It starts with “Public transport sucks”, then it’s undermining HSR, pretending hyperloop and self driving cars are solutions to anything, then endorsing German neo-Nazis and now his hand is up the arse of a moron killing government services. Never trust a man who dislikes trains.

Today's historic pic: 36 years ago today, N465 and broad gauge VLine Bendigo train no 8025 approach Sunbury, Vic, July 22 1989. 1500V DC overhead reached here in 2012 making Sunbury, 38km NW of Melbourne, now the northernmost station on Melbourne's suburban electric train network

RT @metronetperth: 🎉 The FIRST test train has officially run on the Byford Rail Extension Project! . The train departed at the new elevated….

Today's historic pic: Alco diesel 4836 in green livery shunts at Wagga Wagga, NSW, April 6 1987. In 1980, 4836 was painted in a special green livery for the 125th anniversary of NSW Railways. The livery was still intact in 1987 though the lettering had been removed.

Bronze for Australia!.

It's like one of those Magic Eye pictures. If you stare at it long enough, a 3D image of failure jumps out at you.

Today's historic pic: 39 years ago today, a siding junction and residence as seen from the Winton- Hughenden mixed train at Stamford, Qld, July 20 1986. The Winton to Hughenden mixed train took the entire day, and stopped at many sidings along the way to drop off and add wagons.

Uh oh.

As we await arrival of the first votes in the Tasmanian election, how about we check on the current position of Spirit of Tasmania IV. Seems she's off the west cost of Africa in the vicinity of St Helena and Tristan da Cunha.

If I have the location right, this pic was taken from the Katarina Elevator (Katarinahissen), an outdoor lift to the heights of the Södermalm. Built in 1881, it became a common vantage point for photos. It was rebuilt in 1936 and was closed between 2010 and 2023 for renovation.

Yes, road traffic was running on the left. Sweden drove on the left until September 3 1967, a date known as Dagen H or Högertrafikomläggningen. A side-effect was closure of tram routes as crossovers worked for left hand running and trams were single ended with doors on the left.

I'm not sure exactly how the tram network operated in 1957, but it looks to me like that is a tram terminal loop. Could it have been that when this was the T-Bana's northern terminus, passengers changed here at Slussen into trams to finish their trip into central Stockholm?.

The first sections of T-Bana opened in 1950 running south from a terminus at Slussen which is pretty much below the position from which this photo was taken. The extension north into Stockholm opened November 24 1957, so this photo was just months before opening of that extension.

Today's historic pic taken by my grandfather: Trams, left hand traffic, T-Bana bridges and Gamla Stan station under construction, from the Katarinahissen, Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, 1957. Most Stockholm 1st generation trams ceased with the switch to right side traffic in 1967

And today, 38 years plus one day since that photo on the Sandridge Bridge, here's the modern day incarnation of that same preserved Tait with a chuffy thing on the back, running a Steamrail Belgrave to Ringwood shuttle between Upper Ferntree Gully and Ferntree Gully.

You probably don't expect ABC's Gardening Australia to be a rich source of railway content, but today it is. Of course it's Kuranda.

You can see this location in this 1854 drawing of the opening day of the Sandridge line. The skew bridge in the left background of the drawing is in the same position as the bridge the train was just about to cross.

Today's historic pic: Exactly 38 years ago today, a restored Tait train on an enthusiasts special tour destined for Port Melbourne heads across the Yarra River bridge from Flinders Street station, Melbourne, July 18 1987. Tait trains served Melbourne from 1910 until 1984.

On display in the Redmond Barry reading room. I wonder whether that was a conscious decision and I wonder whether Ned might actually have approved.

G'day old mate. Such is Life.

On one level - FFS. On another level, this is funny. Anyone associated with that entire industry deserves everything that rains down on them.