Australian Railway History Magazine

Unusually we look at some railway history in the early 2000s on Australia’s Apple Isle in the July issue. Pacific Nationals tenure in Tasmania was short and an odd time to say the least between 2004 and 2009. Equipment and track faults but also EE locomotives could not be used in multiple with EMD units to operate trains. Very few locos ever wore the PN livery. It’s a very interesting article and an ideal time to assess the privatisation with perspective. We complete the final part of History of the Gippsland Line Electrification this month but no electric rolling stock exist now but its reminds us of some of the unusual rolling stock that we saw in the 1990s after the wires were pulled down. But there is more in sight as we have just received another article on the other Gippsland Electrification (watch this space)!
Where has time gone – who can believe that it has been 20 years since the last XPT left Murwillumbah station? Once it left it ended 110 years of rail transport in the region!
All this and more in our JULY issue!