we can see, the station really isn't complete yet, with the lack of PIDs, Myki readers and lighting, but this allows the trains resume after a three week shutdown of the Warrnambool and Serviceton lines.

Anyways, we spend a bit of off peak seeing some of the VLocitys passing through the station. Eventually we will return once the station is more complete, for one of the peak times.

Cheers all.

PN's S307 Goes to Preservation | SRHC - The Homecoming: S307 | C501, T35...

Howdy all,

So once again, with this flexible uploading, means that our newest video has been pushed out one day early!

Today we have our vision of Seymour's S307 Homecoming Tour. This has locomotives C501 and T357 travel from Seymour to Laverton to pickup S307 that had been recently donated by PN and transferred over from SA by SCT. For another 10 minutes of the video, we capture the shunting in Laverton as they used T357 to pick up and marshal S307, then running around with C501 in the lead.

The schedule is getting rather busy, with multiple recent videos being thrown into the backlog. There are still more videos being filmed, which means a rethink of the schedule may be needed. But until the trial period for the flexible schedule expires in July, no major changes will be made. It is planned that another video is to be filmed tomorrow, where this video will be uploaded as a second video for the week, on Thursday. This is a non-heritage related video.

So until later, catch you all soon!

Hudson & Streamliner Storm the Bendigo Line | Steamrail - Bendigo Easter...

Last video of our Easter doubles. This is the second video looking at the operations of Steamrail's Bendigo Easter Steam Weekend. On Easter Sunday, a day trip was ran from Melbourne with V/Line's A66. This would then become a magnificent 10 carriage train back to Melbourne with R711 added to the mix.

Anyways, enjoy the video. Back to weekly for a little bit, however, there are a lot of videos being filmed atm, so maybe time to a video clean out week? we'll see.

Cheers!

Easter Model Railway Exhibition 2023 - Diamond Creek - Part 2 | Yarra Va...

Howdy all,

Time for the first of this week's pairing of videos. We are continuing off from last week. Firstly we have our continuation of the Easter Exhibition. On Thursday we will have our completion of the Steamrail Bendigo Weekend.

This part we cover the N gauge layouts in the main hall and the layouts in the second room.

We did have another video recorded over the weekend, however, this will be held back, like our Don River Railway video.

Cheers all.

Spirit of Bendigo Powers Up the Divide | SRV - Bendigo Weekend Transfer ...

Howdy all,

Second video for the week, in place of what should be the second part to Monday's video.

This time we capture Steamrail Victoria's Bendigo Steam Weekend. This has been split into two parts, so next week will be double videos of second parts.

Anyways, join us for a chase of the tour from Melbourne on Good Friday, then the Bendigo Local Shuttles with R711 and A66.

Until next week, have a good one.

Easter Model Railway Exhibition 2023 - Diamond Creek - Part 1 | Yarra Va...

Howdy all,

Time for that weekend that makes the schedule feel like a holiday season again.

Today we have the first part of the annual Easter Model Railway Exhibition. Once again, it was held at the Diamond Creek Bank Stadium, but they are back better than ever, with 55 stalls across two rooms. 23 layouts were on display, where in this first part we look at 8 of them.

Our second video this week will be from the Steamrail Bendigo Steam Weekend, as per the scheduling last year.

Cheers all, catch you all in a few days.

Trains & Trams on the Final Day of Glenhuntly Station | Pre-LXRA

Howdy all,

So as per the new flexible scheduling, we have our newest video being uploaded one day early. This video farewell's Glenhuntly Station, the latest station to be demolished as part of the LXRA. The crossing has one of the unique features of being one in three to still have a tram square. The new rail-under station is due to be completed later in the year.

Our flexiable scheduling means that heritage and station closing videos are supposed to be uploaded within 24 hours of their completion, however with Friday filmed videos, they will be aimed for 10:30 AM Sundays. Next weeks video will be back to our Monday schedule, as the schedule for next week is being changed inline with the previous year's Easter specials.

Alrighty, cheers all.