Our year in Review captures the highlights of this year that we have captured. This however will be the last Year in Review of this style, as some changes are planned from next year.
This year's video is slightly shorter than previous years, but hopefully still captures most of what was seen this year.
Well, it's back to the formalities, and to start us off with our three video, end of year countdown, we have our annual Christmas Special.
Taking the helm are two of our newest additions to the fleet, being the Auscision Models C and G class.
This year, I play a little bit with the lighting. Thinking next time I'll back to something more regular as it restricts the carriages that can be used for the occasion.
Back for this weeks extra, and one that is being published just in time for the season.
Once again, the Puffing Billy Railway operated their annual Polar Express specials for 9 days during mid-December. NG129 was again dressed up for the occasion, hauling the fully booked out session each day.
This video follows more of the style seen in our Transport Heritage Expo Chase video, were the clips seen in this video were captured over two days. Clips from the first day of filming are denoted in the description.
Anyways, this marks the last train chase for the year for us, and the last train video. We still have three more videos to end off the year, but yeah.
So Merry Christmas to everyone. Stay well during the festive season, and catch everyone soon.
Today we begin with the last heritage tour in Victoria for 2023, this being Steamrail Victoria's Member's Christmas Train. This year's destination was Warragul, being historically significant by once being the end of the electrification for the Melbourne network, until it was de-electrified during the late 1980s. The train was hauled by four Victorian Railway's T class locomotives, one representing each type of the class.
Wasn't too bad of a day at all.
Missed out on a post last Friday, but this Friday's video should be posted here once available, so catch everyone then.
Once again, we're still cleaning out the backlog of videos that were filmed earlier in the year, but without an uploading slot to be published. One such tour was this year's Tait Members Train, that ran in June.
The train did a suburban rambler style tour around Melbourne's train network.
Anyways, cheers all. Catch everyone later in the week.
Today we have a rather special video, where we take a trip up to Puffing Billy to capture a rare operation of top and tail NA locomotives. During mid-August, the railway was chartered out by the Variety Children's Charity. Locomotives 12A and 8A top and tailed a consist of NBHs between Lakeside and Emerald for the day.
Anyways, enjoy the slightly different video.
Various videos from the backlog from the last year will be progressively uploaded during this extras season, so stay tuned for more!
Over the weekend, 707 Operations ran their last public tour for the year. This had the Y classes make a trip to Maldon, with a side quest in Daylesford.
This video highlights the mainline portions of the tour.
Anyways, this week we also begin our holiday scheduling, so catch everyone later in the week for another video!
