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Victorian Railways RM22

The preserved Victorian Railways 153HP Walker Railmotor 22, seen here at Healesville station in 2009.

Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 5 February, 2009
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 64

Holiday, Honeymoon, Paris 0

Gare d’Orsay

Musée d’Orsay, previously the Gare d’Orsay, a railway station that has been converted into an art museum.

Aperture: ƒ/8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 11 May, 2007
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 64

England, Holiday, Honeymoon 0

Paddington – Brunel’s Train Shed

Brunel's Train Shed

The grandeur of Brunel‘s magnificent train shed at Paddington Station is still evident over 150 years after it’s opening. High Speed Train, 43180 powers-up as it’s train heads off to the west.

Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 9 May, 2007
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 400

England, Holiday, Honeymoon 0

Ryde from Pierhead

Aperture: ƒ/8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 8 May, 2007
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 64

England, Holiday, Honeymoon 0

GWR – The Nation’s Holiday Line

GWR The Nation's Holiday Line

Taken: 3 August, 2021

England, Holiday, Honeymoon 0

A relic of the early days of the Great Western Railway, and Swindon. This silver model of a GWR Firefly Class locomotive served as a coffee pot in the Swindon Railway Station refreshment rooms in the 1840s when this class where to be seen between London and Bristol. Small burners were placed under the locomotive to keep the coffee warm. I’m not too sure how well it worked as the engineer of the GWR, IK Brunel, wrote to the concessionaire “I am surprised that you bought such bad roasted corn. I did not believe that you had such a thing as coffee in the place.“

Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 23 April, 2007
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 400

England, Holiday, Honeymoon 0

6000 King George V

Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
Taken: 23 April, 2007
Focal length: 7.9mm
ISO: 400

Holiday, New Zealand 0

Wellington Railway Station Sign

Wellington does a great job of its street signs to some of the tourist hotspots, like the Railway Station and the Cable Car. Apparently double Fairlie steam locos were a feature of the early days of New Zealand railways in the 1870’s, with some seeing use into 1920.

Aperture: ƒ/4.8
Camera: PENTAX Optio S45
Taken: 21 December, 2005
Focal length: 17.4mm
ISO: 50