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it's crazy that the last mainline steam locomotive in China was built about nine years before the first high speed rail line opened
18.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They did have a custom chassis. Problem was they tried composite materials to keep the weight down and that did not work
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Parramatta did have trams (of the steam variety)
11.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Only to Warragul, which still had a few electric services till 1998
11.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
closest we got was the Glenelg line in Adelaide which reused an old railway alignment, used rolling stock inspired by American interurbans, and had express services into the 21st century
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this guy, pretty much en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Br...
11.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the new guy
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inktober stuff
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Ballarat clunkers
08.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Adelaide has a lot of these (the trains have card readers on them like a tram)
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one of the very few Custom CB50 bodies in Victoria
02.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0assuming that they're going to make the Victoria St corridor run straight through to Swanston it makes a bit more sense
02.10.2025 05:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amsterdam has a couple of lines that meet the definition of 'fast tram' (25 and 26) and the Rotterdam Metro has some very light rail-like sections
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New myki readers starting to appear on buses
19.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0need to separate Rosewood so it's the guy who is always green
14.09.2025 23:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Post your first phone
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First G has been delivered to Maidstone.
13.09.2025 09:59 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Hazards perception test which is just a bunch of Facebook AI slop and Kochie Youtube ads
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single door clunker
11.09.2025 10:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dormont mentioned
10.09.2025 12:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0MelMax?
10.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0the Pantour guy? I've had that on tram replacements before which was incredibly goofy
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there's a mini Echuca 20km from Melbourne
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New clunker just dropped
08.09.2025 11:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(except for the occasional heritage services that use the metre gauge track)
04.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it's the branch to Chatelet which was more or less fully completed in the 1980s and then abandoned due to a lack of funds (currently being reactivated)
04.09.2025 01:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They let me in
30.08.2025 02:05 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Yeah you tend to not enjoy a city after you get trapped on a train with zombies on the way there
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