Well this ended up being pretty much the same length as last year! I tried something a bit different for the accompanying footage this time, which turned out to be a lot more challenging to shoot t...
2024-11-23 07:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[Edit: I'm going to record this on Friday 15/11, so if you haven't put in a question yet, make sure you get it to me by Thursday!] Hi everyone! It's exactly a year today since I released my last Q&...
2024-11-06 04:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is! A tour of Parkville, plus a ride through the tunnel to Anzac and back. Enjoy!
2024-10-28 09:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, just a quick couple of pictures from this afternoon.. I got invited with a small group of people to ride one of the test trains through the Metro Tunnel between Parkville and Anzac....
2024-10-25 10:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I wouldn't normally upload two videos so close together, but this one has a bit of a 'breaking news' exception. I was invited on a guided tour of Anzac station on the Metro Tunnel last...
2024-10-17 03:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, this is one that's been on my mind to make for a while - in the end I wrote the script in a single day, and it all came together pretty quickly after that. There's also another brief c...
2024-10-13 11:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, just a quick update on how things are going, and a link to an appearance of mine on another channel down below!
Annoyingly video production has been pretty much on pause for the...
Hello everyone! This video really started out as just a few observations from my recent family trip to Sydney, and then.. it snowballed into 23 minutes, and here we are! Hope you enjoy it.
2024-09-04 05:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, I've had quite a few requests for a downloadable copy of my 1949 Victorian Railways map scan, so I've attached it to this post! Just a few notes:
I'd appreciate it if th...
Hi everyone! This video has been a very long time coming, ever since I did the City Loop/Richmond Junction/North Melbourne+Southern Cross videos, I knew this one would be next - it took me a long t...
2024-08-20 10:53:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's been a while since I've done one of these real-time exploring videos. This is a bike ride along the former Inner Circle line, showing what remains of the railway and how the align...
2024-07-25 00:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's a very cold wet week here in Melbourne! Here's a random photo I took a couple of weeks ago in similar conditions, of K153 climbing out of Upper Ferntree Gully hauling the 4 car Ta...
2024-07-16 07:40:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, as promised - here is my third NSW video for the year, this time looking at the tiny request stop of Wondabyne! As alluded to in the video, this is a location that has been covered by ...
2024-07-08 05:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! This video is a bit of a dive into the different types of carriage used within Melbourne suburban trains, and how we ended up with the standard sets of cars we use today. A lot of this...
2024-06-23 09:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, this is a video I had absolutely no plans on making until about 10 days ago, when I looked at the track plan for the new East Pakenham station and realised.. it was actually pretty int...
2024-06-08 03:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's been a little while since I've done a general update on what I'm working on, so.. here we are!
First of all, a big welcome to al...
That's right, it's a ferry video! This is something I've wanted to do for ages - my trips to Sydney have always involved at least one ferry ride, and this video tells the story of the biggest ferri...
2024-05-15 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, this is a bit of a random video, which I thought I'd make really quickly and would be like 5 mins max - anyway I got a bit carried away and here it is! I made a really high res scan of...
2024-05-07 13:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, very pleased to be finally making this one live. I started writing the script for this just a few days after the Hurstbridge line video went live about 10 months ago - obviously I've m...
2024-04-22 10:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, it's been a while, but here's a video about a not-Melbourne place! This one covers the interesting line leading down to the North Sydney Car Sidings at Lavender Bay on the north side o...
2024-03-25 23:44:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here is my video on the Swanston St/St Kilda Rd tram corridor. This was very much one of those ones I expected to come together quickly, but then ended up being a bit more complicated than I...
2024-03-14 05:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
A bit of a milestone this month - this Patreon page has now been up for an entire year! When I started this 12 months ago, I really had no idea how much interes...
Hi everyone, here it is! This video was a heap of fun to put together, and was largely set in motion by the DVR president, Tyler Howie, who appears in the video. As a sort of appendix to this video...
2024-02-23 03:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, next video is coming very soon, and it's going to be a bit different to anything I've done before. I was invited to make a video about the Diamond Valley Railway, which is an amazin...
2024-02-19 23:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! This is probably my most requested video of all time, and one I had previously said I wouldn't make - well here it is! It's mostly a look at the wider network changes associated with t...
2024-02-16 06:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, a bit of a surprise video this week, taking a look at the three significant Infrastructure Evaluation Vehicles used on the Victorian rail network since the 1980s. Enjoy!
2024-02-06 03:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is, the 'other' Broadmeadows runaway from 1960! This one posed a few interesting challenges being an event that happened entirely before my time, and uses a mixture of historic photos and m...
2024-01-24 08:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! First of all, welcome to all the new members, quite a few people have come on board around the release of the V/line video, which is great to see!
I'm no...
2024-01-19 03:04:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is, probably my second most requested topic - it's a video about V/line! This is pretty much a fleet explainer, I plan on making some videos on other aspects in the future. Enjoy!
2024-01-11 06:31:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! This morning I was out very early taking my first rail photos for 2024 (I know, took me 9 whole days). I was specifically after a few shots I need for my next video, which will be a general ...
2024-01-09 06:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post