Australia

Sydney

Around and about Sydney's railway system

Central Station with unit 2857	Central Station with unit DJM 8127	Central Station with unit DJM 8120	Central Station, 4306 and 5300
Central Station with 4306	Central Station with 5300	Central Station with elderly carriage	Central Station with XPT train
Redfern workshops	Redfern workshops		Circular Quay Station

Clyde Yard and Granville

Clyde yard with loco 8131	Clyde yard with loco 8133	Clyde yard, locos 8145 and 8109	Clyde yard with loco 8157
Clyde yard with loco AN7	Clyde yard with loco DL44	Clyde yard and unknown loco	Clyde yard signalbox
Clyde yard and wagons	Granville Station, Sydney, C3964	Granville Station, Sydney	Granville Station, Sydney

North Sydney Station

North Sydney Station

North Sydney Station, D 6173

North Sydney Station

North Sydney Station, D 6260

Parramatta

Parramatta Station	Parramatta Station	Parramatta Station	Parramatta Station, unit No C 3578
Parramatta Signalbox	Parramatta bridges	Parramatta bridges	Parramatta bridges

Sydney Light Railway

Sydney Light Rail system	Sydney Light Rail tram 2105	Sydney Light Rail system	Sydney Light Rail system
Sydney Light Rail system	Sydney Light Rail system

Sydney Monorail, now sadly demolished

Monorail system, car No 2	Monorail system, car No 4	Monorail system, car No 5	Monorail system, car No 5
Monorail system, car No 6	Monorail system, car No 6	Monorail system, car No 6	Monorail system, car No 6
Monorail system, car No 6	Monorail system, car No 6	Monorail system, car No 6

Around the Harbour and its fortifications

Cockatoo Island powerhouse	Cockatoo Island powerhouse, December 2012	Dockyard 'Goliath' crane	Dockyard 'Goliath' crane
Dockyard 'Goliath' crane	Signal Hill Battery	Signal Hill Battery	Funicular in Sydney Bay
'CSL Pacific' Bondi, Sydney

Around Australia

Katoomba colliery and incline

Katoomba level	Katoomba level	Katoomba level	Katoomba level
Katoomba level	Katoomba level wagons	Katoomba level wagons	Katoomba furnace level
Katoomba furnace level	Katoomba incline	Katoomba incline car	Katoomba incline car
Katoomba incline car	Katoomba incline car	Katoomba ropeway bucket	Katoomba ropeway bucket
Katoomba ropeway notice

Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne

Three brief days in Brisbane in 2004 to visit relatives and friends but one of them took pity on me and we visited their local museum, the home of this magnificent railcar, built by Crossley / AEC, then back to New Zealand. Plus new trams in Canberra in 2019 and trams in Melbourne in the 1990s.

Crossley / AEC railcar 'RM74'

Canberra, the new trams

Melbourne trams

Kiama, NSW

Kiama is South of Sydney and is famous for its quarries producing volcanic basalt used for road and ralway ballast. These photos were taken by Jim Coomer, who visited Kiama in 2018.

Kiama Station, NSW	Kiama Station, NSW	Kiama Station, NSW	Kiama Fire Station, NSW
Kiama Police Station, NSW	Kiama Police Station, NSW	Kiama Courthouse, NSW	Kiama quarrymen's monument

Hong Kong

Light Rail Transit (LRT)

Light Rail Transit (LRT), officially the North-West Railway, is a light rail system serving Tuen Mun District and Yuen Long District in the northwestern New Territories, Hong Kong. The system operates over standard gauge track, using 750 V DC overhead power supply. The serpentine routes cover an area of very high density housing with very frequent trains. The MTR day pass allows unlimited travel and is well worth a visit.

New Territories light rail '1002'	New Territories light rail '1008', '1016'	New Territories light rail '1017'	New Territories LRT '1018', '1138', 1216'
New Territories light rail '1021', '1052'	New Territories light rail '1025'	New Territories light rail '1032', '1041'	New Territories light rail '1032', '1041'
New Territories light rail '1032'	New Territories light rail '1033'	New Territories light rail '1038'	New Territories light rail '1041', '1058'
New Territories light rail '1045'	New Territories light rail '1051'	New Territories light rail '1059'	New Territories light rail '1060'
New Territories light rail '1067'	New Territories light rail '1071'	New Territories light rail '1077'	New Territories light rail '1078'
New Territories light rail '1083'	New Territories light rail '1086'	New Territories light rail '1097'	New Territories light rail '1098'
New Territories light rail '1105'	New Territories light rail '1105'	New Territories light rail '1138'	New Territories light rail '1211'

Mount Victoria Tramway

Ten years apart, 2012 and 2022, and we have new trams on the funicular. Also, due to heavy Covid restrictions, few passengers, no queuing round the block, ushered to a seat, they were delighted to have a foreign tourist !

Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022
Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022
Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2022		Mount Victoria Tramway, 2012
Mount Victoria Tramway, 2012	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2012	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2012	Mount Victoria Tramway, 2012

Hong Kong Tramways

Hong Kong Tramways '6'	Hong Kong Tramways '6'	Hong Kong Tramways '17'	Hong Kong Tramways '20'
Hong Kong Tramways '21'	Hong Kong Tramways '24'	Hong Kong Tramways '25'	Hong Kong Tramways '28'
Hong Kong Tramways '39'	Hong Kong Tramways '40'	Hong Kong Tramways '43'	Hong Kong Tramways '48'
Hong Kong Tramways '57', '132', 2009	Hong Kong Tramways '58', 2009	Hong Kong Tramways '70', 2009	Hong Kong Tramways '81' and '162'
Hong Kong Tramways '86'	Hong Kong Tramways '86'	Hong Kong Tramways '87'	Hong Kong Tramways '90' interior
Hong Kong Tramways '94'	Hong Kong Tramways '117', 2009	Hong Kong Tramways '122' and '94'	Hong Kong Tramways '122'
Hong Kong Tramways '124'	Hong Kong Tramways '124'	Hong Kong Tramways '132'	Hong Kong Tramways '148'
Hong Kong Tramways '148'	Hong Kong Tramways '165'	Hong Kong Tramways '165'

Mass Transit Railway (MTR)

Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway has a lot of tunnel running and photography is difficult at stations. The East line is a little more open and gets occasional loco-hauled trains, not that i ever got to see one up close !

MTA, 'D016' on the East Line, 2022	MTA, 'D016' on the East Line, 2022	MTA, 'D021' on the East Line, 2022	MTA, 'D034' on the East Line, 2022
MTA, 'D036' on the East Line, 2022		MTA, Hung Hom East station, 2012	Airport Express near Airport, 2009

Singapore

The Light Rail Transit system

A little disappointed - I was expecting rails and got a guided bus way instead - never mind. Next time I pass through Singapore I'll be a little less jet-lagged (I hardly left the hotel) and see what else there is.

Bukit Panjang LRT '124' and '130'	Bukit Panjang LRT system	Bukit Panjang LRT system
Bukit Panjang LRT '129'.	Bukit Panjang LRT '110' ,and '117'
Sengkang LRT '13'	Sengkang LRT '03'	Sengkang LRT '23'
Sengkang LRT system	Sengkang LRT system	Sengkang LRT '08'
Changi Airport LRT system	Changi Airport LRT system	Changi Airport LRT system
Changi Airport LRT system	Changi Airport LRT system	Singapore MTR

Tonga

Nuku'alofa copra railway

There I was, stranded on Fafa Island off Tongatapo, and when the typhoon blew itself out and I took the boat over to the mainland for a high-speed visit to a very short-lived railway. At some time, a narrow gauge railway ran from Queen Salote Wharf on the Pacific to the central lagoon of Tongatapo. The memory lives on as 'Railway Road' follows its course and, sadly, the route is all that seems to remain. Other that it was used to move copra there seems to be nothing known about it - its gauge, its motive power or its lifespan.

Queen Salote Wharf	Railway Road looking North	Railway Road looking North
Railway Road looking North	Railway Road looking South	Railway Road looking South

Acknowledgments, sources and further reading.

Thanks for sharing his photos to Jim Coomer.