Melbourne

Amazing day today - drove down to Goolwa and caught an old/heritage "SteamRanger" train run by a Redhen railcar (the steam loco wasn't operational, apparently) down to Victor Harbour. Amazing views out the window - it pretty much drives along the beach for about half the route

View:

And those of you who pay attention to my ramblings may recognise this little guy:

In case you don't, that's a Vline H Set, the kind that used to run the afternoon/evening peak trains from southern cross to Wyndham Vale/Melton (or Bacchus Marsh)! I think it may have gotten a little lost, seeing as we're in a teeny little town in SA! I don't actually think the Victor Harbour line is still connected to the main Melbourne-Adelaide line like it used to be, but in any case, that's a broad gauge line (for broad gauge H sets), while Melb-Ade has been standard gauge since the 90s

Speaking of the junction with the mainline, this morning we stopped at Mount Barker Junction station, and managed to find a way inside. Pretty neat:

We also went to a little station called Littlehampton which seems to have seen better days:

Then we topped it all off with a trip on the Victor Harbour horse drawn tramway!