2018-02-18 02:47
Abandoned railway bridge on the Murwillumbah railway line at Dunbible.This photo of Dunbible Creek Railway Bridge on the old Murwillumbah Line is just one of the double page portraits featur… Read More
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Railway adventures, train chasing tales and writing snippets from author and award nominated railway adventurer Phillip Overton.
2018-02-09 08:01
The Risk, the riskiest train watching location in New South Wales.Believe it or not, this was once a station. In fact, this was once a small village located off the Summerland Way in the far… Read More
2018-02-07 05:04
Paradise in Border Country. Glenapp, Queensland.Tucked away in the hills of Queensland's and New South Wales's Border Country, is the tiny signal hut located at Glenapp. Just off the Lions T… Read More
2018-01-29 05:02
Spare a quick moment to think about every word that has ever been written on the internet. The internet has been going for how long now? Just twenty-six years. It's really not that long in t… Read More
2017-11-09 05:42
It's hard to believe that this is the 15th book I have released. I've always thought of myself as a writer who was taking a break from finishing his next novel to dabble in writing some rail… Read More
2017-10-20 06:00
Uniquely New Zealand rail adventures.Across the ditch in the Land of the Long White Cloud, you'll find one New Zealand's most unique little rail adventures waiting for you just outside the c… Read More
2017-10-13 06:00
Aurizon coal train banker locomotives at Ardglen.The Liverpool Ranges north west of the Hunter Valley in NSW Australia, is a notoriously tough climb for loaded coal trains on their way to th… Read More
2017-10-05 00:28
Chilly morning at Muswellbrook Railway Station.Muswellbrook Railway Station in the Hunter Valley of NSW, Australia is not the place you want to find yourself standing at 5 am on a chilly win… Read More
2017-09-29 21:00
92 class on a coal train heading north under blue skies at Quirindi.Moving on to some modern Australian diesels, and this shot of a C44aci Pacific National 92 class locomotive thundering thr… Read More
2017-09-28 07:00
A bit of colour at Kandanga Railway Station in Queensland, Australia.Australia has no shortage of quirky and colourful names when it comes to old railway stations, and Kandanga on the Mary V… Read More
2017-09-23 22:00
Looking west to nowhere, Willowburn Railway Station.Willowburn Railway Station stands just on the outskirts of Toowoomba city centre in Queensland, Australia. Funnily enough, this station wa… Read More
2017-09-22 07:00
Allora Railway Station on Queensland's Southern Downs.The old railway station at Allora, located between Toowoomba and Warwick on Queensland's Southern Downs, is not only still standing but… Read More
2017-09-20 04:36
Old railway bridge over Yabba Creek at Imbil, Queensland.I love photographing old railway bridges, purely because in the case of abandoned bridges such as this one over the Yabba Creek in Im… Read More
2017-09-16 07:00
Taking water at Lakeside.Taken at Lakeside Station on Victoria's Puffing Billy Railway in July 2015, I captured this timeless photo in the pages of my book 30 Years Chasing Trains. There's s… Read More
2017-09-13 07:00
Melbourne's Flinders Street Station after rush hour.This photo taken shortly after the evening rush hour at Melbourne's Flinders Street Station had passed in July 2015 is from my book 30 Yea… Read More
2017-09-10 07:00
Crossing Wright Forrest Trestle Bridge.This photo was taken from the footplate of locomotive 12A on Victoria's Puffing Billy Railway on a bitterly-cold winter's day in July 2015. Special tha… Read More
2017-09-07 07:00
The timeless afternoon service from Ballarat.Taken back in December 2005, this photo of an afternoon Sprinter railcar service departing Ballarat Station beneath the famous signal bridge is f… Read More
2017-09-04 07:00
Amamoor Railway Station's cream shed.Deep in the hills south west of Gympie lies the tiny town of Amamoor, more famous for being the gateway to the yearly Gympie Music Muster. This photo fro… Read More
2017-09-01 08:00
Diesels out to pasture in Gympie, Queensland.This photo of a rusting Queensland Railways 1620 class diesel is from my book Last Train to Brisbane, and was taken in Gympie, Queensland, Austra… Read More
2017-08-30 08:00
The One Tree Limited.Another scene from my book Last Train to Brisbane is this one taken at Wyreema, about 20 minutes south of Toowoomba, Queensland. The station may be long gone, but the or… Read More
2017-08-28 03:25
Early morning at Warwick.This scene is from my book Last Train to Brisbane, and was taken at Warwick in south west Queensland on a frigid and foggy morning in May 2017. Southern Downs Steam… Read More
2017-06-28 09:56
It's been a project that has been a long time coming. One that I first dreamt of attempting back in 1989 when I was just 17 years old. Back then, I was a high school student whom had just wo… Read More
2017-02-08 06:06
Don't let my lack of any recent blog posts fool you, once more my creative side is deep in the final stages of nutting out what will be the next chapter in my rather inglorious writing caree… Read More
2017-01-09 05:43
2017 sees me taking on a project of a different kind. After years of sharing stories and advice with other aspiring writers, I wanted to oversee a project that in turn could provide readers… Read More
2016-10-27 22:06
Everything has a use-by date, and when it comes to trains, it doesn't matter if its a locomotive, a railway line or even a railway blogger. When I took a break from writing novels in 2014 to… Read More
2016-10-10 03:00
South Brisbane Station was once the terminus for interstate trains travelling north from Sydney via the standard gauge North Coast Line. Board the Brisbane Limited at Sydney's Central Statio… Read More
2016-10-07 02:14
As a writer, it's a scary thought when your debut novel racks up its tenth anniversary. A thousand questions surface in your mind at once, and you even use the old counting your fingers tric… Read More
2016-09-23 07:55
Roma Street Station in Brisbane has always been a bit of an enigma to me. For a key railway station that is supposed to be a culturally significant landmark location for catching a train in… Read More
2016-09-19 04:41
Korumburra is a former railway town nestled in the green rolling hills of South Gippsland in Victoria's south east. The railway station which is perched high on a hill overlooking the town o… Read More
2016-09-17 02:38
Foster is a small country town with a population just a little over 1,000 people located in the south east of Victoria. If you'd never heard of the place before, then don't worry, neither ha… Read More
2016-09-12 04:03
It's hard to believe that more than a year has passed since I boarded a train from Melbourne to Warrnambool, simply to see what was waiting for me at the end of the line. Warrnambool Railway… Read More
2016-08-29 02:44
The Hunter Valley is easily one of Australia's most well-known wine producing regions, and just 64 km west of Newcastle, or 163 km north of Sydney, you'll find yourself in the heart of wine… Read More
2016-08-07 02:12
We train enthusiasts can be a weird mob at times. Our ears prick up at the sound of a train horn and the sight of a passing train can captivate grown men like a child walking past the TV whe… Read More
2016-08-04 05:57
Thirty years ago, I set out on my BMX bike as a young boy armed only with a Kodak 110 mm camera to take photographs of trains passing between Gosford and Point Clare Stations. Nicole Kidman… Read More
2016-07-22 21:30
There are a million places I would rather be than standing at Singleton Railway Station at 4:31 am on a freezing Hunter Valley morning in the middle of winter. So as I count down to my 100th… Read More
2016-07-21 05:44
Just north of Newcastle you'll find the town of Anna Bay, the gateway to the Worimi Conservation Lands and the famous Stockton Sand Dunes. They say no visit to Port Stephens is complete with… Read More
2016-07-16 05:38
Nelson Bay is the largest town dotting the shores of Port Stephens. While on holiday in this magical neck of the woods just 63 km north of Newcastle, my wife Denise and I spent a few days ta… Read More
2016-07-10 23:29
Recently I came back from a long overdue holiday in Port Stephens and the Hunter Valley. Having almost reached burn-out proportions again after spending the past 12 months writing two books… Read More
2016-07-07 22:30
Let me paint the picture for you. Its 5 a.m. on a chilly May morning, and about the same degrees Celsius maybe a little less. I'm standing on the platform at Muswellbrook Railway Station, ab… Read More
2016-07-04 01:50
Setting out from Richmond Main on the Richmond Main Railway Museum's line, the short train ride through the Australian bush in this corner of the Hunter Valley leads you to the peculiar stat… Read More
2016-06-28 03:42
Situated 4 km south of the town of Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley, the Richmond Vale Railway Museum traces its history back to 1979, when the Cessnock City Council aquired the abandoned 19… Read More
2016-06-19 02:18
Australia's railways all have the tendency to lead to the sea, and when it comes to a meeting of trains and ships, the city of Newcastle is one of the busiest in the country.The above two ph… Read More
2016-06-15 03:20
I'd travelled through Broadmeadow Railway Station aboard a train many times over the course of my life, including while writing my Train Tripping Eastern Australia eBook. However, I'd never… Read More
2016-06-14 03:17
I thought I would kick-start my new blog series Somewhere Soon with a sight that is very familiar to myself. Perched high on the top of Canberra Terrace in Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine… Read More
2016-06-12 02:40
Writing and trains have long been two passions of mine that have both led me down familiar tracks in life. After first picking up a camera to photograph trains as a brash youngster just 14 y… Read More
2016-06-03 04:27
Hamilton Railway Station lies 164 km north of Sydney's Central Station, and following the closure of Newcastle Railway Station in December 2014 remains the only station still in operation on… Read More
2016-05-19 05:40
Australians have never considered Newcastle as a holiday destination. Perhaps because it has just always been there. After all, we're talking about Australia's second oldest city, establishe… Read More
2016-04-28 23:07
After almost two years of intensively riding trains along Australia's east coast for this blog, it only recently dawned on me that I'd never taken the train to the Gold Coast. So 20 years af… Read More
2016-04-20 03:55
I recently paid a visit to Gympie Railway Station on a trip north of the Sunshine Coast, just to see how this elegant old Queensland railway station was holding up in its post-heritage railw… Read More
2016-04-20 03:53
Gympie North Railway Station is an odd northern outpost on Queensland Rail's Citytrain network that sits miles from nowhere at the end of Rocky Ridge Road, 5 km from the heart of Gympie. Wit… Read More
2016-02-09 06:12
Rainbow Beach is a small beach-side town 239 km north of Brisbane that is located so far out of the way that many choose to cross on the barge from Noosa North Shore, and 4WD along the beach… Read More
2016-01-10 09:46
St James Station lies beneath Sydney's leafy Hyde Park, close to the centre of the city. Opened in 1926, the underground railway station was based closely on London's underground, and almost… Read More
2015-11-11 23:00
Wright Forrest is one of the scenic highlights aboard Puffing Billy on the run from Lakeside to Gembrook through Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges. Not only does the train snake past an untouched… Read More
2015-11-11 00:47
St Kilda Railway Station closed in 1987, and like the Port Melbourne Line was converted to light rail and absorbed into Melbourne's tram network. So what became of the former railway station… Read More
2015-11-06 23:00
Geelong once boasted a railway line that led directly down to the shores of Corio Bay, and from 1859 to the mid 1980's, those tracks ended at what today is known as Cunningham Pier. So on a… Read More
2015-11-06 06:26
The Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company opened Australia's first railway line on September 12, 1854. The line was only 4 km long and stretched from Station Pier in what is now Port Me… Read More
2015-11-05 00:00
Melbourne's tram network survived the worldwide trend of the 1950's to remove trams or streetcars from city streets. Today, Yarra Trams operate a fleet of 500 trams across 25 different tram… Read More
2015-11-03 23:00
They say no visit to Melbourne is complete without taking a ride on Puffing Billy. Turns out they are right, whomever they are, judging by the hundreds of passengers who board Australia's fa… Read More
2015-11-03 00:51
There aren't many railway stations in Australia that are located directly beside a beach, but Brighton Beach Railway Station in the city of Melbourne is one such exception. From the southern… Read More
2015-11-03 00:22
Middle Brighton on Melbourne's Sandringham Line is a throwback to life in the late Nineteenth Century. Opened in 1861 by the St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company, the quaint English style r… Read More
2015-10-28 04:38
Flinders Street Station is one of Melbourne's most iconic landmarks, and the saying "meet me under the clocks" traces its origins to the steps beneath the entrance to the famous station. The… Read More
2015-10-22 23:00
Emerald is a small town tucked away in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges that boasts a quaint little railway station dating back to 1900, and is a scheduled stop for the historic Puffing Billy Ra… Read More
2015-10-21 23:00
As a writer, I've been blessed to have traveled by train over so many railway lines along Australia's east coast these past 12 months. Sandringham on the shores of Melbourne's Port Phillip B… Read More
2015-10-21 02:28
Geelong is the second largest city in the state of Victoria with a surviving Nineteenth Century railway station that dates back to 1876. Yet the first railway station to open in the city was… Read More
2015-10-08 04:09
Richmond Railway Station lies just 3 km northeast of Southern Cross Station in the city of Melbourne and first opened in 1859 as Swan Street Station. Today Richmond is a major station on Mel… Read More
2015-10-05 23:16
The Puffing Billy Railway is Australia's, if not the world's, finest example of a fully preserved working steam railway. And Menzies Creek Railway Station has been hauling trainloads of deli… Read More
2015-09-08 02:33
Belgrave's Metro Trains Station (above) lies 42 km north-east of Melbourne's Southern Cross Station. Located in the heart of Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges, Belgrave is a tale of two railway s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The start of a new year always seems to be the springboard needed to dive into another year of writing. So after giving myself a twelve month break from writing in 2015, yet still managing t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sydney's main railway station is called Central Station and stands opposite Belmore Park on Eddy Avenue on the southern fringe of the city's Central Business District. Opened in 1906 to repl… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Sixty-six kilometres from Melbourne's Southern Cross Station lies the sleepy little village of Gembrook, the terminus for a 2 foot 6 inch narrow gauge railway line built by the Victorian Rai… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Southern Cross Station stands on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets in Victoria's capital of Melbourne and was opened in time for the city's hosting of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. To… Read More
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