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Quite seriously, is she OK?
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Publisher of rail maps & public transport timetables. Photographer, public transport advocate and enjoyer of irony and life’s little incongruities. Ethics matter more than politics.
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Quite seriously, is she OK?
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And for what it's worth, this is how the original scan looks. You can see why I hadn't bothered until now.
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But, in this age of digital processing, it's possible to partially recover from such errors. Here I adjusted the exposure on the overexposed segment to try to match it as seamlessly as possible. It turned out better than I thought to be honest, particularly considering how far gone the original is.
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For those unfamiliar, film exposed to light is washed out, so it is necessary to wind on and 'waste' a couple of shots at the start of each roll - otherwise this is what can happen. It seems I was too much of a cheapskate, and the gamble of squeezing in a 25th (or was it 33rd) shot didn't pay off.
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But you ask, what is going on with this photo? Well, this photo was taken in the days of 35mm slides, and this one was the first on the roll. And as sometimes happened with film, part of it was exposed, probably as a result of me not having sufficiently wound the film on.
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Today's historic pic: The station at Tamworth, NSW, August 3 1985. Located 455km north of Sydney on the Main North line, in 1985 Tamworth was served by the overnight North Mail and the Northern Tablelands XPT. Today, the Northern Tablelands XPLorer DMU between Armidale and Sydney calls here each day
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The Spirit of Progress ran for the last time 11 months beforehand in August 1986 but the carriage set and the 422 class diesel on the train in the platform identify it as a standard gauge set, so I can only speculate that may be a rare occasion when a second division of the Melbourne Express ran.
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937 was one of 37 members of the 930 class Alco engined diesel locos built by AE Goodwin and delivered to the South Australian #Railways between 1955 and 1967. Even after the ANR took over the SAR in 1974, the 930s stayed in SA, but from the early '80s they did work through to Melbourne as here.
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Today's historic pic: Exactly 37 years ago today, ANR Alco diesel 937 and VLine X46, having brought The Overland in from Adelaide, sit in a centre road in front of an all-blue and yellow standard gauge carriage set in platform 2 at Spencer Street station, Melbourne, July 5 1987.
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Nah, that’s a sane reaction tbh.
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You should have told us.
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Today's historic pic: Seen from a Wick/Thurso to Inverness train is the station at Forsinard, Scotland, UK, April 27 1988. Forsinard, 202km north of Inverness on the Far North line, is still a timetabled train crossing place. Though the station is now unstaffed, most of the buildings are still there
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I’m not sure how BlueSky displays it to others - maybe it’s device dependent. But ‘Public Transport Users Ass…’?
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Today's historic pic: The station at Yass Junction, NSW, October 19 1985. Located 318km from Sydney on the NSW Main South #railway this was the junction for a 4km branch line to Yass. Today, all passenger trains use platform 1 and the platform opposite is disused though both tracks are still in use.
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Today's historic pic: Coupled 1929-built H-type trams 376+377 before running a Glenelg peak express trip from Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA, Jan 19, 2004. Just a couple of these express trips ran each weekday. H types last ran in 2006. This terminus was bypassed when the line was extended in 2007
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Being serious for a mo, I think the aspirations of a nation matter a lot. And whilst Americans aspire to profit and victory, Brits aspire to former glories, the French to save their culture in the face of adversity etc etc, Australians aspire to be accepted as an equal. To be a mate. I like that.
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It’s aspirational at best.
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That could be a great national slogan. You know, on a mock parchment scroll beneath a kangaroo and emu coat of arms. Along with ‘No Dickheads’ of course.
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I wonder whether this might actually make some a bit more wary of voting for Trump.
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Today's historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, works tram 10W in Bourke Street, Melbourne, Vic, July 1 1989. Built in 1908 by Meadowbank for the NSWGT, it ran as Sydney K class number 763, then as scrubber 138s until it was withdrawn and sold to the M&MTB where it ran as Melbourne 10W until 2002.
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…. and inventor of butter bikkies.
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This podcast randomly played in my Spotify. I don’t really know much about Hitler, but the tactical similarities they identify in so so many areas with what we are seeing today is frankly alarming. Their highlighting Hitler’s prison name as ‘Prisoner 45’ is dark too. open.spotify.com/episode/6aaJ...
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I fear we have a cultural problem. Too many think something is true if people believe it, and some think they can change what people believe (and therefore truth) by repeatedly saying crap at people. I don’t know how we treat this in our lifetimes other than through an intervention for psychosis.
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Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I fear the conspiracy theorists might have a field day if that was to happen.
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NFTs too. What ever happened to them? I wonder if some of these celebs are really just not that smart - or are out of touch or just don’t care or perhaps are more followers than they are influential.
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Hot Take - A new breed of Reality TV show: ‘Really Real Reality’, in which high profile BS of the day is fact checked. Trick is to make it entertaining, but in the right hands it could work. Maybe I just re-invented The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but with a more clinical edge. I’d watch.
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Today's historic pic: Exactly 39 years ago today, 4480 and 4483, both no 2 end leading, heading the Canberra Monaro Express, sit in the platform, while a third 44 and the Southern Highland Express set sit in the car siding, Canberra Railway station, Kingston, ACT, June 30, 1985.
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Today's historic pic: 38 years ago today, the Rialto building looms over the horizon as Melbourne Z3 class tram no 126, in original Marigold livery, runs a Sundays-only West Coburg to City Elizabeth Street route 68 along reserved track beside the Melbourne Zoo in Royal Park, Vic, June 29 1986.
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I misread that notation as ‘Account munted’. Which speakers of New Zealand English will appreciate.
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Righteo.
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In what sense is it light?
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Today’s historic pic: EMD-engined branchline loco 4910 running a 3-day LVR tour at Gwabegar, NSW, January 30 1983. Note the station name scrawled on the platform coping. Gwabegar, 603km from Sydney at the terminus of a 432km long branch line, has seen no trains since about 2005.
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It may very well do.
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My real name is the sound made by a pair of six-wheel bogies rolling along pebble-ballasted timber-sleepered track of lightweight jointed rail.
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You could use the existing SG to Northam then reuse the existing formation north of there via Goomalling to maybe Perenjori, bypass Mullewa on a new short cut to about Mount Magnet then reuse again to Meekatharra with on to Wiluna a possibility too.
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Today's historic pic: A St Kilda-bound 3-car broad-gauge Hitachi EMU runs between South Melbourne and Albert Park, January 5 1984. After 130 years of service, trains last ran to St Kilda in 1987 when most of the line was converted to standard gauge and integrated into Melbourne's large tram network.
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That would set your mate back a year or two on his loan repayments. Mind you, a rail formation is in place all the way from Midland to Meekatharra and Wiluna, so that would knock a bit off the headline cost.
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Rail network expansion could provide solution for Adelaide's growth | Stateline | ABC News
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Eagle Rock (Daddy Cool) Farewell Aunty Jack (Graeme Bond) The Newcastle Song (Bob Hudson) Howzat (Sherbet) OK, it's all Australian. But if for some reason you want to understand what Australia was like in the 1970s, that playlist will give you some clues.
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Today's historic pic: British Rail class 319 EMU no 319023 in Network SouthEast livery on a Bedford to London St Pancras run calls at Harpenden, UK, April 11 1988. This was just one month before these trains started running through the Snow Hill tunnel beneath London and were branded Thameslink.
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But, that very first photo I posted was a bit different. Found in an old photo album, I think it was taken by my great aunt in 1954, it was this photo of the original Granite Island horse tram at Victor Harbor, South Australia. bsky.app/profile/rail...
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500 followers on Blue Sky today! That has to be worth celebrating. My first post here was just over 10 months ago on August 14 2023, and every day I have posted a historic photo of the day from my personal collection of 35mm slides of trains and trams - most taken by me in Australia in the 1980s.
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Today's historic pic: The station at Tallong, NSW, November 9 1985. Tallong is 185km from Sydney on the NSW main South line. The station is served by local trains to and from Goulburn. The buildings on the other platform have been demolished, but the skillion-roofed waiting shed this side remains.
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This probably doesn’t help, but it’s not just that one country.
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Today’s historic pic: Exactly 35 years ago today, Melbourne Z1 class tram no 38 has just departed the terminus at Bakers Road as it heads south along Sydney Road, North Coburg, Vic on a route 19 service to the city, June 24 1989. Z1 class trams were introduced in the 1970s and ran until 2016.
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I can picture that. But uggs in the ‘70s were (and still are) here the basic footwear of the poor.
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The idea that uggies could be considered ‘fashion’ items is very amusing to Australians given that for decades they have been the antithesis of fashion. Analogous to, but more extreme than the way blue jeans evolved from workwear into fashion items.
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I tend to think it’s unlikely, but I distinctly recall that day searching around for remnants of that long closed line, and taking this (and other) photos along the alignment of where I thought it ran.
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Today's historic pic: Exactly 39 years ago today, disused track with rails with some sort of guard structures, crossing a culvert on the north side of the yard at Canberra Railway Station, Kingston, ACT, June 23 1985. Is there any chance this was part of the Civic branch line that closed in 1922?
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Today's historic pic: A Pichi Richi Railway narrow gauge steam hauled heritage train at Quorn, SA, June 1986. The nearest carriage, Wandana, built in 1911 by the South Australian Railways, ran on both narrow and broad gauge over its lifetime, and has been at the PRR since 1974.
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