Posts Tagged ‘Avalon Airport’

The train that flew from Melbourne to India

The Alstom factory at Dandenong has a long history of building trams and trains for the Melbourne public transport system, through predecessors Bombardier, Adtranz, ABB and Commonwealth Engineering. However they have also built rollingstock for the overseas market, such as these two Indian Railways WAP5 electric locomotives that left Australia onboard an Antonov An-124 heavy […]

Photos from ten years ago: July 2013

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is July 2013. Overview of the carriage yards from the north-east side of La Trobe Street Regional Rail Link Work on the Regional Rail Link project will still ticking away, with Sunbury line passengers often having to change to buses at […]

Photos from ten years ago: March 2011

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is March 2011. Up in the air Who remembers the day of big events and flying? March 2011 saw the Australian International Airshow held at Avalon, with Tiger Airways still flying into the airport. V/Line ran extra trains to Lara station. […]

Photos from ten years ago: November 2010

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is November 2010. Like most months we start down at Geelong, where I paid a visit to Marshall station. There I found a locomotive hauled train running around the carriage set, ready to form a new service back to Melbourne. And […]

Photos from ten years ago: December 2009

Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is December 2009. We start overlooking Southern Cross Station, where the Docklands skyline was a lot emptier. As was that of Spencer Street. And the western edge of the CBD. Back in 2009 the explosion of (flammable!) apartment blocks was yet […]