Steam Makes a Come Back

Over the next three days I intend to show you how Translink (Brisbane’s Rail and Bus and Ferry Authority has come up with a real innovative Idea!  On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday This week, they rain a steam train service from Ipswich in Brisbane’s West to Shornecliffe on Moreton Bay in the East. These were the first passenger hauling steam trains to operate on the normal suburban rail system in Brisbane since 1968. They under took these three trips to train electric train drivers in the intricacies of Steam. I hope that this is a prelude of a regular service as the look on the face of the small children brought down to see the spectacle made the whole exercise worthwhile for me.

I will be posting five photos each day to show what I saw, and hope you will follow on with my feel good story. The first two shots don’t involve steam, but show the Station where I took my photographs, and what a regular service constitutes, then we will get down to the Nitty Gritty, sorry for the pun!

The next two shots show the Steam Train Arriving at Shornecliffe and the excitment that generated, plus the main drive shaft which drew a lot of interest from the multitudenous munchkins around me as I was getting the shot.

This last shot for the day shows the two Trainee drivers seriously trying to come to grips with the difference between a Steam Locomotive and their usual Electric charges, hey really did not have time to let me look around.

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